My book on grief is called As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve. It’s out April 16th, 2024. You can preorder here: It’s part guide through grief, part hospital chaplain stories, part memoir. ❤️‍🩹 Thank you, online family, for being part of it too.

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.” — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955

RT @jsparkblog: “Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.” — James Baldwin, interview with…

RT @jsparkblog: “I want to remind us all that art is dangerous.” — Toni Morrison, at the Stellar Adler Studio of Acting, 2016

RT @jsparkblog: My four year old randomly yelling out “MUSTAAAARRDDDD” 😅😆😄

“Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.” — James Baldwin, interview with Studs Terkel, July 15th, 1961

“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous.” — Toni Morrison, at the Stellar Adler Studio of Acting, 2016

My four year old randomly yelling out “MUSTAAAARRDDDD” 😅😆😄

RT @American_Heart: They say they outside, but are they CPR certified??

RT @AP: A performer in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained on the field and could face charges after unfurling a combina…

“I have a message for future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum, and we still are.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., at the Connecticut Forum, February 2006

I went to a death on the same floor my friend John died six years ago. I went to place paperwork in my patient’s physical chart, but when I opened up the folder, I realized I got the wrong chart: it was for John’s room number. Years later, & grief lives in the body, the heart.

in love there are no closed doors each threshold an invitation to cross take hold take heart and enter here at this point where truth was once denied — bell hooks, poem from When Angels Speak of Love

“Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.” Ezekiel 22:13 HCSB I read this as “Now👏look👏I clap👏 my👏hands👏together👏 against👏the👏dishonest👏”

@joy_slaughter Thank you for this! 🙌

@ladydawgus The therapy absolutely helps. I’m going on year five this year. I commend and applaud your son, and you as well. 👏👏👏

@FloridaManEsq_ For sure same here, human moments, trying to survive, I fall short. And almost every dad who I personally know (you included!) is father of the year. This event felt like the worst ratio I’ve seen of cool to not cool dads. But I also might be judging too much based on just a day.

I’m trying very hard not to be too hard on people about things I don’t understand.

But are we seeing more parents like this who are disengaged, irritable, angry at their kids? Is it because we’re experiencing a collective global trauma and we’re exhausted? Or is this the same old story of parents feeling inconvenienced by their kids? Both?