[ad_1] February 24, 2021– “I started asking my friends if they had any memorable experiences with water. I was surprised by the blank stares I got. Like almost everyone else, normally my relationship with water was nothing special, like our relationship with it. air and sunlight. If instead, I started asking people: “Do you have…

[ad_1] February 23, 2021– “In my 20s, I became an apprentice to The Queen Mothers of Kroboland in Ghana in hopes of understanding more about my cultural heritage. Early one morning, I arrived at the Paramount Queen Mother Manye Nartike complex, which was particularly buoyed by a rumor that I had heard about our diasporic…

[ad_1] February 22, 2021– “Poetry, my father quoted it frequently, my grandmother collected it in scrapbooks, friend cards, I memorized fragments of it at school. Poetry really came to me when I was a young father when my family and I needed to move around far from the country of our best friends. It was…

[ad_1] February 21, 2021– “The soil of this earth has been altered – elevated – by blood, sweat and tears that fall from black and brown bodies. Even when I am not aware of this, I am aware of this. : “This land was made for you and me”? How was this land made? Who…

[ad_1] February 20, 2021– “Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. When we cry we allow ourselves to feel the truth of our pain, the measure of betrayal or tragedy in our life. With our willingness to cry, we acknowledge, integrate, and accept the truth of our losses. Sometimes the best way…

[ad_1] February 19, 2021– As the youngest of 10 siblings in a Watts, Los Angeles housing project and a member of the notorious Crips gang, Aqeela Sherrills witnessed from inside the pain and devastation of the country’s most violent street gang warfare. , which would continue. to claim 30,000 lives between 1983-2003. By 1992, he,…

[ad_1] February 18, 2021– “Everything in society tells us to distrust others. I think it’s the other way around. We need to trust deeply in those around us, in their potential and in who they are, ”says grandmother Nelsa Curbelo Cora. In 1999, he entered the violence-infested city of Guayaquil, Ecuador to BE peace. Through…

[ad_1] February 17, 2021– “Wintering is a cold season. It is a fallow period in life in which you are isolated from the world, you feel rejected, marginalized, blocked from progress, or put in the role of an outsider. Perhaps it is the result of an illness or a life event, such as grief or…

[ad_1] February 16, 2021– “I should start by asking myself, ‘What do I want?’ What do I really want, not for my upbringing and education, self-image and vanity, but what does this “me” that I really am of this short life want? In fact. What, or who am I? And I begin, in silence, to…

[ad_1] February 15, 2021– There is a button on Sue Cochrane’s website that says “Click here for unconditional love”, which leads to a selection of writings that offer exactly that. It’s not just the words in Sue’s stories that move the reader, but the wordless energy behind them. Sue Cochrane survived a traumatic childhood to…