Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely – whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else – it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
In your hands winter...
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson.
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context...
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.