General Archives - Ellen Morris Prewitt

New Year’s Resolution or Epiphany?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 4, 2025. Posted in Featured, General. 2 Comments on New Year’s Resolution or Epiphany?

I didn’t take a nap today. I swam 950 yards in the pool. That’s a fairly big turnaround for someone who has been napping like a demon for months now. My poor Apple watch has given up on me. It whimpers, You closed one ring today—good job! We’ll see what it has to say about today. Maybe it will blink its little self on and ask,...

The Blank Spot in our Brains.

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 4, 2025. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 2 Comments on The Blank Spot in our Brains.

Thank you to Tod Davies and Exterminating Angel Press for publishing this excerpt from my as-yet unnamed memoir-in-progress. “The Blank Spot in our Brains” opens with a story about my mother and veers off from there. The short piece explores how hard it is to accept information we don’t want to be true. I now have four excerpts...

Weekend of Remembrance

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 16, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on Weekend of Remembrance

Please enjoy these photos from the recent Weekend of Remembrance in Vicksburg. Dr. Albert Dorsey, Jr. at Bethel AME Church discussing the Massacres at the Weekend of Remembrance Dr. Beth Kruse at the church speaking about the impact of the Massacres Rev. Andy Andrews at the Vicksburg National Park Libation Ceremony on Saturday of the weekend Judge...

Rest

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 4, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. 8 Comments on Rest

“Rest,” the doctor said. And I thought, what is rest? Not bed rest. That’s different. Just simple rest. Like sitting on the back porch waiting for the squirrels to appear on the squirrel highway where they jump from the Chinese Golden Rain Tree to the flat frond of the palm tree. The most amazing feat, to land on that bouncy,...

We Go On

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 9, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, GRIEF, LOVE. 5 Comments on We Go On

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The Vicksburg Massacres Remembrance

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 8, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. 2 Comments on The Vicksburg Massacres Remembrance

In one month, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, we will have a weekend dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Vicksburg Massacres. Creating the Vicksburg Massacres Remembrance has been a collaborative, community effort. The planners include Vicksburg National Military Park, Catfish Row Museum, Bethel AME Church, Becoming Beloved Community Episcopal...

I Voted Today

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 5, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. 6 Comments on I Voted Today

Today, I walked ten minutes to our neighborhood polling place. We passed others also walking the streets (New Orleans has the most unpredictable sidewalks.) It was warm. For the first time, my cast began to itch. Inside, the poll workers were efficient without being rude. I cast my vote. On the way back home, Tom took my photo with one of the multitudes...

How Haiti Made the USA

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 1, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 5 Comments on How Haiti Made the USA

Y’all know hateful politicians aren’t denigrating Haitian refugees at random. They aren’t even choosing them just because in the brain of everlasting racists they’re Black refugees. Haitians are being denigrated because they are Haitian. And y’all know why racists hate Haiti, right? Haiti beat Napoleon. Oh, come...

A Feeling of Contentment

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on October 29, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD. 6 Comments on A Feeling of Contentment

A feeling of contentment will well up in me. I take note of it because it’s unusual for me, being content. That soft feeling of, “I like this, right here, right now.” I want to stay in the moment, be happy there. It’s not my default setting. I also take note because things aren’t going that well. I made the bad...

Train-Wreck Way of Thinking

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on October 6, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GRIEF. 8 Comments on Train-Wreck Way of Thinking

I am here, this morning, in all my brokenness. I made a mistake yesterday. In the past, that would have sent me down a rabbit hole of catastrophizing. I imagine the worst, then worse, and worse yet until, in a demented version of the impact of butterfly wings, the world is hardly left standing because of my mistake. That didn’t happen yesterday....