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Allocation of Solitude: Transition

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Wednesday, October 03, 2012. I've had realizations here. I've had several creative outbursts here. I've been through so much here.whether I've posted it or not. I've had hard life lessons learned here. And through what was initially me just posting music playlists, to random thoughts, to art, to poetry, vent sessions, and everything else.I've learned so much. I've learned about myself as well as others. Maybe I'll come back to this place.dust it off.and post again. But for my sake, I hope it will be.

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Tonight, they are young: An ode to dancing black boys. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Tonight, they are young: An ode to dancing black boys. May 30, 2015. May 30, 2015. Dance is evolving breh pic.twitter.com/WE7xDbDMVY. Mdash; Philip Lewis (@Phil Lewis ) May 27, 2015. Fittingly, they are dancing to a remix of a song called “ We Are Young. The older one is wearing an “I Can’t Breathe Shirt.” I wonder if he requested it or if it was given as a kind of initiation. Undulating in their bones. Is no longer an acceptable form of welcome, that wh...

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Instructions for Falling Out of Love. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Instructions for Falling Out of Love. December 1, 2013. December 3, 2013. Let more in, let more out. I’m writing a monthly column for Vitae. Madiba and the Souls of Black Elders. 10 thoughts on “ Instructions for Falling Out of Love. December 1, 2013 at 8:33 pm. December 1, 2013 at 9:57 pm. My god. What timing……. I might add this one, too:. That’s where I am right now. And no one can take that away. December 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm. December 4, 2013 at 4:45 pm.

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Let’s Talk More About Intercontinental Blackness. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Let’s Talk More About Intercontinental Blackness. April 1, 2014. On Enin’s accomplishment goes out of its way to include this quote from a college admissions expert: “He’s not a typical African American kid.” At any rate, I hope you’ll read and engage it. Authors Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had this in mind on March 19 when they shared a stage. And Black Twitter needs to handle whoever wrote Anthony Anderson’s opening monologue. When we begi...

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The Labor of Happiness: A Thread at Yale Reflection. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. The Labor of Happiness: A Thread at Yale Reflection. June 12, 2015. 8220;I wish this feeling would never end.”. 8220;I was happy then.” That kind of thing. We know now what our parents and grandparents may not have: “X makes me happy” isn’t the healthiest requirement of a person, place, or experience. “I. Be happy with X” is. Happy That absolves us. I hope I succeeded. I think I did — and if there’s any picture that reassures me that I di...Me with my st...

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Black Faith in a Time of White Supremacy. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Black Faith in a Time of White Supremacy. June 18, 2015. June 18, 2015. When the mothers of the church got to casting out demons, they’d set their massive weathered bibles in our tiny laps and tell us, “Whatever you do, don’t let go of the Word.” And we wouldn’t. We’d clutch those King Jameses in our trembling hands and we’d wait out the after-service exorcisms. I talked to a friend from that childhood church a few years ago, one whose parents, like mine...

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Say nice things about Baltimore (and Prince!). – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Say nice things about Baltimore (and Prince! May 12, 2015. May 12, 2015. In a story I wrote two weeks ago, I briefly mentioned. I’ve written here. About that church and my childhood friends before, but to recap: t. I still ride for my youth group friends, but when I when I left that church at 16, I fell out of touch with most of them (until the rise of social media reconnected us). Also check out the May 1 broadcast of. The Bill Press Show. 8212; but if ...

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The Racial Prism. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. June 9, 2015. June 9, 2015. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. — W.E.B. DuBois. I made it (Thanks to so many of you. I’m incredibly grateful).:. But in the midst of my euphoria at having barely scraped my way into this respite, hours away from the rigors of my daily life back ...

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Children, Church, and Charleston-Writing at Vox and WaPo. – Stacia L. Brown

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Stacia L. Brown. Writer. mother. part-time hippie. Children, Church, and Charleston-Writing at Vox and WaPo. June 28, 2015. June 28, 2015. Last week, I spent four evenings at a local United Methodist Church where my daughter was attending Vacation Bible School. My grandmother suggested I sign her up. She’ll be five on the first day of August and she’s reached a tipping point as it relates to social interaction. Where we have to worry over our safety in ways we haven’t had to in over 40 years. Church is f...