Where I Belong

Lyric by Kurt Elling

I hear the woman like a song / dancing down a long corridor
Reminding me I belong where I am

I see the singing in the rain/ the rhythm at my windowpane
Reminding me I belong where I am

There is a light in the silence of loving things
And when I look in my baby's hopeful eyes
It's like the sound just before ever ( Read more... )

Many of you may be aware of the events currently unfolding in Lebanon.  Regardless of your political positions, or lack thereof, the devastation has displaced a staggering number of civilians.  Basic living supplies are desperately needed.  Many of us who feel the need to assist in the call for humanitarian aid are unable to send money.  We are not ( Read more... )

today, as you move about the earth with your loving and leaving ( Read more... )

we have blurred the color line, our fantasies now drawn in shades of class 
(the people in the halls will not speak to us.  the people there always stare.)

we are the questions it will take more than one mic to answer

we are confused to the point of indifference or violence   
afraid to the point of violence or devotion   
impoverished to the point of ( Read more... )

Ten Top Trivia Tips about God!

1. If you drop god from the top of the Empire State Building, she will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground.
2. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets god!
3. God can taste with her feet.
4. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour ( Read more... )

[i wanted to mark their days as they should be marked, with great preparation, grand presentations that would be worthy of them. then i remembered i am blogging for my children and the children of my generations.]

gordon parks has shaped the way i see the world in indelible ways. his image and his name give me joy to count myself a worshiper in the ( Read more... )

gradually, an image comes into focus when enough dots have been connected, and if you've been doing this long enough and paying attention simultaneously "it don't take you all day to recognize the sun" - common.

the sun: bright, warm just like i like it and the first thing i notice now that the lights stay on? this is a hot mess.

i am not a poet ( Read more... )

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sometimes all i have to say is

jesus fuckin' christ! how 'bout you insert that break you owe me right here? how 'bout that shit? can you get behind that fuckin' shit? you think you can get with the giving of a fuckin' break? be a giver of something other than a pain in the head and ass, muthafucka. i know your bitch ass can do it.

whoooooooo i ( Read more... )

Coretta Scott King Tastes the Sky and Becomes Pure Light at 78

she is, in my mind, forgiveness incarnate. grace. beauty. oh, dear, mrs. king, that smile of yours!

how fortunate for those of us of the african diaspora to be able to count you among our ranks. how blessed is the earth for the privilege to hold you.

we will know you by the scent you ( Read more... )