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Embrace Your Phoenix
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You are ...
You are the breath from Allah that sustains my life, You are the light Allah grants that guides my way. You are in the glorious dawning...


Faces and Voices of Courage - LGBTI+ Stories of Struggle and Triumph from Sub-Saharan Africa - Romeo
“I’m alive and as long as I breathe I will keep fighting because to be silent is to say we are not here, it is to say they were right...
"So few times so close..." I wrote this poem many years ago for a friend ...
"So few times so close, To something so different and real, That instinct takes over and makes you clutch what you feel. But to...


One Hour's Observations on a Sunny Winter Morning in Cape Town
Tourists, the Company Gardens, fat squirrels fed daily by children, homeless humans sitting under trees, everywhere asking for money or...


DAUGHTER OF THE WATER, WOMAN OF THE LEOPARD
Published online in Garden Spices Magazine "They say stars fell on Alabama, what a beautiful night that must have been. Afrika fell on...


Condensed Milk ... Embrace Yourself!
I recognize and acknowledge that the life I am living is filled with wondrous experiences. The past days and months feel like I am a...


Morning thoughts...
The Sun is rising behind grey clouds, which will quickly disappear, and another beautiful hot summer day will follow ... the warm, moist...


My Snow Day
This morning I awoke to a rare and beautiful event in the Deep South… a Winter Wonderland! Here in Alabama and other parts of the Deep...


A Shining Star of David in the Deep South
Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar of Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom is a shining light of compassion and inclusion in a region where there are few...


New Beginnings
New Beginnings warm as the Sun, strong as the Moon, certain as the Seasons, embracing the Phoenix, awakens the Dragon. - James Robinson...
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