by SB Rawz | Oct 26, 2020 | The Deep Dive
This is a friendly reminder – to you and myself – of some things that are perfectly understandable, all the time and especially in this tense moment in history: Feeling scared, anxious, worried, sad, and/or shut down Feeling hopeful, playful, joyful, and/or... by SB Rawz | Oct 5, 2020 | The Deep Dive
I was 19 when I bought a proper piece of furniture for myself for the first time. The man at the junk shop – which is to say, the kind of antique store that can be found along poorly traveled roads, selling this and that out of old ramshackle buildings that... by SB Rawz | Sep 21, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
It was 2004 or so when I first heard of the Slow Foods Movement. Started in Italy, Slow Foods was a reaction to, you guessed it, fast food. The movement embraces the way our culture lives in food long after the traditional dress, customs, and even language... by SB Rawz | Aug 3, 2020 | The Deep Dive
I share Shinzen Young’s equation for suffering – Pain x Resistance = Suffering – several times each week. That’s how powerful I find it: its presupposition of pain; its invitation to accept the fullness of our experiences; its simple reminder that suffering is... by SB Rawz | Jul 27, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
I’m from Greensboro, North Carolina, originally. This past February 1 marked the 60th anniversary of when four young NC A&T students – David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), and Joseph McNeil – sat down at the lunch...