Situation A: We’re working around the yard, I slip, and drop a mallet on your foot. That’s going to hurt. Situation B: We’re working around the yard, I get angry with you, and I smash a mallet on your foot. That’s going to hurt. Situations A and B may have different relational consequences for us; […]
Reader Review 10
Fewer than 36 hours before the People’s Climate March in NYC! But between that and the Scottish independence referendum (#indyref), there’s a lot of good writing to look over. Let this week’s long and short reads help you catch up. Watch Disruption and inform yourself, but leave the fear behind Climate Stew: Disruption Film and Review […]
On #NMOS14, Ferguson, and Rooting for a New World
This post took me three weeks to prepare. There’s so much to say, and the word-containers I’m drawing together feel far too narrow and too shallow to hold that “so much.” The community of Ferguson, MO, has been in grief since August 9, and that grief, first re-presented as aggression, then analyzed from afar, and dismissed by the […]
Engagement and Apathy
Sometimes we don’t care because we don’t have to care. At other times we care not because we wish to, but because questions sprang up around us and our lives were pre-enrolled as evidence; because if we do not speak our own words, who can speak them? It’s a privilege to participate in a constructive […]
