Category: Cultural Thoughts
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A Country Parable and a Changed Mind
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A woman and a man headed down the road, running low on gas. The man, he gon want to get to the station soon as possible. The woman, she see some lilies on the side of the road and she wanna stop and pick some. He know if they run…
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Shedding Old Skin, Exploring New Work: Jezebel, Malcolm X, and Ikigai
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HERE ME READ THIS POST INSTEAD. Old skin. That’s what I’ve been calling the aspects of my life that’s been feeling so womp-womp lately. My habit of spending hours on social media with no satisfaction in return was…THAT. Old skin shit. How I’m spending my time and my attention during…
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Open Letter to My PenPal: On My Son’s Wrongful Detainment, Roadtrips with Strangers, Fiction that Frees Us, and Enslaved Muslims
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS POST INSTEAD. I’m so at peace, cousin. How are you? CJ is doing wonderfully. I’m so grateful for that. Thank you for asking and for caring. After his traumatic wrongful detainment in Savannah this past December, he’s still choosing to LIVE. He’s exploring Louisiana…
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From Okra to Sugarcane to Shirini Danmarki: When Home Shows Up, Belonging Does Too
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“Who likes okra?” Chef Michael W. Twitty asked us last night. We were circled around a bonfire, some of us in chairs we brought from home, others on logs sawed into makeshift stoops. Almost all hands flew up, including my 16-year-old daughter’s. Side conversations sparked up around me about how…
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15 Survival Lessons from Octavia Butler’s Earthseed Series
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I extracted these lessons from Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. I also shared this list on TikTok and, as one person commented, “People spend a lot of time pointing out the ways [Octavia Butler] predicted today’s tragedies. They forget to see the ways…