What prompted this is the book my daughter brought home from school. It was an extremely graphic book on slavery. She's in 4th grade and in her few years this was the most violent text she's ever read. And my problem isn't the violence in it. My problem is the fact that it came now, during African Awareness Month. And here's why...I think if you're going to provide that kind of truth for one ethnic group you should provide it to ALL groups that have been in some way fucked over by the US gove... read more

So, this past Saturday I was in a car accident. The interesting thing is what happened minutes before the accident. I was with my Spiritual brother and we were talking..excited about getting to the Sweatlodge and then my 8-year old daughter calls me, Denali, and she sounds a bit out of breath...and says, "mommy are you okay? I thought maybe you had an accident...are you okay?" I told her I was fine and if she was okay..and then she hung up..she called two more times..two talk about a cd she w... read more

So it was interesting..I went to a Sweatlodge with my spiritual brother Andrew. On our way we got into a 4-car collision and got seriously lost but we didn't give up and we made it. We were pretty worried they'd start since it was 20 minutes past start time but it's seems we got there at the perfect time. The experience was transforming..to say the least. I can't really describe it.. And even as I try to now..it becomes crystal clear that it cannot be described by mundane terms..it's just fel... read more