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It’s been almost 20 years since Lenny told us to “Let Love Rule” and since then many have fallen hard for lovers and friends, only to realize that love really wasn’t enough to sustain them. Right now, I find myself wondering the same thing. Is love really enough? Beloved and I have been together for 8 years, and [...] if you’ve been following this blog or my tweets lately you know i’ve been obsessed with getting fit. ok, maybe not OBSESSED, but it’s been on my mind…a lot. last week, after i wrote the poem “This Old Body,” i asked my tweepole if they had any praise songs for their bodies. poet Roger Bonair-Agard [...] i don’t listen to the radio anymore. well, unless it’s NPR. so today, when i caught Musiq’s ballad, “So Beautiful” blasting through my speakers, i was caught off guard. this.song.is.so.damn.sexy. & i couldn’t help pause and think of beloved. we’ve been going through it lately. the kind of “it” that happens when you only get to see each [...] the break-up muse matched miswords strewn lying heavily on your tongue i don’t understandyour needs unmetmine alonewelove in the trenches (c) me, 2003 ~~~last week i spent three days [...] i am sure of who i am voting for for president. i am pretty sure of how i will vote on farm animals, and non-violent drug crimes. but i am not at all sure of how i will vote on California’s proposition to ban gay marriage. i am the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist minister. [...] i am in love! i’ve always had an issue with my hair. it’s super thick & au natural, which means that it’s also super dry. it seems like no matter what i have tried, nothing really worked. i’ve spent tons of money & have tons of product left over and my hair & scalp is [...] i feel likei’ve been to churchon the brink ofbeing visited holy ghost delivering a wordfrom the anointed i feel like my favorite emceerocked the crowdboom-bap echoingthe cadence of his voiceexploding into head nods& a call to action i feel likechange is possibleif we justgive into hope (c) me, right now.~~ i wanted to write a post. i have [...] we are back home after a week of visiting. of trying to distill each moment into memory. beloved is well, softer around the belly, but in good spirits. we were blessed to have a “family visit.” forty-four hours of normalcy, or as close to “normal” as you can get while being locked into secured area. [...] (CLASSIC black love moment! Darius sums up the immediacy of love, in such adept words, i had to post this..even though it’s grimy as all hell, but still, enjoy!) Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.~John Quincy Adams John Adams had a point. patience and perseverance have the ability to [...] I’m reminded of my first crushthe wobble in my knees, first touchsummer love ice cream conenights shared with younights spent alonebutterflies, first lovesweaty palms embracing a first hugI’m moved to say in thought of youI can’t imagine living life without you ~Dwele “Without You” (this song PERFECTLY describes the feeling i had in the summer of [...]  |
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