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Apr.05.2013
Sometimes I am alone in the ocean, and as far as I san see there is only me and the immense blue sea and I am grateful, grateful for the soothing waters, grateful for the waves, grateful for the immense variety and depth of blues, grateful that Yemoja made that journey with my enslaved...
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Oct.26.2012
Last summer I traveled to Europe --Spain then Paris. I had been to Paris a few times before and like in the past; I found it a magical city. Although, it is often said that the French are uptight, this has never been my experience.
On my very first trip to Paris thirty years ago I was...
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May.31.2012
The Caribbean Flash Fiction Collection
Edited by: Opal PalmerAdisa
Calling all short stories:
Wanted: flash fiction, micro fiction, short-short or haiku stories
Stories are sought in 5 categories:
Self-determination (independence, neo-colonialism, biographical)...
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Apr.16.2012
What I love about attending conferences and writing festivals is the opportunity to meet other writers whose works I have enjoyed.
What is most gratifying is meeting those writers whose work I love and discovering that they are such easy doing, lovable people, who don’t mind posing...
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Apr.16.2012
The other day a friend emailed and asked, “Where in the world are you now, on which continent?”
I smiled to myself and emailed her back to say I was in fact in North America, but had just gotten back from Nicaragua where I was one of the 102 invited poets for the Granada International Poetry...
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Mar.16.2012
I appreciate god sex, value reading great sex scenes, relish writing the nitty-gritty of sexual encounters, and I have in many of my works. In my newest novel, Painting Away Regrets, there are three sex scenes that evoke all the senses and eight years later (although the novel was published...
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Feb.24.2012
As I was walking to Zumba class with two friends, I was arrested by the body of a dead pigeon in the street. Realizing that I was no longer with them, one friend turned around and shouted, “What are you photographing now?” accustom as she was to me stopping in our walk to photograph...
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Feb.16.2012
I never wanted to be a writer, but I knew I had to write and that I would always write. Virginia Woolf’s ideal about having A Room Of One’s Own was never and is still not a goal. Writing was and is still not an enterprise that requires isolation or a special place. In fact when I began...
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Jan.26.2012
A few years ago I made a pledge that whenever I buy a new item of clothing or household good I would give away something already in my possession.
I bought two new purses so decided to donate two old ones. However, in the middle of going through the old purses, I was distracted by a phone...
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Sep.27.2011
In the Midst of Turmoil, Blessings Abound
By Opal Palmer Adisa
The people who have been living in my house, without paying rent since January, have decided they are in the right, and I am a crazy woman. We go to court on October 6, and I wait to hear if the judicial...
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Aug.24.2011
After a month of carefully dodging process servers, my tenants were finally served with eviction papers on August 19 when they purchased a new Lexus SUV.
They have not paid rent since January and, supported by a judicial system in Oakland that rarely, if ever, requires trifling tenants to...
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Jul.26.2011
I have just completed a 10-day fast with my friend Grace, who joined me for support. We only had water and a blend a of lemon juice, maple syrup with a dash of cayenne pepper (The Master Cleanse), for the entire 10 days.
I was fasting for spiritual fortitude, and to achieve a positive and timely...
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Jul.19.2011
I began fasting on Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
I fast for spiritual fortitude and to bring awareness to the unjust housing laws in California that privilege tenants and displace homeowners.
We all know about slumlords; the exploitive owners of large buildings that they poorly maintain and that are,...
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Apr.22.2011
Once we are clear the fear and confusion we experience in our life disappears, or even if these things are still present, they no longer whack us like a whip
Clarity like death is decisive.
Clarity like taxes is guaranteed.
Clarity like the living on the earth is our birthright...
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Apr.22.2011
Once we are clear the fear and confusion we experience in our life disappears, or even if these things are still present, they no longer whack us like a whip
Clarity like death is decisive.
Clarity like taxes is guaranteed.
Clarity like the living on the earth is our birthright...
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I have known love, smelled it first dripping from his eyes, tasted it on his lips, and when our fingers clasped, I knew it was a living thing that would never let go of me...Opal Palmer Adisa”
About Opal
Diverse, innovative and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Charismatic and informed, Adisa’s concerns span the gamut from children to the environment, and as such there is hardly...
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Causes Opal Adisa Supports
California Poets in the Schools
Homeless Shelter for Pregnant Women