I spent my first year of coming out every night at a gay bar. Just so you know that what I am about to tell you is true. These will be recollections of that year, what I learned, how I felt, and what it was like for me a struggling…

6/28/2020 Upside my head with numbing sadness It is deeper than not breathing It feels like dying alive watching a sunrise and sunset And I wanted someone to hold the loneliness, the sadness, the rage …but who even could….they held him down with their knees like a sick evil coordinated…

Derek Chauvin, a White 19 year police veteran, the one who put his knee on the neck and killed George Floyd, a black man, got fired from the Minneapolis police force. The other three were fired as well. …

There is a phenomena, a familiar one when a person who belongs to a typical oppressor group becomes “woke” to the experience of the oppressed. Accounts of these woke experience are not new, although the language we use to capture it are. Consider this: When a person wakes from a dream…

Although we walk alone together into the unknown, I realized that I have inside of me things that I have always known; love, compassion, fear, wisdom, and faith. In the blink of an eye it seems that everything has become new and old again. We can face today with curiosity…

I spend a fair amount of my time educating myself and others about oppression and liberation. Here is the thing, what you see I see, what you have learned I have learned, and therefore I have internalized negative, limiting, and fear based beliefs about gay people, and trans people, and…

I grew up in a time when the Afro was a symbol of our fight for political and social freedom. Some of our parents did not want us to wear a large afro because of the message it might send. Defiance of a racist system that sought to enslave us…

The experience of living often decenters us, and in that decentering our minds, hearts, and souls, go about doing the things that are often required for our existence. I am talking about the higher order things like connecting to love ones, and engaging in our community work. …

A sharing.