In Week Two of this challenge to look beneath the surface of what is usually taught as history, I am continuing to find very interesting, valuable and educational resources for understanding some of the layered levels of complexity within Black culture. Read more
As promised, here is a listing of the posts from Facebook for the first week of the 30 Day Challenge. Sharing the joys and sorrows of the ancestral history of Black people has been an enlightening process for me. Read more
The history we have learned about Black people, Africans, Atlantic slave trade, the middle passage, US laws, the constitution, social injustice, crimes of humanity here against other races, Jim Crow, and current policies that are targeted at specific races are streamlined in a way that leaves out the truth. Read more
Finding reasons to connect to our gratitude can be important to the process of spiritual connection. It is important to recognize that the liberties we often take for granted are the very ones that others have to do without. Read more
Three years have passed since she died… three years and a couple of months. And every year the pain is easier to bear, but her presence is harder to feel. I think the more that time passes, I realize that one of the things I do have is the understanding of how much I really am my mother. Read more
By Dava Greely “Just as knowledge of the principles of geometry enables a man to measure distant suns and other movements while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of The Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the known to the unknown. Studying the monad, he understands the archangel.” – The Kybalion ***WARNING: KINDA T.M.I.*** One day my daughter, then the precocious age of four, barged her way into the bathroom as I was changing my pad…ahem…sanitary napkin…... Read more
I have learned a lot about who I am as a person through the process of reclaiming my natural hair, and now I understand why my mother did this, too, at about the same age. Read more
Pagan Coming Out day is a powerful day in so many ways. Not only does this day act as a type of religious diversity day, and a stance against religious discrimination for Pagans. It is also meant as a means of support for those who are able to be open with who they are spiritually as Pagans. Read more
Respecting the culture of others does not mean that we have to agree, understand, or even integrate another understanding into our own. What cultural awareness is not, is proving that someone else's cultural or personal understanding of the world is wrong. Read more
When I am elderly, where will I go to get care and assistance with daily living? As a witch, as a pagan, as a lesbian, there are few places for me. For a witch of color, there are even fewer places. Read more
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