It is all so…little.
Effort In The Time of COVID
I am never certain where to begin. My anxiety gets the best of me and all I do is spin, spin, spin. And all of these one-year-of-COVID retrospectives have not been helping at all. They simply remind me that I have been working harder this last year with so little of the typical payback. What have I learned from that cheery dynamic? I may have been working my ass off on the wrong things all along, but the systems of the world demand it. We need a revolution. My efforts amount to so little. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Do you know about The Nap Ministry? Maybe you should follow them on Instagram. The Nap Ministry is a womanist effort to provide a framework for just such a revolution. Once again, this white man is leaning on his black womanist neighbors to find a little bit of sanity. Sanity. What the hell is that any more? Maybe it looks like a nap.
The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. We engage with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred and safe spaces for the community to rest together. We…
