Today I am better. Not better like all-better!, but I didn't cry anymore. I woke up a little before my alarm, and I woke up with a clear(er) head, and a stronger sort of mood ( Read more... )

Two different links for you tonight, folks - one very hard, and one for after cos it'll make you smile.

Beheadings: Theirs and Ours

This is a very short essay by a veteran who served in Iraq; it's tough to read but I think it's pretty important. Here's an excerpt to entice you:

"...Sure, a beheading is brutal. But so is the United States ( Read more... )

I've spent the past two days in the house, which is maybe not so good but also not especially bad either. We had a meeting on Tuesday that lasted basically the whole day, and no pressing business yesterday or the day after. Plus I was tired. Plus the weather changed, and now we have autumn-grey skies and wind and rain ( Read more... )

(Please don't think that because I'm not blogging about northern Iraq, or Palestine, or any other particular bad-news story, that those things are not on my mind. This is me picking how to specifically depress you tonight.)

Exiled Tibetan monks join Ferguson protestors to support justice for Mike Brown (HuffPo)
A group of monks flew from India to ( Read more... )

In a short time I'm going to bike downtown to a meeting. That's kind of what "the work" looks like right now, going to organizational meetings for upcoming stuffs and things. I'm looking forward to the bike ride, and maybe afterwards I can convince Chris to go out for nachos or something.

The play last night was good! It was cool to see Peter and ( Read more... )

(the continuing series ( Read more... )

Another day, another link to words by someone else. Sometimes updating every day still means I don't feel like writing words of my own.

But these are good words, and I'm willing to bet you won't feel smaller for having read them.

The Names They Gave Me, by Tasbeeh Herwees.

Excerpt to further convince you:

"...I am one of two headscarved girls ( Read more... )

(You know it's gonna be at least an interesting question when someone feels the need to preface it by saying that!)

I discovered an awesomely informative blog recently ("awesome" in the sense that I am frequently in awe of this blogger's dedication, and research, and, as you'll soon see, patience), and of course I now want everyone to know about ( Read more... )

It's really cold here. Outside, yes, yes it's super chilly (hovering around 0°F outside, not counting windchill, which is considerable), but it's also quite cold inside the house. Oh, we have the radiators going, and I am currently pressed against the one in the living room (literally; probably throwing my back out of whack as I do it, but oh man ( Read more... )

(A day delayed because I stayed up too late last night, and what I wrote was more easily conceived than what I'd wanted to post for FF.)

Have I mentioned that I love the blog Shakesville? They post a lot--easily five posts a day--so I try to check it every day. It's a safe space: Trolling does not exist on Shakesville; its commenters are ( Read more... )