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New Book: The Future Is Waiting For You
Read more: New Book: The Future Is Waiting For YouI am excited to announce my 4th book of poetry “The Future Is Waiting For You!” This is an extended version of the poem I wrote honoring the 2022 SOLES Graduate Students from the University of San Diego. A wonderful early graduation gift or inspiration for anyone who needs a reminder of how much they…
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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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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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Love, “The Dream” & Healing Our Worlds
Read more: Love, “The Dream” & Healing Our WorldsOn this day, the day before we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all those that fought with him, re-member the relationship between justice, liberation and love (and the fact that all 3 start at home).
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Don’t Let Your Dreams be Just Dreams
Read more: Don’t Let Your Dreams be Just DreamsLet these words encourage you to not just dream, but to dream BIG. Dream for those you represent. Dream for the next generation. Dream for Dream because you have the freedom to do so.
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Poem: Love is Our Reality
Read more: Poem: Love is Our RealityWhat happens when the warmth of a new day, a new joy, a new will emerges? Emerges and re-minds and re-members and re-calls us back to love? Re-news our minds and re-minds us that we are loved?
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What Are the Stories of Your Petals?
Read more: What Are the Stories of Your Petals?As I hear Tupac’s truth through his beautiful metaphor of the rose that grew from concrete, while taking in both Nikki’s associated poem and the quote about change; I am led to the only question I have for us: What are the stories of your petals?
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Are You Tired of Wearing a Mask?
Read more: Are You Tired of Wearing a Mask?Maya Angelou’s words found me when I was 15-years-old and have traveled life with me for more than three decades. I have long admired her brilliance with words. However, it was the way she was able to write herself back into her personhood (while living a very colorful and well textured life) that made me…
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Do you know how much power your story holds?
Read more: Do you know how much power your story holds?Do you have any idea of how much power your story holds? Your story may be just what someone needs to hear to get through a trying time, go to the next level, or allow themselves to dream again. And maybe that person is you.
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Poem: The Me of Now
Read more: Poem: The Me of NowI am becoming more and more clear on who I am becoming. This means I have to be patient with others as they shift their understanding of who I am. This time is not a journey back to me anymore. It is me being introduced to my new self. The Me of Now.
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