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📚 Writer of justice tales—for grownups & kids
⚖️ Lawyer (TX & FL) | 🌿 Nature’s friend | 🐾 Animal ally
🕊️ Political activist with a poet’s heart
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📚 Writer of justice tales—for grownups & kids
⚖️ Lawyer (TX & FL) | 🌿 Nature’s friend | 🐾 Animal ally
🕊️ Political activist with a poet’s heart
Mother, partner, dreamer, artist
No DMs
You are not here yet.
This world is not what we hoped
We vow to tell the truth.
We vow to resist amnesia.
We vow to leave you maps—
even if they are tear-stained,
hand-drawn, and incomplete.
We do not expect you to be grateful
But
we do hope you’ll be free.
You are the continuation.
This world is not what we hoped
We vow to tell the truth.
We vow to resist amnesia.
We vow to leave you maps—
even if they are tear-stained,
hand-drawn, and incomplete.
We do not expect you to be grateful
But
we do hope you’ll be free.
You are the continuation.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
You are not here yet.
This world is not what we hoped
We vow to tell the truth.
We vow to resist amnesia.
We vow to leave you maps—
even if they are tear-stained,
hand-drawn, and incomplete.
We do not expect you to be grateful
But
we do hope you’ll be free.
You are the continuation.
This world is not what we hoped
We vow to tell the truth.
We vow to resist amnesia.
We vow to leave you maps—
even if they are tear-stained,
hand-drawn, and incomplete.
We do not expect you to be grateful
But
we do hope you’ll be free.
You are the continuation.
Empires rise on fear and fall to tenderness.
Every revolution that endures—civil rights, labor, climate, gender—has love at its core: love for people, for planet, for possibility.
Love is what reminds us we belong to one another.
Every revolution that endures—civil rights, labor, climate, gender—has love at its core: love for people, for planet, for possibility.
Love is what reminds us we belong to one another.
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Empires rise on fear and fall to tenderness.
Every revolution that endures—civil rights, labor, climate, gender—has love at its core: love for people, for planet, for possibility.
Love is what reminds us we belong to one another.
Every revolution that endures—civil rights, labor, climate, gender—has love at its core: love for people, for planet, for possibility.
Love is what reminds us we belong to one another.
Entire systems depend on hopelessness.
An exhausted public will accept cruelty as normal; a hopeful one will organize.
That’s why every tyrant calls dreamers delusional—because hope is contagious and uncontrollable.
Hope turns citizens into builders, victims into witnesses, onlookers into creators.
An exhausted public will accept cruelty as normal; a hopeful one will organize.
That’s why every tyrant calls dreamers delusional—because hope is contagious and uncontrollable.
Hope turns citizens into builders, victims into witnesses, onlookers into creators.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Entire systems depend on hopelessness.
An exhausted public will accept cruelty as normal; a hopeful one will organize.
That’s why every tyrant calls dreamers delusional—because hope is contagious and uncontrollable.
Hope turns citizens into builders, victims into witnesses, onlookers into creators.
An exhausted public will accept cruelty as normal; a hopeful one will organize.
That’s why every tyrant calls dreamers delusional—because hope is contagious and uncontrollable.
Hope turns citizens into builders, victims into witnesses, onlookers into creators.
Empathy threatens hierarchies.
If you feel another’s pain as your own, domination becomes impossible.
So power teaches distance early: boys shamed for crying, girls praised for “toughening up,” workers told to “leave feelings at the door.”
If you feel another’s pain as your own, domination becomes impossible.
So power teaches distance early: boys shamed for crying, girls praised for “toughening up,” workers told to “leave feelings at the door.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Empathy threatens hierarchies.
If you feel another’s pain as your own, domination becomes impossible.
So power teaches distance early: boys shamed for crying, girls praised for “toughening up,” workers told to “leave feelings at the door.”
If you feel another’s pain as your own, domination becomes impossible.
So power teaches distance early: boys shamed for crying, girls praised for “toughening up,” workers told to “leave feelings at the door.”
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear decide.
Audre Lorde warned that silence will not protect us, because protection bought with complicity is not protection at all—it is participation.
Audre Lorde warned that silence will not protect us, because protection bought with complicity is not protection at all—it is participation.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear decide.
Audre Lorde warned that silence will not protect us, because protection bought with complicity is not protection at all—it is participation.
Audre Lorde warned that silence will not protect us, because protection bought with complicity is not protection at all—it is participation.
Your voice will not always be safe.
But, know this:
Each word of truth is an act of rebellion against forgetting.
The fear you feel when you speak is the sound of
the cage unlocking.
Silence feels like armor,
but
it corrodes from the inside.
What we refuse to say
becomes what controls us.
