Category: Awakening
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Good Grief: Pain, Pleasure, and Possibilities
Alchemizing Grief Into Joy Through Creativity Art Turns Chaos Into Culture The poster above is for a show I am producing this Thursday, August 20, 2026. I decided to do it as a way to process the death of my youngest brother, Marcus, in December. I needed to do something with all of the grief.…
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Heaven Is the Worst Thing On Earth
Heaven as a Place Holder For Dreams Deferred One of the biggest complaints that women in romantic relationships with me have had is that it feels like I can live without them. They are right. I have never been in a relationship with anyone or anything that I wasn’t living without before they came into…
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Everything Always Forever
NOTE: This piece was originally posted on my Substack where the majority of my writing lives right now. Beginnings, Endings, and Beginning Again Again Imagine if everything lasted forever. Not just some things. Everything. Imagine a reality where there was no death, no degradation, nothing that truly wore out or disappeared. Things might change form.…
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The Illusion of Merritt (An Allegory)
Confessions of an Undercover Ignoramus Introduction I am torn between explaining why I am choosing to write more allegorically going forward and just jumping in and writing whatever I write and seeing how it goes. So, I am going to compromise with myself and make this introduction and then get into this allegory. The reason…
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Who Wants to Work For a World That’s Not Working With Us?
“I hate school,” says my 7-year-old almost every single day. “Oh really?” I ask with curiosity. “What do you hate about it? Tell me more,” I encourage even as I am continuing to make her food for lunch and pack her things to send her to the very place that she has just told me…
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Bias By Us: How Our Unconscious Programs Us to Harm the Other
Black, White, or Other? “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” Being Black and growing up in the South—between Virginia and Mississippi—with a name like Pedro Senhorinha Ramos Montero Silva brought in many unwelcomed experiences in my life. One of which was the othering…
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The Best White American Man Ever, Maybe the First
An Honest Book Review of Brandon Peele’s Bison Medicine With Brandon Peele’s, Bison Medicine, he has done what no White American Man has done before–considered an American future that starts with all of us. Notice that I said “starts”. That is because I do not believe that the American experiment has ever really begun. I…
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History Is Not a Competition
Trying to Win History Is a Lost Cause “To study history means submitting yourself to chaos, but nevertheless retaining your faith in order and meaning.” Herman Hesse, German writer and poet (1877-1962) True History is Full of Histories As some of us continue to honor what used to be known as Black History Month across…
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Am I Worth Being Shadow Banned?
I had a revelation this morning about how I am going to use social media going forward. I am just going to post content that my soul tells me will be of the highest good until they kick me off. Because , I’m starting to think something fishy is going on. Coming Out of the…
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Let’s Speak the Truth About Power
“Nothing frustrates me more than seeing powerful people who think they are weak bending the knee to weak people who think they are powerful.” – My Damn Self Dear Reader, If you are here, I am going to take the liberty to make a few assumptions about you: If none of these sound like you…
The Roofless Church 