Tag: Transformation

• Children of Hate

  

  Every moment of your life is a choice. You are only a step away from looking in my eyes, from learning that we share everything. Every important part of us is the same. You can understand me. I am not your enemy. You can let that lie go.

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  Connection, Essays, ExitUSA, Transformation, Violence, White Supremacy

• Prelude

  

  Am I already singing? Is that my voice or hers? My image in the mirror looks the same, pleasantly unglamorous, growing slowly older. Except that now there is gold dust on my lips. I smile. I can’t help it.

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  Gold Dust, Identity, Life, Poetry, Self, Transformation

• Always With The Punching

  

  Imagine instead that the thugs suddenly drop their guns, their faces quizzical, their blinding rage wiped away by a wave of tranquility. They are not sedated into unconsciousness to arise later still bitter, but rather awakened entirely from their cold trance of hatred. They can feel again.

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  Aliens, Essays, Love, Peace, Perspective, Redemption, Reorientation, Superheroes, Transformation, Violence, Yin

• Resentment

  I tried to empty myself of my feelings of betrayal. I tried to concentrate on other areas of my life. I tried to breathe and relax and be present through yoga and music. I wanted to be filled with peace again. Filled with light and love, sated by food and liquor, fulfilled by fresh air! But I failed.

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  Acceptance, Dissatisfaction, Gratitude, Job, Making Music, Money, Perspective, Reorientation, Resentment, Transformation