ERIN CONWAY

It’s almost time, for my time, in the garden.  The ‘we’ in ‘our’ garden, my dad and I, is a specific split of tasks.  But, even then, his urgency makes itself known like the downpours that provide the needed rain by the weatherman’s measurement on one day instead of ma...

I read that it has been unproven across history that monumental change occurs from ideals. It happens when interests align. These interests may be in common between groups, between individuals and even within them.  Tim Wise reminded me in his book, Unde...

“It’s been my house a long time.  You can do what you want.”  Dad has taken to repeating this pair of sentences, nudging me forward in the difficult decisions brought on by the blank slate of redone floors and newly painted walls. 

We both stare at the bookshe...

I made a copy of two pages in Sherri Mitchell’s book.  I wrote “Write like Man” at the top as a blog for another day.  I had already considered many times over the cultural knowledge locked within indigenous language, except Mitchell added another layer, or really lang...

“The world has changed,” the woman’s voice is deep at the beginning of the film Fellowship of the Ring. 

“I feel it in the earth.  I feel it in the-”  My memory gaped.  Where else does she feel it?  I know the end is something about “what once was” and “few remain who r...

“We’re open,” they cheer.

“For what?” I wonder.

“Open for business.”

Ah, yes, “for business.”

“We’re all open.”

All? 

But, what “all” is open?

Open eyes.

Eyes, it must be open eyes,

Unless it’s I-deology,

A three dimensional bound space

That not only constrains

But refracts.

Not ey...

Wake up from the American Dream—Whiten(ois)ess

Book One:  My name is Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.  What is yours?

Book Two:  My name is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.  Ni...

“Darn it.  I know this word but can’t remember.  What’s ijad?  It’s a place?” I asked my brother via text.  I had received the word in a message from my Hebrew teacher.  Too embarrassed to ask her, since the word’s meaning hovered just out of reach in my mind, I reache...