Dreams

"'Anyhow, I saved my dream,' she said placidly.

And that, of course, was all that really mattered. Grown people were so strangely oblivious to the truly important things in life. Material for new garments of night or day, could be bought in any shor for a trifling sum and made up out of hand. But if a dream escape you, in what market place the wide world over can you hope to regain it? What coin of earthly minting will ever buy back for you that lost and lovely vision?"

-L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

Baby Flow

Children are oftentimes more coherent than adults. Peep this baby freestyling in the UK. He's a beast. The gestures, the facial expressions, his hand resting on homie's soldier. I tell you, the boy is making all types of perfect sense. It's our adult sensibilities that can't grasp his perfection.

I.CAN'T.STOP.WATCHING.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

I was finally able to read Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. It was fantastic -so fantastic it sometimes made my chest hurt. Arnold "Junior" Spirit tells the sometimes poignant, often funny, most times painful story of his journey through high school as a "Part Time Indian." He lives on the rez but decides to go to school in a nearby all white town -at times he finds himself to be too "Indian" and other times too white.

While some brown folks look back into their childhood, trying to identify specific moments where their double consciousness was most palpable. Junior brings us through his double consciousness, flipping open and shut the veil of his identity(ies), showing us that it's everyday. He reminds us how much it matters and how much it doesn't while highlighting life on the rez with his astute observations.

This is a definite must read for brown people of all ages.