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  • Lent 2024, Day 14: Flowers for Zoe.

    Love for Zoe/
    Angels and rainbows/
    All kinds of things you can call your own

    February 29, 2024
  • Lent 2024, Day 8: Black History & Lent.

    “If you don’t believe I’ve been redeemed
    God’s a-going to trouble the water
    Just follow me down to the Jordan’s stream
    God’s a-going to trouble the water”

    February 22, 2024
  • Some Sunday Stuff: April 16, 2023.

    Celebrating Black Life through photos, the mysterious underground city found in a man’s basement, why the color purple has become villainous, how copyright laws infringe on hip hop, and I’ll try not to set the world on fire, but no promises.

    April 16, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day 26: Breathe in Love, breathe out praise.

    Let everything that breathes praise the LORD!

    March 23, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day 13: Here’s to All the Ladies.

    “My persuasion
    Can build a nation
    Endless power
    With our love we can devour”

    March 8, 2023
  • Lent 2023, First Sunday.

    Poetry, candles, art, music.

    February 26, 2023
  • Some Sunday Stuff: January 26th.

    So, um, as I’m typing this, I’m fighting back tears about the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash this morning. I’m heartbroken for his wife and…

    January 26, 2020
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    Untitled. Or “Yes, I do prefer the company of the dead.”

    “Sarah Mae Flemming (2nd from left) is joined by Julia E. King and attorneys Lincoln C. Jenkins & Matthew J. Perry.The photograph was taken by John W. Goodwin, a Columbia [S.C.] photographer.”…

    December 29, 2018
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    Flashback Friday: That time Lincoln planned to free the slaves and send them south of the border.

    Engraving by Thomas Nast in 1865. (Source)   I recently binge-listened to “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight on Audible. It clocks in at nearly 37 hours, and makes…

    December 28, 2018
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    Some Sunday Stuff: December 23rd.

    Merry Christmas Eve’s Eve! If you’re still doing last minute holiday shopping/ cooking/ cleaning/ running ragged, I understand! I spent the hours before my mom-in-law flew in from Trinidad on Friday literally…

    December 22, 2018
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