Vigilant Nomad

My upbringing was religious but I taught myself to say interfaith. Up to age 16, my lingual was patchwork tribal flag embroidered in the shades of unnecessary secrets. Each utensil for a life map or activity was the potential for creating a secret.  From ages18 to 26, my lingual was revisiting and calling the eras as they were. My upbringing was traditional but I reimagined contemporary.

I grew up in Nashville’s immigrant culture, practicing what is called dual-engagement. This meant constructing a perception of American culture that was acceptable in the family living room and in a more hidden way, finding what I would later call my own culture.  Ethics was easier for incoming changes and perceived advancing of American value endorsement. Accepting food where a direct relation could not be observed or created proved to be more difficult than it should have been.  I learned to consider myself to be a simple structure first and then a complex person afterwards. It was only a decade or so later from my upbringing that I accepted that a person can be as complex as newness will allow.  I was not gifted at mixing with what I called foreign even while on foreign soil. The compensation for this inability still affects me today. I compensated by embarking in cultural practices at every opportunity, translating otherw...

Learning is early enough in human nature for all people to see education as an investment, an area of personal ownership. However, when a deviation from inclusive methods is practiced, the foundation shifts to create the conversation for a new consciousness. It is very important for early human development successes and the old way of thinking to be flexible of reception of outside, outlying, or peripheral communities. Maintaining a pace with the changing times has come to mean more than reaching out but also disowning contrary norms and making diversity a commonplace concept.

Nashville is uniquely-situated because the diverse communities present are not bordered or in conflict. In some ways,  Nashville is an isle. Independence is both corporate and familial, both personal and communal. In other ways, Nashville is landlocked. The borders are confining but to a degree. Those entering these communities with interest to partake, learn, and/or change a history of separation have the joy of a fresh start. The benefits of sharing in the community  values, rediscovering yourself, or starting a process of healing the lower-class but trendy way, are so vast that you would think you found a paradise. As a new face in the community, I know that I must embrace a patriotic feel for the arts, the food, the music, and ways of life. It is most helpful if one approaches the area with the most open mind. Of course, this area includes North and East Nashville, Antioch, and Nashville proper. Embracing change is furthered by the acceptance of the skills, lessons, and ...

Personhood so defined composes of the willful construct, an establishment for the duality of contractual obligation and universal permissibility, sensory creativity, and the aforesight.  The body of the matter, for the betterment of ethics, is applicable to those deviations that require volatile reinforcement in order to exert effort that is peculiar to higher living. Spiritedness is a description of the combined rejuvenative efforts of the carnal being in collaboration with the decreptive junction. The soul is not uniform in description. However, a consequence of conservatism in practice is the elevation of equilateral intellect when comparable to common knowledge. To say that the Soul is higher when learning is complementary is to negate the tendency of reform to provide subsidized normatives for the popular-minded. Therefore, in order for the inclusive sciences to develop unopposed to extra-strategic planning to alter the scenic inequality, the Soul must be consid...

Freedom, as is defined personally, communally, or globally, has yet to reach religious confines. It is well-known that freedom has an intimate relationship with liberty or rights. This area is publicly reserved for associations that do not carry the name of the church or divine ethics. Beyond library texts, family conversations, and the church setting, there is lacking the discussion that would further the legal meaning of religious freedom and religious liberty. While the just and the able can carry along well enough without the further assistance that vocalization would effect, many church-goers and interested persons are left bewildered. They are absorbed with riddles that are easily debunked by church ministers and devotees. Religious freedom can be digested, analyzed, categorized, and summarized. It is a consequence of intuitive discovery. Religious liberty is accepted through biblical or levitical teachings. Religion is so that the roles where the receipt of the sacred is all...

Differences taint efforts that would otherwise had changed the legal lens on deviant misbehavior.  Victims unanimously have taken a step back in order to fully blame defendants. It is debatable whether a defendant deserves mercy. Moral outcry has played a convincing role in legal dilemmas. Three parties are immediate to the crime scene: the victim, the aggressor and defendant, and the state representative or public informant. Of these three, there has not been an agreement that the defendant is within humane territory. Criminality today bears the burden of a difference. The state of criminality in local communities is such that religious organizations and other intercessory groups find it difficult to maintain any balance whatsoever. Once the judge or jury has spoken, and even before that, the onlooking locale remains suspicious of opposing ethical views. At this rate, it is considered progressive interest to inquire about the distance between a historically or otherwise denoted ...

A Letter Dirty shoes approached the door. A master was not found within. The gates were unguarded. Out with your firsts. Gone were the second. Out with the third. The merchants marched. Set a sail when the moon turns her back on you. See this as a command in retrospect. Only morality can be your guard. We left with the little we had. I had letters to write. I had friends to invite. Jephthah's daughter had a dance without her bare soul. We ran. We were running. We were always running. Remember me with a glance at the past. In nostalgia, you bare us. In nostalgia, you gave. In nostalgia, and with a grateful heart, we named ourselves. We found ourselves dreaming again. We were few in number. We marched as the withered could. I payed for more than I earned. We had sisters we knew not. Morning came and we were not to be found. I carried what I knew to be true. What is mine will never be becoming of you. May your unbecoming mark my grave. Buried here was a lover of light. We...

The Fallen Amongst Us I sought relief from foreign shores. Burdens were plenty but ownership belonged to the other. I birthed on a distant shore. Barrenness could not be found in me. Thus, I sought relief. I happened upon a traveler. Assistance led me further inland. Migrants surrounded me with stories of plight far from my own. I lived to see myself higher than culture allowed. Allowance means delay. I have come to terms with the conflicts of the past. Learning has brought me wisdom. Grace grants more than that. May the rates of conversion allow our shores to prosper. Harvesting brought me a reward I would not reject. A refusal is the contrary to my view. When the year of jubilee reaches you, I pray you find yourself where you last sought relief. For the fallen amongst us, I pray you find a gracious host, even if low in number. Hierarchy is a foe until you have what is considered personal merit. A measurement of your skills grants a limited purview. In acknowledgement, it...

I tell a tale of popular discontent in the midst of a revolutionary era. Oftentimes, there enters a subsidiary or the guilder awaiting a change in fortune. For the feminine sort to be subservient in this regard, being not partakers of natural inheritance laws and being not benefactors of social betterment, is a mark of a struggle. To be popular is to be mindful of the numbers, irrespective of household bearing and ambition attends to both doors. The maker, the receiver, and the guard all attended the feast and there was not a woman awake to release her kind. To be a populace is to keep your consequences as the law permits with the restrictions you allowed to take from your house. To be a kind or of a kind is to be related in native spirit. To be a girl is to be carefree and guarded by apprehension. To be a woman is to pay an ode to knowledge. Femininity is that which you gained when the law turned to its last resort. To be female is count the gains in portions, to be dismissive of ...