For Srinivas Kuchibhotla, from India, who was shot in a bar by a man who yelled, ‘Get out of my country!’ before killing Kuchibhotla and injuring two others. We are not separate. We move in our world as partners, aware only of our skin when it creeps over itself and around the corner of tiny minds, looks in kind, lonely bars in houses far from the city center, winter in […]
Wendy Kennar | Being ‘white’
A few months ago, our next door neighbor asked me if it’s ever been hard for my son to grow up with parents of two different races. “No. It hadn’t even come up until he was in kindergarten, and his class was talking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” I said. My son is almost nine; her grandson is three. Her grandson had begun asking questions and making comments about his […]
John C. Mannone | Left Handed
So you think this is about left-handed people and fear that I might be saying they are a minority in a right-handed dominant society. But you’d be dead wrong, and I’d be right about the left-hand turning to open valves of closed minds. That’s what I’ve learned in school—righty tighty, lefty loosey—But the left hand of darkness looms, wants to shake you up. There is no right, or wrong, it […]
March 2017 The Earth speaks | Reclaiming indigenous wisdom
Indigenous people in traditional cultures maintain a personal relationship with the Earth, along with the animals, elements, rocks and trees, fire and sky, water and wind—as the Lakota Sioux say, “All our relations.” They tend to these relationships—honoring them not just with prayers, but with the other half of communication: listening. Thus, they know that the Earth speaks—lovingly, like a mother to her children. And though they feel the Earth reeling […]
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