Autumn Leaves It was a sunny autumn day I decided to walk my way over to the city centre mall...
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Oysters on the Half Shell What floats the boat A half shell appetite like an evening ocean Covered in cocktail...
Every year, a pan-African innovation fair—Maker Faire Africa—is held to promote scientific ingenuity. This year’s fair, held in Lagos, Nigeria,...
Medical disclaimer: The medical information provided here is, at best, of a general nature and cannot substitute for the advice...
BARREN FROST Is it racial miscues that prejudice our steadfast ways and hinder hope’s dignity? Seems we’re etched between equality...
The Michigan winter takes its toll. Willing participants we all may be, slipping, sliding, shivering, sneezing, going through our daily...
A long time co-worker of mine became committed to nonviolence during a demonstration he attended many years ago as the...
It’s no coincidence that our school is located near the beach. In fact, it took us almost five years to...
Lest They Heal we should guard our wounds lest they heal and we forget the lessons learned from hurt Night...
I have been hurt
by those who are closest to me
blood, family
I have tried to identify what I did for them to hate me
sleepless nights lost thinking about those who couldn't care less about me
dreams interrupted by visions of my family
the same people who were supposed to protect me, respect me
all they did was...
I visited Kenya for the first time in the summer of 2007. And what I encountered there—the culture, its breathtaking landscapes, its wondrous wildlife—forever altered the way...
Sarah Parisian, a little 8-year-old girl, finished her last radiation session in a Chicago hospital and she and her mother travelled home to Minnesota, USA...
It’s hard to know when it began. Perhaps it started with my first web page. That moment I typed out my first cautious lines of HTML, and uploaded the document to the mysterious...
A solid premise for deciding the healthiness of a food item is seeing how recognizable it is as a product of nature. We’re repeatedly shown that Mother Nature really...
This Just In
Right now in my city
the sky is pink and gold.
Right now, clouds
polish their wide sides
on the late sun and blush...
~Gloveless Venture~
You
Say I must
Go out into the world~
Where sun once bleached the pale orange surface sand to whiteness,
Snow now falls on that same space to whiten. Snow falls, each shape
A different elaboration, all identity is false, falls in slanting patterns,
Each slant a different angle. There is no whiteness, only millions
Of different whitenesses. Snow also falls on the dark shiny oval of a pond,
A spider web of a...
While studying my mind through mindfulness practice, I've noticed skeletons and old demons are hidden within the depths of my consciousness waiting to be seen and...
The ferryman stepped off the dock and looked upwards over the low-rising hills.
The flow of passengers had abruptly stopped in the mid-afternoon. When he’d returned from his last journey to the distant shore, it was unearthly quiet as he docked his boat back at the point of embarkment.
He’d seen moments like this before...when the platform was devoid of souls and he'd have a...
To know our deeper Self means to be in touch with our inner realms, to be able to reach down, take root and remain calm and clear under any circumstance that...
Will Tucker glanced at the exam booklet that the teacher placed on his desk. The room was thick with tension as the 20 students in Garrett Faulkner's American history class waited to begin their final exam for the fall semester.
Shenandoah County Preparatory Academy was a charter school and most of the students...
Growing up in a well-to-do American family is materially comfortable. Family troubles aside—and they can be considerable—life is full of pleasure: desires are...
Laughter is the best medicine. How true indeed! Have you noticed how freely children laugh? Statistically, children laugh between 300 and 400 times a day, compared...
Dropping doctrinal delusions,
Secular political ire,
Finite angled loss
And way too much historical
Backpack weighted-
Warring, dropped tonnage
Of endless weigh-lied ‘syn’onymed...
