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Behind a Veil of Tears
Dear Friends and Family, It feels like we are coming to the end of the pandemic. I know that’s not exactly true because just about everyone I know has…
Oct 18, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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August 2022
Helping Hand for a Heavy Heart
Dear Friends and Family, I write to you with a heavy heart and to ask for your helping hand. In most of my letters, I have written about the beloved…
Aug 21, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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July 2022
From the COVID Sickbed
Dear Friends and Family, I am writing to you from the COVID sickbed or rather, more precisely, the Omicron BA.5 sickbed. I am vaccinated and double…
Jul 11, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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June 2022
Juneteenth: Joy in the Midst of Trauma
Dear Friends and Family, Today is Juneteenth—a celebration of the day when those who had been enslaved learned, two and a half years after the fact…
Jun 19, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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Juneteenth: Joy in the Midst of Trauma
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Before January 6th
Dear Friends and Family, Today is the day we will learn details about the first well-organized, well-armed, well-financed and executed attempt to…
Jun 9, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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March 2022
Hula Hoop Happy Hour - Two Years Later
Dear Friends and Family, Two years ago this Wednesday, six Bay Area counties issued shelter-in-place orders and so began the COVID-19 Lockdown. Three…
Mar 15, 2022
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Leslie Poynor
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December 2021
Hope is Our Requirement
Dear Friends and Family, Will this pandemic never end? Today is my birthday and every year (except last year) we’ve had Texas Sheet Cake and Eric’s…
Dec 23, 2021
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Leslie Poynor
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Hope is Our Requirement
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Something To Think About
Dear Friends and Family, I’ve noticed a pattern in my letters to you—I disappear sometime in the fall (August or September) and return in December. I…
Dec 9, 2021
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Leslie Poynor
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Something To Think About
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July 2021
Here we go again...
Dear Friends and Family, Just two months ago, I wrote you a letter full of hope, gratitude, and love for our re-entry into human contact and connection…
Jul 29, 2021
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Leslie Poynor
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Here we go again...
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It Takes A Barrio, Part 2
Dear Friends and Family, One year ago today, a group of white people gathered together in our backyard to interrogate, disrupt, and reckon with our…
Jul 1, 2021
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It Takes A Barrio, Part 2
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May 2021
Still Reckoning With My Internalized White Supremacy
The Whiteness Letters
May 27, 2021
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Leslie Poynor
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Re-Entry
Dear Friends and Family, This weekend Eric and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. We saw our neighbors without their masks. I asked if they were…
May 23, 2021
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