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Image shows a sunrise over an ocean. The sky is different shades of orange with clouds along the horizon. The sun is low and the sunlight creates a bright beam over the water's surface on the right of the image. The water reflects the orange light and the streaks of mixing currents can be seen.

Gift of God

Obey me and you’ll be the martyr / Jesus imagined: Messiah-skinned


a photo of two human beings in silhouette against an orange sunset. the figure on the left is a baby held in the arms of a woman or woman-identifying person with long hair.

Brother, She Calls Me

I wish I had known better at eight when my mother's stroke changed my life. But not all knowledge arrives when it should.


From the Archives: La Jungla

My mother was one of a few Koreans in an area of mostly Latinos, who worked
under the metal roof of an abandoned warehouse converted into a shopping
emporium—car stereos, healing potions, sneakers, gold jewelry, toys.


The cover of WORK TO DO; a bright green background with a pink illustration of cabbage and work apron and yellow letters.

Excerpt from Work to Do

For most of the staff, this was just a job. But do the simple math and jobs were most of the hours of a life.