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on May 15, 2008 in Blogs and Blogging Life has an elegance that far exceeds anything we might devise. Perhaps the wisdom lies in knowing when to sit back and wait for it to unfold. Too hasty an activism may lead to lesser outcomes and, more important, may cause us to trust ourselves rath...
Bringing it on home
on May 14, 2008 in Books and Movies Manko Seth What does it mean? Aaron Neville identity How do other people know who they are? If you know who your father was, does it make a difference in who you think you are? Where is “home”? I’ve been playing Aaron Neville’s latest CD, Bring It On Home, and it calls me back...
Losing my bearings
on May 12, 2008 in Books and Movies Chris Virden Manko Seth What does it mean? When I chose to retire and move to Portland, I thought I knew, however dimly, what I was doing. I wanted to write full-time. I wanted to be done grading papers written by nineteen-year-olds who didn’t want to write them. I was worn out by se...
So much to learn
on May 10, 2008 in Chris Virden Seth What does it mean? baby-daddy-drama Jewish identity Judith Plaskow If I could read five pages at once, I would be doing that. My hunger to know is so great. I’m dimly aware of the rest of the world: 360 women, many of them Tibetan nuns, arrested in Nepal. Unimaginable suffering in Burma, where a Red Cross boat...
Race. Part 2.
on May 6, 2008 in Politics What does it mean? Adrienne Rich Black people race racism Rev. Jeremiah Wright White people I want to get back to Rev. Jeremiah Wright , Barack Obama, and Race. When the right-wing media had its heyday with Wright, they cut his speeches and sermons to shreds and left out everything he said that didn’t suit their purposes. I’ve a...
Race. Part 1.
on May 3, 2008 in Books and Movies Politics What does it mean? Black people Black women Charisse Jones Kumea Shorter-Gooden race race relations racism Shifting White people I’ve tried to make my life my statement about race, even though we’ve known since W.E.B. DuBois said it in 1914 that scientifically “race” doesn’t exist. Race is not inscribed in our genes, any more than “class...