Your words (however hard you have to search for them and how much you struggle to compose with them) are both a challenge and a balm. Your thoughtfulness and consideration coupled with your deep compassion for humanity are so very helpful in providing a framework for my mind and heart to operate from! Thank you for every composition you share.
I found myself literally weeping this morning to these words: "God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray." Thank you, Eddie, for your Good Word. However sparse, your words are rich with Spirit. Keep up the Good Work!
You are a poet and a prophet, Brother Glaude. I wish there were a way to articulate how accurate and incisive is your description of the immense and immensely human and immeasurably important the tasks before us. Ironically, I take comfort in this view that the time is ours to cast off our chains and throw our blinders aside, to transcend the past and live in the dawning or something ELSE. Is there a transcript of Toni Morrison's speech. I'd love to have a copy to read and re-read in the weeks, months and years of change to come.
One of your most provacative, challenging, insightful notes ever. It will take some journaling and time for me to process these thoughts. Thank you, Professor Glaude. I thank God you are here.
You blow me away, Eddie. If you were struggling to write today, I can only say you succeeded magnificently. I’m just watching Deadline & wondering if I should stock upon toilet paper for the coming recession…
Thank you. On days like today when I see only rubble and destruction, I also grasp to the slenderest of visions that something new and better will be born. Your writing helps that vision grow and bloom. The despicable techbros babble about “creative destruction” but to them it’s the foundation for greed and power. Your vision makes the creativity one of love and hope and care for our civilization. May we both be right.
I'm glad you struggled through to write today. It's through your writing that I'm being educated to persevere, to rest, to struggle, to play on the seesaw that is our life today. Thank you.
Since November I have nourished the part of me that has looked with excitement towards the potential future that we now have the greater freedom to create than we did before. (I have an innate aversion to resting in the valley of despair.) When the voices of the many swell and the people choose to sacrifice what more they have than they need for the benefit of the many, then we will constructively begin our newest path towards the unknown, a step closer to something better.
I share your optimism that something better will come from this. My guess is that no more than 25% of the population shares the hatred and cruelty that is the hallmark of MAGA. Before Trump most of that population kept their prejudices hidden. Trump brought it out in the open. They are about to discover the cost of their prejudices. Unemployment, no social safety net and the second Great Depression.
The winds of storms are swirling. MAGA stormtroopers are using gale force to destroy the landscape. In their epic, manic nihilistic hubris they are living in the illusion that they are omnipotent and unaccountable. This facilitates the spectacle they make of their plunder, lawlessness, and cruelty. But they will face a Reckoning, that "Mussolini moment" where they will be eaten and done away with. They inspire tornadoes of revulsion and revolt. It's already stirring from without but also from within. The scorpions will sting each other as the wind howls. That will be helpful. Once the storm passes, justice will need to be swift - - unlike that of the timid, tepid Mr Garland. We need to learn from Brazil. It will have to be a strong blast to clean out this troubled, filthy MAGA house, cluttered with debasement and sadism as it is. Let it blow THEM to an El Salvadorian hell hole never to return.
Your words (however hard you have to search for them and how much you struggle to compose with them) are both a challenge and a balm. Your thoughtfulness and consideration coupled with your deep compassion for humanity are so very helpful in providing a framework for my mind and heart to operate from! Thank you for every composition you share.
I found myself literally weeping this morning to these words: "God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray." Thank you, Eddie, for your Good Word. However sparse, your words are rich with Spirit. Keep up the Good Work!
You are a poet and a prophet, Brother Glaude. I wish there were a way to articulate how accurate and incisive is your description of the immense and immensely human and immeasurably important the tasks before us. Ironically, I take comfort in this view that the time is ours to cast off our chains and throw our blinders aside, to transcend the past and live in the dawning or something ELSE. Is there a transcript of Toni Morrison's speech. I'd love to have a copy to read and re-read in the weeks, months and years of change to come.
Week in, week out, you lift us up and you challenge us to be brave. Thank you.
One of your most provacative, challenging, insightful notes ever. It will take some journaling and time for me to process these thoughts. Thank you, Professor Glaude. I thank God you are here.
You blow me away, Eddie. If you were struggling to write today, I can only say you succeeded magnificently. I’m just watching Deadline & wondering if I should stock upon toilet paper for the coming recession…
By grace and beauty is how it is supposed to be…thank you Eddie Glaude for the reminder💙
Thank you. On days like today when I see only rubble and destruction, I also grasp to the slenderest of visions that something new and better will be born. Your writing helps that vision grow and bloom. The despicable techbros babble about “creative destruction” but to them it’s the foundation for greed and power. Your vision makes the creativity one of love and hope and care for our civilization. May we both be right.
“we have been positioned as the midwives of what is to come“ that is so beautiful. And it’s a sacred trust.
I'm glad you struggled through to write today. It's through your writing that I'm being educated to persevere, to rest, to struggle, to play on the seesaw that is our life today. Thank you.
Dr. Eddie,
We are in a period of darkness. We must reach out and find new paths. However, we must never keep our faith silent. Our pulpits can be anywhere!
Since November I have nourished the part of me that has looked with excitement towards the potential future that we now have the greater freedom to create than we did before. (I have an innate aversion to resting in the valley of despair.) When the voices of the many swell and the people choose to sacrifice what more they have than they need for the benefit of the many, then we will constructively begin our newest path towards the unknown, a step closer to something better.
I share your optimism that something better will come from this. My guess is that no more than 25% of the population shares the hatred and cruelty that is the hallmark of MAGA. Before Trump most of that population kept their prejudices hidden. Trump brought it out in the open. They are about to discover the cost of their prejudices. Unemployment, no social safety net and the second Great Depression.
Thank you! My God, thank you.
Thank you for this!
i combat your “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.” with "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind."
It's already a troubled house.
The winds of storms are swirling. MAGA stormtroopers are using gale force to destroy the landscape. In their epic, manic nihilistic hubris they are living in the illusion that they are omnipotent and unaccountable. This facilitates the spectacle they make of their plunder, lawlessness, and cruelty. But they will face a Reckoning, that "Mussolini moment" where they will be eaten and done away with. They inspire tornadoes of revulsion and revolt. It's already stirring from without but also from within. The scorpions will sting each other as the wind howls. That will be helpful. Once the storm passes, justice will need to be swift - - unlike that of the timid, tepid Mr Garland. We need to learn from Brazil. It will have to be a strong blast to clean out this troubled, filthy MAGA house, cluttered with debasement and sadism as it is. Let it blow THEM to an El Salvadorian hell hole never to return.