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My ongoing conversation with the world, to find new ways to challenge myself to do better by working towards racial justice, food justice, human kindness, and equality for all.

Saturday, May 22, 2021

On What Sweeping Means to Me

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I ended my day today the way I often do in the summer: I swept the debris off my front porch and the sidewalk in front of house. I'd be...

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

On Being Stuck

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A confession: I've been stuck. I've had random blog-y ideas but in the last weeks, haven't had the ability to put them togethe...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

On Poetry - and Losing Ferlinghetti

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3:24 PM You sent Today at 3:24 PM About two hours ago, I was looking for a poem. More specifically I was looking through poems trying to d...

Sunday, December 6, 2020

What I've Noticed: A Covid Blessing

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December: 2020 ~ Corona virus is raging. I know. This isn't news. As I write this, 1.54 MILLION people have died worldwide, 282,000 of w...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

On Family

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Last Friday morning, I took a flight down to Richmond, Virginia. My 92-year-old uncle, the last of that generation of MacPhersons, had pass...

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Picking Blueberries during Coronavirus

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I picked blueberries yesterday. There's a farm just south of me, a place I like because of what they grow and how they grow it. It was h...

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

On May 19th

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I'm holding my Dad in my heart. He died 18 years ago today. Eighteen years feels like a lifetime ago, or maybe yesterday. Time is always...

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