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March 02, 2006
march already?
three months into 2006...
snow is on the ground, and it doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon. but now it's staying light longer, and the white on the ground is throwing me off. i keep expecting it to be warmer, like back home where it was 78 degrees the other day. alas, the weekend forecast is calling for dropping temperatures, blah, blah, blah...
nothing to do but read and do that some more.
and speaking of reading, lots of black feminist theory here lately. lots of stuff that makes me angry and makes me sad and makes me hopeful, sometimes hopeless. but, whatever my reactions are, i'm beginning to understand how all these things come together. we are in such a mess.
i've been holdin onto some old pictures of myself, lookin at them and tryin to remember what i may have been thinking during those moments before the shutters opened. there's this one picture, my dad's favorite, where i'm standing in front of a palm tree, which makes me think the picture was taken in the philippines, with a blue and white dress on and knee socks pulled up high. my hair is parted down the middle and twisted in princess leia-like buns. and my smile back then is the smile i flash today--broad and bright. my stick legs are peeking out from underneath the dress, and i can see torn up knees--the results from games of tag football in the frontyard, much to the chagrin of my mom, much to the delight of my brother and the neighborhood fellas. i miss that girl.
quote for the day
"We do not swear and summon our best in order to rescue the killers; it is to comfort and to empower the possible victims of evil that we do tinker and daydream and revise and memorize and then impart all that we can of our inspired, our inherited humanity."
June Jordan
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