On November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein published his famous theory of General Relativity, which is a geometrical representation of gravity. In this work, Einstein described how spacetime curves in the presence of energy/matter. According to the theory of General Relativity,…
My Dad always said I had caramel skin. “A perfect combination of your mom and me.” Growing up, I never thought twice about the color dynamic within my family. To me, having a Mom and Dad that looked different from each other never struck me as strange. There have been plenty of discussions about mixed-race marriage (it took a 1967 Supreme Court ruling to make it legal. In all US states) but there is rarely any dialogue regarding the child that splits the two races: the people who bridge what is often perceived as the “privileged” and the “oppressed.” I found out for myself that to be in between these two worlds, meant my language and understanding had to change consistently and frequently. The frustrating part is, that those assumptions aren’t necessarily always from outside observers, they can also be from individuals within the group I’m trying to fit myself into. ...
She’s sitting at her dinner table, looking out the window as the winter passes through. “I’ll take care of the snow in the morning.” It’s the last thing she remembers. It’s been a long time since she heard another person’s…
Black Oak
By Asher Hall
Deep in the city,
She sits planted in the hospital cafe,
A paper sits before her.
It concurs with the thoughts she’s having,
By pleading,
For the past to be changed.
The immediate sensitive nature of the subject ...
Of course, nobody really knows, and there are many reasons why. In the first place, nobody knows how Lincoln would have understood the century and half of political and social change since his own day. In the second place, Lincoln’s…
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Some day, a day not on your calendar
And it shouldn’t be long from now
You’ll leave behind your shelter of
Practiced spontaneity and dull knives. ...
A Horizon Line
When I close my eyes,
I see a horizon line.
It’s black at the Coney Island beach in New York,
Gray on the plane back to China,
Blood orange in LA,
And gradient pink at Charles River, Boston.
Time—it’s time that defines the color of the horizon line. ...
