It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins

[sovay]

I have just had a poem accepted that I will announce tomorrow. I am extremely happy about the acceptance, if not about the political situation that sparked the writing of the poem.

I just received an e-mail from President Peter Salovey of Yale that the university has decided to rename Calhoun College for Grace Hopper. The statement and the two linked reports are worth reading.

This song from Brandi Carlile's The Firewatcher's Daughter (2015) has been playing on repeat since ladymondegreen linked me to it. But nothing scares me more than the stranger at my door who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth.

Last night I started coughing and this morning I woke up sneezing and I just had to cancel an invitation for dinner from friends who really don't need whatever the hell this is on top of whatever their small child might already have brought home from daycare. I think my plans for the rest of the day are to finish writing about a movie and then see if I can either stare at another one or pass out.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance! I look forward to learning the details.

That is wonderful news about the name change at Yale.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the poetry acceptance! I look forward to learning the details.

Thank you!

That is wonderful news about the name change at Yale.

I was glad to see it. The letter and the reports are very clear that the point is not erasure, but what a community chooses to honor.