Imagine much of what we know about love is owing to a Canadian sociologist, John Allen Lee, who published his Greco-Roman theories of love in 1976. His classification of love into Eros, Pragma, Agape, Mania, Ludus and Storge is used as the authoritative definition of love. I am starting to wonder if this compartmentalized view of love has done more …
Plotting and Planting in the Garden
When I got seeds a week ago I also purchased small seedlings that were grown in a local nursery. The day after I brought them home, the plants doubled in size. I was amazed. A friend of mine told me the plants were like animals in a pound: once they find an owner they take on a new outlook on …
I am a proud new mother
On Wednesday I gave birth to my first baby seedling. Her name is Sarafina Spinach. When I was planting the seeds it was pretty unimaginable to think those seemingly dead seeds that looked like dry specks of dust and dirt would flower into life sustaining green plants. Yesterday my daddy caught me staring at the Eager Cabbage family. It took …
The journey continues
Dear Steele: You lift me up on top of your shoulders. I am moving up not on.
Declaration for Teenage Girls
In commemoration of Teen Relationship Violence Month My body is my temple.Perfectly formed by the word of the CreatorHonour it and know that you honour yourselfViolate it and know that you offend the one who gives you lifeTo know me is to know yourselfTo love me is to love yourself My body is my templeI pledge to nourish it with …