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Essence talk- 22/02/12 Pt 2

 

This ESSENCE TALK is taken from the February 2012 edition where writer Jeannine Amber (who’s fabulous, by the way) takes on a group of single and happily married bloggers for a heated discussion about the romance rules we’ve been told never to break. There are three men and three women.
Although I’ve been incarcerated for a while, I feel I haven’t lost my sense for being social. And while prison is a society within a society it’s very detached from the real world in many sense. There has to be a practice and a discipline in place to maintain a “normal” behavior pattern. I’m thankful to correspond regularly with activists, poets, teachers, parents and just everyday people. So, I feel I’ve kept up with the times and still possess some fly-cool-fresh-hip-ness.

           

Posted on: 22 Feb 2012, Category Essence Talk

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Essence talk- 22/02/12 Pt 1

Today’s ESSENCE TALK deals with a very sensitive and important topic for me. I was blessed to read about this topic as it’s one that I daily encounter. It comes from the March 2012 edition. It’s an article called “How to bounce back from betrayal”, which comes from the book “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven” by Bishop T;D. Jakes. The Bishop’s words were wise and powerful, to say the least, and they hold an abundance of lessons.

Posted on: 22 Feb 2012, Category Essence Talk

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Where it's written

As human beings we’re always trying to leave our mark. It’s embedded in us to leave remnants of who we are, what we’ve done, what we believed.
From the Pyramids to the Projects to the Prisons, man seeks to resurrect his language, visions, feelings. This specific thought settled upon me one day as I was reading the writing on the walls in my prison cell. I’ve been in cells with more graffiti than a New York subway station. I’ve also read some really profound statements. That may be what inspired this writing.
I’m in a cell where someone was on a Jesus crusade. There’s 10 different scriptures written all around the cell. Some beautiful ones too:

Posted on: 17 JAN 2012, Category Other Entries

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