Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.