What Crosses My Mind

  • A World of Measures

    We are a measured society. Our actions fall under values we would wish to believe manifest in our background, cultural mores, the manner we were raised, the people by which we surround ourselves. In order to feel a certain sense of security, I want to believe in doing the right thing, living a life of…

  • White Privilege

    what I have would regrettably could be different as standing alone in a crowd without indifference disguised preconceived judgmental scrutiny let me stand side by side in a world of true compassion love, human, free then we will perhaps all believe we are not racist we live in a dream

  • Different Set of Eyes

    Yesterday morning, while sitting in a writing lab with a student, we both received notifications at the same time, about the Houston tragedy – Tragedy in Texas – and we talked for a minute or two of our sadness. We exchanged the usual, it keeps happening, oh that’s scary, terrible, any number of coined phrases that…

  • To Know Who I Am

    I struggle sometimes, with the right words, perhaps an easy phrase, a greeting of some kind. I want the world to understand, I am my own being, I’ve fought a war perhaps, nothing like a soldier’s wrath.   I listen to what is real around me, the smarter speakers those meant to be listened upon.…

  • 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,…

  • On White Privilege

    I was pissed today, they didn’t get it, instead, they threw it away, opportunity, look around the room, everyone has a set of eyes, focus on the corneas, nothing else, notice the tear ducts, they exist, Everything else is added baggage, meant to confuse and display, every wonder why? The eyes? I stood outside in…