WHY AM I AFRAID FOR MY SONS...

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Good Brothers,
I greet you with love and a sense of urgency. Each man must walk his own path and fulfill his own journey. I am thankful for the opportunity that we have to share knowledge wisdom and understanding....One LOVE

Reference: Exodus 1:16-22, Exodus 2:2-10, Matthew 2:13-16.

Why am I afraid for my sons? I have six (biological) children. I am blessed with three daughters and three sons. As I write this letter to you my treasure includes five wonderful grandchildren. I also have a quite a few adopted daughters and sons that live in my village and some that I have met along the way. I have adopted some while some have adopted me. Now don't misunderstand me. I love my daughters unconditionally. I love them with all my heart and soul. I am extremely concerned about my daughters and the world that they live in. My daughters are part of a greater community as African American Women. They live in a society in which they continue the struggle for liberation, equality, and for the love, uplifting and edification of our humanity.

As women of the African diaspora my daughters face racial disparity within this society. They face the rampant, deadly, and annihilating disease HIV and AIDS. This disease has greatly disproportionately overwhelmed our women and young folk. As women my daughters face gender prejudice in the work place, in their communities and even within their own families. Health, social, and economic issues are a challenge to the stability and well being of my daughters.

Nevertheless, this question still remains. Why am I afraid for my sons? In the Bible we find an example of infanticide and genocide. Let us take a close look at this ancient story and see if we can make a connection to some of our present circumstances. Pharaoh gave out a decree to kill all young male infants so as to prevent the strengthening of the family. He wanted to remove the innumerable, blessed, righteous and powerful presence of men from a nation of people. The other more present reality was to destroy all hopes of the future soldiers, providers, fathers, elders, leaders, teachers, prophets and deliverer of a people held down and away from the promises of their divine place and destiny. By killing all the males of a particular generation Pharaoh would have afforded the powers to be a stronghold on the oppression and dominance of a people and their resources. However there was one male child that was saved from the hand of the enemy and destruction.

That one male child was Moses. A mother gave birth to a little boy and as most mothers do she saw something special in her son. She kept her son away from the decree of Pharaoh and hidden from sight as long as she could. With hope for her son's safety and longevity she got a little basket-boat made from papyrus and waterproofed it. She then wrapped her little baby boy in a blanket placed him in the little basket-boat. The baby's older sister followed the basket as it floated in the reeds at the edge of the Nile. Pharaoh's daughter had come to the Nile to bathe with her maidens. She saw the basket-boat floating in the reeds and sent her maiden to get it. When Pharaoh's daughter saw that it was a little boy her heart opened up immediately and she recognized that it must be one of the Hebrew babies. The sister of the baby boy came to Pharaoh's daughter and asked if she would like for her to get a nursing mother from the Hebrews to nurse the baby. Pharaoh's daughter agreed and when the boy was weaned they brought the boy to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted and raised him as her son. She named him Moses which means Pulled-Out because she pulled him out of the water. This boy Moses was raised up strong and secure in the house that God would use him to deliver the oppressed and enslaved people from. I am in awe of the many layered truth and revelation that against all decreed and prescribed perilous odds, the women folk covered, protected and nurtured the male child that was supposed to be given over to the jaws of destruction.


This family of man whose ancestors were Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have increased greatly in population, prosperity and power within the borders of the kingdom of Egypt. They were considered as a present and future threat to the powers that be of that time. In order to stop them Pharaoh and his kingdom oppressed the people greatly. They even resorted to the killing of all male children in a particular generation so as to subdue the nation that was growing within it's borders. But notice how the king decreed to let the female child live. You see, Pharaoh and his dominion knew that destroying all male children of that generation would take away from the power of that family of man and make it easy for them to be subdued and enslaved. Pharaoh and his nation would be able to rule over the women and each generation thereafter without much resistance or struggle.


The women nurtured and protected the male infants best as they could. They hid the boy children and concealed them there by confining them at the hems of their garments. They tried everything within their power to keep the male seed from the contempt, cruelty, and destruction of evil. Nevertheless we will see a father, a man that would take an infant boy and mother out of and away from evil's trap of death. A father brings a son to a place of safety where the boy can be nurtured and grow. A father creates an environment that would cover, provide, and protect his family. A father and a man gave his son the opportunity to fulfill his destiny.