But, know this:
Each word of truth is an act of rebellion against forgetting.
The fear you feel when you speak is the sound of
the cage unlocking.
Silence feels like armor,
but
it corrodes from the inside.
What we refuse to say
becomes what controls us.
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Your voice will not always be safe.
But, know this:
Each word of truth is an act of rebellion against forgetting.
The fear you feel when you speak is the sound of
the cage unlocking.
Silence feels like armor,
but
it corrodes from the inside.
What we refuse to say
becomes what controls us.
But, know this:
Each word of truth is an act of rebellion against forgetting.
The fear you feel when you speak is the sound of
the cage unlocking.
Silence feels like armor,
but
it corrodes from the inside.
What we refuse to say
becomes what controls us.
Speech is risk; so is quiet.
The only difference is WHO benefits from your silence.
When you speak, you might lose comfort.
When you stay silent, someone else loses freedom.
Silence protects the structure, not the soul.
The moment you name what’s happening,
power flinches
The only difference is WHO benefits from your silence.
When you speak, you might lose comfort.
When you stay silent, someone else loses freedom.
Silence protects the structure, not the soul.
The moment you name what’s happening,
power flinches
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Speech is risk; so is quiet.
The only difference is WHO benefits from your silence.
When you speak, you might lose comfort.
When you stay silent, someone else loses freedom.
Silence protects the structure, not the soul.
The moment you name what’s happening,
power flinches
The only difference is WHO benefits from your silence.
When you speak, you might lose comfort.
When you stay silent, someone else loses freedom.
Silence protects the structure, not the soul.
The moment you name what’s happening,
power flinches
In our own time, silence keeps repeating itself—
in workplaces where harassment is whispered about but never reported;
in classrooms where banned books disappear without a fight;
in nations where neighbors vanish and the rest look away.
in workplaces where harassment is whispered about but never reported;
in classrooms where banned books disappear without a fight;
in nations where neighbors vanish and the rest look away.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In our own time, silence keeps repeating itself—
in workplaces where harassment is whispered about but never reported;
in classrooms where banned books disappear without a fight;
in nations where neighbors vanish and the rest look away.
in workplaces where harassment is whispered about but never reported;
in classrooms where banned books disappear without a fight;
in nations where neighbors vanish and the rest look away.
Power counts on silence—it calculates it into every decision.
When the machinery of cruelty hums without protest, it assumes consent.
The cage of silence is made of unspoken bargains:
If I stay quiet,
maybe they’ll spare me.
When the machinery of cruelty hums without protest, it assumes consent.
The cage of silence is made of unspoken bargains:
If I stay quiet,
maybe they’ll spare me.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Power counts on silence—it calculates it into every decision.
When the machinery of cruelty hums without protest, it assumes consent.
The cage of silence is made of unspoken bargains:
If I stay quiet,
maybe they’ll spare me.
When the machinery of cruelty hums without protest, it assumes consent.
The cage of silence is made of unspoken bargains:
If I stay quiet,
maybe they’ll spare me.
The 6% inflict cruelty.
The 60% look away.
The 30% resists.
We are the 30%.
Let's find each other.
Document everything.
Don't stop.
We outnumber them 5-to-1.
The 60% look away.
The 30% resists.
We are the 30%.
Let's find each other.
Document everything.
Don't stop.
We outnumber them 5-to-1.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The 6% inflict cruelty.
The 60% look away.
The 30% resists.
We are the 30%.
Let's find each other.
Document everything.
Don't stop.
We outnumber them 5-to-1.
The 60% look away.
The 30% resists.
We are the 30%.
Let's find each other.
Document everything.
Don't stop.
We outnumber them 5-to-1.
Refuse to look away.
Protect truth, memory, and the vulnerable.
Build systems that outlast tyrants.
Live as evidence that compassion is power.
The 6% test humanity. The 28% renew it
Protect truth, memory, and the vulnerable.
Build systems that outlast tyrants.
Live as evidence that compassion is power.
The 6% test humanity. The 28% renew it
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Refuse to look away.
Protect truth, memory, and the vulnerable.
Build systems that outlast tyrants.
Live as evidence that compassion is power.
The 6% test humanity. The 28% renew it
Protect truth, memory, and the vulnerable.
Build systems that outlast tyrants.
Live as evidence that compassion is power.
The 6% test humanity. The 28% renew it
The “6 % rule” isn’t formal science—it’s shorthand for data on antisocial traits (~4–6%).
The rest mirrors social-psychology findings: most people conform (Milgram 1963; Zimbardo 1971).
Only a minority resists—history’s moral immune system. What must be done now:
Refuse to look away.
