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When Our Passions Will Not Be Singular
Many poets are not poets for the same reasons many religious [people] are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk...
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Tunneling My Calling – Researching Enslaved People
© 2013 The British Library, Flickr | PD | via Wylio This afternoon, I am tucking myself into the underground irony of sunlight in the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia....
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Love, Healing, and the Slave Graveyard
Does your love make any difference in a graveyard? – from Psalm 88 © 2012 Jeffrey Kontur, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I let out one of those soul-emptying sighs when I read this line in the dawn light...
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A Few Names Closer to Justice
© 2012 Mrs. Gemstone, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio In a few minutes, Mosey, Meander, and I are headed to Bremo. We’ll be talking with some folks who are particularly interested in the history of the...
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When 9 People Are Shot During Bible Study
The chestnut table in my way this morning. The other day, my dad brought me a beautiful table he made from American chestnut planks that were harvested before the blight took out every single one of...
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When the Stories of Enslaved People Speak
When I say that I feel my life’s work is to write about the lives and stories of enslaved people, I’m not exaggerating. . . not even a little. No subject, no stories, no people in the world fill me...
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Pieces, Puzzles, Books, and Death
Today’s puzzle. Always begin with the straight-edges . . . that’s our family way. Sort through that entire box of pieces until you find everyone. Then, you can begin to put together the rest of the...
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Poop, Words, Slavery: The Mystery Is My Life
But to serve any discipline of art, be it to chip a David out of an unwieldy piece of marble, to take oils and put a clown on canvas, to write a drama about a young man who kills his father and marries...
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