I am feeling helpless and overwhelmed by the situation in Haiti, and not just since the earthquake. When are we going to do right by Haiti? World news talking about decades of hardship, try centuries. Cold and in the dark, tonight many babies will be crying. I cry with my people. African people, Haiti was the sacrifice for our freedom. …
Happy ‘I’m glad you were born’ day!
I’m having an ancestor party today and the guest of honour is the light of my world: Roan Kirk Anthony Steele, BORN 01.08.77, TRANSITIONED 04.17.09. I lift you up and in so doing lift up myself. Born to die. Died to live. The cycle continues. I see you. I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, down …
Happy reBirthday to me: Noelle Khalila is Coming Out!
Ready or not, here I come! It’s a party to celebrate the woman I am and how far I’ve come. I am the living dead rising from the grave: It’s my coming out party. I am a Goddess arising to assume the throne: It’s my ascension ceremony. “I’m having a private party, learning how to love me, celebrating the woman …
Perhaps the sociologists were wrong about love
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 …
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 …