Dr. Kellie D. Brown

The struggle is real.

I just started reading this book. It's wonderful.

Be the kind of person that your neighbor doesn't have to plant a row of evergreens to block your awfulness.

I'm at the point in the semester when I'm so tired that I had to consider this morning whether I had the bandwidth to fool with a scarf.

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I'm really struggling to cope with my anger. Our country feels irreparably ruined.

Cracked Cisterns and the Search for Water A Devotional for Lent

A devotional for Lent. I hope the search for nourishing water feels apt to you in these times when we are not only dried up of hope but the world is burning down. #Lent open.substack.com/pub/kelliedb...

We are living the dream.

I'm having a wild Saturday night grading.

#academicsky

Thanks for sharing. I love the rhythm and the hope in it.

Same for us in east TN

I love the Moomins. How fabulous that you are building them a house.

This is a wonderful framework for doing what we need and want to do while being compassionate to our human selves. tiliaeditorial.com/sustainable-...

Thanks for sharing. I really like this, too.

Me, too. It feels like an explanation for why people act in the way that they do, the quality of light they allow to shine on them

"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives." Audre Lorde

Silent Screams a poem

I invite you to read my reflection about what it means to give yourself and others permission to be authentic. And if you've ever felt the need to scream in the car, my poem is about that, too. #poetry
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Same

I agree. And in many ways. Forced to be in person even though I'm immune compromised, and all the rest.

Same

Yes, and I think I'm still carrying that around in my body and spirit. It has contributed to exhaustion and burnout.

I loved this.

Beautiful and profound

Amazing

Thank you, Joel

Thank you ❤️

I enjoyed your essay. I was also obsessed with Harriet the Spy and pretended to be her.

Kellie Brown – The Living Among the Dead Dr. Kellie Brown is a violinist, conductor, music educator, and award-winning writer whose book, The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation during the Holocaust and World War II (…

This is an essay I wrote about a family cemetery as place. thegalwayreview.com/2023/12/16/k...

This is fabulous, Joel. I'm going to be thinking about it for awhile.

You'll have to build up to it again. Quite a workout