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Part II of my conversation with Milagros Phillips, the Race Healer

Part I of my conversation with Milagros Phillips, the “Race Healer”

Three weeks ago – Sept.

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Note: I’m traveling this week, so this is one from the archives.

While reflecting last week on the resilience of trees, I also thought about stories of resilience in my ancestry.

It’s only recently that I learned to talk to trees.

Last week I (re)learned that sometimes the most effective and important thing I can do to support racial justice is shut up and write the damned check.

I spent a few days in our nation’s capital at the end of last week for the March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote.

Content note: Repeated period references to Native Americans as “heathens,” “savages,” and “Indians.”

It’s hard not to despair.

Charlottesville, Nine Years Later