Refusing Colonial Categorization and Claiming Fractal Possibility

Toni Morrison was in my dream yesterday...

Photography by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders from Document. Image description: A scan of a black and white contact sheet capturing Toni Morrison in many frames wearing a white blouse, black skirt and sometimes black blazer, her hair is coiffed in the shape of a cloud neither coming nor going but ever present.

Dreaming of Toni

Toni Morrison came to me in a dream this morning.

I usually arrive at the altar of my keyboard every Monday morning with some ideas I want to give language to, then report on whatever pours through. After a couple hours of writing and another hour of editing, the newsletter appears and I allow it to be “good enough” to press send. But it is Sunday when I’m writing this and I’m being ushered into cartographic reflection and action by Toni from inside my dreamscape. 

She tells me to say what I haven’t been saying. People are reading and reading terraforms imagination, which informs new worlds; the vibrant colors of which are wild and irresistible. She tells me to write ab…