The frontline communities that I worked in in Detroit, they can’t go outside because the fumes are too strong. But that same neighborhood, a cop could run up and shoot them. They’re not experiencing these problems separately. And so when you think about it in that way, police violence is another env

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing? Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/597047-mindfulness-must-be-engaged-once-there-is-seeing-there-must

Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. –Rep. John Lewis https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html

These clouds are where my heart is today https://www.instagram.com/p/CDNaL6tHNB0/?igshid=1n1hw6x5hv1zh

Today’s Haiku (July 28, 2020) for a lover            in 10 million years from now            I cut dahlias                                    Takajo Mitsuhashi

The toadfish sits on the bottom of the sea, singing a song of love.

San Mateo meditation demonstration #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (at Central Park & Recreation Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjkBchp5nV/?igshid=82n1nhzvsio7

Those who pursue the truth are members of the community of truth-seekers and reformers throughout time and space. They do not resign themselves to a collective fate that offers no laurels.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves Racial Justice / Engaging Together for Change: An Invitation | Plum Vil

Opinion: If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy

I believe that in most circumstances, doing race work in an integrated setting is harmful. This is not a popular belief, especially among white people. I have been challenged on this time and again, and I keep showing up for these conversations in mixed-race settings and breaking down from the pain

CNBC’s Andrea Day interviewed me on the topic of email spoofing, and I demonstrated to her how easy it was to impersonate an email message from a domain that wasn’t protected with the authentication technology DMARC. Who really sent that email? Major organizations may be vulnerable to email spoofing

In the meantime, I leave anyone who has the bad luck to be in public life at this moment with a final thought from Władysław Bartoszewski, who was a member of the wartime Polish underground, a prisoner of both the Nazis and the Stalinists, and then, finally, the foreign minister in two Polish democr