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Storm is Passing Over Detroit Mass Choir (Listen)

      We are safe within the vibrational arms of these souls, whatever happens. Why? Because they are holding a vibration that is also inside us. Listen. Also, the passing over of storms is always heralded by knowledge. Which is why study is our friend.~AW     Posted to Alice Walkers Garden October 8, read more »

Dr. Francis Cress Welsing is an excellent example of why humans need Elders. Analysing and Understanding Racism

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is an excellent example of why humans need Elders.  As well as why we have them.  It is our job to offer the benefit of our experience in the hope that it will lead to more honesty, health, courage and action. This woman, vilified by the spiritually terrorized during her lifetime, read more »

I Keep Lighting Candles… by Amy M. Alvarez. Poem for Breonna Taylor

Poem of the Week Amy M. Alvarez Content Notice: Black death via state-sanctioned violence, grief I keep lighting candles on my stoop and watching the wind snuff them out I keep thinking about Breonna Taylor asleep/ between fresh sheets/ I keep thinking/ about her skin cooling after a shower/ about her hair wrapped in a satin read more »

Where Are We Now? Apeirogon and Mornings in Jenin ©2020 by Alice Walker

¿Adónde Estamos Ahora? Apeirogono  *Y Mañanas En Yenin*   Where Are We Now?  Apeirogon and Mornings in Jenin ©2020 by Alice Walker   Where are we now? For the past months, learning from an illness that this is a different season of Life, learning from Nature and its fires that nothing I have is permanent, read more »

(Defend Julian Assange) Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker

¡Gabriel Assange Quiere Contar!      (Defend Julian Assange)   Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker   When Gabriel Assange grows up I want him to know that I was thinking of him on his first visit to see his father in prison; that I was moved to realize his big gift read more »

Julian Assange The Trial of the Century George Galloway

  Alice Walker in video at marks:  27:37,  57:00,  1:16:42 I last heard the live voice of this Elder as he stood with Palestinians in the middle of a bombed out Gaza.  Here he is again, standing up for Julian Assange. They tell me the current virus has its sights on Elders, or just on read more »

Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker

Morir Sabio Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker I have experienced Life, so far, As a full on miracle; No matter the slings and arrows Always to be endured On a path of intelligence, awareness, adventure and joy. Behind each sorrow Has been a gift Not always pretty or painless But unfailingly of use. And read more »

New Poems for Ede : For Human Babies and Yorkies : The World Is Not Safe

August 20, 2020   New Poems for Ede For Human Babies and Yorkies The World Is Not Safe © 2020 by Alice Walker For human babies And Yorkies The world Is not safe. I think of this As I caution young friends Not to give birth. I am old now And see how things are. read more »

An Unknown Soilder ‘You are here profiting off of our f—— pain’: A New York City woman gives a powerful speech to demonstrators destroying neighborhoods

La Soldado Desconocida August 6, 2020   The Unknown Soldier ©2020 by Alice Walker I have been wondering Where the soldiers are The ones that did not come back In body bags. Or those several a day Who leave us for good; Who cannot bear upon arrival Home To think about What they have done. read more »

there is a daughter poem for AOC – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2020

hay una hija       there is a daughter for AOC © 2020 by Alice Walker there is a daughter taking the floor there is a daughter standing in the light of her mother’s prayers, her father’s dreams, her teachers’ high hopes as well as in the shadow of our common disillusionment.   there read more »