What Crosses My Mind

  • The Beauty of Culture and Our Changing Society

    Tonight, I had the opportunity to watch something rather wonderful. I wasn’t alone, we all viewed what represents the identity of who we are, how we represent, what is truly special about our school district. Tonight, Shakopee High School, held a culture fest, one that celebrated a host of different ethnic groups that as a…

  • Wanting Discovery

    I am that person you see every day, in a coffee shop – caprice with friends, at the prom, nervous, in every crowd shot of each rite of passage, walking to school, waiting nearby, the one that popped out of a crowd with a smile, genuine and as easily drawn to cry as allow laughter.  …

  • A Rising Fire

    There’s a frightening reality exists around our lives we’d like to believe it isn’t the panic our mind derives. ~ Yet, how else can we explain the mounting tension, the averted eyes, the tarnished world we mention. ~ Would that it mattered our own lives hang in the balance that we imagine we might never…

  • We Hold the Match

    I feel responsible in the quiet dark corner of my life, I am the problem, I carry the matches to our powder keg we call America. When I read about the color of your skin, wonder about your safety, wish you wouldn’t all be lumped together, I seldom think about me, never had to, ever…

  • Five Pictures, Five Photos – Day Five; On Diversity

    Well, I missed the day, so this is an early morning contribution to the five days, five photos exercise that Dancing Echoes turned me on to a week ago. I will finish with one last piece. Again, the people I nominated to carry this out are Souldier Girl, Dana Renee, John Coyote & Ivon Prefontaine…

  • Five Days, Five Photos – Day Four; On Diversity

    ( a continuance in a five day series inspired by Dancing Echoes ) Our president is Black, I want to speak to that for a minute. I remember the commentary, the pundits, the wannabes, Racism is over, the President is Black. I laughed inside until the tears began. I wondered how many years, how many…

  • Five Days, Five Photos – Day Three; On Diversity

    ( a third installment inspired by Dancing Echoes ) The Key a challenge to all of us around each other all the time during every moment of our lives we might be rather than the pose, the setup, the expectation, what if we all just recalled ourselves, instead of a reliance on being told to…

  • Five Days, Five Photos – Day Two; On Diversity

    I have this notion, that if we could sometime just put all of our fears aside, and recognize one another for our beauty and grace, there wouldn’t be nearly as much anxiety in our lives. Perhaps I am speaking for myself, but I really do wonder. I know many years ago, a friend of mine…

  • Five Days, Five Photos: Day One – On Diversity

    Hi everyone, I’m starting this challenge as inspired by an intriguing blogger – dancing echoes – who has provided much interest with her writing over the few months I have encountered her. Lately I have been looking for some trigger to get my writing back in motion. My work has seemed rather stale, and maybe this is…