Celebrating Our Differences
In 2012, a cardio defibrillator was implanted in my heart; the Electrophysiologist told me it had an eight-year life expectancy before replacing the battery. I adhered to the physician’s instructions and was confident my device would relax easily. Early in 2020, with the unchecked spread of COVID, deliberate…
6.4.22 Chicago There is a scene from in movie Grand Canyon where Danny Glover plays a tow truck driver responding to a call for roadside assistance. Kevin Kline plays the financially successful and clueless white guy who made the call. When Glover arrives at a dark, remote…
The mental states we reside within are a dialogue in our heads about the external world. These stories we tell ourselves are both fiction and nonfiction. However, we are certain of one fact. The world around us is a constantly challenging vortex that we must deal with daily….
It’s been quite some time since I sat down to write. I took what was to be a brief pause and allowed it to become a hiatus from writing. Maybe it was needed and maybe not. However, in a quick Facebook scan, I saw that I still…
Camille Bennett wears many hats. She is Co-owner and Director of Focus Scope – 3 child care centers; the Founder and Executive Director of Project Say Something, a non-profit group advocating racial justice; and the Minister of Living Spirit Church. This workload can be taxing and yield…
During the Thanksgiving holiday of 2019, I began to suffer both TMJ from holding my mouth open wide and long for dental work and a flu-like illness. Two X-Rays showed no abnormalities in my lungs, so I insisted on getting a Cat-scan, which my doctor was reluctant to…
I keep remembering a time when I was young… hands so tender, it almost hurt to clasp them in prayer… When all I could hold was my stuffed teddy who knew all my fears, joys, and wants. The sound of the Zimbabwean national anthem evoked hope in the…
How do we digest, absorb or process the world we walk through each day? Lately, it’s been like trying to take a sip from a fire hose pointed at our face. Like most of you, I’m guessing; I have spent many hours and even more in-depth conversations…
And so it happened. A door shut in my face. Again. In my mind’s ear, the soundtrack of a sad movie plays. It feels as though I might just get glued into the tarmac if I do not lift my feet quick enough. You see, I don’t remember…
Attunement: Covid Memorial at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 2020 Direction, as a concept, has a couple of implications. In one sense, a directional trajectory is often framed in some sort of action verb coupled with destination, heading north, falling backward, climbing up. In another sense, it…