reflection
People Accounts Settled
When my time comes, I want all of my people accounts settled.
Independent writing & reflection
Thoughts that refuse to go quietly.
A permanent home for reflections on people, culture, memory, responsibility, spirit, the Black experience, and the truths we usually recognize after everybody stops talking.
The Philosophical Insomniac
As Spiritual As I Can Be Each And Every Day
Come in.
Read slowly. Think freely. Stay as long as something here speaks to you.
Selected work
Worth sitting with.
reflection
Learn Your Audience
As important or timely or whatever the case may be, everyone is not interested in what you have to say.
reflection
Obama Didn’t Create This America
Obama didn’t create this America. He exposed how many Americans were never comfortable with the America his presidency represented.
reflection
Get What’s Coming To You
Everybody’s “get what’s coming to you” doesn’t look the same.
essay
37 Years Ago Today
Not everyone who wears a badge and a gun is a good person and not everyone who goes to jail is a bad person.
The voice behind the words
Experience first.
Performance never.
The Philosophical Insomniac lives somewhere between observation, memory, cultural truth and spiritual reflection. The point isn't to tell people what to think. The point is to say plainly what experience has made difficult to ignore.
The Black experience is part of the center of gravity here, but the questions are larger than any one community: Who are we when nobody is grading the answer? What do we owe one another? What do we carry too long? What do we pretend not to see?