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In addition to Care, the Salvation Army, and other highly reputable humanitarian agencies, be sure to consider supporting the National Medical Association (NMA) which represents some 30,000 black physicians in the US. The NMA responded swiftly in as…
Horrific human challenge here. I just saw a CNN clip of a little girl pulled alive from a toppled building. She appeared to be around 6 years old, the age of my daughter.
MFO...here's a few tips for providing needed help:
(1) Contact the Haitian c…
Thanks and here's hoping that your new year brings you health and happiness.
May 2010 bring your heart's most treasured desires
May this new year empty your mind of needless things
May it fill you with a purifying peace and an unprecedented clarity
May it bring a cascade of new energy and new vision to reach your noblest aim…
It's probably important to note what the man himself said about the honour. He stated repeatedly there are probably others more deserving of this award. He stated it yesterday, he stated it many times before.
Today, Barack Hussein Obama received the presitigious Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Past recipients of the esteemed award include Mother Teresa, Nelson Man…
This is all liberal socialistic bullshit. It is obvious these people want to do us harm. We are dealing with two nuclear states, Pakistan and India, Pakistan being a major concern. The Taliban has already made it's intentions clear, they want Afghan…
I discuss why this prevailing sentiment is mathematically impossible and politically childlike in my new blog entry: "Does an eye for an eye make sense?"
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"May Our Paths Be Illumined By The Highest Light Of The Creator That We May Live In Harmony With All Our Relations, In Service to the Whole."
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While traveling the infinite and eternal Cosmos, courtesy of a truly loving Creator, I was born into the physical realm on the fourth planet from the sun, in the swirling Milky Way galaxy, in August of 1961. In the frenzied and amusing year of my arrival, John F. Kennedy was president, a monkey and then a man were rocketed into outer space, the US launched its first intecontintental ballistic missle, the USSR sent a sattelite toward Venus, the Freedom Rides jumped off across the South, the Germans built a wall splitting East and West Berlin, the UN Scretary General died in a plane crash, a German scientist discovered the Creator's genetic code, and the Vietnam war officially began as US helicopter arrived in Saigon.
It was a busy year on this strange planet, where I was raised on love and welfare by an ailing mother on a quiet tree-lined street in West Philadephia.
The street was named after a tree: Cedar.
I've long been fascinated by earth and humans and the mind-body-spirit, and I'm especially intrigued by the interesection between human health and human experience, I'm concerned about the commoditization of human health by the medical marketplace here on earth. I have deep respect for the untapped power of natural healing that lies in the Universe and within each lifeform.
Last time I checked, in the physical realm I'm a health writer, poet, photojournalist and sketch artist. I truly enjoy hiking, running, cycling and traveling. I'm in love with Earth Mother, especially her rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds. No surprise that I live a stone's throw from the Chesapeake's Baltimore Harbor. I also love deep forests and big city parks. I'm an urban gardener who plants tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, rosemary, basil, and more flowers than my backyard garden can sanely hold.
I love animals and I'm an avid bird and squirrel watcher (yes, with binoculars). I'm blessed to have a nest of noisy starlings on my roof, and a nest of mourning doves at the tree near my bedroom window. My daughter and I do not like zoos because they incarcerate animals in an unnatural habitat and disrupt their natural growth and wellness.
I adore Father Sky, including the sun, moon, stars, planets and cloud formations. In my next life I think I'd like to be a khaki-wearing forest ranger or a lion on the Serengeti. It might also be nice to be a 200-foot tall, nest-laden hemlock tree in Washington State.
Politically, I'm an unapologetic Green Party-oriented radical who believes that slavery for reparations is egregiously overdue, and we need a more socialistic society where wealth and resources are more evenly shared.
Spiritually, ever evolving, I believe there are many paths that lead to the Truth and that God is a Divine Essence that goes by countless names, including Great Spirit, Olodumare, Nyame, Allah, and Jesus. Although I wear no religious label, I lean mostly toward indigenous belief systems, including traditional African and Native American spirituality, as well as Mystical Christianity, and Taoism.
I'm a 15-year vegetarian who loves homeade apple pie, a numismatist since the age of 8, and an avid traveler .
