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Word Sketches — Images created with words
Have you ever tried to draw an image of something in your head using colored pencils, crayons, or watercolors? You must understand then the effort, creativity, and courage necessary to bring those images to the paper. I hope the words I sketch here will help you see the images I am creating for you. Even better, you may be inspired to create word sketches of your own!
Let’s Talk About Women
I love and hate this picture of Mami and her brother Luyo kneeling prayerfully at the foot of Abuela Provi who is sitting in a chair. Abuelo Luis took this beautiful portrait of filial love and religious devotion. It expresses so much! But the story this image brings to mind affected me deeply growing up and led me to decide to bring my daughters up in a radically different way.
Undertow: How Life’s Undercurrents Can Pull Us Where We May Not Want to Go
Charlene Edge and I met over six years ago at a small social event where I learned her memoir, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International had been published a few months before. What intrigued me most about Charlene and her book was that she wrote about an organization my brother had been a part of for many years and refused to recognize as a cult.