tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post8764669189231202309..comments2023-10-24T03:11:32.697-10:00Comments on Joy Harjo's Poetic Adventures in the Last World Blog: Thanksgiving MNN Column for November 2009 by Joy HarjoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-47180972323001242322009-12-06T16:30:05.355-10:002009-12-06T16:30:05.355-10:00Yes Joy, I agree with you, this
"holiday"...Yes Joy, I agree with you, this<br />"holiday" is hardly authentic.<br />However, families communing<br />with one another is positive.<br /><br />And, yes the past horrors bear<br />so vividly on the heirs.<br /><br />I find your poems to be quietly<br />wrenching [my soul} as I read<br />and reread each one.<br /><br />Happy to have found your blog.Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10256391836026637655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-81844758541642567122009-12-03T05:05:09.651-10:002009-12-03T05:05:09.651-10:00When I was teaching, I tried to convey the differe...When I was teaching, I tried to convey the different POVs involved in history and the inhumanities done by one group to another. The children, as young as they were, clearly saw the injustices. White-washed history, revisionist history does none of us any good.<br /><br />On a lighter note, I mentioned your beautiful book, *For a Girl Becoming,* in the Internet Review of Books 2009 holiday gift Ruth L.~https://www.blogger.com/profile/01008932486010118709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-89640369119877108722009-11-25T04:15:17.614-10:002009-11-25T04:15:17.614-10:00A Facebook conversation with my son:
Charles Blak...A Facebook conversation with my son:<br /><br />Charles Blake "I guess my problem is I am an African living in America." November 17 at 8:00pm<br /><br />Charles Blake What do you mean son? What's biting you? November 18 at 5:09am<br /><br />Charles Blake Just two incidents of racism in my life in a four day period. Africans did not ask to be brought to America. That forty acres andCharles Henderson Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00501757197569818936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-71741778017653951292009-11-24T18:05:31.873-10:002009-11-24T18:05:31.873-10:00I wish I had known you were here. I'm here fro...I wish I had known you were here. I'm here from NW Fla - family is from N Ga. Bristled today because people are complaining they cant get new sewage lines because of the historical findings the digging is exposing.<br /><br />In some ways New England is just as redneck as home....gminkshttp://gminks.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-47876220606258129212009-11-20T13:34:38.223-10:002009-11-20T13:34:38.223-10:00Well spoken, I appreciated your remembering and po...Well spoken, I appreciated your remembering and pointing a way forward. Ashe to that.<br />JoshuaInspiring Newsletterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10496915978270267221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623787.post-6042195697246107042009-11-20T04:53:26.043-10:002009-11-20T04:53:26.043-10:00A terrific and wonderful report, Joy. Too many of ...A terrific and wonderful report, Joy. Too many of us buy wholesale the traditional historical bull about the Indians sharing corn and turkeys with the pilgrims, all smiles and good cheer. It is appropriate that we sometimes look at our own history from both side now. Your insights are always bang on, and your compassion shines through your sadness.<br /><br />GlennGlenn Buttkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10680725814199700692noreply@blogger.com