“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity, there is beauty, and there is strength.”– Dr. Maya Angelou Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.~ Mahatma Gandhi Since the start of this year, I had been listening to music…
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Women Supporting Women
“Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” – Serena Williams From time to time, I use the hashtag #womensupportingwomen for several of my posts on social media. Currently, on Facebook, approximately 6 million posts have applied this hashtag. Lately, I have been feeling an overwhelming frustration…
My Baby
“Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them.” – Unknown “Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” – Jane Weideman The Photo featured is a throwback from a little over a year ago, June 4, 2021. The date “my baby” was born. I shared…
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…
I wrote a poem on 2020…
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this poem about a poem that I wrote about 2020. 🙂 There might be a moment where I share that poem as well. But here is the poem I wrote about it. 🙂 Here is a quote to inspire you in your courageous act of writing… It is the quote…
A Love Letter to My Poverty…
Connected to my last post… a love letter to my poverty: To my dearest Poverty, O my darling Poverty… Do not let me rise above you. Without your recollection, without your scars… as the alarm bells inside the soul and mind. Stay with me, my dear “traumas of difficult times.” Teach me. And never stop.…
The “Dignity of Work”
“How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.” – Pope Francis “A lot of jobs don’t allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.” Albert Camus At the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there was great anxiety about the…