Articles About The Briar Patch
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The Briar Patch | Banging on pots
“My mom — or was it my aunt Annie? — told me that my Grandma Ira used to cry while banging on pots and singing hymns when she was in despair. I always wondered what hymns she sang; no one could recall.”
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The Briar Patch | Crying in the weeds
“Something in the denseness of the brush sounded like the words, ‘We missed you.’ Maybe not words, maybe emotion, maybe vibration, I can’t quite describe it.”
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The Briar Patch | Mothering motherwort
“This spring, the inspiration to grow motherwort came through a dear herbalist friend — at a time in which I am cajoling myself through a life phase that feels far less pristine than anticipated.”
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The Briar Patch | Why I left ‘higher’ education
“I was also exploited, through the insidious drum beat of indoctrination that many of us believe — you know, that I chose this profession not to make money, but out of some higher noble purpose.”
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The Briar Patch | Love thy neighbor
“I guess I took it for granted that both Richardsons would always be around. They greeted me when I arrived home for the first time wearing that yellow outfit.”
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The Briar Patch | Seeing the Self Beyond Addiction
“Through my own family experience, I know the throes of addiction can be a revolving door, a process that challenges even the saintliest of saint’s capacity to forgive.”
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The Briar Patch | The Myth of Reproductive Agency
“We stand on the precipice of a time in which the reproductive rights of millions of teenage girls and women hang in the balance in the shadow of a disintegrating medical system and toxic patriarchy.”
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The Briar Patch | Venerating our Black girls
“Black women in this community are not a monolith — there are plenty of us who had different experiences within the social framework of this community.”
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The Briar Patch | Horses and synchronicity of spirit
“These boundaries — fluid, but rigid at the same time — are hard to navigate in Yellow Springs, particularly as a Black woman.”
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The Briar Patch — The architecture of community
“Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that dwellings have meaning beyond an individual’s portfolio investment and can be designed in such a way as to protect people, transform and shift functions beyond a shelf life of 50 or 60 years.”
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