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    Snapshot of Minneapolis
    Derek Davidson
    • Jun 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    Snapshot of Minneapolis

    trying to make sense of this crazy intersection of race and justice and safety and parenting and teaching.
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    Derek Davidson
    • May 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    Simple Wrong

    There is a major difference between being not bad and being good.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Apr 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Skid

    Today is not a Monday or Tuesday. It is only Today. Tomorrow and yesterday share its Today-ness.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    Lessons that won't get taught.

    If the relationships don’t persist, did the teachers only care because they were paid to?
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    Derek Davidson
    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    Diego

    What I’ll never be okay with is an arbitrary 50 minute cage around the learning in my room.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Mar 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    Joy

    Now the pile of non-related shittiness is sort of throbbing at me, begging to be aggregated.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 6 min

    LaToya

    Between the years of 2007 and 2016 my car had the word “Bitch” keyed into the hood. I left it there as a reminder.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Feb 25, 2020
    • 5 min

    Invisible Gifts

    It’s not an oxymoron: an Uneducated Gifted Kid.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Feb 21, 2020
    • 6 min

    Steven

    That smart kid is more kid than smart.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 11 min

    Texas vs. Minnesota

    Texas will always be my heart’s home. But my body lives in Minneapolis.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    Sisyphus

    Drowning was elegant—everything was the same except now you’re dead.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Mr. Huey

    Mr. Huey was not cool, not even a little bit.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 22, 2020
    • 5 min

    Ill Humor and Medication

    When a dysthymic person has a bout of major depression, it's called double depression. I don’t have any single depression to compare it to.
    72 views0 comments
    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    "Why don't you drink?"

    I cannot stop eating gas station food, despite it being, you know, gas station food.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 15, 2020
    • 10 min

    Wren

    I would wake up looking a total mess, something like Encino Man, unable to find my clothes, languid and gawking at her.
    67 views0 comments
    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 21 min

    That Email I sent Kendle

    Blonde hair, wavy, put up in a messy bun. Her jeans had a hole in the knee, and she was wearing an oversized camouflage jacket. It was 1997.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Cow

    Linda stepped out of the car, bewildered, and began walking back to see what they hit. She thought it was a moose.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 4 min

    Ring the Bell

    My Mother's Eulogy.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 5 min

    Magda

    She was short. And compact. Like a rock climber or something, and I’m sure she climbed rocks sometimes.
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    Derek Davidson
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 8 min

    Linda Lou

    We’d watch Bob Ross paint a “happy little forest,” and make fun of his speech and his afro, but never his paintings. We liked his paintings.
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