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An epistle from your Reading and Writing course instructor

Sunday. Morning. I am seated in my office over another cup of hot coffee steaming away. Strewn across the beige mahogany table before me are six textbooks on college writing and an open note book. I am preparing lessons for the week ahead. Presently, I have been trying to find…

Writers On Writing

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An epistle from your Reading and Writing course instructor
An epistle from your Reading and Writing course instructor
Writers On Writing

12 min read


Feb 24

Match Made in Heaven

Graduation Article You are not graduand, nor is this graduation. This is a wedding, your wedding; you are but a bride/groom. Today, you are being wed, wed not to another person, but Purpose, capital P Purpose, Purpose bigger than you, bigger than the small, petty, selfish goals you have been…

Graduation

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Match Made in Heaven
Match Made in Heaven
Graduation

7 min read


Nov 14, 2022

Spiritual Obesity

“Ronaldo says he feels ‘betrayed’ by Man Utd” reads today’s leading headline story on BBC Sports News. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63619074 I am intrigued. The club Ronaldo accuses of betraying him pays him over half a million a week (£515,385 per week — that is over a million in a fortnight, £ 26.8…

Spirituality

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Spirituality

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Aug 5, 2021

Divine Romantic Comedy

Once upon a time, the angels in heaven were on a break from their divine duties. The angels have their break during the last extra six hours of a year, before the earth makes a full circle around the sun. The six hours fall on November 1 earth time, from…

Love

35 min read

Divine Romantic Comedy
Divine Romantic Comedy
Love

35 min read


Jul 13, 2021

We are not verbs, but nouns, on ongoing nounization.

Life is not a noun, goes a saying, it is a verb. Another goes so far as to proclaim that God, too, is not a noun, but a verb. While these statements are meant to be motivational, in the spirit of Invictus, which means unconquerable or uncontrollable in Latin, that…

Life

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We are not verbs, but nouns, on ongoing nounization.
We are not verbs, but nouns, on ongoing nounization.
Life

8 min read


Jul 6, 2021

Life, ephemeral painting, eternal portrait

Forgive the cliché ( but then can anyone ever say anything of substance, meaning in today’s world without coming off as cliché, corny, or even parochial?) —but what if this thing we call life, existence, is, in truth, painting, that we are really painters, seated before our respective canvas, in…

Life

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Life, ephemeral painting, eternal portrait
Life, ephemeral painting, eternal portrait
Life

4 min read


Jun 10, 2021

injustice knows no colour

I do not sign on with the Black Lives Matter movement although my skin is black as the moonless, starless sky. This is a decision I have made after visiting the tombs of and consulting with all my negro ancestors — the slaves abducted from their homes, shackled with heavy…

BlackLivesMatter

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injustice knows no colour
injustice knows no colour
BlackLivesMatter

3 min read


Jun 3, 2021

Cheeky English

the desecration of the English language — A tall, drunken teenage boy staggers into the study room and walks up to two girls engrossed in their group work. “And how are my sainted sisters doing this evening?” he slurs. The girls merely raise their eyes and give him agitated look. “D-don’t give me the martyred look na…

Language

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Cheeky English
Cheeky English
Language

7 min read


May 25, 2021

You have authority over people when you love them unconditionally

A passage in the Gospel that I often pass upon as insignificant intrigues me: [Jesus] sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it…

Love

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You have authority over people when you love them unconditionally
You have authority over people when you love them unconditionally
Love

5 min read


May 20, 2021

The Road Not Taken

I am disconcerted to find, kneeling over the grave of my wife of twenty-three years, a man I have never seen before. My wife has been resting for a year and four months and nineteen days now. The stranger starts to his feet at my sight. He is elder, about…

Love

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The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken
Love

4 min read

Gebriel Alazar Tesfatsion

Gebriel Alazar Tesfatsion

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