blogging
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You Are Valuable
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but the world is so much better with you in it. So much more wise and so much more full. So much more flavorful. Has anyone ever told you how tasteless we’d be without you? Without seasoning. No salt. Bland. There is a power in your… Continue reading
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MLK Writing Prompt / Challenge
In our Poetry Business Network community, we are challenging ourselves to create and post a writing prompt to engage our audience. Yesterday’s challenge was an MLK writing prompt, but I missed it so I am posting it today! Writing Prompt / Challenge Yesterday, people worldwide paid homage to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King… Continue reading
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Your Authentic Self
In 2020, I thought TikTok was an app for children doing dances to go viral. That is until I went mini-viral myself. Only I wasn’t dancing, singing, or participating in trends. I was talking about books, poetry, and Black history. The impact of people tuning in for these topics in a world where people read… Continue reading
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Legacy
Have you ever sat back to consider that the lives your parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles lived is a form of history? The world they grew up in is a different world than the one we are living in today. Even as recent as the 70s and 80s. That world no longer exists. I am… Continue reading
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To Be Human
I have learned not to neglect the physical because I live on the physical. How can I ignore the earth when I was born from it? Not the first womb. Not the first place my human self called home. And I have learned not to neglect the spiritual because it is higher than the physical.… Continue reading