Why am I afraid for my sons? The wise men advised Herod of the coming of the Deliverer and King that was prophesied for hundreds of years. The ruler Herod upon hearing the prophecy and receiving the knowledge of a King and greater man than himself to be born became fearful and jealous. Herod was afraid that this could mean the end of his rule. It meant change, empowerment and liberation of a people that he helped to oppress and destroy. The ugly face of humanity was about to be washed with the birth of just one baby boy. Herod posing as a worshiper put into place a plan to destroy the promise of God for a people by killing all the male children from that family of man. Wipe the new born seed out before they can grow and exercise their gifts, talents, strengths, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Kill them before they grow. Herod's hopes were to bring the challenge and threat to his wicked kingdom to total annihilation and destruction. Nevertheless the hope, aspiration, prayer, struggle, determination and promise of the righteous could never be stopped! There stood a father who heard the message from God. There lived a father who knew his inner self. There was a father who was very aware of the ever present danger.

Joseph received a message from God telling him that his family was in danger. It was absolutely clear that the social authority and circumstances were designed and designated to destroy his male seed and all the male seed of his family of man. With quickness and great concern Joseph took mother and child to a safe place. He did not hesitate to act. Joseph was physically, mentally and spiritually present in his own family. There is something that I admire about Joseph, husband of Mary and father to Jesus. Many would write Joseph into obscurity. Many would say that he had no great mention or made any great accomplishment. He did not create a great invention or find a medical cure that would uplift mankind. Joseph did not hold a seat in the great council chamber or great high court. Joseph did not lead many men into battle and out to a great victory. The Bible states that Joseph was a good man.

The thing that I admire about Joseph was his presence, awareness, and active role of leadership in his very own family. Yes, his very presence in his own home and family secured safety and prosperity for those that depended on him. You see, it was Joseph who did not abandon Mary when most men would have. He kept her in a place of honor and high esteem. It was Joseph who operated with quickness, boldness and stealth to take mother and child to safety from an ever present danger. It was Joseph who as a carpenter labored with his hands to provide his family. Jesus was known by those in his own village and society not only as Rabbi but also as the son of a carpenter. The son of a skilled and honored man. It was Joseph that laid down the foundation that helped give Jesus the ability to present himself at the temple to have great dialog and discourse with the teachers and priests. Joseph was the one who lead his family to the temple at Jerusalem on every occasion.

Why am I afraid for my sons? Each generation is being locked out from memory of their own past, their own story, their own self and their own destiny. We are swallowed up into the undercurrent of a great Tsunami and swept into the the abyss of nothingness. Our mind and spirit has been shaken and peeled away from us in layers until we are left in a weakened state of the human that is fearfully and wonderfully made. There is a particular answer, principle and solution that is etched into one chapter of our book of life. An angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph and told him to pick up the baby and mother and carry them into the safety of Africa. Now, I clearly understand that Herod who sat in rule over that region and people had a peek or sneak preview into the future through the eyes and visions of the Wise Men. He was entering into the time of prophecy fulfilled and he was terrified. Herod knew that this meant the ending of his rule and a coming of a new age for man.

The angel from the Lord gave instruction to Joseph who was a man designed, formed and purposed to be father to the infant boy. Yes, Joseph taking mother and child out of harms way and into Africa was part of the prophecy fulfilled. Joseph gives us and example of how we as fathers must respond to the perils that surround our families today. He was acutely aware in the society that he lived in. In order to see clearly he was able to look through a variety of lenses that gave him the ability to see who he was and where he was at. Herod upon hearing of what was to take place ordered all male children two years and younger within the region of Bethlehem and the surrounding areas to be killed. He sent out this decree with hopes of erasing the succeeding generation and destroying any possibilities of a future leader, king, or Messiah. He did not want to see the male seed of this particular family of man reach their divine purpose and destiny.

