Grateful for my life and all the learning, love, fun, and meaning discovered and shared therein.
Grateful to have been born at a time when I am not seasick, dying and starving cargo in the bowels of a ship, the reward for surviving being enslavement, humiliation, forced labor, terror, rape and murder (one or more, or all of the above).
Grateful (and sad/angry) that my ancestors went through all of the above in order for me to be able to make that first statement.
Grateful that more eyes belonging to pale-skinned bodies are opening to the fact that the legacy and inheritance of American slavery and Jim Crow are alive and well for all of us Americans of every hue.
Grateful for my daughter (and her mother (my ex) for carrying, issuing her forth and co-raising her the best she could), my loving and lovely partner, and my extended family. You give my soul comfort and are people whom are easy to love, and are appreciated more than you could ever understand.
Grateful for my mother, who carried me, issued me forth and co-raised me the best she could. I miss her every day.
Grateful that the Native Peoples of Turtle Island endure and in some cases even thrive. Grateful for whatever few and small reparations were not reneged on by our government. This holiday should be twinned with Native Peoples of Turtle Island Day in honor of you with remembrance, and atonement!
Grateful to have more hope for the future than I've had in several years.
Grateful for YOU who take the time to read this blog. YOU are my hope too.
What comforts the soul of your wife?
I am thinking that is off your radar. You did not care when you established an affair whilst your wife, who had nearly attained a complete suicide, was in a Psychiatric Hospital.
Do you think that not enquiring about your wife's health for 13 months was spiritually healing for her soul? Do you realise what a damaging example you gave to your daughter on Christmas day? Do you know that your wife would never for one second put you through such extreme emotional pain?
Do you realise what you and your lovely partner have shown your daughter, your wife and God?
Both you and you lovely partner have sinned. You by your actions…