My Dearest, Beloved White Folk ~ I see our dismay, our confusion, our anger, our fear, our grief. I share it. I feel it. I shook with weeping until early hours of the morning. I hear us. I hear our lament: Is this who we are? As a country? As a people? The hardest thing… Continue reading The Truth Will Set Us Free
Psalm 46 for Orlando (offered at a memorial vigil in Denver, CO 6/18/16) When the morning dawned We awoke to devastation 49 beautiful black and brown LGBTQIA beloveds slaughtered And we awoke to grief Filling up our newsfeeds Filling up our hearts and minds and bodies When the morning dawned. When the morning dawned The… Continue reading Psalm 46 for Orlando
Here are a couple of posts from my personal Facebook page from right after the Orlando shootings in which 49 LGBTQIA folks of color were murdered on Sunday at the Orlando Pulse nightclub. I’m also mindful that tomorrow is the 1-year anniversary of the murder of 9 church folk at Mother Emanuel AME Church in… Continue reading Grieving Death
