What Crosses My Mind

  • Why I attended a Trump rally

    I was recently given tickets to attend the Trump rally in Duluth, Minnesota last night. Given the controversy around the issues occurring on our southern border, I felt like this was my closest opportunity I might have to put myself in a place to show resistance to his actions and the impact he is having…

  • ‘Speechless’ by The Moving Co.

    Last night we went to see the play ‘Speechless’ performed by The Moving Company at The Lab Theater in downtown Minneapolis. I wanted to see the show (Best Play of 2017 – StarTribune) because it is being produced by former members of Theatre De Le Jeune Lune, namely, created by Steven Epp and directed by…

  • I Looked In Their Hearts Today

    I didn’t tell them as much, you never can, well you might, I might occasionally want to shout, I want them to know I love them, we love them, there’s a lot of love when each one of them walks inside my classroom.   I wanted to reach them today, they couldn’t really feel the…

  • Be A Racist, It’s Ok, It’s 2017

    I walked into a nightmare today, names were dropped, words were tossed, I couldn’t get past an, an, an, an, omission of a hopeful anomaly, that turned awful, horrific, debatably ludicrous, seemed we were all so frivolous, funny, fanatics. Seemed we were all lost in the comfort of our WHITE PRIVILEGE! White privilege regarded itself,…

  • Breathing Slow Dreams

    It is when we want to cry, the sound will not come, its expanse, fills our lungs to capacity, short breaths, quiet realities, keeps us moving through a storm, taking a moment, a gasp, yet still there is a desire to find more, know a place we might settle in, get perspective, develop a plan,…

  • I Cannot Move

    I try sometimes, my energy propels me to a different place, a satisfying luxury, less common than I’d like to be, yet it always happen, the current, the arms and hands and legs and the talons always seem to covet me, without asking I might suggest, maintain, incite, a certain flavor of dependency, speaks to…

  • Sunsets Will Remain

    While monsters in our midst, shed sallow contraband upon our mind, when gathering upon the storm, seeking shelter beyond the norm, there is that constant we might recall, a certain Grace in common language. for everyone is given cause to learn, in struggle, sunsets will remain.   We fight the crazies by instinct we know,…

  • Sometimes I Stop

    There is that occasion when the world evolves, and I, for the sake of I, stay static, I stop, I don’t smell  the flowers, or even walk in the humidity, instead, I am frozen in time, wondering just how many hours will drift past my eyes before I can know, before I might understand, why…

  • Words to Jacob

    I’ve waited for this day, with no eager anticipation, I remember the way, I first discovered you, realized the news would be all about you, I wondered what it would be like to lose someone, to not have any idea, and only be left with pain, the loss that seemed forever in a day, in…

  • Where Time Lays Path

    ~ If a measure could suggest definition, Would we cease succession of passion. While all around humanity play travails Might we all become a cutting prevails. ~ Search the world over for recompense Only then discover all momentous tense Realizations begin only again when slow Mind unyielding decides somehow show. ~ When in childhood needn’t…