by Michael | Apr 6, 2020 | Relationships, Spirituality
We cannot be in a hurry in matters of the heart. The human spirit has to be explored gently and with unhurried tenderness. Very often this demands a reconditioning of our nervous responses to life, a profound alteration in the tempo of our behavior pattern. Whatever...
by Michael | May 1, 2019 | Relationships
I remember a time when the first son cried when I left him. He was really loud that one time when I dropped him with Auntie Maggie. Where was I going? It took forever to get there, listening to his cries in the car. I thought those days were gone, especially since...
by Michael | Apr 25, 2019 | Relationships, Spirituality
One way to know that people matter to you is how long you keep them–in your head, in your heart, in your spirit–when they bother you, when they hurt you. It’s one thing to drop and run. It’s another thing to be tripped by the fact of their...
by Michael | Apr 13, 2019 | Education, Relationships
I looked at you, the glossy, colorful ways you showed me what black beauty was. I looked at the curves you featured. I took in the sumptuous reds on your lips and imprinted in my soul the kinky, curly, flat, puffy, drizzly, stringy, clipped, busy, avenues from your...
by Michael | Mar 10, 2019 | Relationships
by Michael | Jan 27, 2019 | Relationships
My oldest son wasn’t going to win the bet we made and I knew it even as I crafted the challenge to him in the grocery line. His hand was on a bag, a nicely packaged offering of sugar and fat and a list of things we couldn’t pronounce. Now, it helps to know...
