(pandemic joy is a community of radical spirits called together by malkia devich-cyril. we take turns sharing our hearts with each other, and this week i was asked to share. […]
Read More… from despite devastation, creativity (notes from a pandemic joy sharing)
my mother loves me my mother shows me i am meant to be loved whole my mother loves the wild world through my heart others call on her gift and […]
black boys should be allowed to lose their minds to make everyone uncomfortable carving out a place to stand alive in spite of what happened to their mothers […]
i’m trying to stay here trying to keep one root in the dirt spread wide listening for an echo of the ones i loved i’m trying to stay here on […]
don’t shoot there is a black boy at the door looking for his siblings don’t shoot there is a young black man ringing the doorbell don’t shoot there […]
soft pulled in to the earth by the weight full lost in the pale thick with darkness catching sunlight crushing, all around every texture on earth will be found here […]
you were always so good at being a miracle astounding in your generosity doubtless you belonged to god born to hay, willing to wander source secrecy shrouded in starlight with […]
put your attention on suffering – which is constant and everywhere – and it is all you will see. joy will come, and laughter, but you will find it brief, possibly a distraction. put […]
(last week i was blessed to offer some thoughts to my spiritual community, sharing in case they can support others) i saw the topic Malkia selected today: the antidote to […]
when a black woman says i love you what she means is i have placed you in the palm of my prayers the stone of your birth sits on my […]