Author Archive: bloomagazine
This Year Get Your Directions Right!
Dear One, Getting your directions right is important. It can be so confusing taking a turn and suddenly not knowing where you are. As we journey and face life’s challenges we might be encouraged to rise up, lift up our spirits or ascend to higher heights but sometimes we need to down and dirty. LIFE [...]
Without Burden
This project was influenced by the issues, experiences and interests that connected at an intersection in my life journey. Before 1990 at least six people I knew were killed by AIDS. Fifteen years after these conversations were recorded around May 1991, I revisited this project to explore the relevance of this discourse for a public exhibit. The issues have shifted slightly but far too many in the Black community still linger in darkness around HIV infection. — Sean Drakes
THE BEST
You are the best. There is nothing wrong about being the best. You have always known this, felt it but may have been afraid to say it. Without diminishing anyone else, lets be clear: there is no one, or thing in all worlds more special than you. Nothing better. Nothing finer. You are number one of your own kind.
IN BLOOM – Nhojj
Courage! My name is Nhojj and I am a singer/songwriter. I’m currently preparing for special edition “Out & Proud” First Saturday performance at the Brooklyn Museum on January 7, 2012. The biggest lesson I feel life has been teaching me lately is to keep pushing past those things that scare me. I just read a [...]
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