Breath

“ and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.” 

― Andrea Gibson

She was incomprehensible

"She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself."

              

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“If the heart of Africa remained elusive, my search for it had brought me closer to understanding myself and other human beings.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. It impels mighty ambitions and dangerous capers.

We amass great fortunes at the cost of our souls, or risk our lives in drug dens from London’s Soho, to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.

We shout in Baptist churches, wear yarmulkes and wigs and argue even the tiniest points in the Torah, or worship the sun and refuse to kill cows for the starving.

Hoping that by doing these things, home will find us acceptable or failing that, that we will forget our awful yearning for it.”

―Maya Angelou , All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

 

/Rest in Power and Love.
To 'know why the caged bird sings' is my greatest lesson from you.

Courage

Commited to Joy

Magaliesburg, North West. South Africa

Letter to Hermione.

    

Robert Glasper - Letter to Hermione (Live) ft. Bilal