“He vas careful driver. Not even vunce he lost vun sheep in my willage. That vas how it vas before the var.” Stories, stories, stories: Mrs. Serafima Ayupova Titomir was always in the middle of some story, real or fancied, bright and strange, embroidered on the plain muslin truth, perhaps for her own amusement but, more often, dictated by feverish guardian angels. “She izz a crrrrazy,” explained my landlady, Mrs. […]
MOON Shine | Others I have known
Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater, more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.” – Aberjhani “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to […]
The White issue | Movies You Might’ve Missed
So many movies, so little time! The following are “must-see” movies on the subject of race in America. 13th is a searing 2016 documentary that explores the history of black exploitation and servitude from the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery (except as “punishment for crime”) through the subsequent Jim Crow era of segregation, the “War on Drugs,” which was predominantly a war on people of color, to the current “prison-industrial […]
Joe Cottonwood | Southern Exposure, 1968, and more
Southern Exposure, 1968 I know the South, warn her but she wants to see Mardi Gras and I love her madly. Jackson, Mississippi, has colored restrooms unmarked because illegal, watched by a rooster man, cap of orange, neck of red shouting, poking fingers in my chest scared by my beard, her beads. She pulls me back on the bus. Peace, she says. Peace. Which saves a lot of grief. Beyond […]
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