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 […]
Tom Bont | Concerning the affairs of Jeremiah James
I am putting to ink the events which took place in the year of our Lord 1967 outside the town of Crockett, Texas. I have refused to discuss this matter with anyone, save God, for the last 50 years. However, as I near the end of my life, I feel posterity will forget the affairs surrounding the disappearance of Jeremiah James when my body settles back into the dust from […]
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