Originally posted on Gretchen Del Rio's Art Blog:
watercolor 11/2019 To walk the Red Road is to know you will one day cross to the spirit world, and you will not be afraid. purchase this painting
See a procession of young mothers chattering their way From water fountains in grenade torn sandals And blood laced bras Decade of Bullets, Mbizo Chirasha Is fading the memory of its son, Who for words must ride the night Fleeing ears that hear thunder on a babies purity guggle, Zvegona, my homestead, Ancestors are watching […]
Photo copyright unknown, but it’s not ours. / J.D. / quotation Kristen Tea @ motherwiselife.org “To paraphrase Tolstoy, you many not be interested in war, conflict, environmental injustice, and human rights abuses, but they are interested in you. They stalk everyone.” / Jamie Dedes
I was born in this month – the month of bitterness, violence and numbness. In this month the Soweto died in a reckless killing by the apartheid regime. What a fuss , horrible. Yes we live to forgive – with memories haunting peasant iron-hoe skulls. We celebrate the DAY OF AFRICAN CHILD. In the year […]
“Mother Africa survived the trauma of clanging chains of captivity during slave trade, shackles of colonialism, and winced from beatings of hard bolt nut clenched fists of apartheid. Children and grandchildren of Mother Africa watched helplessly her sorrowful dance to the acoustics of sufferance. Still, Africa remains resilient … smashing punches from kindred’s of neocolonialism: […]