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  • Whistling Pines of Home

    September 23, 2009

    • How do I speak this tale of a once bleeding heart, my dear fellow human beings on this trying and often complicated journey called life? Indeed, the unwavering affirmation of life's spiritual dimension got me through in God's loving care. Sometime, during early 2002, in Geneva, Switzerland, I got the devastating pill of race and colour based rejection plus unreciprocated love from an Argentine ...
  • Wonderful Winds

    August 14, 2009

    • This sunny new day in Mexico City, I woke up dreaming of ancestral vilage squares, grandma's farm lands and drum beats from Igbo landscapes of home and inspiration. Perhaps, it's because my grandma Mercy Josaiah Ndubuisi Wachuku - my dad's mother - who died recently at the age of 91, is to be buried today in Nbawsi, Abia State, Nigeria. What an amazing journey with it's own abundant joy, ...
  • Thoughts and Imagination

    July 23, 2009

    • Will you dare walk with me on this journey of new beginnings founded on hope and beauty of the spirit in the face of challenges and trials that threaten to endanger our love and cherishment for one another across this hurting world we live in each new day?    I see visions of glory andwonders across the earth.I view breath-takinglandscapes far awayfrom home.I view your loveand tears throughthis ...
  • Homage to Geneva

    July 10, 2009

    • Prologue "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."~ Jean Jacques Rousseau"The desire to be as civil as possible is a deep motive for the contemplative life."~M. Scott PeckIn Geneva today, the human creative spirit is not in chains. One is invited to let one's creative essence run calmly wild for the peaceful good of all humanity.In contemplation therefore, Geneva ...
  • American Galaxy

    January 19, 2009

    • Below are excerpts from the Introduction of my up-coming new book: American Galaxy - Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People. Also, a detailed preview and description of American Galaxy can be read at my creative communications hub: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy    INTRODUCTION   "We hold these ...
  • Some Memories Never Die ...

    December 23, 2008

    •  In the late morning of Thursday, November 7, 1996, Jaja Anucha Wachuku, my father's elder brother - my uncle - whom I was so close to went the way of all mankind. He was 78 having been born in 1918. I was devastated; but took firm courage knowing that within the depths of my soul lies the overwhelming inspiration and spirit of excellence plus love, servant leadership, taking things one day ...
  • Americans Make Amazing History and Inspire Humankind ...

    November 6, 2008

    • What an amazing and historic reality it was - on 4 November, 2008. Barack Obama elected the first African-American plus bi-racial President of the United States of America. I had tears in my eyes.     Indeed, I am deeply inspired and proud of all citizens of the Union for keeping the American Dream alive; and uplifting the spirit of the rest of humankind too. That is why I am glad to have ...
  • Prologue of The Great Place

    October 13, 2008

    • PROLOGUE __ "Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, jr. __ In 1964, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison. Seven years later, I was born. As soon ...
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