Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain

Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Social Movements, Spain and Portugal

  Cuartro Cuerpos, Four Bodies.  “Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual,” the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body divided our journey into five parts, checking bus routes...

Educator Rooted in Love and Solidarity

Minneapolis Interview Project, Social Movements

Rachel Schmitt...

Calling up the Nineteenth Century to Understand our Own Times.  Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth, Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered and Tony Horowitz’s Spying on the South

Public History, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies, Uncategorized

Annette Gordon-Reed, and Barbara Kingsolver are writers grounded in history, science, and Tony Horowitz was a writer steeped in evidence, yet reading On Juneteenth, Unsheltered, and Spying on the South together, felt like a mystical retreat with three mediums,...

Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence

Blog, Social Movements

Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence The Twin Cities are rising. Teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul are wearing each other’s colors in solidarity as they prepare for a two-city strike, demanding raises for their lowest tier educational...

Super Spreading Social Justice

Social Movements

Super Spreading Social Justice I have been thinking about super-spreader events. Not the kind that makes hundreds of people sick, but the kinds that transform lives in a good way. An early one that changed me was the 1979 Take Back the Night March in Minneapolis. The...