Category: Commonplace
Quotes, art, questions, videos, podcasts, music, and whatever else inspires.
The Chill Deepens
It’s Just the Weather
Get the Language Right
“Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It’s always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it’s always something pure, high and clean. Well, I want to get the language right tonight.
I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: ‘Yes, I’m Black, I’m proud of it. I’m Black and I’m beautiful!’”
Woe to Those
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
— Isaiah 5:20 (via @middlechurch)
Little Cold
You Don’t Have to Like It
From Here
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.”
— Lao Tzu (via WeCroak)
2020: A Look Back
Grieving in the Era of the Coronavirus
“I just think that we’re at this incredible time of mourning as a world. We’re all grieving our lives and grieving the lives that we’ve had before and worried about what’s going to happen in the future, and we’re all sort of stuck in a state of suspension. And some of the grief therapists that I talk to, the counselors, they say when you lose someone you love deeply, you want the world to stop. And the world has stopped. We’re all like in this collective place of reflection.”
Lisa Marie Blair 