Questions Around Town

Sign asks, “how can white people be better allies? Share your ideas to your neighbors.”

Sign asks, “how can white people be better allies? Share your ideas to your neighbors.”
Throwing shade on toxic positivity.

This morning, as I read this poem by Janet Hoffman, which is collected in Plain Living–A Quaker Path to Simplicity by Catherine Whitmire, I thought of friends and family and students and colleagues who are living with loss and illness and other struggles.
I wish sometimes that I could heal or make happy everyone I know. Knowing that is not possible or even right, I wish for myself and those in need to know strength and courage and joy even when faced with causes for deep suffering.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.