I’m working on a book about white parents and school integration. The seed of it started with an innocent-sounding question: where should we send our kid to school? And then I fell down a wormhole of strategic and spiritual questions that I’ve never really gotten out of. The book is due in December, so I’ll have to find an exit soon. Meanwhile, spoiler alert, it asks way more questions than it answers.
Deep deep deep. Thank you, Courtney, for frequently giving voice and vocabulary to things I’ve been thinking. This is indeed a year of excavation. We are sorting and sifting and uncertain what new layers we’ll uncover, but I agree that it is all work worth doing. Keep going: with your book and with thinking out loud here.
I think last year my questions were probably more self-centered, like am I a good person or a bad person? Now they're about my family and what to make of this life we have. The good news is, I'm feeling a lot less guilty about stupid shit or precious about things like where to send my kid to school. Thanks for this.
I love this question. I coauthored a book of questions and prompts in 2017 that are mostly all questions underneath the questions and I continue to explore them and as you said often find more questions...What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?? Lots of deep work in this question--my conditioning to see it as resource and recreation...how did that come to be...and more. Thank you Courtney. Look forward to your book.
Deep deep deep. Thank you, Courtney, for frequently giving voice and vocabulary to things I’ve been thinking. This is indeed a year of excavation. We are sorting and sifting and uncertain what new layers we’ll uncover, but I agree that it is all work worth doing. Keep going: with your book and with thinking out loud here.
I think last year my questions were probably more self-centered, like am I a good person or a bad person? Now they're about my family and what to make of this life we have. The good news is, I'm feeling a lot less guilty about stupid shit or precious about things like where to send my kid to school. Thanks for this.
I love this question. I coauthored a book of questions and prompts in 2017 that are mostly all questions underneath the questions and I continue to explore them and as you said often find more questions...What could you do to help others and yourself have reverence for nature--instead of seeing primarily as a resource and recreational landscape for others?? Lots of deep work in this question--my conditioning to see it as resource and recreation...how did that come to be...and more. Thank you Courtney. Look forward to your book.
Hey Courtney - I read your blog because I'm working on similar issues - just wanted to connect. I'm posting my own blog here - you are welcome to ignore or whatever - thanks and take care - Liz Dempsey Lee https://www.lizdempseylee.com/post/privilege-footprints-schools-parenting-and-community-in-the-time-of-covid