Look at these:

• Terry McMillan discusses her new novel and a few other important things in an interview at the Root.

 

• David Brooks writes an opinion piece on the NY Times site that expresses one way a pastor is addressing excess, even if it’s a perspective that isn’t from the underside.

 

• Embrahim Moosa, over Religious Dispatches, is offering two prayers at the end of Ramadan that you should reflect upon and, perhaps, integrate when you bend your knees if you do.

 

• I read an enticing review at NY Times, sent to me by a new editor friend, of The Warmth of Other Suns, a book that covers the Great Migration of Blacks to the north and west.

 

• And in case you’re interested in something random for my blog, Diane Joswick explains how acupuncture works from Eastern and Western perspectives on my acupuncturist, Jenny Dubowski’s blog.