I’m driving down North Carolina Highway 158 late at night, the peninsula woods flanking the road. It’s so dark here. The moon is about half full. Clusters of trees stand bare and stiff in the black. I can see the stars through the windshield. Orion’s south of me, lying on his side like the prophet […]
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 […]