bell hooks, source of immeasureable inspiration, says of her life, “I am passionate about living my life with a certain quality of elegance and grace. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. That tempers everything else.”to what i say, “me too, bell! me too!”
Author: Lisa
Adonis Gone
He’s left me. To help youngsters retreat from the modern world and assist their adolescent pursuit for spirituality. Twice an academic semester, Adonis leaves me. Sometimes I roll around happy for all the extra space in bed, others I collapse on the living room carpet wondering why I must be partnered with such a Soul. […]
Papa Vicarthur Ranara
I’ve been thinking about fathers, good fathers, and how hard they’ve got it. Sometime ago, they were subject to stereotype, told emotions were for girls, and highfivesnohugs/dryeyesalways policies. Somewhere they learned to have daughters – sharp, sometimes conniving daughters. Somehow my Dad raises me and my sister in a culture completely different than his own; […]
Pet Peeve 47243
AGEISM. The world loves numbers. The world loves measurements of all kinds. With numbers, you have a corresponding piece of knowledge, will helps people make decisions of who they are, what they’re worth, how to speak to them, what their life experiences have likely been. Age is a wonderful example of people’s erroneous tendencies to […]
My name is La Flora
So I am taking a writing class. So I am also taking a women’s studies class. The potential of what might come out in my writing is monstrous. Can you see the volcano erupting by Thanksgiving? It’s a definite possibility.In this women-only (there are mixed gender classes available, too) course, there is a lot of […]
Mouth Contraption
Today I went to the dentist.As she dug for gold in the back of my mouth, I tried to remember that this is a blessing. It is. This whole experience of a bleeding mouth and watery eyes. Some parts of the world never receive this service. That was my mantra.“Not a hint of a cavity, […]
Me Encanta Nicaragua
It’s difficult to describe things that matter, what carries heroic-sized significance. It is difficult to explain what most do not experience or even care to know. After all, it’s a description, an explanation. Nothing more. To describe an experience like Nicaragua, not just as a country, but an experience is large scaled agreement to gently […]
Nicaragua
Hola mis amigos,Para su informacion:Adonis and I will be chaperoning a mission trip to Chinandega, Nicaragua for ten days. I, understandably, will not have computer/internet access and will lapse in my blogging until I return. Somehow, someway, you will have to go about your days without me. I can only offer my promise to return […]
Personal Tidbits
My Adonis.He reads everywhere we go, absorbing all the knowledge he can into his brain. He then shares with me, so I figure I am twice as smart as anyone else.
La Verdad
There is always someone who will disagree with me. This lesson, I must learn. Fortunately, that is the happy luck of being a writer: my message isn’t measured by how many disagree or how many agree. Alas, my dear pets, the only barometer is my own Truthometer – how much of my own Truth is […]