From D.W.: We're still a few weeks away from the anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall, but I stumbled upon this post today that she wrote on the actual 2oth anniversary of that event. Now, 16 years later, it still works. Long Valley Lane. November
From D.W.: I've never had much use for birthdays. At least since I crossed the little kid threshold. Rachel, though, LOVED birthdays. She loved her own birthday and she loved celebrating everyone else's. She didn't care that I didn't care about
From D.W.: She and I used to talk about the two of us together being the strange, but beautiful alchemic photo birthed by the amalgam of two completely different puzzles. Individually broken apart so that they recombined into something uniquely stunning. Uniquely us. I've been thinking about
From D.W.: I'm a generally private person. Not anti-social, necessarily, but certainly introverted. I have a small circle of close friends, but I often joke that I'm actively trying to shed them. Rachel, as anyone can attest, was completely the opposite. Her circle was enormous
From D.W.: I was talking to a colleague yesterday about my struggle with wanting to make this site represent the totality of Rachel's writing while also feeling contemporary and reacting to the moments we're in. She wrote so much that was joyous, funny, uplifting, silly.
From D.W.: It's no accident that I'm posting this today, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks, as that is the scaffolding upon which she frames this piece. And it does serve as an apt memorial of the day, written ten years later. But
From D.W.: I've been thinking about how we treat immigrants and refugees a lot recently. For... you know... reasons. Rachel thought about that a lot, too. And she'd been thinking about it for a long time. This post takes us back seven years. And then
From D.W.: It just felt like a good time to remind everyone that joy exists. Love is real. Peace is possible. We just have to be brave enough to go and get it. Facebook. February 8th. 2022 Because some days, your only recourse is to dress your giant dog
From D.W.: As much as her life and her work were about love, kindness, grace, forgiveness, mercy, anyone that knew Rachel knew this girl could get angry with the best of them. And when she did, it was righteous. And few things made her more righteously angry than gun
From D.W.: Welcome to Re-Mixtapes From Babylon. I've chosen this to be the inaugural post despite the incongruous setting of Holy Saturday. Simply, it's about loss. About overcoming through love. It's about the world ending. My world ended one year ago today. Or,