I Wonder What Her Name Is: Moments of Compassion

  On a recent shopping excursion at Walmart, I rounded a corner in the nutrition section, heading toward the dental products, when I got behind a woman who was pushing her cart very slowly. She was a petite Black woman who seemed a bit tinier than me, but as my...

Tuning Out the Noise Through Nature and Silence

I live in an area of my city that’s near a hospital and a fire station, so the sound of sirens is frequent. The people in my neighborhood take care of their yards, so the mingled sounds of lawn mowers, edgers, and leaf blowers are nearly constant. Add to all of...