Disability Pride Month: 5 ways to support disabled people

July is Disability Pride Month. Disability pride isn’t about wanting to be disabled. It is about feeling empowered to live with your disability. Having disability pride is about feeling proud of who you are, for all that you are. Disability pride revokes the idea that people with disabilities should be made to feel less than…

Kaleidoscope: Kenosha

You are gifted with a different sort of blog this week. My muse insisted this be the message. I look forward to hearing from you. Stop in and chat with me Tuesday at Vintage & Modern Books from 12:30 – 2:30.

OBSERVATIONS #20 – 12.31.24

Call – Last Theme of the Year Response – Thee Bunny Show, 2025 By – Mimi Peterson , WIR #17 Change is Coming – Details To Be Announced To the January-June, 2025 Racine Writer-in-Residence Grantee #18 – Congratulations! Best Wishes to our new WIR program coordinator! Formal announcements will be made shortly. In the meantime,…

OBSERVATIONS #18 – 12.24.24

Call – Color Feel Response – I Must Do To Be By – Mimi Peterson I Must Do To Be I must do to be, Things move, change waits, Words interrupt, hands interpret, Bodies heal, thoughts roam. Before you, after me, Sands drift to form dunes and valleys, Swirling shapes shift with times motion, And…

OBSERVATIONS #16 – 11.23.24

Call – Color Feel, Theme of the MonthResponse – My SpaceBy – Mimi Peterson My Space The sunlight is loud, It’s noise breaks the silence, Like a comforting blanket, Surrounds me, you, us, With both narrow and broad streams of brilliant sounds, Soon turn into murmurous shadows, At once dark and transparent, Casting familiar silhouettes,…

OBSERVATIONS #14 – 11.10.24

Call – Color Feel, Theme of the Month Response – Cast A Net By – Mimi Peterson Cast A NetCast a net into the sky,Toss into the white not blue,Sky that feels like water looks.Cast a net into the sky,Casually pull apart its soft conceal,Uncover fields of pearlescent fluffs washed in light.Cast a net into…

OBSERVATIONS #12 – 10.27.24

Call – Color Feel, Theme of the Month Response – In Proximity By – Mimi Peterson In ProximityStaged by design, Neither an absolute unicum, Nor a sculptural continuum.A critical mass, the arena set in a meandering sprawl,Seen as a monument to hierarchy,Continual expansion of the false emperors power,Constructed around dark notions of axial age and…

OBSERVATION #11-10.26.24

Call – Don’t Dis Me, Theme of the Month Response – Musings on Nobody’s Perfect, Anecdotes by M By – Mimi Peterson My Musings on Nobody’s Perfect with Anecdotes by B, C, J, L, M,Like butterflies, words escaped the cocoon of the story teller’s memory,Like fairy tales, transformed and captured under my pen. mp Meet…

OBSERVATIONS #10 – 10.19.24

Call – Don’t Dis Me, Theme of the Month Response – Musings on Nobody’s Perfect, Anecdotes by – Mimi Peterson About the Arts and Humanities Happy National Arts and Humanities month! The White House issued its yearly proclaim that states: “The arts and humanities bring people together and show us that we have more in…

Prayer and offerings 

Family gathering for the living and deceased Table spread with savory foods, rich bread, and sweets A voided space between realms filled with laughter  Candles lit for prayer, protection, and to guide our loved ones along the way  Water poured into fancy glasses for libations and hydration  Music playing to raise the frequency of the…