How big is your God?

All things, however perceived or denominated and whether perceived or denominated, are of, from, and by God, Period. One's conception of God, or not, limits or releases one's self-concept, and, by extension, one's cosmological conception. Amen! Translation: one's God is no bigger than one's self!

America's unpaid "debt" to Haiti's slaves and to its own!

Translation: Haiti's black slaves' victory over Napoleon Bonaparte's 30,000 best troops in 1803, compelled Napoleon to sell the rest of the Louisiana Territory on the mainland of North America for 3 cents per acre, so devastated was he by this loss of France's richest colony!

Therefore, the United States of America is greatly indebted to Haiti's former slaves, even as it is to its own former slaves, whose military valor, as relates to Haiti, enabled the United States of America to "acquire" France's former territory; and, second, enabled it to preserve the United States of America, consequent to the Civil War of 1861-1865 fought over the issue of slavery!

Repairers and restorers

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

Isaiah 58:12

illicit lovers

Assumption and inference are lovers! Illicit lovers in the same bed. Investigation and demonstration are their discoverers, revealing their perfumed nakedness.

"INCIPIENCE”

(Poetic tribute to Miles Davis’ and

John Coltrane’s “So What”)

 

5/19/09

By Larry D. Coleman, Esq.

 

Doom-da-doom-da-doom. Doom.  Duh-dup.  Doom-da-doom-da-doom.  Duh-Doom.  Boop pah doo-dup!

 

Sensate sound.  Slipping, slithering, sliding:  silently, by osmosis, into my soul.

 

On a faint fetal frequency both heard and felt.

 

“So what?” Asks Miles.  “So what?” Asks Trane. 

One trump.  One sax.  One oscillation.

 

Vibrating against the backdrop of an inert microwave cosmology.  Jam. Jah-Jam. Jam. Jah-Jam. Jam. Jah-Jam.  Beep-Bop.

 

Horn blowers are heralds, you know. Blow, blow, blow.  Blow by blow!

A searing sound of the trumpet.  Roiling rhythms from a ram’s horn.

 

Mending, restoring, reviving.  Healing.  It’s medicinal. 

 

Parallel scales and alternative octaves from somewhere beyond, heralding and harkening a new day, a new relationship, a new syncretism.  Work.

 

Transformative wails .   Duh-dup.  Duh-dup.  Faith comes by hearing, by hearing, by hearing.  Ushers all.  Ushers, y’all. 

 

Ushering modalities never heard, possibilities never felt.  Exemplifying infinity’s accessibility. Cool.  Quintessentially cool.  Insouciant.  Near absolute zero in deep space orbiting redolent substrates of consciousness.  Lord help!

 

Duh-dup.  Duh-dup.  Down easy.  Off key, but in key.  Off tune, but in tune.  Off scale, but in scale.  Yet, always on time.  Duh-dup.  Duh-dup.

 

Discordant yet harmonic.  Passing the baton.  Trump t o Sax.  Sax to Trump.  And back again.  Conjuring.  And driving rhythms, like driving rains, cleaning.  Chump-to-chump.

 

Lessons.  Lessons learned long after the teacher is gone. Duh-Dup.  Duh-Dup.  Duh-Dup.  Holler if you hear me! 

 

A legacy of love for us to untangle, decipher, interpret and share, when we become.  When we graduate.  Crystallize.  Incipience made perfect.

 

Doom-da-doom-da-doom. Doom.  Duh-dup.  Doom-da-doom-da-doom.  Duh-Doom.  Duh-Doom-doom-doom!

 

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Black History: The Sacred Secret

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-nelson/african-american-history_b_1973636.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black%20Voices

In the early 1980's I taught a course entitled "Black History: The Sacred Secret," through the University of Missouri at Kansas City's Communiversity program. Dr. John Hope Franklin's THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY was 1 of 6 required texts.

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