Archive for May, 2017
May 29, 2017 | Tags: 24/7, open page, rest, Sabbath, smartphone, time
Back when time had hands and a face and watches were wound daily, my grandfather fixed clocks and watches at an old wooden workbench at the back of his jewelry store. When I was about ten, he gave me a shoebox of old watch and clock parts – springs and gears as well as hands […]
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May 2, 2017 | Tags: anti-racism, Greening, grow, hope, lessons, new life, racism, seeding, white privilege
The grass is green again. Although, in my yard, casually tended as it is and home to an exuberant squirrel-chasing labradoodle, there remain many bare patches of not-so-green mud. A week ago, I bought a bag of grass seed and made the rounds with it and a wheelbarrow of dirt to cover it up. Raking, […]
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