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When I became pregnant, I made the conscious decision to a full-time stay-at-home mother. Eight years later, I have come to the conclusion that what I thought was a personal decision is more than that. It is political. It has been made abundantly clear to me that such a decision is supposed to be only the…
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Reflecting on the absence of work within the frame of U.S. environmentalism, Richard White explains, “Environmentalists so often seem self-righteous, privileged, and arrogant because they so readily consent to identifying nature with play and making it by definition a place where leisured humans come only to visit and not to work, stay, or live” (173).…
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the women wet the waterfront with womb water delivering twin coral children whose ceilings are fluid and permutable. he is one. i am the other. brother and sister who knew our selves before brackishness and the rift caused by the damming of the river. she and i, twin occupiers of our mother’s womb. the hierarchy…
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It is undoubtedly a struggle for me to post consistently (read weekly or even bi-weekly). I get my head stuck in the latest book I’m reading or the process of writing my fourth book or motherhood or just play internet-tiredness. I know it. I also know it competes with my growing desire to build what…
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley My rating: 5 of 5 stars I thought about writing a review of this book but when I finished it, I read the back cover text and saw this quote by Edwidge Danticat. It says what I feel about it so aptly, there is no…
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1. The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green. Out of the swamp, the cane appears to haunt us, and we cut it down. El General searches for a word; he is all the world there is. Like a parrot imitating spring, we lie down screaming as…
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i stare at the water. i walk around it. i stare at the water inside. i am bleeding. my water mixes with the water. i am drowning. i ripple like sunshine in the water. i am heated hot enough to be food for fish except they like it cold. i go down deeper. i used…
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Animals were once, for all of us, teachers. They instructed us in ways of being and perceiving that extended our imaginations, that were models for additional possibilities. We watched them make their way through the intricacies of their lives with wonder and with awe.
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the women wet the waterfront with womb water, delivering coral children whose ceilings are fluid and permutable.
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Living in the shadow of Elmina Castle, the first European building south of the Sahara, built in 1482 by the Portuguese and then occupied by the Dutch (and now a UNESCO World Heritage site for its importance in the transatlantic slave trade) was a small community of former Dutch army conscripts who had served in…
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