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When Truth Moves Slower Than Harm

I’ve been in ongoing conversation lately with a family. Separately. Carefully. Slowly. They are circling the same truth: abuse by the mother. But they are not standing in the same place. The father doesn’t tell the story all at once. He lets it come out in pieces. And something strange happens in our conversations—he borrowsContinue reading “When Truth Moves Slower Than Harm”

Community Projects Don’t Sit Still

I’ve never seen anything change as fast as a community project. Not weather. Not moods. Not politics. Community projects shift faster than language can keep up. It’s like the moment something becomes “established,” it starts to destabilise. As soon as you think you know what it is, it becomes something else. The centre moves. TheContinue reading “Community Projects Don’t Sit Still”

We started a Donut Run – we delivered free donuts to night shelters

Small Community Project We collected end of day donuts and drove around night shelters and gave them out while having conversations about homelessness What We Did Each evening, local bakeries gave us their leftover donuts at the end of their day. Instead of letting them go to waste, we picked them up and took themContinue reading “We started a Donut Run – we delivered free donuts to night shelters”

Community Projects Don’t Sit Still

When Giving Becomes Loud

There’s a line I keep coming back to: “Via a garish methodology, the client is freshly recognised as a consumer of social assistance as well as conventional charitable products.” It’s ugly on purpose. It names something that often hides behind good intentions: the moment a person becomes a “unit of need,” a receiver of goods,Continue reading “When Giving Becomes Loud”