Why am I afraid for my son's? This story taken into my own historical reference clearly points to my ancestors of the great and ancient kingdoms and people of Africa. Here we are today in America as a people of the African Diaspora. Subdued, captured, kidnapped, shackled, imprisoned, bound and oppressed. With odds overwhelmingly against us we managed not only to survive but we multiplied, evolved, and prospered. We are more than conquerors and have overcome the evil set upon us by spiritual wickedness and human immorality. We are not only a free people we are a divine people. Beloved, we are the children of the Most High God. If you look carefully you will see that the enemy of our soul and the wickedness of man uses the same formula prescribed to the people of the family of man millenniums ago against us, God's children and people today. When I look around and see the destruction of our male seed laid to waste in the fields, valleys, mountains, villages, cities, and this garden we call earth my soul cries out.

I have a question. What was it about our ancestors (the men in particular) that made them so docile in the face of a terrible enemy. Why could we not as men in the family of man form an unified opinion or attitude to hold off a common enemy. Why didn't they come and see about the children that were ripped from their bosom? We are the family and the children of a promised people and generation. Some of my ancestors were subdued and conquered by the European people, western society, and the Arab peoples and nations. Nevertheless, why did my ancestors come together against a common enemy and build strong ships to navigate the oceans? Why didn't they go and fight for us and bring us back to their own self? After all we navigated the oceans for millenniums and there was no place where we could not reach or travel to at any point in history.


No great effort was made. There was no cohesive power or thought. Their mind was not united to a common self, common cause or against a common enemy. What is it that can keep us so powerless, oppressed, and enslaved? Why do we kill our each other, oppress our women and abandon our children to the mayhem of this society? What ever happened to the glory that we were supposed to walk and live in? When will we learn to harness and share the natural resources that our land has to offer? Why do we let man made religion, language, ethnic and cultural differences and conditions divide us? Why did we learn to hate each other with a great darkness? When will we re-learn to love one another in an ever growing light? Why do we wallow in the dark depravity of the abyss as compared to stand upright in the righteous light of infinite possibilities? We as a people of the African Diaspora, where do we stand in the family of man?


Why am I afraid for my sons? I pick up the newspaper just about every morning and open it up to more bad news. It's the same story on a different day in various towns, cities, states, and countries. The head lines declare more violence in the streets. "Teenager shoots and kills another teenager." Young men in dispute with one another stab or shoot each other. Confrontation in our village leads to more senseless deaths of our youth. The increase in such violence is astounding and continually on the rise. Through spiritual lenses I can see the enemy of our soul reaping satisfaction from the mayhem and madness. Families are left in an empty, dark, depressed, sorrowful, and terrified condition.

Young people in many areas of our globe are gunning each other down with weapons made by corporations that are raking in billions of dollars. Some of these corporations are hiding behind banners in the U.S. of the rights of it's citizens to bear arms. The focus of material resources is placed into a war machine. Billions of dollars spent on weapons designed to destroy masses of defenseless and hopeless civilian populations. We are living in a world full of women and children placed in harms way. They are plagued by poverty, malnutrition, and disease. Already under depression and oppression this segment of our worlds population is now constantly under the threat of annihilation.

These women and children are caught up in the genocidal conflicts that leave them exposed to uninhibited mob violence perpetrated by their neighbors who hide behind. Some are challenged by cluster bombs raining from the sky so that we can search for weapons of mass destruction hidden from view or knowledge in the depths of the sand or hidden caves. Some are exposed at the market place to desperate people who filled with despair and hopelessness have become cloaked in plastic explosives and are bent on snuffing out as many lives as possible. These suicidal soldiers have become instruments and agents of evil and hatred guided by false illusions of a righteous or holy cause. Yet some of women and children are left stranded for days on roof tops in the city of New Orleans which is within the most prosperous country in the world without food, water, relief or protection by a government that is slow to respond to the cry and concern of the least in their own society. Excuse me, I digress.

This nation and it's leaders claim that the youth are one of their main priorities. The leaders speak of how the youth are our country's number one resource. They claim that they want to protect, nurture and develop tomorrow's promise. These ideals become idle weak words promoted by people with political agendas. They turn the concept of entitlement and empowerment of our youngest generation into simple afterthoughts. Once in a while there is a feeble attempt to throw the dog a bone. The government and it's leaders attempt to patronize and pacify the people by dangling a carrot of promise and progress on a stick.

