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 …
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 …