Notices by Ellen's Very Southern Voice (ellenmorrisprewitt@writing.exchange)

Small achievements: I just created a QR Code for our pamphlet on the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana's entanglement with slavery. This way, anyone with the pamphlet can access the Master's Thesis that we condensed to create the pamphlet. That's the goal of the pamphlet: to whet people's appetites so they will go read all the startling info in the thesis.

#AntiRacism #writing #NewOrleans #NOLA #Episcopalian

The thing about "pre-Roe," is that Roe changed everything. Roe ushered in the end of clients being free to say they didn't want to work for a woman lawyer. When neither birth control NOR pregnancy was covered by insurance (pregnancy is a natural state, not an illness.) When I was told I would never make as much $ as the men (bullshit to that). Roe v. Wade didn't just give reproductive freedom. It recognized that women deserve freedom.

We still do.

#Harris

And the LA Times gave Bezos cover to do that.

For family reasons, I've been doing a lot of reading on the Redeemer violence that killed Reconstruction in Mississippi. Now I'm reading this book on Mardi Gras in NOLA, except it's very much contextualized, and we're at the Reconstruction era.

I'm convinced US History lies about Reconstruction because it 100% puts the lie to "we've always had peaceful transfer of power." Duly elected officials were overthrown in violent insurrection with mob killings. We just pretend it didn't happen..

One thing that has happened with this period of returning to swimming is a floating peaceful feeling after working out. Not sure what to attribute it to, but I love it.

#Swim #Swimming #Swimmer #Pool

If you live in a "storm-torn" area, you can't look away from a hurricane bearing down, no matter where it is predicted to land. The stress, the danger, the fear, everything that goes through you when a hurricane is headed at you. It fills me with dread for those in the Big Bend.

The Republican greed to suck money out of every governmental function—no matter the risk to our health, our safety, our lives—has no limits.

Yeah, right--let's use AccuWeather and kill the NHC and NWS. Even AccuWeather thinks that's idiotic.

And to shift cleanup responsibilities to states.....when the states have just been demolished.

This is insanity. Oh, wait, it's GOP politics. Which, apparently, half the people in this country are ready to vote for.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/good-time-revisit-project-2025-174800588.html

So, yeah, I think this article did what it was supposed to do. Take advantage of a stress-filled time to make its point. Dramatically.

Y'all got me verifying my voter registration every 15 seconds here.

The window it has to strengthen might be shortening. But it keeps moving closer to us. And I've gotten wary of how suddenly intensification can happen.

#NOLA #NewOrleans

I was with a 36-year-old yesterday who said she was close to a 3rd grader she teaches after-school because, "we're both Taylor Swift fans so we talk about that a lot." That says it all to me about Taylor's appeal.

My friend from Jackson, Mississippi just swam across the Arctic Circle.

#Swimming

What does it mean to have the Gaze of Compassion on your life?

https://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/the-gaze-of-compassion/

#life #writing

One thing I love: the Harris campaign is soooooo direct in their rebuttal of GOP filth

When death arrives suddenly....

https://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/love-lives-on/

#life

I want to savor this moment when everyone's popping up supporting #Harris and Trump feels like old news.

Who decided that art is at its highest when it leaves a great deal to the observer to figure out, but writing has to be as clear as the yellow man on the right? Why is, Hmmm, an okay response to art, but a failure with writing?

Writing Group at 100 Men Hall went well this morning. We worked off a list of times when we found ourselves between a rock and a hard place, a difficult choice to be made. Then we practiced opening the story with an action opening, a dialogue opening, and a setting opening, with examples from Jeffrey Blount, Crystal Wilkinson and Deesha Philyaw. Everyone seemed to enjoy the exercises, and they did great writing. We write for 3 hours!

#WritingCommunity #WritingGroups #Writing #Writer

After Elijah McClain's death, Colorado "banned carotid choke holds, made it easier for individuals to sue police officers, and strengthened the rules on uses of force. This year, they banned using the term "excited delirium" in law enforcement training and as a cause of death...That diagnosis has been largely discredited among medical professionals."

"Largely discredited" means the AMA, the American Academy of ER Medicine, etc do not recognize it.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248194859/reforms-and-heartbreak-after-final-sentencing-in-elijah-mcclains-death

That, and telling y'all it's all I'm up to. :)