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: Transformation of Conscionsness
I Quit
A Northeast Philadelphia grocery store placed a “We Are Hiring – Inquire Within” sign on its entrance door in June 2021. Later, in September, an addition to the sign read: “$250.00 signing bonus” if the applicant is available to start immediately. The sign announced that there were three store locations, with several available positions. As …
Art, Articles & Book Reviews May 2021
I’ve started some research for a sculpture that I am creating in honor of Turiyasangitananda (Alice Coltrane-August 27, 1937-January 12, 2007). Swami Turiya founded an Ashram/Vedic Center, Sai Anantam, in Santa Monica in 1976. Most well-known as a jazz musician and wife of John Coltrane, Turiya was also the receiver of two sacred texts: Endless …
Art, Articles and Book Reviews – Fall 2020
Review and Commentary of “Black Artists and Gallerists on What a More Inclusive Art World Would Look Like.” This is a great time to be on the planet. There is a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips on what I call “the separation, the old narrative or the Matrix,” and it is refreshing and …
April 2020 – Towards Stewardship of Earth & Home
The reading of two articles, The Coronation, by Charles Eisenstein, The Pandemic is a Portal, by Arundhati Roy, a book, How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization, by Derrick Jensen, inspired this essay. The Lesson Few would deny that an interesting experience is passing through us. Our responses to …