Voice of my Mother

Image retrieved from Dreamstime.com Sugary brown skin flavored with delight because all day long I felt like skipping! Plaits hanging long or freshly washed into a wavy fro - don’t stand in my way I’m coming through skipping! Tiny little waist with skinny chocolate legs not wasting any time to make my plans - as [...]

Image retrieved from https://bbwebb.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pink-and-white-dogwood-trees-lexington-kentuck.jpg Walking up the pathway to an old sturdy iron door that served as protection for 40 years...                                                                going home Walking [...]

"Will you be one with wounds who heals or one with wounds who hurts?" -—Cornel Ronald West Image retrieved from https://forum.americanexpedition.us/images/bald-eagle/bald-eagle-soaring-in-front-of-mountains.jpg Self inflicted or inflicted by others— some wounds heal and some leave scars. After surgery the scars on our physical bodies are often sore or continue to be sensitive to touch for the rest [...]

Curved roads along a purple icy path leading down a silky white wall into the pollination of life... Royal blue or blood red smooth dripping watery pellets, diving into a long green vessel of life...some drops remain and some vanish. photo by Daphne Knox McClain Ashy, ghostly, barely green - maybe even an undiscovered hue, [...]

On this Valentine’s Day I am... Valuing the particles of love; Accepting the responsibilities of love; Lingering in the concept of love; Educating myself on the mysteries of love; Not departing from God’s love; Translating foreign scripts of love into reality; Interceding with gifts of love to others; Notating the messages of love from heavenly [...]

We have all made promises during our life’s mission. Most of the time, we genuinely intended to keep those promises, however, there are those inescapable moments when life gets in the way of our promises to others and to ourselves. The most painful are the  broken promises that we have made to ourselves...those really hurt. [...]

Boil water for heated motion; add salt for intensified flavor; add jalapeños for spice; add pickled cactus for uniqueness; add garlic for cleanliness. Stir the pot. Brown the beef then add paprika for flavor; toss in veggies for healthiness; throw in diced onions for shedding a few tears; add potatoes for fulfillment; add corn, bell [...]

My soul centers me as a yoke centers an egg and when the shell cracks, it is then that my sinew, my life force oozes out. It runs into streams, it emits vapors into the air, it floats away into the atmosphere. I feel it gliding into the stale air of the room and then [...]

I see you standing in the shadows trying not to be seen. You are beautiful! You are handsome! You are intelligent! You are fighting! You are surviving! You are talented! You are Human! You deserve to be loved! Take the first step forward...the first step into the light. The light is freedom. The light is [...]