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Build It And They Will Come?

Build It And They Will Come?

Forty years ago, I began my exploration into interpreting the messages of dreams. I needed one more credit to complete my University degree and the one I wanted was full, so a friend recommended a Religious Studies course offered through an affiliate college: Dreams, Visions, and God.It was life altering! I would go on to […]

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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Tired, by Langston Hughes

Tired, by Langston Hughes

(I came across this poem, and was stricken by how applicable it is to our world today. Hope my reading does it justice.)

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
at the rind.

(Image my own)

Posted on February 17, 2024February 15, 2024Categories current affairs, poetryTags Langston Hughes, poetry, world46 Comments on Tired, by Langston Hughes
Tired by Langston Hughes

Tired by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

(February is Black History Month. Image my own.)

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021Categories current affairs, nonfiction, poetryTags #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, Langston Hughes18 Comments on Tired by Langston Hughes
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