What Crosses My Mind

  • Trials Defining 45’s Racism

    Racism  noun Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.                    – Oxford English Dictionary A friend of mine asked me recently to give a good definition of racism and what it means in…

  • I Have A Broken Heart

    I watched my world unravel tonight, I believe in love, I understand pain and indifference, though cannot recognize ignorance.   This night I listened to voices familiar and strong speak with certain agonizing reactions to simple insecurities.   How soon do we lose ourselves, when hiding inside a square box incapable of having corners, unaware…

  • While Understanding Matters

    In speaking out loud, one suggested, there is little that matters, mixing paint, the blend is a natural course of a process, one that’s surely been in place, long before our own, personal reaction. We sometimes play with dye, adjusting colors for our own benefit, philosophy, comfort zone. For when the artist, will display their…

  • “The World is Watching”

    Tradition suggests acknowledge ourselves In scheme, our spiritual karma wanes, Like to believe that humanity delves Where love in peace speaks hopeful gains. ~ Wild abandon ills principled decline In our children’s eyes we extinguish fire, That reckoning once spoke roses and whine Today, private anguish will less inspire. ~ Young minds of tomorrow whose direction…

  • Quiet Rest Stops

                  ~~~ These places exist if we open their doors, too busy, so afraid, of letting go. ‘My anxiety is nothing like yours;’ sweeping strands become my complacent throes like winds scream, thunders a prejudice grasp – Our minds are often sinewy chasms. When eyes behold our sweet real…

  • A Ferguson Retrospect

    http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/opinion/2014/08/29/wausau-ferguson-column/14814491/