Seriously Steele: Please wake up!

Noelle Khalila NicollsPrayer Book

Dear Steele: Sonjah and Jahlani are waiting for you to pick up the treadmill. You were supposed to call them months ago to setup the meeting so we could plan the concert. Toomer is in town and I wanted to go to Aunty Marcia’s to play kalooki this Friday night. I just discovered this beach in Bull Bay you would …

I’m trying to learn from I n I

Noelle Khalila NicollsPrayer Book

Dear Steele: Have you ever wanted to do something, but you felt you didn’t have enough time? Or that it wasn’t the right time? There is a journey I have to take, but I am not worried about time. Time doesn’t exist. There is always enough time for what God has planned. Time only runs out on man’s plans. An …

It was written: Peace be with you

Noelle Khalila NicollsPrayer Book

Dear Mother/Father God: I ain ga lie. I’d like to know why? I know there is a rhyme and reason. I know it was written, somewhere in that book of life. I know it was a part of your plan all along. Everything you do is in perfect harmony. Someone told me there are no right angles in nature? How …

Glorianas, Montego Bay, Jamaica

On my way to take the next step

Noelle Khalila NicollsPrayer Book

The day Steele died, my laptop died. I brought it to the hospital to play some music for him; it booted up and then died. The motherboard short circuited. That evening, my friend’s grandfather died. My other friend’s aunt died. My other friend’s mother’s pastor’s daughter died. Shortly after, my good family friend had a heart attack (thankfully he’s still …

What languague do they speak in the afterlife?

Noelle Khalila NicollsPrayer Book

I told Steele that before I died I wanted to go back to Mozambique and swim with whale sharks. When I was there in 2002, October I believe, I went diving with wild dolphins off the coast of Ponta Malongane. After our boat returned to shore, some people from the group went back out. This time they encountered whale sharks. …