Short Term/Long Term

We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term (say, one afternoon) and underestimate what we can get done in the long term if we do a little bit at one time.

--Gretchen Rubin

And this is my personal theme of 2014: a little bit at a time gets the work done in an extraordinary way.

Fine Literature

General store interior. Moundville, Alabama. 1936

Fine photography is literature, and it should be.

--Walker Evans, photographer

The End of the Summer

Where have I been, since July 25?

An answer, in photos.

 

Welcome, Autumn.

Let Us Work Together

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

–Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s, including Lilla Watson, artist, activist, and academic

I'm Listening

I won't even try to write anything about the verdict in the Travyon Martin murder case. I will note that it is on my mind, in my heart, on my radar.

In lieu of writing my own words, I'll point to the words that I'm reading and taking in.

Questlove: Trayvon Martin and I Ain't Shit at New York Magazine

"We're" Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes at The Feminist Wire

No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box at The Feminist Wire

To White Folks: The Collective Lament of Trayvon Martin is Not Your Anti-Racist Platform at Tidal

We Are Not Trayvon Martin

Martin Bashir and the Trayvon Martin Travesty in 4 Minutes

Our Dead Children by Joshunda Victoria Sanders