Sunday, March 20, 2022

 Abiy, how did it happen? Such promise and Blen by your side. Was it a ruse or did you decide that the balanced views of your upbringing no longer mattered? Did you lose faith in humanity? Why not trust the long, arduous process any longer? Where did you go and what moment, event, person of influence brought you to this place of paranoid determinism? Was it like awakening from a coma or a minute shift each day into the corruptions of increased wealth, a sense of losing control, forgetting that breakdowns are just preludes to breakthroughs? The world is grappling with the delicate balance of living and let live, free speech and hate speech, the meaning of winning at all costs, protecting or antagonizing. Where does our love go when it feels lost? How do we unmask, re-member it?

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Sometimes, I come across news, poems, comments, profound sentences in a book or magazine and I just want a place to put them and share them with others.

This blog will be more like a Harper's Review, without the great organization. I'll hopefully get better about presenting as I learn more about how to use this medium for sharing.


 Abiy, how did it happen? Such promise and Blen by your side. Was it a ruse or did you decide that the balanced views of your upbringing no ...