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Healing & Leading the Way
Read more: Healing & Leading the WayThis work is necessary in order re-imagine radical love through justice in the earth. And, it is time to be about the work of fully reconstructing them in our internal and external worlds.
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The Poem I Will Never Write
Read more: The Poem I Will Never WriteYou will forever be that forbidden poem that I will never write, but whose words will dance and sing in my heart. I will go on to write many pieces, for that is what makes me feel connected to humanity. But that poem is sacred…
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Are You “Should-ing” on People?
Read more: Are You “Should-ing” on People?We live in a society that shoulds all over us. This “should-ing” as I am starting to call it or “Should Statements” are actually one of a number of what psychologists call, Cognitive Distortions.
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Poem: Senses of Real Love
Read more: Poem: Senses of Real LoveReal Love smells like the most essential of essential oils. It sounds like the laughter of children, a birds Liberation Song and a Jill Scott run. Real Love tastes like mangoes & strawberries suspended in ice dancing in a chilled glass of uncontaminated clear, healing water. Real Love feels like a well washed blanket just…
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Prose: The Audacity to Prevail
Read more: Prose: The Audacity to Prevail“…As we breathe in what has been, we exhale into existence the blessings, the power and the audacity to prevail…”
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Hold on to THIS Receipt!
Read more: Hold on to THIS Receipt!Excerpt: “May the person named reclaim that they and the generations that are to come are free and can continue to live from a place of liberation, health, love, prosperity and bountiful joy.”
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Poem: Beauty Cannot Kill It
Read more: Poem: Beauty Cannot Kill ItDearest Duchess.I hope you see It.I hope you see It clearly now.That thing.That thing that beauty cannot kill.You assumedas many of us havethat once they encounteredyour poiseand Gracethat you would no longer have to face It.Not there.Not in a royal place.Not with the entire world in your face watching.Not with the paparazzi gawking. As they began talkingyou…
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What name have you given your storms?
Read more: What name have you given your storms?Show yourself respect for getting through the storms in this season of your life in the best ways you knew how. You are still here. That means that you have been given the opportunity to learn from your experiences and carve out a new path, if it is required. As Mother Maya reminds us, “Do…
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Don’t Give Up on Bringing Your Dopeness into the World!
Read more: Don’t Give Up on Bringing Your Dopeness into the World!It is your time. If there ever was a moment for you to actualize love, justice and liberation in your life, like Kenny Loggins sang “This is It (or was that Michael McDonald?)!
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Poem: She Who Names the Flames
Read more: Poem: She Who Names the FlamesWhat you couldn’t comprehend was the fact that those very same flames were the very exact same ones my Ancestors taught me to tame.
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In the Conflict
Read more: In the ConflictAs has been the case with our Syrian sisters and brothers and their children, what matters are your families, your safety, your livelihood and yes, your voices. Once the fight is over, rebuilding will be work for you and the generations to come to embark upon. The labor will seem never ending and met with…
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It’s Ok If You Can’t Do This.
Read more: It’s Ok If You Can’t Do This.As I sat there attempting to complete a task that I had done numerous times for myself but totally baffled all the molecules in my body right then, it all came flooding at me. The pandemic. The divorce. The isolation. The uncertainty. The exhaustion. The expectations. All of it. Then, I heard myself say the…
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