February 2012
24 posts
Wait, I'm sorry. I think I just hallucinated....
2 tags
Thoughts on Relationships
I need to start implementing normal sleeping patterns ASAP. Drinking a cup of coffee before I went to sleep probably wasn’t the best idea. Regardless, I get lots of different thoughts when I’m lying in bed awake at night. Sometimes I feel like they need to be written down so I won’t forget them. That’s, I think, what most of this blog is about - things for me to remember. I...
2 tags
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags
Living Your Truth
Sometimes you get so angry at the injustice that you start becoming what you’re fighting. That’s when you need your faith. Faith in God, faith in the Sacred, faith in the Universe, faith in Humanity, Faith in Self… You have to have something that is deeper than your issue, or your cause, or your career, or your enemy, that you can come back to. Whatever calls you to be better. To...
2 tags
Peggy Lee - Fever
2 tags
Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star
3 tags
I’m revisiting 2006. Some things have...
1 tag
“We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the...”
– William Carlos Williams
2 tags
Thoughts on Race and Privilege
My boyfriend is currently working for an NGO in rural South Africa. He talks constantly about how the effects of the apartheid are still evident throughout the country, and how the mentality of that apartheid still can be seen in racial discrimination and vast economic inequalities. From what I can gather, in my own simplified and watered-down way of thinking, is that the privileged (white person)...
1 tag
We danced,
shoes on shoes to the sound
of the spinning machine.
We slept,
arm-in-arm
so soundly, ignoring, the outside sounds of the
ongoing horrible scene.
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall...”
– Native American prophecy (via astral-travel)
8 tags
“A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her,...”
– Marianne Williamson A Woman’s Worth
4 tags
Self-Love, Self-Growth, Self-Discovery
I feel like I should write something about my study abroad experience thus far, mainly because I haven’t written much of anything study abroad related since the first two weeks I got here. And perhaps a little bit because Laurel has just arrived in Poland for her exchange program and is doing a wonderful job with the daily updates. Maybe I haven’t written as much because my trip here...
I didn't know that anything could be so beautiful.
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
Mornin’ ya’ll.
Asa - Be My Man
4 tags
Chalked in a riddle,
we divine.
Take away the answers,
ease your mind.
Separate and together,
your hand in mine.
(photo via ubuntu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrotonomy/)
1 tag
Divine Women
When women get bogged down in their search for freedom, for liberation, there seem to be many themes: the absence of a God of their own and inadequate management of the symbolic. The two things are linked and necessary to the constitution of an identity and a community. Many women have made or are making great efforts to fall back under the thrall of the phallocratic and patriarchal monopoly on...
4 tags
12,000 words later...
“Perhaps, then, as women, we should strive to achieve both personhood and womanhood – to attempt to avoid gender stratification while continuing to question the role ‘God’ plays on our concept of self; to continue a moral striving for, to continue to question the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
And cut. But really, I’m just tryna pass mane…
3 tags
