Reclaim & Applaud: The People Doing the Right Thing
Grace Notes in Context an editorial of gratitude and resolveAgainst the noise, the doers keep the Republic breathing. There are days when the air itself feels thick with indignation when maudlin speeches, despotic threats, and unwelcome agendas flood our screens, and every headline seems to whisper: beware. I’ve fumed, yes. I’ve sounded the clarion for vigilance. […]
The GOP Chat Leaks Are Not a New Discovery They Are the Nuance of Recycled History
We experience life in moments. When we recall a moment that stirs our sensitivity emotional, circumstantial, or even accidental we are forced to belly the thoughts that surface. For me, they rarely stay buried. They rise again, regurgitated through the rhetoric of my words on paper. The Chat Leaks instigated such a reflection. They drew […]
Nobel Reflections When Peace Becomes a Power Word
I didn’t just write this because I could. Anyone can copy and paste when the right words start circulating. I wrote this because we our WhatsApp threads, our wise friends, our small communities of curious minds are the voices of disruption and clarification. A colleague I deeply respect sent me the Democracy Now headline and asked, […]
Sanctuary in the Storm: When Power Outruns the Law
There are moments in history when the air itself feels heavy with meaning when every headline, every court filing, every televised word seems to echo the same unspoken truth: we are being tested. Since inauguration day, we have been holding our breath. The noise has turned to thunder lawsuits choking the courts, the Supreme Court […]
Eavesdropping on Power: When the Costs Rise and the Voices Dim
Some days feel like a long purgatory. I find myself carrying the weight of headlines like extra baggage drained, conflicted, and quietly asking: how long must this last? It is as if we are eavesdropping on the great ledger of government, watching the costs rise, yet never seeing them fully tallied. Security details, one-day meetings […]
The Irony of theatrics – A Saturday Pondering
On body, seasons, and the theatre of being. Today my brainwaves are having a moment. My niece sent me a photo recently, and I looked… fluffy. A full-size woman 14+, 16. Who does this, right? Is it attention-seeking to show your body, or can we simply lighten up and jest? Follow along with me on […]
From Idea to Impact: The Art of Blogging
I learned to love the artistry of words and the English language sitting at my school desks, basking in my Caribbean island birthplace Trinidad and Tobago teachers insisting that we compose, comprehend, analyze, and précis until thinking became muscle memory. At home, my mother rich in Shakespeare could turn even a scolding into a scene, measuring our missteps […]
The Stickman Dances: Remembering Minshall’s Tall Boy at a High School Game
In its simplicity, the spectacle was so profound. At a high school football game, just off the edge of a basketball court, I stood entranced by a ballooned vertical figure — a Tall Boy. These inflatable stickmen, now familiar fixtures at dealerships, markets, and street corners, flail and bend in the wind, dancing to a rhythm […]
Victories Won, Defeats Surrendered Resilience Triumphs, Optimism Prevails
At the beginning of 2013, I was caught in the undertow of economic loss. The housing crisis pulled me from a full-time, sustaining consulting career into a part-time temp role barely above minimum wage and I felt myself mentally and financially imploding. I reached for social media as a lifeline, asking it to see my […]
The Foreclosure That Was Home to a Village Our Family
I spent my Sunday trying to lift my spirit. Oprah’s Soul Sunday offered a line from Gary Zukav that stayed with me: “A partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.” That was my morning anchor. By afternoon, I wanted to be intelligently entertained, so I turned to the Showtime series House of Lies and, yes, […]