By marybethrew, on March 15th, 2017%
for today’s post i’m sharing photos by sebastiao salgado.
it was a couple of hours of my time well spent, wandering through the berkeley art museum back in 2002, absorbing salgado’s amazing collection migrations: humanity in transition. i was adrift myself, recently relocated far from home in a post 9/11 political climate, when i . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ the least of these
By marybethrew, on February 22nd, 2017%
75 years ago, on february 19, 1942, executive order 9066 was signed, enabling the incarceration of japanese americans. our federal government stole 3 years of the lives of over 100,000 people, stole their livelihoods and dignity as well, in many cases. they did this in the name of national security. the rights of these people . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ love not fear
By marybethrew, on February 15th, 2017%
this land is your land, this land is my land
from california to the new york island
from the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
this land was made for you and me
~woody guthrie
reason #9761 i know that i have found . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ this land
By marybethrew, on December 2nd, 2016%
in the more immediate sense, i was under a dark cloud, and my thankfulness gland wasn’t functioning properly. i had a vague a feeling of “at least i don’t live in aleppo,” but that just made me feel guilty that i wasn’t getting an A in the gratitude challenge when i should, since i don’t live in aleppo. imagine being ungrateful for all the nachos i am blessed to be eating lately. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ sailor hair don’t care
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