Why am I afraid for my sons? Yes, the warning signs are clear! Our sons are in immediate danger. We must act now! We must proceed without hesitation. This generation is being led to slaughter. Our sons are being manipulated, directed and placed into the great dark abyss. They are being socialized and processed into social institutions that are designed to grow them, house them, and keep them in physical, mental, and spiritual bondage. Unemployment is on the rise within our communities. In some of our towns, cities, and states at least seventy percent of African American males are without jobs or any viable means of income. How can we procure the basic necessities that would support, provide, and nourish our families under such unequal and harsh economic realities.

Our youth are our future and also our present strength, force, and primary resource. They are the tip of the spear in our struggle for peace and freedom for all humanity. This generation must be radically. politically, and socially activated into halting and reversing this destructive diabolically designed downward trend immediately! We must do so by any means necessary or abdicate our future to total destruction. A prophetic word to my younger brothers, "We must take into serious consideration that we must create strong economic opportunities for our-self and people. We must incorporate disciplined economic principles within our families, community and world. We must build community, national, and global relationships and alliances that will empower and prosper us as a people. We must mobilize and position our self into owning, maintaining, controlling resources that will benefit us and all the family of man."

Why am I afraid for my sons? African American males are dropping out of high school at an ever increasing and alarming rate. In some of our cities forty eight percent of our males do not have a high school diploma. In today's society and world our sons and daughters will need a college education or a highly technical education to compete in this global economy. How are we to strengthen, support and provide for our-self and our families as men without a strong, analytical, and empowering education. Right here in our own cities and communities the education system is deteriorating and is falling behind. Illiteracy amongst our youth is looming while illiteracy among the young in so called third world countries is rampant and entrenched. Funds and resources are not prioritised, appropriated or invested into building educational system and process that would enlighten, empower and uplift a people beginning with the youngest generation. Our sons are walking through the doors of illiteracy.

How do we end the cycle and curse of poverty that has afflicted generation after generation of African American people? Literacy and education are essential keys to freedom and liberation. "The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed" by Paulo Freire illuminates the power of change due to self education through critical analysis and attainment. Freire's evaluation of power and the reactions of oppressed people to systems of dominance is remarkable. He charts out a path of liberation whereby oppressed people can empower ourselves. How do we end the the cycle and curse of poverty that has afflicted generation after generation of African American people? Education is freedom and illiteracy is bondage! Let us break these chains once and for all. Education for self is and should be a personal journey of enlightenment, empowerment, and edification that is sought after with determination and diligence. It is a path that each individual must take and fulfill in their lifetime.

Prisons are being built in almost every city and state across this nation. The average age of the male population in this prison system is getting younger and younger. Teenagers are now being warehoused like cattle before being sent to the slaughter house. The average reading level of our young men in this system is at about a third grade reading level. My government invests billions of dollars on building a prison system that warehouses our youth like movable property. They are building prisons right in our own communities instead of schools and technical institutions that will prepare our young to create and compete effectively in the world arena. The prison system is designed to bind and control a specific group within our society. This system specifically affects our families, communities and people. Prisons are built to control our boys and young men. The African American male population in prison is proportionally high when compared to the percentage of African American population in the United States. That population is increasing at an ever alarming rate every year and a sub-culture of incarcerated oppressed and illiterate men is being created right in our midst.

Governments have used it's wise men today to gather all the information about our male child so that they can calculate effective ways of subduing our family of man. They build more prisons yet we have only one university in the United States that is dedicated to the higher learning of our young men,Morehouse University in Atlanta, Georgia. They invest in locking up our boys and young men and warehousing them in a prison system as compared to investing in good teachers and schools. There is little if any investment of tax dollars or government revenue dedicated to the physical, mental or spiritual development of our youth today. They continue to study on how to bind and destroy our young folk.


Many experts have studied and classified our boys and young men. Psychologists have written thesis and theoretical formulas for doctorates and the study of their profession. Psychiatrists have tried to study the minds of our youth and young men. Sociologists have charted social structure, characteristics, conditions and environments of our boys and young men from past to present. Professional educators have tried to study and formulate educational programs that would reach the minds of our children today. Preachers and religious leaders have taken note and delivered Word about the demise and destruction of our youth today. Nevertheless with much focus and attention in this area our action is weak and impotent. As African American men we have fallen into complacency and allowed our families and future generations to digress into oblivion, darkness and death.

