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There’s No Such Thing as Empty Space

There’s No Such Thing as Empty Space

by Shirin McArthur | Sep 18, 2023 | Conscious Living, Society and Culture

I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I want to write about the Oppenheimer movie today. I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, though that is mostly because I just don’t watch movies. (I prefer books, in large part because of how much time I spend in front of a...
On Not Centering Ourselves in Antiracism Work

On Not Centering Ourselves in Antiracism Work

by Shirin McArthur | Sep 11, 2023 | Conscious Living, Society and Culture

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about initially misreading a sign during our summer road trip. I used it as an illustration of the antiracism work I’ve been intentionally engaged with for the past three years—and how I’ve learned and grown through what I’ve gotten wrong...
Pondering the Importance of Apostrophe Placement

Pondering the Importance of Apostrophe Placement

by Shirin McArthur | Aug 28, 2023 | Conscious Living, Society and Culture, Writing Life

While on our month-long road trip this summer, on the back roads of Illinois, we passed the cemetery pictured above at a speed of about forty miles an hour. I asked Henry if we could turn around because my mind read “Blacks’ Cemetery,” and I couldn’t believe the...
Some Personal Reflections on Visiting the Whitney Plantation

Some Personal Reflections on Visiting the Whitney Plantation

by Shirin McArthur | Aug 21, 2023 | Conscious Living, Society and Culture

Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared some of what Henry and I learned when visiting the Whitney Plantation while on a road trip this summer. My hope for our time there was to get a better sense of the life experience of the 10 million enslaved Africans and African...
The Cutting Season and the Wailing Season

The Cutting Season and the Wailing Season

by Shirin McArthur | Aug 14, 2023 | Conscious Living, Nature and Seasons, Society and Culture

As I noted in prior weeks, I’m sharing a series of reflections after visiting the Whitney Plantation (aka Habitation Haydel) during a four-week road trip this summer. On the late-June day we visited, the sun was hot, the humidity was high, and I couldn’t imagine being...
Understanding the Lay of the Land at the Whitney Plantation

Understanding the Lay of the Land at the Whitney Plantation

by Shirin McArthur | Aug 7, 2023 | Conscious Living, Society and Culture

As I mentioned last week, we visited the Whitney Plantation during our recent month-long road trip. This museum in southern Louisiana focuses extensively on the experience of enslaved people rather than glorifying the slave-owning “masters.” In this post, I want to...
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