Here’s what you SEE

But you see progress. You will see it. A few people around you may see it. You will see that you have covered a good distance in your path. And that distance you covered, took much more strength that you'd normally require. And that is a good thing. Part of this progress is understanding that you swing like a pendulum. You are not planted. You keep shifting. But pendulums aren't that bad are they? Your head above the water. You will survive. Please survive!

The Week, The Year that Followed

THE WEEK The first voice I hear when I come to after a 45 minute break from a new reality I was meant to face, is the voice of a plainspoken woman. She is entreating God. She has the singular advantage of saying a supplication without subtlety or evasion. She also, as matter of the … Continue reading The Week, The Year that Followed

Relics From The Past

Boys fight. They always do. They fight about anything. Girls, football, territories, respect. The way boys grow is by learning to square it out amongst themselves in times when dialogue is not an option and from there they learn to respect each other and to keep to each one's lanes. That is the rule of the streets when it comes to boys. Girls gossip about it and they go full on cold wars. The streets are filled with thousands and thousands of girls that stopped talking to each other when Father Abraham was a boy because of the one girl that didn't tell the other she had a pretty dress. But boys, they say it to other boys' faces. Then one of those boys throws a fist on the other's face and with that world wars begin and the other boys cheer, by the end of the fights, the one with ripped shorts or bleeding gums is the loser.