Category: A moment in time

  • What was the UW Encampment Protest?: A brief study of a brief moment

    A note on names The names used throughout this essay are fictional. Though many people I spoke with gave me their names or aliases on the condition I could refer to them as such, I have chosen here to further preserve the privacy of individuals associated with the encampment through an additional layer of protection…

  • A Few Photographs of the UW Encampment Protest

    “If I could do it, I’d do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food, and of excrement. Booksellers would consider it quite a novelty; critics would…

  • Minidoka

    President Gerald R. Ford, on the bicentennial of the United States’ founding, terminated Executive Order 9066 originally signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 establishing ten “relocation centers” for Nikkei living in America, calling upon the American people to promise “we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to…

  • Washington, D.C.,
    a year after

    The year, 2021. The week, exactly one year after the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as President of the United States of America. The week before he was inaugurated comprises, by the published record, the largest mass death event (from a single cause) in United States history thus far, with approximately 4,170 – 4,406…

  • There is a certain look

    There is a certain look one can catch in the eyes of those performing scientific experiments. If one is lucky enough to see it, I submit that moment is a high drama comprising at least five distinct acts: preparation, anticipation, (un)expectation, revelation, and understanding. Having had the opportunity to teach my fair share of youngsters…

  • Dayton, Tenn., July 10 – 21

    Thirty-five thousand sixty-four days after The Rev. Cartwright opened the proceedings at Rhea County Court House one Friday morning with a prayer (“Oh, God, our divine Father, we recognize Thee as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, in whose hands are the lives and destinies of all men”), I began reading “A WORD-FOR-WORD REPORT” of the State…