Josina Guess
Writer at Freelance
Assistant Editor at Sojourners
Assistant editor @sojourners. Words in @BitterSouth, @oxfordamerican, @ecotone Bigger Than Bravery. UGA MFA in narrative nonfiction ‘23 🐐🐾🐓🐈⬛ 🌿
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1 week ago |
mainstreetnews.com | Josina Guess
The first time I met Bennie Gantt, 87, he was sitting outside of his house chopping pears. I had moved onto his street in 2017, and was getting to know my neighbors. “Have you lived in Comer long?” I asked. He said something like, “Oh, I’ve been here a few years.”Except for six months in Athens, a year in Colbert, and a very brief try in Chicago (he left after a week because he couldn’t stand the rats), Gantt has lived for almost nine decades in the town where he was born.
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3 weeks ago |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
I was driving down a gravel road near my home in rural Georgia on a Sunday afternoon this spring when I heard a voice singing on Mountain Stage on my local NPR station. She was singing about a church building adorned with pride flags and the words “Black Lives Matter” posted out front: A scene I don’t see in my town.
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1 month ago |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
A SMALL TREE grows near the parking lot at a state park close to my home. I noticed this tree more than a decade ago when our children were very small: A sapling rooted in the crack of a giant boulder. Over the past 14 years the split in the boulder has widened. As the tree has gotten a little taller and broader, the rock has gradually changed its shape, splitting and cracking. The tree’s bark folds around the rock; the two have become inextricably bound up with one another.
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2 months ago |
atlantamagazine.com | Josina Guess
Illustration by Harry TennantWe pulled into the RV park at night and woke to the sound of rain. The wet morning allowed us time to linger on St. Helena Island near Beaufort, South Carolina, before heading across the bridge to our campsite at Hunting Island State Park, where my husband and our four children have returned for years. We borrowed an RV so that my mother-in-law, our children’s nana, could join us without roughing it in a tent.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
Illustration by Jody Hewgill Barbara Brown Taylor: On Feeding Birds, Good Friday, and Neighborliness A conversation on finding balance and the power of resurrection. BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR was supposed to be a poet or a short story writer. She accrued a respectable stack of rejection letters to show she tried.
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Bishop Mariann Budde was made for such a time as this
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors...may I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." https://t.co/iXaHJrPsof
RT @danielleamir: appreciate this homage to Dr. Reagon and its author, @josinaguess, who asked about my memories being her student
Bernice Johnson Reagon passed last July, just a few days before the imagined opening of Octavia Butler's Parable of The Sower, a work that she and her daughter made into an opera. Read my tribute to Dr. Reagon in @Sojourners https://t.co/0kQFzkxhAU via @Sojourners
