October 2022 Because I haven’t published a full blog in over 2 years, when I finished the essay for the current issue’s Call, Rap & RealTalk, I revisited the last essay for this section. I wanted to refamiliarize myself with those thoughts. I wrote a series of vignettes, on varying topics from Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic …
Category: Ascension Resurrections Shifts and Transformations
March 2020 – Ascension, Resurrections, Shifts & Transformations – unedited thoughts from my daily meditations
I’ve missed sharing my thoughts, ideas and experiences. With well over a year’s worth of thoughts and stories that could have filled far more than four publications, I thought I would highlight the most impressionable ones, those that have caused me to reflect, broaden my vision and challenge my assumptions. These vignettes are in no …
Winter, 2019 Ascension, Resurrections, Shifts & Transformations
Note: I haven’t written a creative essay in many years, but I was inspired to write this from a conversation that I had with a companion. I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed returning to one of my favorite essay styles. ~Akilah The Book of Our Lives An artist …
Fall 2018 edition – Ascension, Resurrections, Shifts and Transformations Unedited & Uncut Musings
I normally reserve my travel experiences for outside of the country, but for the past 2 years, I’ve changed up a bit. A shift in experience always follows a shift in perception. I believe that my beliefs about the political and cultural environment of the U.S., has clouded and prevented my intimate knowing of the …
Summer, 2018 – Ascension, Resurrection, Shifts and Transformations – uncut and unedited musings
I wrote a four page entry for ARS&T; after inserting and editing the photos, I tried to save the file. The window continuously opened so that I could hit “save,” even after I “believed” I had saved the file. Finally I get a “Word is not responding.” I copy the document with the idea of …