We smiled; it seemed smiles were our ways of soothing our souls, calming ourselves a knot, brought ourselves to the understanding that death was a part of life, and life often times had to choose to move on without this aging vessel we lovingly called body because life has to know itself by expanding its consciousness; to do this it has to have some type of form and human body is the form with all the five senses. When life's consciousness has expaned to the point the  ... Read More

"Ballerina," I called out.

I deliberately directed my call at her in hopes of provoking a response or to see if she was listening to me. She seemed to be lost in her unique ballet-like dance; a dance of her own invention and  creation, an artist in her own right.

"Perhaps she dances for money," I thought to myself as my eyes diligently traced after her without missing a beat.

"I don't have any money," I said with a stern voice to make ... Read More

She was also warmed to the idea I could be rescuing her from jail. We would know if I did or not in a few moments from now when the police officers stopped harassing the kids in hopes of shaming them into quiescence and left without taking any one of us in a handcuffs. That would be the ideal outcome we all hoped for. 

I didn't know if there was a due process in practice in the judicial system, if such a system had already been established and functioning. I just kne ... Read More

Then one day, out of the blue, while gambling with other runaway kids on the streets, she plowed into us like an uncontrollable vehicle, bulldozing some of us to the sidewalk as she was fleeing a group of police officers waving their batons, blowing their whistles as though they were warning people of the next wave of the American carpet bombings inside the country, galvanizing the people to a gathering point and plan a retaliation.

These police officers often overrea ... Read More

My wife used to complain about my socks splaying about on the floor, and now that I had gone to be with my Creator, she wished there would be socks whenever she arrived from work; if there were socks at such a place, it would mean I was home, in one of the many rooms awaiting her arrival while changing into casual clothing because I abhorred being stifled by a military uniform with all its dangling medals and imperfectly sew on bulky epaulets.

She missed me greatly, ... Read More