This felt like like home. I heard about this book a few years ago but I didn’t know just how close to home it was. North Carolina. It’s encouraging me to sit down with my elders and to listen to them talk. Just have them talk about their lives and stories they’ve heard. Stories that have been passed down to them. I know my family knows. I know there’s a lot of interesting history that our “Uncle Julius” has to share. Our history is not something we’ve ever talked about. I think we’ve been so set on living our lives that we’ve never talked about our family history. It’s time. I enjoyed all the stories in The Conjure Woman. Throughout, I smiled, felt angry, then felt sad...however, my favorite story is “Mars Jeems’s Nightmare”. This is the story of a recurring daydream I have. How awesome it would be for people to experience just a few moments of someone else’s experience: for hateful people to experience the hate they give, for dispassionate people to experience the impartiality they lend, for oppressors to experience the lack they offer...we would have the pleasure of living in a much more harmonious and loving world. It could be so beautiful.
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Alright - Kendrick Lamar
