Vacation as a mother means taking the nap I’ve been meaning to take for nearly 2 years walking on someone else’s cleaned carpet letting my arms linger a few moments longer on Nick’s shoulders Vacation as a mother means having a roomful of excited people watch Isaiah so I can sit by the lake letting […]
Author: Lisa
A Poem for Today
You are a sip of port wine. A faceful of August breeze. The only soprano in a world of alto thinkers. You are love to me.
Answering the Unanswerable: The Spirituality of the Body
In graduate school, I took a class called, “The Spirituality of the Body.” It was an intense course, and took on the questions of life. The kinds of questions that are so deep, so mysterious that most people gloss over them in regular conversation. Or, in the discomfort with the unknown, find a short-fit answer […]
The Power of Healing
You know what I thought about today — the way people don’t question or assume anything when the word “healing” is used. In circles of medical professional, doctors, even spiritual ministers, when someone is “healing,” it’s as if there is a quiet reverence for the process someone is going through to get back to place […]
89 Infants Recovered from Kidnapping Reveals More than Just Male Preference
The question always comes with good intention, “Why are you a feminist when women have already accomplished so much?” Meaning, women in certain cases have achieved similar ambitions in life as their male counterparts, so why raise ruckus when women are doing so gosh darn well? Well, for one thing, things like this are still […]
Flashmobs and Dancing in Cleveland
So when I danced with Matt last night, I noticed that Cleveland news, channel 5 was standing by to capture the happy event. 30+ of us loyal dancers were waiting for our turn to dance badly and represent Cleveland the best way we knew how. The news anchor interviewed a family from Indiana who drove […]
I Danced with Matt in Cleveland
If you don’t know the video “Dancing,” you probably haven’t spent much time with me. Roughly three years ago, someone sent this link to me a of a random guy – Matt – who ended up going around the world (42 countries) and dancing with strangers while capturing it on video. The music, “Praan” is […]
A Question of Forgiveness
I think about forgiveness a lot. I even took a class in graduate school about it. “Violence and Forgiveness” was one of the most compelling and challenging courses of my life. It wasn’t the texts, or the papers. Or listening to how one Rwandan took it upon himself to try and forgive the Hutu militia […]
“Rise, Dark Girls. Rise!”
Via Colorlines, I found this beautiful video about colorism, particularly focusing on the African American community Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.
The Clocks’ Arms: Companionship, Time, and Loving a Survivor of Sexual Violence
Many survivors do not have the luxury of using the phrase, “time flies” because oftentimes survivors find each day is slower than the last. Each hour, sometimes minute, seems to pass at an excruciatingly tedious pace. Pain simply does not make time go faster. Trauma puts survivors in worlds where the clocks’ hands do funny […]