Most of my life I’ve spent loving and standing with people as we demand the state do better.
Category: biography
3 non-linear phases
[Context note: Written in the summer of 2020 – early months of COVID 19 and a “racial reckoning” sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the USA and the confirmation of mass graves of children at Canadian residential schools.] Sparking, collecting, sharing. In the “shock” of the new perspective, we come to understand our […]
Keeping it simple.
There is a ladder of expectations that are so engrained into the culture I grew up in – Canada 80’s – that even my radical parents were only able to complicate – not remove them entirely. (And the way that they’re complicated aren’t always helpful.)
To talk about depression.
I read Jacob Wren’s post on the day I woke up feeling it and wondered about writing about it. About why I don’t. I take two little pills a day and go see someone twice a week. I try to routinize my mornings and to exercise as part of that. I look for mindfulness training […]