I’ve been contemplating what breaking through in the new year means. I’ve been pondering motivators and what actions will make me a better, stronger and more hopeful person. As well, I’ve been considering areas where my motivation has waned–where the spark has been snuffed. Moreover, I’ve thought about actions I need to stop doing (or […]
Melding Words With Passion + Hopeful Determination in 2016
I feel words. Sometimes, a thought will bubble up and linger, lightly. Other times, it smacks me in the face, like icy wind on a bitter-cold winter day. The palpability of language is both soothing and overwhelming. It calms frayed nerves, spurs to action, drowns in despair, soothes, encourages, accompanies through grief and empowers. __ Each year for the past […]
What Do You Want?
By Robert P. Poindexter Why is such an easy question so often hard to answer? Is it because we fear an obligation to ourselves and others by admitting it out loud? Or, could it be that we simply don’t feel that we deserve what we want? Even more sinister is the possible negative reaction we […]
Creating Striations: Defining 2013
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Pensive, yet excited. Intellectually wrung, yet physically and emotionally rested. Lingering, deliberating, strategizing, planning, poised for renewed momentum. The days between Christmas and New Year’s are gently stretched and pulled with the weight of contemplation, and hope. Renewed resolve to complete the incomplete and start the unstarted provide momentum and hope. The […]
“Words”
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter In 2012, I will aspire to … More of this … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pDUzzsFEgQ&feature=fvsr and this … and this …
The Good News Is It Ain’t All Bad News
By Robert P. Poindexter Wow!!! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am worn smack-out!!! What a year this has been so far, and with just a few days of it left, I must admit I am really looking forward to 2012. Two thousand eleven featured everything from droughts to wars with […]