My family tends to bring the best out of me, even when I’m not at my best.
Author: Samuel Wakefield
Black to the Woods
How a weekend camping with two other black families led to healing and restoration.
The citizen project
Instead of asking who deserves to be a citizen, maybe we should ask: What does citizenship require of me?
A dream (not) deferred…
One of my favorite poems from my youth is the Langston Hughes classic that reads: What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore–And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over–like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it…
Freedom ain’t free
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Douglass
Life is magical. Don’t miss it.
Magic isn’t the absence of mess. It’s what flickers in the middle of it.
Activate Your Community
It’s never too late to activate the community around you.
You make plans…
No one seems to understand that everyone’s life hangs by a thread. Kate Bowler
Learning to let go (again)…
Not bad for her first driving lesson. Not bad for me, either.
When there’s too much to do…
Sometimes it’s the abundance of options that’s our biggest obstacle.
everyday fatherhood 