Grief Driving ( written August 2020) Dad, Do you remember the summer mornings when you’d drive us to Munising for our days with Mom? Or when we’d leave the house early to go fishing? The hot afternoons, coming home from one of the little league baseball games or fishing trips? Windows down, music up, and… Continue reading Grief Driving
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Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
*disclosure: This the conclusion to a week long journal project I wrote in June 2020. This was written over two months later on September 3rd . I spent the first week of June 2020 starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 7
*disclosure: This is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. I spent this week starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and to start to work that I will be doing everyday for the rest of… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 7
Writing my Grief: Racism, Violence, and the Shit.
Dad, This isn’t really related, but I wanted to say it. The whole world is grieving right now. You told me once that I felt what the world felt. I do. You told me it wasn’t a bad thing. You told me I needed to know that about myself. Might have been one of your… Continue reading Writing my Grief: Racism, Violence, and the Shit.
Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
*disclosure: This is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. I spent this week starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and to start to work that I will be doing everyday for the rest of… Continue reading Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
*disclosure: this is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. It contains my thoughts and feelings as I worked hard to educate myself about racism in America and world wide. Specifically as I came to know my own racism and privilege. It was a week that started a journey… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 2
*disclosure.. this is an excerpt from a journal I kept during the second week of June 2020, documenting my own thoughts and feelings as I started to work on understanding racism in America and world wide, specifically my own racism and my privilege. I would encourage you to go back and read Day 1, if… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 2
Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Let me start by saying that I have only recently discovered Rachel Ricketts and don’t know her personally. https://www.rachelricketts.com/ That said in the last two weeks I have spent an almost absurd amount of time on her website. I came across her IG shortly after people started protesting the murder of George Floyd by police… Continue reading Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another… the beginning.
(I journaled everyday for a little over a week as I truly worked to confront my own racism and to educate myself on what anti-racist work looks like.... this is the prologue of sorts that I wrote. I will post the rest of my entries, day by day after this.) Hello White Friends (and any… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another… the beginning.
Activism Actions
The last two weeks have been mentally and emotionally exhausting. If they haven’t been I suggest you check in with the world. I can’t imagine how it must feel for Black, Brown, and other POC. I will acknowledge now, before I get any further; I have and will continue to mess up. Please, let me… Continue reading Activism Actions
Coffee & Conundrums 