a strange tenderness

‘One must always be careful of books,’ said Tessa, ‘and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.’

Academy Award for Best Picture:

Okay. Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I won't let you go. Hey man. I got you. There you go. Ten Seconds. Right there. You in the middle of the world.

As of Thursday, May 21, the NCMEC figure for open missing cases involving Black children sits at 64, with the total number of open missing children cases in Virginia at 114 — meaning that more than half of open missing children cases in the commonwealth are Black, despite Black Virginians accounting for about one-fifth of the population. The total number of Black children law enforcement reported missing since April 1 across the U.S. is now 183, according to NCMEC.

Holocene — Bon Iver