If you’ve ever been touched by liberation, then you know why you must commit to it and be disciplined in your own walk to liberation - for it is the only way ALL can have liberation. We’ve reached a place and time in our world where I think we can accept that no one escapes [...]
The Breath is more than biology. It is an energetic and spiritual practice of returning to our Essence, the purest sense of our Self that transcends the mental and the physical and the emotional, that existed and continues to exist before and beyond our wounds. We mostly breathe above the neck: short, shallow, unconscious, survival-oriented [...]
What’s in a pause? A recognition. A refrain. A reset. An opportunity. The amygdala hijack happens at least daily. Since arriving in Barbados, perhaps multiple times a day. Having lost my father last May, I almost couldn’t handle the news that my mother had a stroke just over five months later. It was a relatively [...]
For white people who need translation as you read the headlines from Buffalo yesterday: Lone wolf = white supremacy terrorist Mentally ill youth = white supremacy terrorist (white supremacy is not a mental illness) Random act of violence = white supremacy terrorism Unspeakable tragedy = white supremacy terrorism Buffalo shooter = white supremacy terrorist Killed [...]
Woke up this morning to the news of the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY and all I could do was cry as the weight of despair pressed down hard on my current grief. When Black people are killed like this, all of us Black people feel it viscerally. We collectively share the generational trauma from [...]
In my lifetime the word “feminist” has taken on multiple meanings. Sometimes I’ve experienced the word and feminists themselves, as uplifting and empowering. Other times women have been labeled “feminist” in quite unsavory ways, assigned a derogatory meaning, what we might call today the “toxic masculine” embodiment. I’ve seen images, listened to songs, read essays [...]
Contrary to popular belief, or intention, spiritual communities are ripe breeding grounds for fear. To borrow from Buddhist teacher and author Tara Brach, fear is the anticipation of future pain. The problem is we don’t always know when we’re being influenced by fear or what we’re even afraid of. Take last November’s local and state [...]
Were he still alive, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be celebrating his 93rd birthday on January 15th. The 3rd Monday of January is designated as a federal holiday in observance of King’s birthday. Although initially opposed, President Ronald Reagan eventually signed it into law in 1983, and the holiday was first observed in [...]
Connecting moment: Recently I spoke with a beloved woman. I have known her for almost 25 years, yet 15 years ago we slowly drifted apart as sometimes happens when life is rearranged. Several years back we slowly reconnected on Facebook - a comment or like here and there - always in the energy of simply [...]
Connecting Moment There may be too many to pick from… how’s that for connecting? SO that’s my “Connecting Moment,” the moment I realized I had lots to choose from. Realizing the number of times I had a deep, felt sense of connection with a person, a song, earth, or my body, is uplifting [...]
