humanity

Humanity begins at home.

Losing My Mom-A journey of Self Discovery & Inner Child Healing
After a swiftly abrupt ending to the most sacred relationship in my life, I share with you today the wisdom I have gained and the very practices I implemented to cope with the biggest heartbreak of my life.
By Noor 5 years ago in Families
Afro-Deutsch On a Journey
And here I am, far from Germany and from Senegal, the motherland or I should say fatherland? How did I end up in Detroit? Growing up was an adventure, moving from one continent to another frequently. I have three sisters and each us is born in either Germany or Senegal. My parents were quite the travelers. I guess they had a hard time deciding where to settle down, where to live a fruitful life at, being an interracial couple in the 80’s was not easy.
By Siga Miga5 years ago in Families
The Sound of Silence
The song echoes in my mind. One of the best things about songs is the few words that are chosen well can convey huge emotions and mountains of feelings. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel taught us all about life by mesmerizing us with the beauty and depth of feelings.
By Fred Looney5 years ago in Families
selfless love
I think I can, I think I can, I am the little engine that could, being born in Baltimore city to an alcoholic mother that loved me dearly, but love the drinking a little more and an absent birth father, who as he put it when he finally called was that he was living that street life, so he stayed away to protect me and my sister who was two of my birth mothers the seven children that belong to him. This was the beginning of my life from birth to five months, living with my mother and three of my older siblings at my grandmother’s house. when I was five months old my mother decided to fulfill a promise that she made to a lady in a drunken state but with the most clarity she had in her heart, she wanted better for us and it all started with me. It was a turning point for all the people involved which included my mother, me ,the children she bore after me the lady I was given to, her husband, and their six children, extend family members, my husband, my in-laws,and my children. That day, even though I was five months old was the best manifestation of true love of a mother for her child. She truly wanted better for me and her other children and she knew she could not give us the life she desired for us, so she selflessly gave us to some so special with the most amazing heart a human could possess, That day she took me to a little tavern bundled up in a small car seat, where the lady who fed her for the nine months she was pregnant with me worked, and told her I promised you a gift, set my car seat on the counter turn around and left that was the beginning of the life that shaped who I am today.
By Aisha El-amin5 years ago in Families
SON, YOU MADE DAADA PROUD!
SON, YOU MADE DAADA PROUD! A couple of weeks back, my darling wife had been pestering me to please come over to my son's school (where she teaches) to come and take the pupils through "Origami" (a Japanese art of folding paper into different objects).
By McEstus Adeshina Oshinowo5 years ago in Families
SON, YOU MADE DAADA PROUD!
SON, YOU MADE DAADA PROUD! A couple of weeks back, my darling wife had been pestering me to please come over to my son's school (where she teaches) to come and take the pupils through "Origami" ( a Japanese art of folding paper into different objects).
By McEstus Adeshina Oshinowo5 years ago in Families
Un-Rhyll
To my favourite 'Chio'! When I look back at all we have shared in over the years, it is simply mind-blowing! It all started during our teens in the days of the ol' 'telling bone' (phone for those of you not au fait with Cockney slang). Wow! That was roughly four decades ago and may I emphasise the roughly? Not from a time-line point of view but for the shenanigans we got up to 'back in the day'. I have forever been grateful for our friendship ever since and how you initiated the phone call to my home just because you liked me and thought I'd make a good friend. You have always been a good judge of character. Ha ha ha !!!
By Mary Jo Hanly5 years ago in Families
Recognizing an idiot
In our life, we always face some kinds of idiots who make our life more interesting as well miserable also. Nevertheless, one thing is sure that it brings a new experience that we can learn from it. The reason is that you have to face the idiots throughout your life and you have to play jingle with them for your survival as well. What happens is that we are very much prone to do idiotic work in our life. Even, when we do it without our conscious, then we rarely learn from this kind of mistake. However, one thing is sure that we have to do idiotic work in our life at least once in our lifetime as well. It is an amazing feeling when we recollect our idiotic deed in the past time, then we smile inwardly without noticing anybody about it. It is a great experience when we will meet an idiot in our lifetime. Nevertheless, you should know that idiot teaches us in such a way that no general teaching will be available to us anymore as well.
By Manik Roy5 years ago in Families
Fairy kiss
Being brave or not isn't a choice right now. An allergy caused by epidural anesthesia before last minute C section completely numbs my lungs. Baby is brought out fast, while the chord remains uncut. Doctors and nurses hope for us being able to breathe any moment.
By Ingrid Dittrich5 years ago in Families
White Light
Here sits a man in plain clothes enjoying a cup of coffee. He stands about six foot five and weights approximately two-hundred seven. He works out at the local gym and is on the way of becoming a Doctor of Medicine. He dreams of helping veterans with their issues and setting them on the right road. Today though, as he took another sip, could be his last. He was pale skinned even though he was blacker in his younger days, he wore all sorts of concealing makeup to hide the discoloration. He hated it, even knowing it was not him, but his genetics. His overcoat was hanging on the hook of the establishment and as he looked around, he was the only one in there drinking, no one else was here, they all took their orders to go.
By William L. Truax III5 years ago in Families
My Earth.
The earth in which I came from, rich, fertile, black, and warm. Born into a cocoon of love. Held close and protected. Mother Earth loved me more than I could bare to understand. At a tender age, never went without, even on the roughest of days, my Earth provided. Through Earth quakes, tsunamis, flooding's, volcano eruptions, she stood tall. She provided and prepared us to see another day. Although she is stressed and underappreciated, still, like the season of winter transitioning into spring, she always blossomed. A atmosphere of love, she welcomed us. I'll love her forever for it. I put her on a pedestal, allowing the galaxy to see all her glory. I thought she was beautiful, a breathe of fresh air, a warm spring morning, a hot summer day, she smelled of home. I couldn't have done it without her, a pillar that stood tall, a foundation in which we would seek shelter from the storm. She never abandoned us. I sat with her, hoping that she knew through all the bad weather I'll be there with her. She loved us. I loved her.
By Sorae 5 years ago in Families
Mother Mine. Runner-Up in Love Unraveled Challenge.
He took your children from you. Left three gaping holes. Three distinct shapes. The first, slender and tall for her age, and sweetly shy.
By Christy Munson5 years ago in Families