Denial Anger Loss Melancholy Acceptance Withdrawal Contemplation Meditation Evaluation Adjustment Growth Adaptation Restitution Re-Entry Imagination Application Attempt Achieve Accomplish Celebrate Notice Admire Engage Entangle Engage Join Partner Envision Trust Beloved Habit Change Deviate Inconsistency Suspect Discover Bewilderment Lies Uncover Confront Chaos Bitterness Truth Separation And we’re back to denial
The anatomy of a revolution
Sometime early this year citizens of Tunisia took to the streets demanding that the then president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who had ruled for 33 years step down immediately. These protests went on for almost 2 weeks and resulted in the president not only stepping down but also fleeing the country. Meanwhile, a similar…
Take some time
A time comes when one must know where the next series of choices will lead them to. Some may call this being naïve since one can never truly predict the future but I am here to advocate for those of us who prepare for the worst AND the best. Take some time to find yourself,…
Part 2: The Birth of Reconciliation
It follows him. It hunts him. It kills him. It is him, and he is it. An evil so dense, so dark, so encompassing that any and everything dies around him. A faint flicker of a voice calls to him. It beckons him and its familiarity frightens him. Years, decades and perhaps even centuries had…
Part 1: The Death of Hope
A deeply seated malevolent becoming. Its icy touch so familiar. Its cold grip on him comforting, safe, homely. Your son is gone. All that remains is this mere shadow of him. And its just that, shadow and death; beware the shadow and death. Love can kill, but so can we. The young will be young….
I’d rather be brave than fearless
We don’t adore someone like Michael Jordan because he was the best, no, the reason we adore him with such vigor and sense of idolatry is because he did “the impossible” on the basketball. He managed fetes of such magnitude that all we could do is sit back and “worship” him, not because he had…
Get up and start walking
I recently read a story about a man who trecked through the Amazonian jungle. Ed Standford has been hacking his way through the length of the Amazonian river for 2 and half years to raise awareness to protect and preserve the jungle. He was joined by Gadiel Sanchez in July 2008. This got me thinking,…
You’re special just like everybody else
With the just concluded Fifa World Cup in South Africa, I have been left disappointed that my team did not grab this cup. I was rooting for the people of Deutschland. I mean who could blame me? They beat not 2 but three teams four goals to nothing.Everything seemed to be going great for “ze…
Stop Fussing
Hello people, First of all thanks for reading my very 1st post. I hope you don’t have any expectations because I wrote this blog for me to air my thoughts to a constantly changing world full of opinions, prejudice, judgement, pre-concieved notions and told and untold stories. In this ever changing world we must appreciate…
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