“If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. {Featured Photo: Painting entitled “Celebrating Milestones,” which symbolizes hope, celebration, and moving forward, while still trying to put the different puzzle pieces together. Part of the “Painting Heals…Pakistan” auction.} Dear…
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A “Moment” I’d like to Remember…
Two days ago, Friday, December 16th, marked one year since my hooding ceremony for “Dr. Elsa.” I think that moment is what made it feel official. The Hooding. It was a moment I had dreamed about for a long time. Beyond the years of the doctoral program. I called it my “PhD Wedding.” I attended…
Celebrating 14 years (plus or minus) “Living the Dream” at our Nation’s Capital
“I’m the small town, one in seven billion, why can’t it be me?”….. There is a beautiful area behind my apartment building, where I often go to walk and jog. And it is only a 10 minute walk through this area to the DC metro station that leads me straight into the Nation’s Capital towards…
“Climbing Mountains” in Georgia… & A Few Updates!
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir. Dear Fellow Warriors, It has been more than a month now since my last piece, and so many things I want to share here! I want to be sure that I at least post here once or twice a month if I am unable…
I am Woman.
“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her wellbeing and dignity. It’s a decision she must make for herself.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Friday, June 24, 2022, six people, sitting in the United States Supreme Court, stripped away a constitutional right from the American people,…
The Radical Brown “Damsel in Distress”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dear Fellow Warrior, Following the previous poem I posted a few weeks earlier, “I wrote a poem on 2020,”in this post I share that specific poem that I wrote in my…
Reminiscing Pakistan’s Allama Iqbal during Amreeka’s National Poetry Month
{Featured Photo from Pakistan National Monument Museum, Islamabad, December 25, 2018.} “Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.” – Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal It is another moment in Pakistan’s history, a moment which some may perceive to be a “window of opportunity,” and others, a…
Happy National Poetry Month!
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes As many of you may know, April is National Poetry Month! This is the first year I learned of this. Doesn’t it seem like we are always learning about a “new day” or a “new month”…