Because sometimes the honest place is the empty place. The place of uncertainty. I’ve been talking a lot with my brother lately–this skinny white guy from a West Coast suburb who now works as an engineer on the East Coast. We’ve been talking about privilege, race, gender, social class, and orientation. I love my brother. AndContinue reading “Trust the Not-Knowing”
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A Good Guest
Tonight I worked a late substitute shift at a library two hours from my house. When I walked in the door, the staff at the front desk had no idea who I was or what I was doing there. The first man I approached stared at my badge like it was covered in hieroglyphs. AndContinue reading “A Good Guest”
The Unanswerable Question
Toni Morrison once said that she often begins her novels with a question. Something difficult to answer. Maybe even impossible. And in a society that values the final product above process, ends before means, facts over wisdom–this seems revolutionary to me. During my college years, I had a mentor who believed we all had “seminalContinue reading “The Unanswerable Question”
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