Category: Literary Arts
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Sermon: Grandma’s Hands
I love Kwanzaa. Yesterday, I got to spend time with a group of friends who have become like family at our 5th annual Kwanzaa karamu. It’s a potluck dinner filled with kids, and adults, and elders, and lighting candles and good food…and spontaneous moments of drumming, and singing, and chanting, and remembering our ancestors. It…
Simone Monique Barnes
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Sermon: Alexander Crummell
Honoring Our Saint: The Reverend Alexander Crummell UBE Sunday – Sunday, September 17, 2017, 8am and 10:15am St James Episcopal Church, Austin TX, USA Sermon by Simone Monique Barnes I want Jesus to walk with me I want Jesus to walk with me All along my pilgrim journey I want Jesus to walk with…
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Remembering Joy: RIP Maya Angelou
Dinner with friends at a tiny restaurant in Tribeca on my birthday in 1996. It was before peak hours, so the restaurant was nearly empty. My bestie Kenya Unique Massey gave me The Complete Collected Poems (Maya Angelou). It had been on my birthday/Christmas/Kwanzaa wish list for a while, so I was surprised (thrilled) to…
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