The Morning #BlackLiveMatters Came to My Town, #Milton

latinorebels:

Let’s get the cliché right out the way: it was just another cold winter January weekday morning in the town where I live, just seven miles from the center of Boston, Massachusetts. Wake up in the dark, get the kids going, make the coffee and breakfast, turn on the radio, start the cars up and tell the kids it’s time for school. An “I love you” here, an “I’ll see you tonight” there. Pull out from the driveway and head into suburbia.

My routine this week has been to take my son to middle school, while I play Dandy Livingston Radio, for the very simple desire that if I played reggae music in my car when the temperature was under 20 degrees, I could think more of beaches and less of why I chose New England in January.

Today was no different. Just check what I posted on Instagram around 7:40am, the moment I dropped off my son from school and gathered my thoughts about the work I had to do today:

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