Attempting to “reclaim our heritage” by examining the first crimes of the United States government that continue today. “I know of no other instance in history where a great nation has so shamefully violated its oath. Our country must forever bear the disgrace and suffer the retribution of its wrongdoing.”
Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones
Devotional: Food for Thought
1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Read We know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life. However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking ofContinueContinue reading “Devotional: Food for Thought”
Poem: Everything & Nothing
Poem: Everything & Nothing
Quote: Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other.
Originally posted on #americarising:
None of us can or should expect a transformation in race relations overnight. Every time something like this happens, somebody says we have to have a conversation about race. We talk a lot about race. There’s no short cut. We don’t need more talk. …. But, it would be a betrayal…
Stork Delivery, Part 3: A Tree & Its Fruit
We can hold our thoughts up to a greater truth. For me today, that Truth is the Word of God. In my youth, that truth was what I thought of myself – or who I knew myself to be.
Book Review: The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
How is Neumann an authority on death? She concluded, “There is no good death, I now know…. But there is a good enough death…. knowing death makes facing it bearable…. And there is really one kind of bad death, characterized by the same bad facts: pain, denial, prolongation, loneliness.”
Devotional: Something New For You
God is already at work in us doing a new thing. It’s not something in the future. It’s springing up now. We can’t see it yet, but it’s in motion. God’s work of new life within us happens every day.
The Fig Tree (excerpt)
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig wasContinueContinue reading “The Fig Tree (excerpt)”
Summer Special: 30 min for $50
Summer Special: 30 min for $50. Mini photo shoot + one edited image delivered via email.
Harlem Book Fair 2017
The 2017 Harlem Book Fair was Saturday, July 15 on 135th Street between Lenox and Seventh Avenues in Harlem, NYC. It was a bright sunny beautiful day. Since I have no real sense of moderation, my wagon of goods was literally overflowing, as always. I tried to take a video of my set-up at theContinueContinue reading “Harlem Book Fair 2017”
Harvest Life 