CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER WHITE PERSON, Part 1: FINDING A note about Finding: I've been writing this, my fourth blog post for the last 2 months. I write 3 or 4 days a week for several hours at a time. And still, this hasn't been posted till very recently. And it's short! Why? My intention was to finally write some things out of my life. To pass through a process of finding, naming, and metabolizing that would allow me to let some of this racialized trauma out of my body and make space for a better me. But it took a lot more words than I thought it would take. I thought this was going to be 3 posts. I ts now in the vicinity of 12. I guess I have a lot I need to say. Thanks for being here with me while I lay it all out. - Tara ********** GESTATION So I've been in a space of deep gestation over these quarantine months. And I've realized that part of what I need is to heal from the racially traumatic experiences I've had over the course of my li