Continue Reading Too Late If you and I had a bit of foresight, we would have gotten our yellow fever inoculation about 8 weeks ago. That…
Continue Reading Nimble Women in Miami Riddle me that: what does nimble mean in the context of an art museum’s mission? I found this on the website of the Patricia…
Continue Reading Tidbits from the Art World I figured after some weeks of heavy-duty politics I’ll turn to some events in the art world that caught my attention. Do…
Continue Reading Smudge Not sure which weighs more heavily in today’s offering: the joy to see a fearless young man – the poet – on…
Continue Reading When A Black Man Walks Lots of reading material today, each one informative in its own right and/or a literary feat. Not much I have to add…
Continue Reading Sympathy I know why the caged bird sings….I first “heard” these words in a piece of music – Buckshot Lefonque’s version to be…
Continue Reading Magnolia Flowers Yesterday’s question about flowers as a topic for Black poets might be answered with today’s poem by Langston Hughes. I have seen various…
Continue Reading my dad asks, “how com black folks can’t just write abut flowers?” A couple of years back I insensitively scolded a friend of mine for helicopter-parenting her daughter. The then 12-year old had not…
Continue Reading Large Numbers of Crumbs Large numbers? Untold numbers of crumbs are on their way out – Passover starts tonight and the house undergoes some serious cleaning…
Continue Reading Large Apocalyptic Numbers Photograph from article below I very much wanted to write about something positive today, about personal courage, creativity, art, solidarity – your pick….
