a voter came in and while we were assigning him a number he asked me to recite a poem. i picked up mary oliver's *devotions* and opened it to the last poem i had read and read it aloud to him, his eyes closed and his breathing deep. #democracy#poetry#life
@MrJThatch @DominicanCANews @NJPitchford so glad you listened! my daughter and i are excited to have added dominican to our college tour list. amazing things are going on there. 🧡
23/23 ...due to the way police homicides have been historically reported.
We must imagine others' pain.
We must be motivated by our empathy to act.
We must care for each other.
We are required.
1/23 Murders are abhorrent. We don’t need to know the victim to decry the actions of people who intentionally kill human beings. Reflecting on the power of personally knowing the victim of police brutality and homicides, a colleague wrote me this morning: