So. Life. Confusion ( Read more... )

As a Native American, I want to hate this country and its contradictions. I want to believe that Sacagawea hated this country and its contradictions. But this country exists, in whole and in part, because Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark. In the land that came to be called Idaho, she acted as diplomat between her long-lost brother and the Lewis and ( Read more... )

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 I feel so many tensions in my life right now. 
My initial goal in doing AmeriCorps this year was that I would spend next year traveling and writing.
BUT
I found out about this program that trains people like me (with a background in education/community development) by giving them a 2 year fellowship at an urban school and community development non- ( Read more... )

He served me a café con leche in a glass. It was delicious but my kidneys hurt. They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.

I know who I am but it’s hard in this zone of no identity. I am dynamic, I am an advocate, I will fight. I said this but no one was listening. So I had to.

Tomorrow I will have an ultrasound but I am not ( Read more... )

I've decided that in order to be happy and fulfilled, I need to keep my imagination alive and well.
That being said, I need book recommendations! I am trying to decide which book to read next by Neil Gaimon:
American Gods
or
Neverwhere

I've been recommended Jeannette Winterson by at least 3 people at this point, but everyone is cautioning as to where ( Read more... )

Jake, one of my best friends, just wrote me one of those emails that I love to savor. I'll reread it periodically over the next week, because it reminds me of him, of possibility, of the way I can be. Here's the opening paragraph ( Read more... )

Oh my God. Today was such a good food day ( Read more... )

I am staying in D.C. next year ( Read more... )

“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been ( Read more... )