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Writings about Whiteness and Racism

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest

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by Zee Bee

$12: 12 Privileges

How many privileges does it take to get a Zoe a $12.50 bank fee reversal?

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Generating Joy

The line at the pie place was a block long, so I laughed it off and kept biking. I couldn’t just turn around and go home because the weather was GOR GEE USSSSSSSSSS. Like, perfect. Like, bike down the street no-handed singing and conducting songs from the playlist of your youth gorgeous. I honestly can’t remember the last time I felt so happy. No – joyful. I was filled with unintellectual, full-body joy.

What We Sacrifice: Wynn Bruce

The only thing I can say, the only thing I may know, is that if he burned himself alive in order to call attention to Climate Change, we owe him the honor of paying attention to climate change. I don’t know what paying attention means to each one of you.

Practice (lots)

Funny how I so look forward to sitting down to a half hour meditation, and am filled with dread when I settle in to double that. As if time itself is the problem. It is, in the most obvious way. After a certain point, the pain sets in. It doesn’t always come in the same way, or at the same time, but I have never sat for more than 40 minutes without feeling something – pain or discomfort (hard to distinguish between them in the early days).

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