JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
direction
"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it will destroy our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."Howard Zinn
word collecting
provocateur panacea agitator jabbing residual character building protection lungs bubbles watery key
unknowing
'in this moment'.... what about all the other million moments of the ignored and disenfranchised (the state care experienced for example) who observe from the sidelines (in bemusement, incredulity, annoyance) as society wakes up to what has been 'normal' for a very long time... and want to shout (well I do anyway) get a fucking grip for god's sake, am I being too harsh......must remember to think 'what's happened to them' rather than 'what's wrong with them'
majorities...
Whenever I listen to BBC Radio 4 someone always says something that just grates, so today it was something about 'minorities', I swear this word is going to cause me to do something I'll regret, why the hell are some white people, quite a lot of them actually, defining themselves (in word and or deed) as the majority with such ease, what do you call yourselves if you're in a room full of the 'minority'? Maybe this has never happened to these people, maybe that's where the assuredness and assumption comes from... Try it, try that out, see how that works out for you... As a wise, wise friend said yesterday: “this, all this is "high level fuckery!"
Young British & Black
These headlines read like my life in my 20s, why is this all still going on....?!
the middling sort
I wonder about the arrogance of some of the middle class thinking they've got living right whilst covertly and sometimes overtly mocking/pitying/lamenting everyone else, there are many ways to be a good human on the planet and the 'western' have stuff/own stuff is not the only way
in it together
who put white men in charge of humanity....oh yeah, they did, like I said consciously incompetent, we've been here for way too long