Shamans have been using plants to heal the mind, bodies, and spirits of both humans and animals for centuries. Some ancient beliefs still hold true. …

An Upside-down Poem — Reverse poetry is a poem that can be read forwards (top to bottom) and have one meaning but can also be read backward (bottom to top) and have a different or opposite meaning. The structure of the reverse poem is often the same. One Man Walking In a Blizzard On…

Take Me Back To Tie-Dye… — “The 60s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa — they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth…

Simplicity and Truth — Tell Me… Tell me please about your life, the library within. Tell me you’ve read and learned, the spaces and the sins. Tell me of your loves and losses, the chapters that bind your soul. Tell me the desires of the heart that you have never told. Tell me how…

A Simply Bittersweet Statement. — Your sweetness and your lies sting my heart years after you cease to bee. The workers buzzed… Your nectar was pollinating swarms. You were a busy bee, honeycomb broken. Killer bee flew, the Queen united the bumbling drones. A sweet apiarist, a honey of a colony.

Naked words are necessary when the unfathomable happens — This story is not fiction. Originally from Honduras, he is now sixteen years of age. It was a freak accident. He was seven years old in his “home” country and reached for an electrical wire high above the makeshift kitchen sink that brought dim light into his home. …

Time heals — so “they” say. What do “they” know? Time wanes, flies, comes, goes, stops, changes, lingers. Heals not so. This is not to be a depressing outlook. It is clarity on how we use words. It is not of any malice just truth. Death is viewed in many…

Chaos was his name. — His game was unraveling the wall methodically. It was a very large wall. The wall took her five years to build. This barricade was forged with strength and emotive grout. She labored to erect a fortress to protect herself from the anguish of love lost. …

The Gender Schema Theory states that children learn about male and female roles from the environment in which they live and grow. Cultures dictate perception, influence, and action. The portrayal of the male/female genders has a long history of movement, growth, and change throughout the globe. Gender Schema proposes that…