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Credit | Audio Source of Replay: Wonder Cabinet Podcast, The Ecowomanist Theology of Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris 22 Aug 2026 The Ecowomanist Theology of Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris A founder of ecowomanism on Black ancestral land wisdom, generational memory and healing through earth-honoring faiths.   Replay of Podcast Run Time / 35:56   Episode Notes Rev. Dr. Melanie Harris is a professor of Black Feminist and Womanist Theologies at Wake Forest University, an ordained minister in the African Meth...

OCTOBER “An Humble Woman,” Zimbabwean artist(s) unknown. Our identity is encoded in our recognition of things.  This morning, looking at sculptures I have from Zimbabwe, I realized this powerfully.  These artists, names unknown (whose work I bought from a former white settler in Zimbabwe passing through America) were plucked from plantations (rice, sorghum, sugar cane, who knows what grows massively on plantations in Zimbabwe?) They were given tools to chisel figures for the tourist trade. This ...

I regret I am not able to give you this medicine directly. Without cost.  It can be found on Audible. ~aw

Hermana Mula/Hermano Mulo Sister/Brother Mule As the youngest in a family of ten, I inherited a father who was worn out.  I treasure the vague memory of him doing the foxtrot for me when I was a toddler and making me laugh.  I also recall him putting cooling lily leaves around my head to ease a fever after I had been wounded. He was also an exciting storyteller. Enacting all the parts.  And enjoyed reading, music, all forms of dance, (especially something called “the Moochie,” which was belly to...

A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain by Alice Walker (mid-Nineties) After suffering Through what I Believed I could  Not survive The rag  That was My heart Became A flag. ***

Thank you, people rising. Solidarity forever. ~aw

      “All I have is my children.” ~ Willie Lee Walker                                  Happy Birthday, September 9t h – my father, Willie Lee Walker, of Putnam County, Georgia.  Born in 1909, and passed on, in 1973, to some place as beloved, I hope.  He was 64 years old. In this photograph he is standing in front and in the middle of other guardians of the community of Wards Chapel, some years after I was born, in 1944.  I almost remember some of these men  (like the big man in the apron, Mr. S...