The rest mirrors social-psychology findings: most people conform (Milgram 1963; Zimbardo 1971).
Only a minority resists—history’s moral immune system. What must be done now:
Refuse to look away.
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The “6 % rule” isn’t formal science—it’s shorthand for data on antisocial traits (~4–6%).
The rest mirrors social-psychology findings: most people conform (Milgram 1963; Zimbardo 1971).
Only a minority resists—history’s moral immune system. What must be done now:
Refuse to look away.
The rest mirrors social-psychology findings: most people conform (Milgram 1963; Zimbardo 1971).
Only a minority resists—history’s moral immune system. What must be done now:
Refuse to look away.
Studies suggest ~6% of people show psychopathic or sadistic traits (Hare 1993; Paulhus & Williams 2002; Buckels et al. 2013).
About 60% comply or look away.
The remaining 28% choose conscience, resistance, or repair.
Civilization depends on them.
About 60% comply or look away.
The remaining 28% choose conscience, resistance, or repair.
Civilization depends on them.
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Studies suggest ~6% of people show psychopathic or sadistic traits (Hare 1993; Paulhus & Williams 2002; Buckels et al. 2013).
About 60% comply or look away.
The remaining 28% choose conscience, resistance, or repair.
Civilization depends on them.
About 60% comply or look away.
The remaining 28% choose conscience, resistance, or repair.
Civilization depends on them.
Texas Women, protect yourself and your children
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Texas Women, protect yourself and your children
Of course - we know the pattern -
Jews in ovens
A dear friend’s parents survived Auschwitz and he was born in a DP camp in Poland - he has been practicing law for almost 35 years and he is a direct link
History is made of patterns
Jews in ovens
A dear friend’s parents survived Auschwitz and he was born in a DP camp in Poland - he has been practicing law for almost 35 years and he is a direct link
History is made of patterns
October 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Of course - we know the pattern -
Jews in ovens
A dear friend’s parents survived Auschwitz and he was born in a DP camp in Poland - he has been practicing law for almost 35 years and he is a direct link
History is made of patterns
Jews in ovens
A dear friend’s parents survived Auschwitz and he was born in a DP camp in Poland - he has been practicing law for almost 35 years and he is a direct link
History is made of patterns
At 2:13 p.m. on January 6, 2021, a man in a red Make America Great Again hat began assembling a gallows on the Capitol lawn. The rope was 50 feet of yellow nylon, the kind used for dock lines—strong enough to hold a ship, strong enough to hold a neck.
This was not spontaneity.
This was not spontaneity.
September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
At 2:13 p.m. on January 6, 2021, a man in a red Make America Great Again hat began assembling a gallows on the Capitol lawn. The rope was 50 feet of yellow nylon, the kind used for dock lines—strong enough to hold a ship, strong enough to hold a neck.
This was not spontaneity.
This was not spontaneity.
"Gaslighting" from the 1938 play Gas Light, where a husband manipulates his wife into doubting her perception.
But gaslighting is not just psychological—it is legal.
It is the use of law to make people question their own reality, to make cruelty seem normal, to make resistance seem unreasonable.
But gaslighting is not just psychological—it is legal.
It is the use of law to make people question their own reality, to make cruelty seem normal, to make resistance seem unreasonable.
September 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Gaslighting" from the 1938 play Gas Light, where a husband manipulates his wife into doubting her perception.
But gaslighting is not just psychological—it is legal.
It is the use of law to make people question their own reality, to make cruelty seem normal, to make resistance seem unreasonable.
But gaslighting is not just psychological—it is legal.
It is the use of law to make people question their own reality, to make cruelty seem normal, to make resistance seem unreasonable.
Fascism doesn’t arrive in jackboots. It arrives in suits and ties, in procedural motions, in judges’ robes. It arrives when the courts say we can’t interfere, when the newspapers call it controversial, when the history books call it complicated.
In Germany, they called it restoring order.
In Germany, they called it restoring order.
September 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fascism doesn’t arrive in jackboots. It arrives in suits and ties, in procedural motions, in judges’ robes. It arrives when the courts say we can’t interfere, when the newspapers call it controversial, when the history books call it complicated.
In Germany, they called it restoring order.
In Germany, they called it restoring order.
Trump's fascism is white "supremacy" disguised as cruelty—the ugliest aspect of human nature—turned into policy and a war on decency.
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Trump's fascism is white "supremacy" disguised as cruelty—the ugliest aspect of human nature—turned into policy and a war on decency.
Is it me or the fact that I am reading Percival Everett’s book, James - but does it feel in addition to fascism - that the South is rising ?
August 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Is it me or the fact that I am reading Percival Everett’s book, James - but does it feel in addition to fascism - that the South is rising ?