Thank you, ones who come before me. You traded your ashes to allow me to reap beauty — When I look at the beauty of my genetic distribution, I don’t see a flat map with lines and circles. I see the lives of my fore- elders the lives they lived and the myths they orally told I see the stories that intertwine and unfold as our legacies grow …

Anti-Blackness is unfortunately global. Trigger Warning: Sexual and Physical Violence They gather around, they take turns, all at once, filling every orifice that they can, defiling the glory of our mother, our momma, Africa We watch from the shadows of the night, unsure how to stop the violations. Powerless to…

We are Black, Brown, Yellow & White We are Light as well as the Night We are Fat, Skinny, Muscled and Everything In Between We are Jazz, Rock n Roll, Soul & Blues We are Hip-Hop, R&B and we are Clypso Too We are the Sounds of the Caribbean Night …

The animal who poops out sand. The Parrot Fish: The Christians of the world would know the term I will trade your beauty for ashes. How about trading worm poop for soil or parrotfish pop for sand? Um, I’m not kidding you! These are some of the ways we get sand and soil…

Gratitude Everyday, Is Not Just A Special Holiday I have loved and lost so suddenly I have learned to be thankful every day of the week. Thankful for the joy that I have had in the face of grief Thankful for the smile given to me, right at the point…

I am Thankful for my virtual And In Real Life Connections I am grateful to all of you my medium family. I am grateful for the babies of mine who are resting in peace. I am grateful to my young one who teaches me every day. I am grateful to…

Have you check your humanity lately? Step out of the grid color outside of the lines Make a painting colored from the juices of beets, grass and wine. play in field of wildflowers, Can’t you see

Silence is complicit, placing comfort over people is our burden to carry. “We must choose between champagne for a few or drinking water for all.” — Thomas Sankara I am African by genetic code and American by birth. I am not like the majority of African Americans that can claim…

On The Road Again, Photo-Journal style!! Family, I want to send a quick apology: We have been on the road off and on since August and it will remain that way for a little while. I think life will have a semblance of normal back in late December or early…