Space to ventilate and agitate
"Thrifting is something that meant everything to me. I would imagine those who owned the items before me. Who were they? What were they like? Did the clothes define them, elevate them, make them feel like they were worth something, like they did for me? Or were they just clothes to them?"
"When you do finally still yourself—when the monkey brain quiets and the lizard brain activates its slow, unblinking surveillance of the world around it—the city will crush you. It will crush you with nothing but its breath and the contraction of its ribs."
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It's like fighting every day to find a part of yourself without losing the parts you barely have
I was distracted in daydreams about being named Sloan(e) and if I were, would I spell it Sloan or Sloane?
At Le Petit CafĂ© on Court Street, I sat across from Nina with a smile on my face and a clenched stomach. We chatted over lattes about the boys and the holidays, just as we always had. What I had to say to her shouldn’t have been explosive, but it was. In spite of the... Continue Reading →
the issue is the system / And the problem is the haste
When u look at the surface u see a man
I assisted with kids in Special Education, or what we called 12-to-1 classes, after the required ratio of students to teachers. The kids were a motley crew of dysfunction. They were middle-school-aged juvenile delinquents, learning disabled, violent, from foster homes, and no one seemed to give a damn whether they succeeded or failed.
The Grate 
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