Every so often, one of my websites starts to show errors and the technicians “clear the cache.” It did that again last week. Cache files are created by apps to store commonly used information so it doesn’t have to be generated or downloaded again.” —Lowell Heddings Over time, browsers accrue a lot of that temporary […]
You have to manage your own memories
The Church State Council pulling down its statement of support for California’s Proposition 8 (2008) is no match for me and the Wayback Machine. The statement is a piece of evidence in a series of posts I wrote back in 2013 that contains several links to official Adventist departments, ministries, and advocacy organizations. These links […]
Copeland: How solidarity requires memory
I recently shared M. Shawn Copeland’s description of solidarity as a way of relating that has material consequences: it’s not just an ideal, it’s an ethic. In this passage, Copeland explains how solidarity also relies on our memories of past ways of relating, specifically our memories of trauma and suffering. Solidarity is an intentional moral and […]
More on the Japanese internment
This week, George Takei shared more about his experience with socially marginalized people and marginalizing social laws. I referred to his 2014 TED talk in last night’s post; this morning, he published a new reflection on his life in a United States internment camp. The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we […]
Reflections on the US-Japanese Internment
Lately I’ve been honoring the Santayana quotation about being doomed to repetition by referring my readers to history: Habit and memory are a sort of heredity within the individual… Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible […]
How we remember
CN: 9/11 remembrances and suicide. On September 11, 2001, I was at home at my grandparents’ house in Jamaica. I was dressed in scrubs an aunt had handed down, and had no plans to do much for the day but rest: I was out of school for medical recovery while classmates and others began their semester […]
