death
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Give Me My Flowers Today
I don’t usually post on Saturdays but on discovering a dear blogger friend’s death at the same time the world is mourning Earl “DMX” Simmons, a thought struck me. As I scrolled through my LinkedIn page (and I am rarely on LinkedIn), I came across this post and was surprised to learn of Sue Vincent’s… Continue reading
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The Fragility of Life
“Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.” – Lucille Clifton Last week, on Saturday, October 3, 2020, I buried my mother. On Tuesday, September 22nd, we learned she might not make it. That night, I spent the night in the basement on the couch watching Grey’s… Continue reading
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How Permanent is this Grief?
Something about sorrow sounds spiritual. It sounds like awakenings and revelations. Sounds like pacts and promises. Sounds contradicting too, like hope and despair are twins. We want to shackle ourselves to change. Something about sorrow got us questioning our own mortality. But how permanent is this grief? Where are we two years from now? Is… Continue reading
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Grief
it came in waves today grief did the sound of Yolanda Adams opening her heart did it I was wrong to listen her voice was a gun her lyrics, a trigger me, the victim she was thunder my tears rain Yolanda knows I can’t listen to that song it hoola hooped on the radio… Continue reading
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When the World Loves You
I hate to have to be the one to tell you this after all, you woke up today optimistic and here I am feeding you words that I know you do not want to hear but I wouldn’t be much of a friend if I didn’t tell you the truth about how the world loves… Continue reading
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Jezebel
She is manipulation like time told backwards Even the strongest think they’ve escaped her But she tap dances on their lips And she impales their language With their slave master’s mentality She is Judas Sticking her hands in the cup of your salvation She’ll take you From light to darkness From the daylight to those… Continue reading
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Tragic, Senseless Losses…
The death of Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman, and the first Muslim, to serve on New York’s highest court and the shooting of Karen Smith, a teacher, in San Bernardino, shot and killed by her estranged husband. Continue reading
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