The Drum Major Ideology
With the current socio-political climate, one might wonder if there is any hope for a truly united nation. Let's explore ways forward as a community.
The Good Samaritan & Emotional Intelligence
Most people understand basic intelligence, which is an ability to learn, apply knowledge, and solve problems. But in our world today, there is a need for a different type of intelligence: emotional intelligence.
Water My Eyes
Water my eyes, oh Lord, hear my solemn cry / For a broken and contrite heart you will not despise. / Spirit, uncover my complex and immature disguise / That my often-troubled mind would then be made wise.
Black Summer
When we look back on year 2020, we may recall it as the year when it all changed. The year of the pandemic; a financial crisis; and the summer of racial reckoning and protests that amplified and centered Black voices in their cry against injustice.
Mother Blues
She sings of black eyes, broken bones, bruised lips, swollen cheeks, stiff backs, and crippled fingers... She sings of stolen identities, erased histories, sold virginities, of a disappeared child’s cry, and of fake smiles, telling lily-white lies.
Hope for Humanity
I feel as though the crisis we are facing has been revealing our true nature to ourselves. And what it’s revealing is that we need one another.
What We Lost and What Still Remains
I have come to the conclusion that collectively, we, our nation, and all of earth are experiencing a type of global grief.
COVID-19
Will our bodies betray or protect us when it arrives? We cannot leave it to chance or blissful ignorance. We cover; we distance; we resist, but never surrender.
Keeping the Good in Goodbye
Letting go can be very difficult at times, and goodbyes can be rather painful, especially when hearts are broken. Although letting go is a necessary part of life, when done well, it can bring the needed affirmation and completion. Let's examine ways of...
Seventy Times Seven
If you struggle with forgiving or letting go, here are a few tips on how one might possibly forgive another and then start to move in the direction of freedom and peace that true forgiveness fosters.