I love the threads in which we all get together and pool parts of our experiences. And, at a time of the Gregorian year when many are slowing down and thinking through their lives, I think it’s time for another.
I’ve been reading Toni Morrison recently (for an piece I wrote for Bitch Magazine). I got to thinking about how reading Morrison isn’t so much a question of simple enjoyment or engagement for me so much as rearranging how my mind works, in little ways I will struggle and be unable to trace in the future.
What moves you? Is it a book, a place you like to contemplate the universe, a phrase, a person, a memory, an object, an idea?