Stories Set To Music: 1/11/2018 The original version of this story appeared around 2018-2019 and began with this quote from a Blood Orange song, “I can be the only one / but do you even want me to …”; the point was to highlight the highs and lows of romantic love as well as theContinue reading “Songs In The Chi of Love”
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Anatomy of Social Justice
“It is still true of the Negro in America, as it once was of the serfs of Europe, that city air makes men free, and this is true in more ways than are ordinarily conceived of. The great cities are now what the frontier and the wilderness once was, the refuge of the footloose, theContinue reading “Anatomy of Social Justice”
Reflections from The Mountain with Shabaka Men of Afrika
In the next upcoming days I will be sharing some deeply personal reflections and notes from The Men on the Mountain Sessions which I attended recently with Dr Baba Buntu’s Shabaka Men of Afrika. Of course it is worth mentioning that I cannot divulge too much of what other brothers said about themselves and whatContinue reading “Reflections from The Mountain with Shabaka Men of Afrika”
The Fear of Women
“At this time I’d like to say a few word, especially to my sisters. Sisters, Black people will never be free unless Black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.” – Assata Shakur For the longest time, I have comtemplated writing on the subject of women’s complex conditions,Continue reading “The Fear of Women”
Cannabis Business The Future Is Open
A New World Emerges Glistening
“None of us can control every situation we find ourselves in. What we can control is how we react when things turn against us. I have always seen failure as a challenge to pull myself up and keep going. A struggle is only one step in the long path we walk and dwellinjg on itContinue reading “A New World Emerges Glistening”
Warrior Healers Personal Power
“Everybody has enough personal power for something. The trick for the warrior is to pull his personal power away from his weaknesses to his/her warriors purpose.” – The Second Ring of Power, The Shamans of Ancient Mexico
Warrior Healers Code
“For a Warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.” – The Wheel of Time, The Shamans of Ancient Mexico