What Crosses My Mind

  • Living In An Ideal World

    We have students across the country reaching their final days, the year of the senior so many being asked to take that next step that freedom of becoming official that adult thing prayed for, imagined, perhaps sacrificed well before their time, readiness isn’t always an option unless we decide for ourselves not for each other.…

  • On Racial Disparity and an Unwillingness to Look Racism in the Eye.

    Kare 11 News In reviewing this tragic incident at Chaska high school this morning, I couldn’t help but feel some direct takeaways from the thread that follows this article. Clearly there is commentary that speaks to many sides of the issue, but the glaring reality for me is the ease we have with using blame…

  • A Teenager Committed Suicide

    Yesterday, a former student took his own life. The circumstances are horrific to realize that life had come to such terms. It is also ironic for many people including myself. We all have dark moments that cause us to imagine a deadly option. This young man somehow felt there was no one he could speak…

  • Pachelbel’s Dream

    When I was just a kid, I watched a movie, about a choir, a group of talented expectations each one that had reason, though the focus upon one another.   They all grew up together, lived similar lives, went to the lake in the summer, played games meant to out wit one another.   This…

  • For There Is Love

    We are taught to know love, a spectacular spiritual solemnity we embrace wonder wander through our lives with a constant in some evaluative sojourn.   We know lives touch the spirit of others in quiet encounters a silence can speak so tenderly in its clarity to know her, answer him, wander through a myriad of…

  • Two Lives – A Cultural Divide

    Dedicated to the short lives of Bushra Abdi, 19, and Zeynab (Hapsa) Abdalla 19   There are already open wounds two young women lost their lives their final moments in a panic with 911.   We have these preliminary assumptions the dead can no longer speak a certain beauty will now forever encompass the memory…

  • A Reaction of Feeling

    A young boy has been shot, he’s dead, a police force became another list, not the boy, no list attached, a living human being, now dead, shot to death, after wielding motive suggests he was suicidal, didn’t want a recital, simply wanted to die, or at least in the mind of a boy, thought it…

  • Always Practical

    Was it always this simple The practical practice Of knowing one another So the strengths and weakness Might somehow balance   Were we that naïve in beginnings A trip to Europe See the world and imagine life From a perspective beyond The normalcy we are taught to hold.   I remember the time I came…

  • If They Are Just Kids

    If everyone knew the correct answer, then why would the children be so annoying. If the adults might only listen for a reason, then perhaps they might never again tease.   There seems to be a worthy cause on our horizon, kids are speaking up, and there’s a faction of human beings, still want to…

  • Lest We Forget, Again

    For we do that, oh so often, we do decide upon a beautiful sunset, perhaps the rising moon, a sweet snowfall, even the rain of a heated summer day, lets our mind return to the numbing nature of a human condition built upon, the product of denial.   But we cannot, simply look alive people,…