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On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’

November 24, 2021

But this little plot of land, where my son swings from oak branches beside the bayou . . . where we make mashed potatoes for three instead of twenty-three . . . where I call home . . . is much more than just a settler's trophy. We live in Caddo territory, or so it was before the Treaty of Cession of 1835.

The Morning After Ida Makes Landfall, a Prayer

Patrice Gopo

August 30, 2021

Creation & Environment, General, Practical Justice

Some days I wake in the morning disoriented, my mind mixing up my dreamscape with the reality of what transpires in life. In my dreamscape, my arms reach for a cerulean sky, a perfect sky. This image becomes th...

On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’

Britney Winn Lee

November 25, 2020

Creation & Environment, General, Race

But this little plot of land, where my son swings from oak branches beside the bayou . . . where we make mashed potatoes for three instead of twenty-three . . . where I call home . . . is much more than just a settler's trophy. We live in Caddo territory, or so it was before the Treaty of Cession of 1835.