(Today I am born again. Today I remember the journey) Except from my journal: People will probably think I’m crazy. In fact, I think I’m going crazy. I talk to pictures of Steele, laughing with him, smiling with him, crying with him. I kiss his lips through the screen of my laptop. We play a staring game that he always …
Off to look for Steele
(Today I am born again. Today I remember the journey) Except from my journal: I just wanna know when he’s coming back and where he is so I can call him and hear his voice; let him know I love him and I miss him and hurry back. I wanna know why he hasn’t called me yet to tell me …
My meeting with God
(Today I am born again. Today I remember the journey) Except from my journal: When I saw his eyes I knew it was the end. I saw those eyes for the first time and knew there was no life. The white of his eyes were yellow: pupils wondering aimlessly about them. The sockets might as well have been hollow. There …
Not without Haiti!
(Thanks to Nicolette Bethel for sourcing this important statement and sharing it.) “I have an old debt with Haiti. We all have. Haiti is the first womb, the place where the Caribbean was born, it’s the Africa from within, the unnamable pain, the scar. It was the first country in America where a black person dared think of himself as …
One blanket and one sheet for Haiti
I am inviting everyone who plans to attend my reBirth party (Nassau, Bahamas) on Sunday to carry with them one blanket and one sheet as a donation to the Haitian relief effort for our brothers and sisters in Haiti. I am also collecting garbage bags and tents. For my friends across the waters, I encourage you to organise your own …