A Revolution Of Values

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring."

Another Day That Hallmark Made

I can't wait for Valentines Day.
Not because I am particularly fond about 
celebrating a day that makes the single and/or
unloved feel ever more lonesome;
just because it'll be warmer then.

la te tranble nan peyi d'Ayiti': the earth trembles in Haiti

One of the first people murdered on our land was a queen. Her name was Anacaona and she was an Arawak Indian. She was a poet, dancer, and even a painter. She ruled over the western part of an island so lush and green that the Arawaks called it Ayiti land of high. When the Spaniards came from across the sea to look for gold, Anacaona was one of their first victims. She was raped and killed and her village pillaged in a tradition of ongoing cruelty and atrocity. Anacaona's land is now the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, a place of continuous political unrest. Thus, for some, it is easy to forget that this land was the first Black Republic, home to the first people of African descent to uproot slavery and create an independent nation in 1804.

(an excerpt from "We Are Ugly, But We Are Here" by Edwidge Danticat)

Hot Chip - One Pure Thought

where

Where does the soul go when the body rests?

To the sun and back again in one big giant step.

Whipping on a solar wind,

Glimpses of loved ones and friends.

Are dreams where we go when the body's dead?

Another Proclamation

(a poem by Sherman Alexie from "War Dances")

When

Lincoln

Delivered

The

Emancipation

Proclamation

Who

Knew

that, one year earlier, in 1862, he'd signed and approved the 

order for the largest public execution in United States history?

Who did they execute? "Mulatto, mixed-bloods, and Indians."

Why did they execute them? "For uprising against the State

and her citizens." Where did they execute them? Mankato,

Minnesota. How did they execute them? Well, Abraham Lin-

coln thought it was good

And

Just

To

Hang

Thirty-eight

Sioux

simultaneously. Yes, in front of a large cheering crowd,

thirty-eight Indians dropped to their deaths. Yes, thirty-eight

necks snapped. But before they died, thirty-eight Indians sang

their death songs. Can you imagine the cacophony of thirty-

eight different death songs? But wait, one Indian was pardoned 

at the last minute, so only thirty-seven Indians had to sing their 

death songs. But, O, O, O, O, can you imagine the cacophony 

of that one survivor's mourning song? If he taught you the 

words, do you think you would sing along?

 

 

 

Cults - Go Outside

Why do you want me to be set free,

to travel the minds eccentricities?

Because things here aren't so liberating!

Dimensions exist beyond our thinking.

So let those reigns go and 
just know that we don't know.