Sree Kumar & Sharon Siddique
Using Philadelphia as an example: compare the cost, both financial and societal, of education and incarceration. Correlative, not causative, and by no means comprehensive but absolutely absurd.
And a great jumping off point for discussion about why education (and its correlation with incarceration) is the most pressing civil rights issue of the 21st century. Education is the path to liberation.
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I love a good commencement speech: Melissa Harris-Perry at Wellesley.
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James Baldwin
“[Man has] a need to be seen as he is. To be released from the tyranny of his mirror. All of us know, whether or not we admit it, that mirrors can only lie. That death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought, and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without, and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense, but as a state of being, or state of grace. Not in the infantile American sense of being made happy, but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring, and growth.”
Luke Dixon, pen & ink
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I woke up this morning to emails from —gasp!— BOTH of my brothers.
One was a haiku, from Peter, requesting a Skypedate.
The other was this photo, from Brandon, who saw the solar eclipse from The Joshua Tree Music Festival. He took it through mylar sunglasses with his camera phone.
Best good-morning I’ve had in a good-long while.
