there’s a lot on my heart today…

that this is “Pride Month.”

on “ash wednesday,” a rad(ical) take:

this is a reunion with ourselves:
a re-union re-membering
the Sacred we believe is
intimately laboring,
intimately yearning
within us
and through us.
this is a reunion with ourselves in the deepest way:
you are dust, which is to say:
you are nothing,
that they…

The #BlackLivesMatter #BowDownBernie action at Bernie Sanders’ Seattle visit prompted defenses of Bernie Sanders and critiques of the #BlackLivesMatter #BowDownBernie action.

Celebrate! We need to celebrate our resilience, our hard work, our many victories, and who we are. And remember, parties can be exclusive and harmful.

yesterday, someone asked me,

“como se dice ‘empanada’ en Ingles?”
(“how do you say ‘empanada’ in English?”).

I said I explained them as, “hand pies”

I brought this up at a dinner table later that day. my friend, who identifies as…