When you survive a shocking loss your world comes to a screeching halt. There is the pain, dealing with the aftermath of the pain, and dealing with the pain’s return as it cycles through. But other people don’t stop wanting things from you. I saw that happen today when someone asked a person who had…
I spent a few hours walking through Central Park yesterday. I enjoyed both the sounds of nature and the sounds of people making beautiful music.
Excerpt from “Letters to a Young Artist”, by Anna Deavere Smith. “I’ve been thinking about Miles Davis, and the birth of cool,” I said. (Miles Davis did a famous album called Birth of the Cool.)…”I’ve been thinking this idea,” I said hesitantly, “this idea of the death of cool.” “It’s time for it to be dead,”…
The blatant double standards of many pentecostal or fundamentalist churches regarding women’s behavior versus men’s behavior fill women with unnecessary shame while allowing men to shake off their perceived discretions without a backwards glance. That discrepancy does serious harm to faithful women’s self-esteem. Whenever I encounter a woman suffering under that burden I do my…
I’m working in the Bronx, listening to WQXR, and watching the 2 and 5 trains pass in the distance. They look like toys from here. That is my New York.
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