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One of my deepest thought to share with you: > The lessons we learn are tailored by our own needs to progress <

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Personal poetry spanning almost 4 decades--covering topics like murder, suicide, adoption, child loss, grief, love, renewal, healing and redemption. Mostly a project for friends/relatives...not really a commercial project....so any other sales are just a bonus :-) Most of the photography is mine, and I retain all rights...the rest is in the public domain.

Written in the wake of a family tragedy, Flowers for Alex presents the first year of grief following the murder of Stotts' brother, Alex Oyombe Gradin, by gun violence. Through a diary-like, chronological record, Stotts explores the cycles of death and rebirth, not only in physical death, but in all of life's joys and heartbreaks - in love, break ups, mental health struggles, a global pandemic, spiritual growth, and in the expansion of consciousness.

In a world apparently dominated by fear and greed, is the ideal of the ‘goodness of Mankind’ merely an illusion? Could it be that our perceptions of our civilization are more a quantitative illusion than a qualitative reality? Consider by what means YOU may have concluded that perhaps humanity is indeed a ‘lost cause.’ Where is the wisdom of ‘writing off’ the bulk of humanity as a lost cause when in the lives of most of us, love, grace, and joy are the real potentials of directly inter-personal experiences? This contrast between ‘quality’ and ‘quantity’ of impressions cannot be fully judged without the ‘primary inter-personal experience’ that is established WITHIN each of us: the ‘goo ...

To my melanated Queens, our journey can be complex. Take this walk with me through healing, nostalgia, humor, femininity, divinity, beauty, and honey. The sweetness and strength that is the woman. Through an interactive experience, design your own personal spiritual journey and divine walk.

Too often we measure a person’s worth entirely by what one possesses in the way of substance and public image…. Overlooking the far greater: all one avoided becoming….

Honest Poetry promise to reader, I will not bore you about Life, Love, Politics, Grieve Messages to the reader to be considered a different approach to life, or sometimes just to learn how to accept events or just to be amused to see yourself in the same situation

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