JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
blues threads 🪡
Blues Poems, Kevin Young, an education; Water of the Sky, Miya Ando (a gift from friends), sublime; Black in Blues, How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Imani Perry, gifted things body + mind + heart + soul were craving but didn’t know it, ‘Conjurers survive conquerors’ pp. 235; next - Indigo, In Search of the Color That Seduced the World, Catherine E. McKinley (also a gift from a friend)🧵
Truths
Recent reads. For the beauty, honesty and clarity of the writing, thank you Shane McCrae and Kenneth Mohammed. Further info: Canongate + The Guardian
royal blue and sunshine yellow
today, for the childless women who lost their mothers in childhood and didn’t know their grandmothers
Sunday Service
Gospel (for me) is so powerful because it’s about courage and resistance in the face of such brutality (rather than about worshipping a god through song). Also, the way people were using their voices so beautifully at such a terrorising and terrifying time always, always astounds me. (Sunday Service - one of the good things Mr. West did before seriously messing up).