I am grateful for the voices wiser then my own – helping to keep the energy moving. Change happens with critical mass. I hope and pray we’re now at critical mass… It’s been a long time coming. Please; shut up about all lives matter… It is not time for watering down the narrative; decreasing the…

I don’t know what I’m grateful for tonight… I’m kind of grateful for everything! I’ve recently come across some science studies on gratitude. Gratitude. It’s good medicine. Facts. As a part of our blog, my brother and I, whom I’m also grateful for, usually post a song – or some video – to accompany our…

…you ought to have a place that you can come and know that you can be quiet. Nikki Giovanni There is a lot of trust in an individual, and myself, when I am with them in relaxed silence… it is as though we both are confident – we have faith – in this shared moment,…

I am grateful for practice… and all those who forgive me and support me while I am practicing.

I am grateful for poetry, and poets, and that i am one

I believe everyone has experienced a time when they had extreme discomfort about something, fear, nightmarish even. And yet they persevered through the fear; despite the fear. And the fear proved to be a false pretense of the outcome. One was better off and grateful for having ignored the warnings and following through. One might…

Tonight, I am very grateful for the people in my life I can communicate with. If I am feeling down, angry, happy, confused… I can communicate it all with them. They listen, and speak to me. Communication. I am grateful for all the people in my life that I communicate with. It helps me with…

I am grateful that I have been honored this life to be a father. I’m grateful for my son being a part of my life… I’m grateful he’s turning 19 tomorrow – and I’m around to be with him… I’m grateful for the whole day tomorrow with him and his family; my family.

As an old, white, european man, I have spent a lot of my life pondering the chaos created and endured because of the differences in one’s skin pigmentation. The earliest experience have heightened awareness I recall is reading Black Like Me sometime in my mid-childhood years. The sad truth is, the marker hasn’t moved much….

Tonight, as I lay me down to sleep… praying for escape from the walls that keep… I am grateful for the poetic, smooth ride… of Maggot Brain.

Today, I am grateful for the life and work of Julius Lester. Due to his scholarly work, we were gifted with a thick tome of numerous tales about the animals; Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, Brer Bear… on, and on—the entire animal kingdom! And that includes humans, too. They’re… we’re part of the animal…

I’m grateful for length of breath… long, silent pause – lights up my Life with Grace. I’m grateful for a moment, still, bright… stretching out to reach True Love. I’m grateful for a meditative state of being; the calm ocean floor amidst the screaming storm. Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.