“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.”

Several people responded to our all-points harvest bulletin by bringing something to exchange. They did not have to, but we are thankful they did.

Why I run

Many stories matter.

Skillful, enterprising and optimistic, Mary Seacole overcame racism as well as sexism to lead an adventurous life in the 19th century.

The backstory on last month’s blog post

An industry of pseudo-scientific, legal, theological, fiction and nonfiction writing has been devoted to poisonous lies about African-Americans. The truth could set America free.