Our ancestors who were held in chattel slavery were not allowed to read and write, have citizenship, have rights or own property. We broke those chains and began to build our own schools out of necessity. We were not allowed in the hospitals so we raised up our own doctors and nurses. We build our own communities, churches, cities, states and nation as an industrious and prosperous people. After all we never lacked the intelligence, ability, knowledge, creativity or productivity as human beings. That old bush just keeps on burning and from the Light of this Tree of Love we keep on learning. We were blessed from the beginning and still to this day remained blessed and highly favored of God.


The church of our ancestors here in the United States addressed our needs in a more aggressive manner. Our ancestors had no choice but to forge a way for the following generations. They built and maintained universities so not only as to enlighten but to educate and develop minds for our survival, success, and future. The church not only tended to our spiritual needs but also embraced, maintained, and protected our social structure. I believe that we have lost courage, vision, purpose in the area of self determination and development as a people. We must reach back into the mind set of our ancestors and make our youngest generation our priority. We must also stay on the road to self determination so as to become the people that God has designed us to be. This society would have us under oppressive and degenerative rule if we do not free our-self. We are an important part of the family of man in this vast myriad collection of humanity. Each one teach one and let the village nurture, raise, protect, and love it's children.

Why am I afraid for my sons? Our people are perishing from lack of knowledge. You must know who your enemy is and how your enemy operates. This society has set its mark on us for destruction and it is extremely important that we go on the offense and take a proactive role in our own destiny. The resources, wealth, and power is owned and operated by a very small percentage and specific group of people. Yet there ae billions of people especially women and children that are living under appalling poverty conditions. World wide more and more people are suffering every day. We must wrestle and obtain control of the earths resources and distribute them in such a manner as to benefit all the family of man.

The body of our youth is afflicted with hidden terminal ills and is methodically perishing. There is a war going on that has us set for destruction. AIDS is iatrogenic (or “man-made”) AIDS is decimating the people of the African Diaspora in horrific geometric numbers. AIDS is disbursed among the people of the African Diaspora in horrific geometric numbers. It is a man made anti viral biological weapon designed to infect and destroy a designated population in the family of man. Now I know that these are strong words. Nevertheless some of us have some knowledge of the agents, tools, and methods used to control, suppress, and deny us dignity, freedom, prosperity, and life.

It should also be noted that Mozambique has one of the highest rates of HIV-2, which was allegedly discovered by Essex et al., in Senegalese female prostitutes years after the African hepatitis B vaccination pilot studies began. Due to their state-authorized employment and high risk for infection, Senegalese female prostitutes were required to receive hepatitis B vaccinations for relicensure. That Essex et al. found SIVagm, a documented vaccine contaminant, in the blood of these human subject, is additionally compelling evidence in support of the HB vaccine AIDS origination theory.

Kissinger directed a national security cryptocracy that included corporate affiliates at the biological weapons contractor /vaccine maker Merck, as well as the traditional weapons contractor Litton Industries. Litton’s president, Roy Ash, also served in the Nixon administration overseeing American industry. Litton’s medical subsidiary, Bionetics, as detailed above, largely directed the NCI’s SVCP, administered America’s premier biological weapons testing center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and supplied the chimpanzees, monkeys, monkey viruses, primate cell lines, and other resources for cancer research, biological weapons development, and vaccine manufacture. Thus, Kissinger certainly maintained the means, through his official channels at Merck, Litton Bionetics, and the CIA, as well as the motive, to deploy AIDS-like viruses by 1974 in Merck’s HB vaccine. What is unconscionable to most people, Kissinger, a staunch advocate of African depopulation, would have considered it convenient that the emergence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa coincided synchronously with the massive depopulation policy institutionalized with primary funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Merck Fund. Most recently, Kissinger’s direction of foreign genocidal operations has been heralded by even mainstream periodicals. In light of these revelations, it is stunning that Kissinger wrote his own genocide indemnification policy on behalf of the United States Government in Foreign Affairs published by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001

