Tonight I am grateful for my voice; full & timid. Asleep and alive. I am grateful for the Spirit communicating while I survive… I sing. I shudder. I fall.Don’t really know what I’m doing…At allAnd though the wind blows fiercelyYou still will hear my call And tonight I’m only grateful for my voice. The words…

“There is nothing I love better…”~ Alicia Keys ~ I have had wonderful experiences of sharing intimacy recently; expanding my ideas and comforts with what I believed intimacy was… Part of what I learn is to be vulnerable; to keep withdrawing my attempts of safety – control. To give until i’m down to the hardened…

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.