Harvest Life

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 glucoseContinue 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?Continue reading "Poem: Have I ever loved?"

A Note About Personal Agency

We all have responsibility for our own lives. People assume we give up that agency when we enter certain agreements and relationships - employment, romantic, parental, friend, etc.

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 sharedContinue reading "Poem: No Straight Lines"