Featured Artist: Mary Pacifico Curtis
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back poet and writer Mary Pacifico Curtis with two contrasting poems. The first, “Another Day of Infamy,” is an acerbic indictment of the late Todd …
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back poet and writer Mary Pacifico Curtis with two contrasting poems. The first, “Another Day of Infamy,” is an acerbic indictment of the late Todd …
When we listen to those stories, not only are we hearing tales of days gone by, we are also hearing the voices of all of those who lived before us. …
How much do the actions and thoughts of our ancestors shape our lives and limit our experience? Louise Erdrich’s A Plague of Doves tells the story of residents in the tiny …
it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too, have been bruised…by …
It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless …
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us …
We are our ancestors. The spiritual umbilicus is apparent to all. The dead look upon us with the pure love of a mother’s gaze. But the dead love us even …
We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived …
When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold …
Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still …