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Reading – The Write Way
My first love was Mildred D. Taylor. It was the sixth grade, and I was Smitten for Stacey, Cassie, and the whole Logan gang in the classic “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. I realized then my love for African American literature, history and culture. The sharecropping family had snagged at the core of my… Continue reading
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These Women
Insolent like heavy shoulders hard to bear weight refusing to be comforted contemptuous a rubbed off gentleness like candy wore off the sugar like sugar wore off the sweet when they pass by us on the street an invisible burden hangs from the creases of their jeans like expectation scratching it’s nails against the concrete… Continue reading
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The First Time
The first time we made love was when you walked into my classroom your eyes danced and moved graciously inside mine like dancers carefully twirling to the sound of their own heart beats and we were young-er got lost in your mind and day dreamed about your beauty could not wait to get to class… Continue reading
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Guest Feature – Language
Silence is one part of speech, the war cry of wind down a mountain pass another. a stranger’s voice echoing through lonely valley’s, a lover’s voice rising so close it’s your own tongue: these are the keys to cipher, the way the hawk’s key unlocks the throat of the sky and the coyote’s yip knocks… Continue reading
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This Moment
“Tomorrow has its own worries, wrapped up in its own time. For that, this moment is what you make of it.” – Yecheilyah In the world wind of routine and 24 hour clocks, we forget about the power we have to control this very moment. We spend 95% of our lives worrying about what the… Continue reading
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The Power of Love
In “A Child is Born” a great photographic look on life inside the womb, Lennart Nilson and Lars Hamberger begin their work with love: “Love is an incredibly strong, enduring force and has been since time immemorial. The pattern is recognized in every culture in our world: two people are mutually attracted and feel the… Continue reading
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