October 30, 2025

  Random Acts of Kinship   The phrase jumped off the page of the book at me. “Random acts of kinship.”    “Yes,” I thought, “of course!” What we need now more than ever are random acts of kinship, the acknowledgement that we are in fact related and we belong...

October 16, 2025

CLIQUE   Sound bites Snap shots Snapchat   We summarize one another Instantly With laser precision So graphic To pin one another On X   Life in caricature Neighbors by category Left Right White (Is she my neighbor After that visa oversight?)   “Who...

October 9, 2025

Image: Melanie Kyer “Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?  And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure...