Aberjhani's Blog: Notes of a 21st Century Digital Scribe

2026 National Poetry Month poster featuring art by Alfredo Richner, and a quote from Arthur Sze's poem, The Chance: "even if the darkness precedes and follows us, we have a chance, briefly, to shine."
In the maturity of America’s now almost 250 years, the music known worldwide as jazz and the literary artform celebrated as poetry have become prized attributes of the American identity. They have done so by employing creative innovations to simultaneously confirm the basic elements of wha...

If you missed part 1 of Portrait of Dynamic Soul-Warrior Dr. Patricia M. Stewart and would like to read it, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Part 2 with concluding poem and reflections begins now:

It was amazing to witness her winning tennis championships in her 70s, and winning a battle against COVID-19 in her 90s when science declared the odds stacked against her. It was astounding to see so many others benefit from the increasing luminosity of her spiritual clarity as she continued to provide counsel...

“I wish you the loving feeling from your own weaving threads today.”
Dr. Patricia Matheus Stewart
​(from Black and Blue Letters from the Red Zone)

Almost three decades ago, I had the good fortune of meeting one of the most remarkable human beings I have ever encountered in the different places I have called home in this world. It happened during my time as a bookseller at Media Play on the southside of Savannah, Georgia. That was when Dr. Patricia M. Stewart, along with her friend Dessie E...

(2025 National Poetry Month poster featuring a quote by poet Naomi Shihab Nye and artwork by Christy Mandin) A recent article on the poetry of Marc Thomas, the author of Talking to the Machines and Oher Poems, made me think about why, and how much, I have always enjoyed celebrating National Poetry Month. As with Thomas’s work, which I first became aware of during a Local Author Day event in Savannah, Georgia (USA), it has largely been about the discovery of what different poets bring to t...

(“Angel of Freedom & Democracy Jazz Edition 2” conceptual digital art by author-artist Aberjhani utilizing elements of DALL-E digitech ©2025) 1.
A rainbow in one sense
is woven…
from a beautiful tear-stained reconciliation
between light chasing its need…
to at all costs avoid…
death by ignoble stagnation
and waterdrops’ thirsty desire
to discover themselves anew…
through a passion-driven dream of fire.

2.
That forest path known as Tzu’s way
is not so very different…
first a butterfly kiss that glows…...

(“Burning Embers of Hope & Destiny” digital art painting by Aberjhani ©2025)
Introduction
Long lauded for her masterful blend of science fiction and realistic social observations, author Octavia E. Butler’s name over the past decade has grown to command greater and greater attention as a highly-significant American master of literary innovation. That conviction has intensified with the tragic fires which decimated communities in southern California during the first half of January 2025 an...

Kamala Harris at the podium. (Public release photograph) ​In addition to Mexico making the pivotal move to elect a woman president before the U.S. (as discussed in part 1), here is a list of ten more countries which have accomplished that feat in the modern era. Included in each case is a short summary of the impact made by each leader. It is also interesting to note that people in some of these countries have elected several women into their top leadership positions.  1. INDIA: Indira Gh...

What will it mean if citizens of the United States of America, in November 2024, elect Kamala D. Harris as the first female president in the country’s history? What might it imply if they do not, and instead elect Donald Trump to the office for a non-consecutive second term?

For all the passionate proclamations declaring the U.S. as a leading defender of democracy around the world, the absence of a woman president in its 248 years of history poses a serious challenge to that claim. So does...

(“James Baldwin’s Immense Metamorphosis” digital painting by Aberjhani ©2024) Dear Readers,
Please enjoy this excerpt from a work in progress presented in honor of the James Baldwin Centennial 2024. 
On December 2, 1987, I was proudly seated in front of a brand new word processor, a technological upgrade from my plug-in electric typewriter, tapping away at the keys to complete the first draft of a novel when news came that author James Baldwin had died at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence,...

"Eiffel Tower Days and Deja vu Nights Number 1" digital painting by Aberjhani. Full art prints and decorative gift items may be purchased on artist-author's Pixels and Fine Art America website profiles. That I’ve been involved in a long-distance love affair with the city of Paris, France, for many years is something of which many readers already know quite well. I’ve shared that particular passion through books, artwork, and stories. With the 2024 summer Olympic Games, now officially tagge...