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A day will come when you, too, must share your knowledge of things and people. As the singular witness of a happening uniquely revealed to you, in words as yet unknown, you will reveal to your brothers [and sisters] the ineffable wisdom on your heart.

 

– Irenee Guilane Dioh

    Explorations

    My journeys into Ideas and practices I have experimented with in the past and am testing today.

      reflections

      The sense I make out of my past thinking and writings and their relationship to current events.

        Ruminations

        The questions I ponder and the insights I gain after I’ve treated “reality as an interesting hypothesis.”

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          RECAP: In the Beginning Is the Word; the Resistance Follows

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          Rewriting Gatsby: What the Dream at 100 Reveals About Us

          "Gatsby believed in the green light…" But one hundred years later, we must ask: What was that light really made of? And who was ever meant to reach it? With this post, I conclude my April 2025 Inquiry Circle, where we explored The New American Dream through a radical...

          The Great Gatsby Was Black: A Rereading of Race, Survival, and American Myth

          The Secret That Shifted Everything One hundred years after The Great Gatsby—initially published in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald—we are still decoding its illusions. Wesley Lowery's powerful April 7, 2025 reflection, Gatsby's Secret...

          The Dream Not Chased: Black Women, Sovereignty, and the Exit from Spectacle

          Our third meditation in our New American Dream series moves from aspiration to refusal—from the shimmer of the green light to the grounded work of redesign. Black women’s sovereign strategies are at the center, where stillness becomes protest and silence holds...

          They Burn Because They Cannot Build

          A Fire in the Governor’s Yard On the night of April 13, 2025, while Governor Josh Shapiro and his family celebrated Passover, a man scaled the fence of the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion and threw Molotov cocktails into their home. The attacker, Cody Balmer, had...