Cultivating the Human Spirit

The human spirit is a wonderfully glorious thing.  It’s what dreams are made of.  All of history is a highlight reel of the shining human spirit.  Our uniqueness as a species lies in our capacity to marry our innate abilities with a level of consciousness that allows  us to work hard and cultivate those abilities.   [...]

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Taking It to the Streets: Part 2 of 2

**Guest Post by Bushwick Sunrise** Livable Streets Experiencing the hard knock life of poverty and ghetto living, I grew up aware of the issues facing urban areas from the perspective of the man on the ground. Eventually as I became more educated, I started looking into how public policy, city planning and other top-down influences [...]

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Superman In a Trench

“I feel like Clark Kent sitting on a park bench, wondering if people know I’m Superman in a Trench..” – Mickey Factz I feel as if people exude colors in a literal manner.  Not in the sense of actual skin color, but in the sense that their spirits are aligned with a particular color.  I’m [...]

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Taking It to the Streets: Part 1 of 2

**Guest Post by Bushwick Sunrise** “I am from the streets.” That may mean different things to different people. Growing up in Brooklyn, though, that phrase has carried a specific meaning. To be from the streets was to be a thug, a gangsta, someone down with real hardcore sh*t. In the streets there was no time [...]

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It’s a Matter of Choice…

Our dreams often seem too big for us to handle–we tend to dismiss them as impossible or irrational.   Those aspirations frequently get floored before action is taken to bring the dream to life.   Before we wake to make those dreams take flight, we have already cut their feet from under them, trimmed their [...]

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