Trail riders met in Memorial Park the Friday (Feb 27) before they kick off the Houston Rodeo Parade. #houston #houstonrodeo #htown
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it will be hard for any other movie to ever take Se7en’s place as my #1 movie of all time. as much as it is about crime, religion, morality, and horror, it is also about books and libraries.
books help us understand others and ourselves, and therefore, closer to God. so when books are being banned and the rich and powerful are taking control of and defunding public education institutions (while still maintaining a $20B surplus [TX]),
which deadly sin does that fall under,
what tradition and moral value does that protect,
which god are they praying to
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. Ernest Hemingway
not us covering another break up song. remembered we have free will and covered Close To You by Rihanna and added some videos from Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock.
A couple of weeks before this trip, I had listened to a podcast episode from TED Radio Hour “Three mothers who shaped American history”. One of them was MLK’s mother. That was the first time I had ever learned about her assassination, killed while playing the organ in that same church. It stopped me when I heard it then, and it stopped me again standing there. It’s hard to understand how something like that isn’t more widely known. A tragic story, and an incredibly important woman. She, arguably more than MLK’s father, shaped him into who he became, yet she’s rarely brought into the center of the story. It makes you realize how often history narrows itself, how easily the people who did the shaping get pushed to the edges.
The podcast also talked about Malcolm X and James Baldwin’s mothers. Totally recommend you check it out.
But hearing the park ranger tell the story in that space, and then being allowed to sit in the actual church where it all happened, was something else.
In the end, the part of the experience that stayed with me the most wasn’t the one I planned out the most. It was the one I almost walked past. Ebenezer Baptist Church, something I only meant to glance at from the outside, ended up being the place where everything slowed down and settled in. It reassured me, and even pushed me to remember that understanding a place isn’t just about where you decide to go, but also about what you allow yourself to step into when you get there.
@flatspresents
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