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Did you know that freedom has a sound? It sounds like the smashing of idols, shattering into a thousand pieces. It sounds like the clatter of chains, falling at the foot of the cross. It sounds like this giant sigh of relief, this squeal of delight, this chorus of praise. It sounds like hundreds of […]
Dear Daughter, You stood in front of my covered mirrors, as I fumbled with my flat-iron, to fix my hair without looking at my reflection. And of course, you wanted to know why I did such a crazy thing — to give up my own reflection for 40 days. I think you knew why. Kind […]
o much about those days is fuzzy, but I still remember groping around in the dark of my mind. It seemed that all the color had been sucked out of my life, which was a lie, but that’s the way it all looked to me. And felt. Just gray. I didn’t understand why I felt this […]
A year has passed since I sat in the back of a pickup truck in Haiti, while we were parked outside a ramshackle hut without windows. Somewhere on the dark side of that loosely-hinged door in Haiti, a baby lay limp and naked on the filthy floor. I balled my skirt in my fists, pulling […]
I was twelve, and I would ride my Schwinn bike along the dividing line. It was that paved road east of town, the road that separated the Catholic cemetery from the one where the rest of the bodies were buried. And then, I could pedal on down to the Bailey farm, gravel crackling under our […]