What Is American To Me?
Most of all, America was a dream come true where everything and anything was possible.
Political
A Good Guy With A Gun
I saw a man with a gun once. It was just the other day. He pulled it out of his pocket to show me.
Please Give Us Back Peace
Please Give Us Back Peace Because all I hear is crying, can you hear it too? Emotions are on high alert like the nuclear arsenal that Putin has put at the ready. War is living amongst us like an unwanted visitor. The whole world is tense and living in a state of wide-opened mouthed disbelief that …
Why I Put Down My Newspaper?
The small perfect moments that I witness daily, down here on earth, have a big impact on my well-being, and many of them are free. Do I really have to fly into space when I can see a flower growing through the crack on the concrete sidewalk?
Braiding Ribbons
Braiding Ribbons The mother covered the long black braids with a weave of pink and green ribbons. She started with the green ribbon from the point where the braid descends from the girl’s small head all the way to the tiny tips of the ponytail. At the bottom, she tied a tight knot, then started …
Memorial to the stolen People
Glass jars, each filled with a different color of dirt. hallowed ground, the dirt of the killing places beige, black, brown, grey and red dirt. I stand. and …I am not able to say anything. I imagine their ancestral home lands, the soils of fertile rich other places, of coffee, of cinnamon, of nutmeg, of …