A day without sunshine…
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin
View ArticleExam Advice
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of...
View ArticleWhen we drop fear
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. — bell hooks
View ArticleWomen Writers
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…No woman has ever written enough. —bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
View ArticleYearning
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all...
View ArticleThat September Feeling
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was...
View ArticleWe learn by doing
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just;...
View ArticleTo know what you prefer
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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