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Me say war
NB: Each week I'm posting something from the archives of my more than 20 years of writing on the web. Sometimes it's a social media post, sometimes a blog post, or (like today) it's an excerpt from a newsletter issue published in 2019. Each entry gets updated with some modern context or point of view. - HH Back in 1992, Sinead O'Connor caused a sensation when, on Saturday Night Live, she tore up a picture of the Pope in protest of clergy sexual abuse.
Punk Damage
A thing I love is when I learn about a word or phrase that gives language to a thing I have known, but did not have words for. Like the first time I learned about harm reduction, which is a specific theory of social work that says that in order for people to make good decisions, they must first be alive so let's focus on keeping them alive to buy them time to make good decisions.
Long slow suppers
Hi there. Each week I will post an excerpt of one of the thousands of things I've written in the last 25 years, and then follow it up with some modern context or point of view. Today's piece from the archives was from my newsletter, and was written in summer of 2019. Enjoy! - HH One consequence to the amazing sort of life I have had the good fortune to lead is that I know, and have gotten to work with, a lot of all different sorts of people who live…
Living off the rage
The restaurant was quiet, despite its being the lunch hour. The rain came down outside, no doubt part of the reason for the low turnout. We hadn't seen each other for a while and were catching up in that meandering, slow way friends do. Here is what her son did, and here are the pictures. Here are pictures of our cats, and did you hear about so and so?
16 years ago today
Sixteen years ago today, we got married. On that morning, I had less than $30 in my checking account, having spent the massive sum of $80 the night before on pizza and two liter softdrinks for our rehearsal dinner. My car was a small Kia with a leaky radiator someone had given me, because I couldn't afford a car. My bride was in the early stages of the heart failure that had killed her mother, grandmother, and cousin.
On my own
The little door to enter the crawlspace under our house is tiny – perhaps 18 inches square. Every time I have to go under our house, I swear I never want to do this again. The plastic that has been laid in the crawlspace to keep the humidity down rustles as I crawl on my hands and knees over it. It’s dirty and opaque, and in the worst parts of my brain I imagine snakes slithering under it, keeping warm as the temperature drops outside.
Podcast Appearance: Soul + Practice
Kathy Escobar and Phyllis Mathis interviewed me on their podcast Soul + Practice: Raw Conversations, Real Practices, and it went live yesterday. Kathy was an early role model as I carved out this weird life I have now - she is one of perhaps 5 folks whose work changed my life. I think I've known her for 19 years now.
https://blog.hughhollowell.org/podcast-appearance-soul-practice/
