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November 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. When I Wake Up, It Won’t Matter if It’s 1860, 1960, or 2014. November 25, 2014. November 25, 2014. Sometimes I think about staying in Europe. But Europe does not understand my pain. I read a post that said, “Everyone’s guilty except the people who are.” You took the words right out of my mouth. Tomorrow, I will begin again. And try to find the right words for this conclusion. Categories Thoughts and Musings. No justice no peace. 25 Thoughts and Musings from the 25th Year. 1 I alway...
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May 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. A Different Type of Signing Day. May 16, 2014. But what does this letter mean in the scale of the word ‘resignation’? All it means is that I’m resigning from this current course–that my sails have shifted and caught the winds of change. But I won’t forget the harbor I have sailed from, nor the ones who helped me build the ship in the first place. You’re Gonna Miss This. May 8, 2014. May 8, 2014. You’re gonna miss this. You’re gonna want this back. These Are Some Good Times. It̵...
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October 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. Tally Mark One, Tally Mark Two…: A Chronicle of Letting Go. October 16, 2014. October 16, 2014. You, my beloved green notebook, were an impulse buy. Why would I ever spend $24 just to say that I had a “cute” notebook? But I had run inside the store, snatched you up, and opened the fresh pages on that BART ride. A stranger asked if I was writing my life story as I scribbled along the pages. I said, “No, I’m writing a story of letting go.”. I stopped by your house with a box of your ...
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June 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. When Reality Finds You. June 24, 2014. I was reminded today though, in what was one of the longest Mondays I have felt in a long time, that reality always catches up with you, always finds a way to sit down beside you and force you to stare it straight in the eye. A silent reminder of its power, its palpable presence. Leavetakings Part Three: On the Brink of the Aftermath. June 9, 2014. June 9, 2014. But what about all the other students who did not pass, which is sadly the majorit...
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May 2015 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. How We Speak About Rape. May 23, 2015. May 23, 2015. There’s a phrase I had never heard before–whether being out of touch or something my students never used while I was teaching–called “frape,” which I heard for the first time when I moved to Cambridge in the UK. The first time I heard it I was really taken aback. ‘Frape’? I asked. As in…? One story that I have followed over the last year because it symbolically resonates with me is that of Emma Sulkowicz. Emma is the courageous w...
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September 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. The Science of Movement. September 18, 2014. September 18, 2014. 8220;To truly understand yourself, your purpose and those around you, you must keep moving. You must move at least five times; five times to open your heart and dip your toes into something new, fresh and life changing.”. 1 To get away from what you know. This first move is the hardest. It’s the moment you willingly decide to be uncomfortable, scared and alone. It’s making the decision to become a foreigner, a...My fi...
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December 2013 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. 8220;What ever happened to daddy’s little girl? December 1, 2013. 8220;To be good at teaching, one has to be able to connect with students, to engage them, inspire them, communicate easily with them, get inside their heads and figure out what they don’t understand and find a way to help them understand it.” -from Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Categories Things that Interest Me. Tags absent black fathers. Things that Interest Me. Join 2,311 other followers. I Share My Friends.
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January 2015 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. Dr King, Selma, and the Search for a Legacy. January 16, 2015. January 16, 2015. Notes from one of my undergraduate research papers, December 2008). I think one of the most beautiful things in the world is the ability to dream. The ability to imagine places and ideas and realities that have yet to be borne into existence. Over the past year I have found that some dreams become harder to hold on to. And that’s actually when I need to hold on to them more. Was to sit and type his sto...
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December 2014 – Footprints in the Air
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Footprints in the Air. The Year of Becoming. December 30, 2014. My girl is holy, is sacred, is pure. Is clean, is loved, is whole, is beautiful. Is worthy, is okay, is alone, is just fine. Just the way you are girl. Just the way you look babe. With that dirty mouth. And those hands, wherever they have been. And that sadness, whatever caused it. And that anger, wherever it came from. And that fear, who ever brought it. You are my girl, girl, you are. In a year marked by fledgling threads. I had become the...
