There was no offer of income, or other funds to allow the newly formerly enslaved people to move about freely. No employment offers. No suggestions on where the free could live freely. He didn’t even tell them that their former enslavers would be compensated by the government for the loss of their forced laborers.
Category Archives: Blog
Eggs + Swedish Veggie Balls
[From the never pisted archives circa June 2021] I surprised myself with this one! It was a morning after recovery meal. The day before, I didn’t really eat well. Nothing truly horrendous… a couple of bowls of cereal in the morning and eating Rocky Road ice cream from the container right before bed. All sugar.ContinueContinue reading “Eggs + Swedish Veggie Balls”
Toxicity Manifests in Your Body
For the last two months, I worked in an environment I knew from day one was not a good fit. I’m actually surprised I hung on for as long as I did. If my memory works like it should, I will not put my health at risk for a paycheck again. My stress and glucoseContinueContinue reading “Toxicity Manifests in Your Body”
What I Know about Coaching
I didn’t appreciate having my character, personality and tone mischaracterized. Most definitely not in words commonly used to stereotype, demonize and dismiss Black Women. And absolutely not by the only Black Male manager on the open floor he was dressing me down on.
Poem: What First/Quoi en premier?
Why did you lead me on
With such intensity,
Only to let me fall
Fall, fall
Slowly, clueless
Through the space
Of ignorance
Poem: Have I ever loved?
Who am I if not A creature created in the Image of love? But what is an image If not a facsimile? Non-original Incapable of being Authentic If love is a reaction to receiving For we love because We have first been loved Then what of the love That was supposed to pour into me?ContinueContinue reading “Poem: Have I ever loved?”
Song: The Forever Now
This song was performed shortly before the last episode. The first chords have played at the beginning and end of every episode. It wasn’t until the final season that we got a full sing with amazingly poignant lyrics.
Poem: No Straight Lines
If life isn’t linear Then we’ve already loved Believing time wasted away Waiting for what’s already been If love isn’t chronological Surely there are no regrets Deja vu confirms What’s come and gone Past is prologue to future’s past Reality is never knowing you Even as my spirit calls you home Though we’ve only sharedContinueContinue reading “Poem: No Straight Lines”
Quote: “Parted from me yet never parted.”
Reality is never knowing you
Even as my spirit calls you home
Though we’ve only ever shared shy fleeting touches, my body
Flushes with memory of joys
Yet to come.
How can there be certainty of a future while languishing on a broken path?
