“Souvenir 2” Disrupt Something Sacred

“If she believed in a God, it was in one who functioned something like Louise in this moment: rooting for her charges from afar, mourning alongside them when they were rejected, celebrating every small victory that came their way. She noticed the lonely ones, the ones at the edge of the crowd; she felt in her heart a sort of wild affectation for them, wanted to go to them, to stand next to them and pull them tightly to her side; and yet she also knew that to intervene in this way would disrupt something sacred that- at twelve and thirteen and fourteen years old- they were learning about themselves and the world. And this, too, was how she thought of God.”

-The God Of The Woods

Artist: Kerry James Marshall

Happy MLK Day 2025

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King Jr.

An apt photo and quote for how I was treated when wrongfully arrested. Everyone who ran that mouth, but never checked on me, never read my pieces, never apologized, invalidated and gaslit me got exactly what their hypocritical, self-absorbed asses deserve. You’re trash. Idgaf who you are, or how long I’ve known you. I will never forget and you will pay for being complicit with evil. You don’t know your places in a world we divines provide, so I’ll make sure you’ll never forget. Martin Luther King Jr. is nicer than me. When provoked I’m far more Malcolm X in temperament. I had a dream that I beat that ass and so it shall be. Happy MLK day. Via: Kerry James Marshall

Xenia: Might Be God

“The Greeks had a word, xenia– guest friendship- a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God. Ovid tells the story of two immortals who came to Earth in disguise to cleanse the sickened world. No one would let them in but one old couple, Baucis and Philemon. And their reward for opening their door to strangers was to live on after death as trees- an oak and a linden- huge and gracious and intertwined.” Artist: Kerry James Marshall