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A picture will never do you justice

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Trying to capture the essence of love is nearly impossible… but i cant help but try

Deep Roots – Part 1 –

Jovan wrote in Deep Roots : : Low Branches, J. with 6 Comments .

My grandmother is my keystone. Not in the beer sense but in the building sense. If you go on wikipedia you’ll find that a keystone is the stone placed at the apex(center) of an arch. It is the final stone that is placed during construction of an arch and gives the arch its structural integrity. Before […]

Deep Roots – Part 2

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Now that you’ve met the roots (my Grandma) and the branch (me) meet a seed that has fallen and begun to grow. This project of defining my roots is as much for her as it is for me but thats a story for a different day. The roots of my position in this society are […]

Deep Roots – Part 3

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I write now aware that there are many stories in the world. Over six billion people live in the world and each has their own story. Their own hopes, their own fears, their own dreams. Too often we go about our lives unaware or unwilling to consider others. Perhaps it because our guilt would be […]

Deep Roots – Part 4

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Every morning I wake up to a picture of my brother’s kids. They are the product of our family’s struggles, but also of our successes. For every perceived obstacle they will have to overcome, such as their Haitian ancestry, their blackness, etc, they have advantages that most (I’d guess 5 billion of the 6 billion […]