Inspired music. Infectious joy. Dancing and celebration, reflecting and dreaming, and most of all, love. I believe this is what heaven will look like. Every tribe, every nation, every language. Love for one another that is not limited by skin color, culture, or language. A love for everyone. Together, we are humanity. We are inContinue reading “Together we are Humanity”
Category Archives: Peace
Common Thread
Some of my fondest childhood memories are found in the warm and comforting embrace of food and tradition. As are the vast majority of Americans today, I am the descendant of immigrants. With ancestry rooted mostly in Denmark and Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, and probably others as well have weaved themselves into myContinue reading “Common Thread”
It would have been enough
“Just a little bit more.” “Then I’ll be enough.” Two quotes from two men from two different generations. Jim Carrey, as he announced the nominees and winner of best motion picture comedy, said he doesn’t just go to sleep as a regular guy. He goes to sleep as a two-time Golden Globe winner. And heContinue reading “It would have been enough”
Make peace
We fight who we hate. We hate who we fear. We fear who we don’t understand. We don’t understand who we don’t know. We don’t know who we turn away from. And, often times we turn away from anyone or anything that is different than us. Those who look different, speak a different language, practiceContinue reading “Make peace”
Welcome Wall
between two worlds I standfrozen, suspendeda refugee from my homelandthe childhood dreams have endedis there no place for me?no country, no homewhere I can just be?will we ever be free?guns and tyranny pushed us outwar violencei asked what it was aboutthey just forced our silenceunder a full moon we ranfear carried us awaywe didn’t haveContinue reading “Welcome Wall”