by Minga Claggett-Borne | Apr 18, 2019 | Quakers in the Field
By the blast of God’s nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall. The enemy boasted, “I will overtake them. I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.” —Exodus 15:8 Caravans of refugees are...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Mar 27, 2019 | Quakers in the Field, Stopping Violence
When I came to the Border Project for Human Rights, Mexico was under the chilly grip of winter. I left Baja California on March 1st, enchanted by the world of whales mating and dolphin pods leaping. In Magdalena Bay I traded my swimsuit for a scarf and wool hat. Baja...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Feb 20, 2019 | Quakers in the Field
Go and come back. Go forward and see. Pray and listen. Come home and share. Breathe it in and breathe it out. Love through hate. Hope in darkness. In March I will live for a few weeks near refugees, and hear their stories in the hot sidewalks of Tijuana/San Deigo. On...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Feb 11, 2019 | Quakers in the Field, Stopping Violence
How are prisons violent? Humans learn to reciprocate love and leverage power with each other. Like lumbering bears, we grow every day. Prisons stunt growth. A herd of humans can become a stampede that tramples each other. Humans howl—when threatened we snap our teeth....
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jan 21, 2019 | Quakers in the Field
Before the longest nights of 2018, I heard about the exodus of Latinx had reached the Mexican northern border. During the dark of the moon I was obsessed with the drama and the heroism. I saw the poetry in streams of people fleeing in groups of 80 or of 45 or of 15....
