Discovering the ultimate catharsis

Noelle Khalila NicollsLove Letters

I’m writing a book. Not sure if I’m publishing it, but I am definitely writing it, just because there is a story to be told, but more importantly because I need to release my pain to the universe. Now that everything is unraveled I am piecing it back together with unveiled perspective. The new picture is so seamless it’s scary. …

Thoughts on my sankofa journey

Noelle Khalila NicollsLove Letters

Sankofa, the Akan word for ‘go back and fetch it’, is one of my guiding lights. Most people have heard about the Sankofa principle before, probably from Marcus Garvey, who said: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” I am on a Sankofa journey, just like the mythical Sankofa bird …