A single beam of light through a church window changed how we saw the day—and ourselves. What began as a personal story of losing hearing in one ear and living nine years in partial silence becomes a wider meditation on restoration, grace, and the brave work of loving people back to who they were made to be. When hearing returned, music sounded new, a daughter’s voice felt like a gift unwrapped, and gratitude turned into a map for finding love in a noisy world. We unpack a simple but demandi...
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A single beam of light through a church window changed how we saw the day—and ourselves. What began as a personal story of losing hearing in one ear and living nine years in partial silence becomes a wider meditation on restoration, grace, and the brave work of loving people back to who they were made to be. When hearing returned, music sounded new, a daughter’s voice felt like a gift unwrapped, and gratitude turned into a map for finding love in a noisy world. We unpack a simple but demandi...
Black History Month | "Dig up the past and you will loose an eye. Forget the past and you will loose both"
Sunny Banana
8 minutes
3 weeks ago
Black History Month | "Dig up the past and you will loose an eye. Forget the past and you will loose both"
Memory can either blind us or guide us. We open up a timely reflection on Black History Month by asking a hard question: how do we face what happened without turning the past into a weapon—or pretending it never happened? The answer, we argue, lives in the daily practice of humility and forgiveness, and in the choices we make about which stories we carry and how we carry them. We ground the conversation in a vivid image from rugby: a rope woven from dyed strands marking wins, losses, and dra...
Sunny Banana
A single beam of light through a church window changed how we saw the day—and ourselves. What began as a personal story of losing hearing in one ear and living nine years in partial silence becomes a wider meditation on restoration, grace, and the brave work of loving people back to who they were made to be. When hearing returned, music sounded new, a daughter’s voice felt like a gift unwrapped, and gratitude turned into a map for finding love in a noisy world. We unpack a simple but demandi...
