“Woke”

According to Merriam-Webster, “WOKE means being aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”. When one is “woke“, there is consideration, discernment, and love. Indeed, these qualities embraced in modern society are impressively kind and beneficial to victims of discrimination. However, what I have been observing…

Anyone Can Be Intelligent

What is intelligence? Merriam-Webster Dictionary covers a number of definitions, but these are the major ones, “the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations“, “the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria” and there are more. Howard Gardner, a…

Dressed up

I, with my big, brownish books She, behind podiums and in front of palaces I, with dark circles from TV She, on TV squealing for sameness I, fed my kitten some fish bones She, brought paper bags to dirty kids One day, in a cafe, I met her She, with sunny dress and sinister smile…