Posts by parkejladd
Invisible Children Win The Million
I’ve been a huge fan and supporter of Invisible Children ever since learning of them after watching their documentary at a student gathering during my time at Appalachian State University. I love what they do. They are worth talking about. They do what they say they are going to do. This video is both inspiring and exciting, and it brings me great joy to see people coming together to fight...
Read MoreA Disrupted Church
Forgive me. Forgive me for my feeble attempts to appear strong. For an artistic legacy of painted words and hand sculpted sentences. For a self-concocted life spent ignoring the easily ignorable. For my lack of attention in the midst of constant hurry and waste. For a life spent in willing comfort, separated from those afflicted by misery; cut off from inner city, high rise slums; and...
Read More“Hell Is For Democrats…”
The Map I find a certain level of nostalgic comfort and satisfaction in defining my self-calculated limitations–in placing brackets, spaces and dashes around and between everything I’ve done and have yet to do. I enjoy pinpointing highlights and accomplishments with multi-colored nails, sealing and solidifying my well pruned resume of a life into its appropriate place. Miniature...
Read MoreThe Broken Mask of Believers
I am unsettled. A certain restlessness stirs in me as I sit drinking hot tea within the confines of my apartment. It’s 3am. I can’t sleep. I’m drowsy but wide awake. I’m ready but unable to move. I’m knowing but not quite enough. I’m energized with nothing to accomplish. It’s quiet but I’m having a hard time listening. I simply...
Read MoreThe American Dream For Breakfast
I’m awake this morning. I’m awake, but as I twist my way out of bed I glance quickly inward and decide to let my soul sleep in. “Take the day off,” I whisper quietly so not to add to the blaring alarm doing its job in the background. The alarm clock is anything but an alarm. It sounds at the same time, on the same days, from the same corner of the same room. Not...
Read More{Socially Capable}
