“How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.” — Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life The “soul” of America […]
Claudine Nash | Healing the world and other poems
Healing the World, Step 1 Treat the world as though it is a lost stranger who wanders onto your porch, confused and wounded, hair full of leaves. Offer a space on the wicker loveseat, perhaps a cup of freshly steeped tea. Wipe the thick streaks of dirt from her forehead and behold the self you have yet to meet. Let her mumble her forest of grievances, lend voice to the […]
Joe Cottonwood | A random saint rides the bus
With a face of wretched scars like layered pond scum in the seat beside me she says without prompting I teach seventh grade social studies because I love to bend a mind like molten metal before it cools hard. Hm. Hm-mum. She hums one, two notes like commas as she talks — tuning her thoughts. My cubs, that age, the hormones hit so hard you can hear their heartbeats. Beat-beat, […]
Healing our collective soul
I am not your negro This emotional powerhouse of a film features Samuel L. Jackson reading James Baldwin’s writings and pairs the two with heartbreaking archival footage to show us how and why white America’s “negro problem” is actually an urgent call for white Americans to reclaim their own shriveled souls. Against footage of beatings, lynchings, white adults spitting on black schoolchildren, and so on, we hear Baldwin’s words, I’m […]
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