Is Disenfranchisement of Marginalized Communities of Color the Rule, Even if Never Spoken Out Loud?

While making a business call, I reached the so-called self adulated gatekeeper, the customer service representative (operator). After posing my question in my proudly Midwestern dialect, they might have picked up something in my voice that convinced them they are speaking to an African American. They shot back in a rather loud and somewhat rude … Continue reading

Life Found A Way

Many centuries ago, a man and woman were in a tropical paradise when suddenly a shaking reverberated through the dense vegetation. The sound began emerging louder and louder and caused the hairs on the man’s back to rise in hot anxiety. Tiny feet of two frightened children ran to this adult couple, their parents. In … Continue reading

Every Generation II – Asleep at the Switch

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to … Continue reading

Every Generation

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell Steven Colbert called it truthiness: “the tendency to accept propositions that one wishes to be true as true, ignoring the usual verification standards for facts.” The “Truthiness” of millennials, a … Continue reading

Touch

Does Anything ever really touch? Can we really ever feel one anothers pain and can we truly let go enough to invest in each others struggles. In actuality, as proven by quantum physics on the subatomic level; two objects can never meet or touch. This is due to  electrons in opposing atoms resisting one another. Their … Continue reading

Why

Why is the sky blue? Why does snow melt? Why do people die? Why is that man sleeping on the street? Why can’t I have ice cream? Why do I have to go to bed? -Lois Holzman, Ph.D. Our Children ask us these endless questions that we more times than not, have no absolute answers to. In … Continue reading

The Modulus of Elasticity

The California Highway Patrol says that it is investigating footage posted on YouTube that shows a policeman repeatedly punching the face and head of a prostrate woman. Video shows him straddling the woman and hitting her at least 11 times. Police say that the woman needed to be restrained and was endangering herself and motorists … Continue reading

CHEMISTRY TO SYNERGY PART 3 REVISITED

Prepare a holy anointing oil, blending them like a skilled perfume maker ( The Art of the Apothecary KJV) to produce the holy anointing oil.” Exodus 30:25 Common English Bible (CEB) The Perfume Maker’s admixture is inclusive of the many ethnicities of which we Americans identify; be it native American, Anglo, African American, Asian, Latino, … Continue reading

“We are One”

  God overlooked the times when people didn’t know any better. But now he commands everyone everywhere to turn to him and change the way they think and act. Acts 17:30 Names of God Bible (NOG) “We are One“ in the sense of our value to our creator and to one another. Any person or group … Continue reading

Dust in the Wind

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway In last week’s Post a group was identified as the Unlikely-hoods. Through this planets brief history. celestially speaking, a small group of things have had the privilege of being called humans (1 in 400 quadrillion); … Continue reading