 Red Room Writer Profile
|
|
Aberjhani's Blog
November 25, 2009
- The holidays are a good time to recall shared journeys in one's life and therefore also a good time to resume the presentation of Visionary Vibes, Letters from the Soul here at Red Room. If you missed the last installment of Letters from the Soul Number 6 please click this link or to start at the beginning click here . Also, I perhaps should point out that the language gets a bit rough in ...
- Continue Reading » 1 Comment
November 19, 2009
- Once, while still in the U.S. Air Force, I discussed the issue of the need for world peace with someone very close to me. At one point, she very sincerely asked a question I had never considered: "What if peace comes and nobody wants it?" I answered that if peace came and nobody wanted it, then the world would see to its immediate destruction. Sometimes I think peace is constantly ...
- Continue Reading » 2 Comments
November 14, 2009
- It says a lot that even while its principle star struggled to conserve creative energy and was simply "warming up" for the actual live performance scheduled to follow, Michael Jackson's This Is It snagged the October 30 weekend box office in the United States with $21,300,000. It says even more that just two weeks after its opening, as of November 12, 2009, the movie has played in ...
- Continue Reading » 5 Comments
November 6, 2009
- National Bookstore Day, November 7, 2009, has to be one of the best ideas anybody has come up with to help celebrate and preserve literary culture in our digitally-revolutionized age in a very long time. It gives me a perfect excuse to scrape up a few bucks and splurge on books other than those needed for research. But now that I think about it a bit more, it also should have been a good excuse ...
- Continue Reading » 4 Comments
November 1, 2009
- What movies are you watching for the holidays? Most people are more likely to think along the lines of movie classics like It's a Wonderful Life (1947) or the more modern The Preacher's Wife (1996) and megastar Jim Carrey's forthcoming Walt Disney blockbuster, A Christmas Carol when it comes to considering films to enjoy with one's family during the holidays. However, a number of films do a ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 26, 2009
- The ancient stories told through the work of Savannah, Georgia, artist Phil Starks unfolded in a very modern setting with the opening of his Gaia Earth Goddess and Her 7 Matriarchal Daughters exhibition, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 19, 2009, at the Savannah State University (SSU) Art Gallery. Starks has participated in a number of group shows over the past few years, including ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 22, 2009
- For years I have been telling myself and my friends that my favorite city is Paris, France, but the fact is I have never been there. Yet I have this strange memory--as false as a five-dollar bill with a grinning jack-o-lantern where Abraham Lincoln's noble beard should be--that likes to surface every now and then and insist it is real. The memory is of a cool day early in May 1946. ...
- Continue Reading » 11 Comments
October 11, 2009
- The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's greatest statesmen of letters, turned 75, and plans were announced to honor the venerable author ...
- Continue Reading » 3 Comments
September 24, 2009
- On the same day that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, my Uncle Lendward Griffin, Sr., also left this world for greener spiritual pastures. Once the news of his death sunk all the way in, I thought to myself, Wow, he left this world in some really fantastic company. Uncle Len was not a public megastar like Fawcett and Jackson but in his own way he was as unique and worthy of ...
- Continue Reading » 9 Comments
September 17, 2009
- I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is not always an easy thing to give. What, after all, does one do with the pain as yet lingering ...
- Continue Reading » 5 Comments
September 12, 2009
- Popular media references to the 1960s musical British Invasion headed by history-changing acts like the Beatles and Rolling Stones are far more common--at least on the U.S. side of the planet--than references to the corresponding African America's Rhythm and Blues invasion of the United Kingdom that took place during the same period. That was when classic giants of the genre--think Otis ...
- Continue Reading » 1 Comment
September 12, 2009
- "The lovers crawl in and out of your alley,They bathe in drips of blood; and not finding you, they give up and leave.I am forever stationed at your door like the earth,While others come and go like the wind."--Jelaluddin Rumi Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual Jelaluddin Rumi during the early ...
- Continue Reading » 10 Comments
September 6, 2009
- When considering that an artist for the past twenty years has been producing and selling more than 100 original paintings per year, it becomes difficult to think of the individual as one of the South's best kept brilliant secrets. Yet, despite the fact that he was selected one of the "top five collectible artists in the region" by Coastal Arts and Antiques Magazine and that ...
- Continue Reading » 5 Comments
September 5, 2009
- While investigations surrounding the death of Michael Jackson steadily progressed and media frenzy over different facets of his life continued, the great entertainer and philanthropist himself was laid to rest September 3, 2009, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jackson's funeral came just over two months, and two unsettling autopsies, after his death on June 25, 2009. ...
- Continue Reading » 1 Comment
September 1, 2009
- Before the hours of insanity and annihilation that changed world history on September 11, 2001, the month of September was noted by members of my family primarily as the birth month for at least a half dozen individuals. It remained, of course, their month after 9/11, but the shadow of that event tends to lessen the glow of birthday candles and soften the volume of songs and laughter. ...
- Continue Reading » 4 Comments
