Lanes World

 Children of The Holocaust     It was fascinating writing a letter having learning the story of a young girl who died in the Auschwitz camp. Part of it was so tragic that writing as if i'm her proved to be a challenge and made me feel a little bit uneasy. I was lucky and got to read two letters that happened to be directly from her immediate family. Bertha Adler was my person, I heard from my older sister and father. Both of them survived with what seemed like a stroke of luck. They ended up moving to America after the war.

 Dear Jacquelin,     I recently had the pleasure of reading Brown Girl Dreaming, and am blown away by what's captured in this book. Such a great story so wonderfully told, i'm curious what made you decide to write in entirely in poem? Also how late does some of the writing date back in your life?      I really enjoyed the piece on page 262 titled music. When you referenced Funky Worm by Ohio Players, its a song I love and so I laughed out loud at this. It's crazy how the sounds on this record are still being emulated in modern popular music of the 21st century. Thats over thirty years of influence, so I don't think theirs any arguing that worm sure is funky.     I thought your book embraced the love of life's journey, as well as self acceptance. Found a strong understanding of peace in this book and for that I thank you. "Each day a new world opens itself up to you" powerful closing words. Thank you for...

 My blog journal this week aims to only open up passages of thought. The goal here is to find more questions to ask rather than try to answer anything.     The idea of knowledge is something created by man. He who knows the most words from those spoken and agreed upon before him is a good way to sum up what intellect is in a traditional sense. My question is how much of our knowledge has helped us? What if we had no concept of race? What if people never decided to label another person as "Mexican" "Indian" "Black" "African" "White" Etc. Would be be wrong in doing so? I think we often forget that most of what we 'know' is something that some other human before us came up with. And so at some point us humans as a collective decided we are different because of the melanin in our a skin and so we should be labelled accordingly. Is this a smart, knowledgable thing to do? Its interesting to think that when we comes to the world around...