One of the advantages of being a writer is that one tends to chronicle events, eras, moods, relationships. Well, so maybe it’s not always an advantage… Anyway, I came across this essay I wrote in the mid-1990s. I meant to submit it for publication but got cold feet — an oft-experienced issue for me. Now … Read More
Bye Beautiful Summer… A Gallery
Dear Summer, Until we meet again… Love, Lisa ps: I haven’t forgotten the images from Mother Emmanuel AME Church, or Baltimore, or Ferguson… they live in my soul, and inform my voice (as … Read More
Does Mainstream Media Create An Unhealthy “Reality?”
Media Hysteria, Gloom & Doom: A Rant Whether calling it intention, prayer, or “manifesting desire,” it is a fairly well-accepted concept these days that thought – intention — has the power to affect, even create, our reality. While I believe that intention does influence our reality, I think it is not in the obvious manners … Read More
Disassociating from Beauty
Losing touch… How is it that we get separated from our engagement with True Beauty? How does it happen and what replaces it? One example might be as simple as our eating mode. We are so separated from our food sources that children think chickens come from plastic boxes or buckets and spinach from a … Read More
True Beauty and Epilepsy
One of the oldest chronicled disorders, Epilepsy has been steeped in stigma and myth. Those who have it are described as “afflicted” and often face very real forces and forms of discrimination and ridicule. I believe this is due in great part to three basic characteristics of Epilepsy: The first characteristic is its episodic nature; … Read More
The Happy Critic – An Oxymoron?
Can one be critical and find contentment? Can one be content when it is a character trait to always see how something might be improved? Could it be changed for the “better”? I am referring to constructive criticism, not the snarky “Oh, she shouldn’t wear that dress with those hips” kind. And the definition of content … Read More