Love
The following essay is adapted from a talk I gave at the YMCA of Greater Richmond 2023 DEI Symposium on May 19, 2023, and is part of my Sojourn, America series of stories and essays. ...
July is Minority Mental Health Month. I just learned that. So I guess it’s fitting that I talk about this. Today. Tomorrow. Next month. Next year. Until I don’t have anything else to say. My ...
trigger warning: this piece talks about suicide It’s a luxury to be able to hate your father. Not everyone gets to. I hated my father. All the way up to when I couldn’t hate him ...
“Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.” I have loved this verse and sentiment since my mother first taught it to me. It guided me as a child and young ...
I will quit smoking, I will stop writing and I will retreat from life for the sake of my lover, I will be transformed to a filthy rat that suddenly gets out from his hole ...
When the tears are everything: love and anger, hope and fear, pride and pain That is what I feel tonight. I sit here on the verge The tears want to spill and I tell them ...
There is no time for hysteria. No time for panic. No time for ignorance. No time for carelessness and selfishness. There is all the time in the world for thoughtfulness. All the time for calm. ...
The journey is never easy, but it is beyond rewarding. Friends, we were built for this. Built to love, to laugh, to weep, to shout, fo fall down, to get up, to hurt, to forgive, ...
Interpretation Of Creation we live day to day fighting and crying How did our democracy get to be so lying? Your time for the creation what you perceive you need to focus and whats really ...
How the silence greeted her revelation he had this clock-wise reaction and Charlotte curved her position like a pendulum going back and forth. It was all she could say she looked up at him dancing ...
