Hope On A Tightrope -  Dr. Cornel West

Words & Wisdom - Collection of Progressives

Book signing @Busboys & Poets, Wash. DC - 11/21/08

Peace & Love

Preoccupied

Time keeps on passing where days seem to get shorter and shorter
Realizing more and more it's time to get my house in order
With so much noise in my head, sometimes I can't think
Feels like I am standing in quick sand --- slowly I begin to sink
Just to be preoccupied with the everyday non-sense I wish to break free
Causes of the all around chaos is making it hard to see
Precious moments coming and going --- fading with time
Not fully living life is truly a crime
Looking for that serene place where my preoccupation no longer traps my mind
Refusal I vow to spend the rest of my eternity being blind
So I write for clarity --- hopes for release
  Find my mind's quiet space; there, the gift of inner peace

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L - Living

O - Owning

V - Values

E - Everyone

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 Scenario One:

One crab starts to climb up to reach the top of the box; all of the other crabs began to tug at its bottom claw; it stumbles back to the bottom of the box; where the other crabs lie frantically scrambling along...

Scenario Two:

On its next climb to reach the top of the box, halfway up, another crab jumps onto its back; next thing it knew, they were both abruptly falling back to the bottom of the box; frustrated that its halfway climb's hard work was interrupted...

Scenario Three:

At its last climb to reach the top of the box, through the leading crab's effort, it finally reached the top of the box; it paused and thought to itself "that climb was different" -- why?"; from the top of the box, it looked back and saw that the other crabs were standing upon each other's shoulders; in kind, the leader crab extended to reach down to lend a helping claw.

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stronghold

birds without bees
woes, faithfully passive wait
voided hoe to plant seed
works less my soul sow to grow
tarried reap its harvest faint

misguided repetition labors sameness
narrow labels held comfort with unchallenged rock
fare-paid, revisits traditional render season’s harvest-less
hordes, too many, dutiful flock

stronghold mounted summit’s not -- toils valley low
throes not perfected, new horizons drawn
seer students the ebbs of nature's designed flow
willfully taken climb new journey braved -- destination heights not fawn

with each of nature’s season changes, astuter a new sow
nothing stays the same
when sunlight shines, we can grow
three faithful-souls of works walked into the flame
shedden old shackle birth awakenings to Laws of Nature --

order of change, promised-wide frequency, beats with its eternal glow

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Wishes For An Amazing Woman

I wish you the confidence to begin this year as you would open a gift, certain that it holds something special just for you . . .

I wish you strong trust in yourself and faith in the future, the belief that you will make right choices to bring you closer to the happiness you deserve.

I wish you friends to surround you in the circle of their caring and love and people to help you laugh at life . . .

Most of all, I wish you could see the amazing woman I see when I look at you - - the remarkable, irreplaceable person who adds so much to so many lives.

Happy Wishes

--Unknown Author

Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till , in Money,  Mississippi  - July 25, 1941-AUGUST 28, 1955
At age 14, was murdered is noted as one of the events that cumulated the “Civil Rights Movement”

Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech, Washington, DC - AUGUST 28, 1963

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character ….” - MLK

The 1964 Civil Rights Act  passed  JULY 2, 1964*

*JULY 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year.  It is the exact midpoint of all years. This occurs at 12:00 PM during common years and at 12:00 AM during leap years. This is because there are 182 days before and 182 days after(median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 183 after in leap years. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day (in common years).  Interesting!

The 1965 Voting Rights Act  passed AUGUST 5, 1965

Barack Hussein Obama’s DNC Acceptance Speech, Denver, CO - AUGUST 28, 2008

Since the 1963 I Have A Dream speech, FORTY-FOUR years later, we all today witnessed  yet another MILESTONE elevating  that ALL people are DIVINELY-designed and are beautifully-HUMAN.

OUR and others VOTE counted as we celebrate the HISTORICAL event signed, sealed & delivered on NOVEMBER 4, 2008, judged by the “content of  [his] character”  PRESIDENT-elect BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, who walks across that paved bridge named, “I HAVE A DREAM” fortified with a bearer of “CHANGE, YES WE CAN” echoing worldwide through many languages, religions and creeds. 

This ought not be a euphorically-fleeing moment.  This MANIFESTATION is bigger than any HUMANkind, This the moving HAND of the DIVINE CREATOR. 

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - OUR 44TH  PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

He is a bearer of a heavy MANDATE,  we all have a DUTY to help pave a way collectively to lessen the load.

It all blows my mind!

In UNITE
Peace & love

I be from
Planet Venus
flown here
upon the sensus
of a dove's wing-us

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tranquil mind

smell-focused here and now

experiences  peacefulness;

internal dialogue morphs

loving and embracing;

spot-centered  white

illuminating purity of thought,

scent of universal healing

all of God's creation;

purified thoughts, transformation --

LOVE

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