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A family that makes art together...
how to create conditions for a culture of creativity in your family's home
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"Kneeling before a locked door"
Thank you, as always, for your support, readership, witness, feedback.
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making grief visible
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And now, the rage
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The hungry ghosts of fading men
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The gift of the fallen stranger
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'Sometimes teaching is embodying a boundary'
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I really appreciated W. Kamau Bell’s post on the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
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It takes a village to love an elder
I am sitting on the little bed as my dad lies on it, his shrinking body kind of curled around me.
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