by Shannon Turner | Jun 9, 2020 | black lives matter, Blog, mental illness, police brutality, walks with grief
I had just emerged from one of those evocative performance experiences that leaves you buzzing. I stepped out from 7 Stages in Little 5 Points onto the sidewalk into a noxious mix of sour-sweet smells on a hot summer night. Most folks were still hanging around in the...
by Shannon Turner | May 29, 2020 | Blog
The Wylde Center, April 2020.These days, walking has become one my best ways to literally move through my feelings. When I was at Virginia Tech when September 11th happened, we who were in student life/student engagement had our jobs cut out for us. These young people...
by Shannon Turner | May 21, 2020 | Blog
The times we’re living through now will become the stories we tell each other for generations to come… Moving forward. There’ve been times lately when how to move forward felt like an inscrutable thing. There are a lot of people out there who believe they have...
by Shannon Turner | May 8, 2020 | Blog
In my work, I talk a lot about how the act of cultivating and telling our personal stories is a veritable hotlink to empathy. The more we dive into our stories, the more we understand who we are, where we’ve come from, and what connects us to the most universal...
by Shannon Turner | May 3, 2020 | Blog
On Saturday, April 11, I came home from a long walk in my neighborhood. (I didn’t used to walk my own neighborhood very much, but I do so often now in the days of the COVID shutdown.) Sitting down to rest, I opened up Facebook. There was a message on the East...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
It’s been unseasonably cool this week here in Atlanta. Or maybe I shouldn’t say unseasonably cool. Maybe it’s appropriately cool, and climate change has just altered our expectations. We’ve been waking to brilliant, bright, blustery days in the...
