i dont peddle magic

i have a friend who looks for the next ritual like fish need water. she’s always yapping about this one or that one, with a bragging undertone, like she’s so ‘spiritual’ cuz she has all of this so-called work to

Emo Master

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.

we work on ourselves

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodron

upon a closer look…

everyone says that they have it, but upon a closer look…..do we? PATIENCE: 1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation,annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. 2 an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner. 3 quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience. SYNONYMS: 1.  composure, stability, self-possession; submissiveness, sufferance. Patience, endurance, fortitude, stoicism  imply qualities of calmness, stability, and persistent courage in trying circumstances. Patience  may denote calm, self-possessed, and unrepining bearing of pain, misfortune, annoyance, or delay; or painstaking and untiring industry or (less often) application in the doing of something: to bear afflictions with patience. Endurance denotes the ability to bear exertion, hardship, or suffering (without implication of moral qualities required or shown):Running in a marathon requires great endurance. Fortitude  implies not only patience but courage and strength of character in the midst of pain, affliction, or hardship: to show fortitude inadversity. Stoicism  is calm fortitude, with such repression of emotion as to seem almost like indifference to pleasure or pain:

we do not curse, though we may want to…..we do not curse, though we may want to….we do not curse, though we may want to…we do not curse, though we may want to….we do not curse, though we may want

‘too strong’ for what?

i detest the word ‘strong’ when used to describe me or women in general. i have heard my fair share of men’s explanations on how identifying a woman as ‘strong’ is a compliment and a quality that they like; or

a coffee affair…and other meltdowns.

just had a moment of clarity on my love for coffee and my lack of desire to give it up. first of all, that is preposterous!!! give up coffee? for what? u have decaf! u have water. u have natural

without hands. in the eyes.

goal number 5954

toss my daughter’s room.

he would get broke off…

a sister and i were talking yesterday and got a good laugh about something we were feeling, simultaneously. She had had a few blessings rain down on her, back-to-back, in a two-day period. things were opening up as if The

this is why and how…

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Buddha

never too old

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.~Les Brown

Before you speak…

“Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence.”

same place…

it is amazing how i find myself at the same crosssroads, about the same ish in my life!

#writersinspiration

Every person that you meet- and everything you do in life- is an opportunity to learn something. That’s important to all of us, but most of all to a writer because a writer can use anything. -Tom Clancy

invisible women

invisible is– working in tiny cubicles that connect to form complex mazes; housing worker bees in cell-block sized quarters, just for a dollar.   low enough for the boss’s spies to see how late you come in. Just open enough

footprints in my soul…

I woke up with a feeling Of having healing conversations, With someone walking Along the sands.   No judgements Nor laughter At the colonized mess; the heavy breast from feeding babies nor the life tattoos ripped across the belly.   Where

Poem #1

poem #1 septolet poem (seven lines, 14 words)   The Conqueror Fear fervently fights, by lurking in corners. Forgetting that, smudges and prayers specialize in lingering. 

31 poems in 31 days

i have committed myself to writing a poem a day, for the next 30 days, (Inshallah/God willing, i am blessed to see them, that is). i am already putting myself thru a boot camp of sorts, to enhance flailing skills

upon hearing the news of the new president

In that moment shortly after hearing the announcement of a new president…     prayers and reflections. mimosas and public enemy. calls to vietnam veterans that raised me. a moment with dad, -who lived seven decades, pullman porter descendant- To