I'm a family man who drives a "Please Wash Me" minivan filled with hiking gear, empty water bottles, and my 5-year-old daughter's dolls and coloring books. My favorite activities are gardening, hiking with my daughter, doing the traditional circle dance at Native American pow wows, and bringing my latest kite to the annual Smithsonian Kite Flying Contest in DC.
- What do you do, what's your story?
- I strive to bring Light and Healing on my earthly journey. I do the deeds of a literary health shaman. I am interested in health, public health history, mind-body-spirit connection, natural healing/ holistic living, family/fatherhood/brotherhood, cultural and psychological liberation of people of African descent, and cross-cultural exchange, spirit consciousness restoration (a living awareness of the Divine essence of all people and all creation). Also interested in traveling, hiking, running, and cycling; oceans, rivers, lakes and bays; plant life, gardening, and animal life.
I enjoy laughing as often as possible, sledding on snowhills, playing my stereo too loud, attending outdoor music concerts (especially jazz, folk, indigenous and world music), eating buttered popcorn at the local movie theater, walking in the rain without an umbrella, biking around lakes, hiking through state parks, and getting my party on at Native American pow wows.
I'd like to own a sail boat and spend time on the water.
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- American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), American Public Health Association (APHA), National Medical Association (NMA), Society for the Advancement of African-American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI), Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Journey African American Outdoor Sports Association (JAAOSA) and Veterans for Peace (VFP). I'm a founding member of the Black Vegetarian Society of New York.
- If given the opportunity, how would you make the world a better place?
- Be the change I want to see in the world as I pass through it.
May the sun bring you new energy by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away your worries
May the breeze blow new strength into your being
May you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life.
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Does an "eye-for-an-eye" really make sense?
Does an "eye-for-an-eye" really make sense?
By Shaman
It is, tragically, a fairly popular belief that when it comes to responding to a wrongdoing, humans should adhere to the old Hebrew doctrine of "an eye for an eye." We first learn this childish behavior on the playground: "Hey, he hit you. Hit him b… Continue
Posted on December 4, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
The New War President
The writer Mark Davis is correct: "...of the nearly 70 million people who voted to make Barack Obama president, a sizeable portion did so because they were sick of war."
Now they're sick of Barack. (And one can only only wonder what the Nobel Committee is thinking on the day after Obama announces a massive military escalation in Afghanistan.)
Of course, G.W. Bush was clumsy, arrogant, clamoring and evangelical in his pledge to a global war-without-end. In stark contrast, Obama is smooth and ef… Continue
Now they're sick of Barack. (And one can only only wonder what the Nobel Committee is thinking on the day after Obama announces a massive military escalation in Afghanistan.)
Of course, G.W. Bush was clumsy, arrogant, clamoring and evangelical in his pledge to a global war-without-end. In stark contrast, Obama is smooth and ef… Continue
Posted on December 2, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments
Gratitude
Food for thought on Thanksgiving 2009:
What would each day be like if we started out by taking inventory and then giving thanks for it?
What would happen if we had to take all of the world's suffering (war, earthquake, famine, AIDS, blindness) and equally distribute this suffering so that each person on t… Continue
Posted on November 26, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
Black firefighters facing racist flames in Philly
When I read the article below I couldn't help but recall that there was an ugly period in the United States--not too long ago--when city officials across the South refused to install fire hydrants in black neighborhoods. There was a time when white firefighters used high-pressure water hoses against c… Continue
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:30am —
Jesus 5.0 -- What Easter Means to Me
Most of us have heard by now of the famous pagan origins of Easter named for the Germanic goddess Eostre.
And many of us have heard those countless springtime versions of resurrection stories of Jesus, Heru, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithras and many other legendary gods.
As one story has it, the Persian deity Mithras had a virgin birth (born from a rock), and he was an offspring of the Sun (which, back then, people often viewed as god). Long before Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, Mithras h… Continue
And many of us have heard those countless springtime versions of resurrection stories of Jesus, Heru, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithras and many other legendary gods.
As one story has it, the Persian deity Mithras had a virgin birth (born from a rock), and he was an offspring of the Sun (which, back then, people often viewed as god). Long before Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, Mithras h… Continue
Posted on April 11, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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