The U.S. Homeland Security Act passed the Senate virtually unanimously. Mysteriously incorporated in its text was a vaccine injury indemnity clause that freed drug companies from liabilities associated with specific vaccine ingredients, such as HIV precursors in the HB vaccines. With this gross violation of U.S. constitutional, civil, and human rights, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been forced to care, without compensation, for vaccine injured family members. If the U.S. Government is able to get away with this most blatant breach of public faith, what is it capable of doing covertly? Clearly, this current vaccine policy is a form of institutionalized genocide—defined as “the mass enslaving (pharmaceutically and otherwise) and killing of people for economics, politics, and/or ideology?” So long as the above scientific facts and AIDS issues remain unaddressed by medicine’s mainstream, the implications are that AIDS science and vaccination policies, and likely all of science, has evolved in a vacuum devoid of ethics to serve political, economic, and/or ideological motives. Thus, by strict definition, genocide and iatrogenesis have much. So much so that regardless of whether HIV/AIDS originated by accident or intentionally, with this data, there is sufficient justification to coin a new most appropriate term—“iatrogenocide.” Brothers, please do your own research for knowledge, wisdom, understanding and truth.

Why am I so afraid for my sons? Yes, we can point a finger at the social ills of our society beginning with the sinful, illegal, immoral institution of slavery. Then we can look, see, and remember what racism, segregation and unjust laws have done to us as a nation of people. We can talk about and examine the unequal and disproportionate division and sharing of the wealth and prosperity of this country that we live in. We can feel the affect of illiteracy of great numbers of people that have not realized the power and empowerment of the process of self education. Yes, we can complain, talk about it, get angry and frustrated about it all the days of our lives. But if we do not take the action individually and collectively then we will drown and die in the filthy floods that are coming our way.


Katrina was coming and we did not pack up Big Momma, grandma, grandpa, old uncle Joe and our babies to bring them to higher ground. We do not prepare for the hard road that is ahead of us this road leads to safety. Yes, the government is responsible but our instinct to survive and our ability to prosper should be far more greater than reliance on empty promise from an enemy or entity that never ever had our best interest at heart. Have we become so helpless and hopeless that we allow evil intent and malice to hide behind a mask of fate, predetermined class or social structured culture? Who have we allowed to define who we are? How do we define self in a world system that would eradicate us and bury our true life story in the annals of dust covered history books with faded titles and scratched out decimal numbers?


Where is our relief? From where will come our help? Our help comes from our God, Lord of Lords, Lord of Hosts, King of Kings, God of all creation and our Redeemer. Nevertheless, even when our Father and Protector shows up nothing can happen unless we do our part. Yes, we can get on our knees and pray for deliverance but somewhere in that moment we must get up off our knees and take a proactive role. We must make radical, righteous and positive changes in our ways of thinking and lifestyle. We must bring our mind under subjection. We must demand more from our self. We can not depend on some social institution, church ministry, city, state, or government agency to bring us to a place of promise. Our great destiny is dependent upon our daily righteous living, continued fight in freedom, justice, and equality, and our responsible roles in the evolution of our family of humanity.


Why am I afraid for my sons? The police may harass and abuse us. The legal system may deny us. The courts and judges may condemn and incarcerate us. God is for us so who could possibly be against us! Nevertheless we must free our self from the shackles, chains, and false boundaries that have been imposed upon our family of man. Beloved, we must reach within and tap into the spirit of the divine that God gave us from day one. No man on earth or demon from another realm can take that spirit away from us. We are a spark of the divine. You and I are children of the One and Only True Living God.

The Spirit of God lives with us and within us. The despair, depression and oppression that you feel and experience from the world system and sociological parameters are all just an illusion created to keep you from the promises of God. The Pharaohs and Herod of today know that you are a prosperous and blessed people. The earth and everything on it belong to Lord. The world and its people belong to him. So why do a very small percentage of people own the wealth? Why are the resources of our planet not shared appropriately and one to another? The wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous! Righteous people arise and go get some of that wealth! We have to bring our self to a place where we can retrieve this wealth and use it as to invest in our own Kingdom Building right here on earth. Beloved, there is a dark shroud and curse of poverty covering our eyes. It is a spirit and condition that can hinder our insight to who we really are. It can obscure our sight and not allow us to see the true reflection and image of God within us. Drugs, alcohol, disease and mental illness afflict our population with perpetual ferocious tenacity. Brothers, bring your minds under subjection. Let us get our mind right. Begin to change your mind and then everything around us will begin to transform.

©Gregory Roberson 2008