Tag: meditation
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Poem 7.11.22 – The vinegar in my blood
is mild, Unbelievable, Unrelenting,Incisively,thinlyveiled. momentum ismy acid,barely sours;it elevates, &colors palettes. still a pop leaves cause,a sting gives motive &Isoberly am erased. notes of assimilated,softened,perceptive,raw. lacks body, needs time,works well too,articulates well. best kept in darkcold storage.
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The Power | No Justice…No Pie, No Justice…
No peace. Yesterday was 3.14, March 14th— pie day to most math-heads and nerds. Today is March 15th, two days and two years after Breonna Taylor was murdered by a police officer, while she was sleepin in her apartment. Yesterday was 3.14, and for Tracy and Sybrina, they’ve spent 10 years forgettin a day mathematicians,…
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Poem 2.22.22 – See Me Whole, Not as a Hunk
Interactions of masculine life. Sown. Hard. Ripe. Cleansed. See me different. Sown into a tie and suitfor the night, and masked. See me different. Sown onto a monolithpressed against a hard place, a similar ceiling,and a rock. See me, I’m different. tell by the distress and the the gash, broadand red-open. Tugging at seams,beating off…
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The Power | “Be an Athlete, Son!”
“Keep your head on a swivel,” probably the greatest lessons I learned playing “QB”, but not the only lesson I carry from my years of athletics and leadership. I am, what you would call, a super nerd. I prefer “blerd”. I’ve always known I was a super nerd, my pops showed me I could ball,…
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The Power | Why I Chose Learning & Service
My bet on data in education, and how it will power future-ready philanthropy. Regardless to any title I’ll carry in my professional career and personal life I’ve committed myself to the idea that I will always strive to be a philanthropist. I am a man for others that believes that improving the lives of those…
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Revisiting the Gates: “closest goal at hand,”
Background: In the fall of 2009 I finalized my Gates Millennium application, after years of preparation, writing and enlisting support for the task at hand I submitted 8 essays. These eight papers, were responses to prompts I no longer remember. Still after nearly 15 years, I’ve found myself turning back to the Gates, my essays,…
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Revisiting The Gates: Hate Crime
Background: In the fall of 2009 I finalized my Gates Millennium application, after years of preparation, writing and enlisting support for the task at hand I submitted 8 essays. These eight papers, were responses to prompts I no longer remember. Still after nearly 15 years, I’ve found myself turning back to the Gates, my essays,…
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Poem 12.23.21: Haiku – The Southern Convening.
Rebels breath let loose.Gaze while we stare unnoosed, Tall. Ten toes, rows of truth.
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Poem 12.23.21 – Note to self
Note to self. Come back to that. What’s wrong?!?It’s the flawsIt’s all that, raw. It’s the claws attached,Not the open Paw. Note to self. Come back to that. What’s wrong?!?It’s the flawsIt’s all that, raw. It’s the claws attached,Not the openPaw. As I stare in your face Its clearly lies + Race. It’s on the…
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Meditation 8.29.21 – Good Boy/ Good Taste
Grandma says to this day, “you’re such a good boy,” and I’m inclined to believe her. In fact, it’s been an existential imperative that I explicitly hear these words and see myself. So much of my past used to taste freshly cooked in my mind; more of a gumbo than any fine dining, my memories…