my week in objects (mostly).

1. these pink carnations.

{left in little bottles by everyone’s bedside and still spritely nearly a week later.}

2. this ribbon.

{and embracing a very persistent lavender moment.}

3. this borrowed colored pencil.

{for making my to do list decidedly more cheery. }

4. this green grass.

{because it just keeps getting better.}

5. this stain stick.*

{because sometimes i sit on my child’s squished raspberry and sometimes i’m wearing white pants.}

other things:

#disruptingracismwithkids (plus required reading: we put it in terms of not-nice).

wellness is a trap.

taking note.

like a particularly aggressive strain of kudzu…

in good company.

thirty days.

the political power of black motherhood.

not six. not seven.

for a few weeks each spring, a lone guard monitors the moors of northern england…

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