Sublime

Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

Thank you, Damani Baker, for building a life with me that has space for grief and pleasure, art and children, adventure and peace.

I examined the pictures of these giant doors in our small Harlem apartment. I had never seen anything like them. It had never even occurred to me that such giant doors could exist, could be so common in one part of the world and totally absent in another. And it occurred to me, listening to your mother, that France was not a thought experiment but

“It just became so clear that people felt the need for this. It was almost like I didn’t have to explain, because they understood immediately,”

THE DAY of our departure

soul-crushing experiences that most of us have to deal with in order to pay our own way in life. The inspiration for launching my

To return to the city of one’s birth always felt like retreat.