Displaced
Several years ago I visited the nursing home around the corner from my church. I
felt compelled to encourage the sick and elderly with conversation, Psalms read
aloud and prayer. But to my
Humanity
Like a Cork Out of a Bottle
If these genre conventions had flesh and blood, I would fight them with swords.
As it is, I am powerless. They win. If a book is not neat and square and laid
out
Our Beautiful Common Humanity
Ibiyinka Alao [http://www.ibiyinka.com/] is an Arts Ambassador to the United
Nations from Nigeria. Trained in architecture at the University Of Ile-Ife
Nigeria, he is also a painter and became the
What it’s Like to be Tajik
Shamsiddin makes rock candy. Each week he receives a shipment of sugar in tall
plastic sacks. He melts it with water in a cauldron as wide as my arm-span and
boils it all
Tumblr Crusher
She had posted nothing on her Tumblr for a month until tonight. Here I am, half
an hour to go until the hard deadline for bedtime, and I’m thrilled. I’m
astonished