A Story By: L. B. Horton Our son hasn't been the same since that night. He never wants to talk to us about it, every time we bring it up he changes the subject quickly. I guess if I'd done something of the sort, I'd feel the same way as well. Even with that incident … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part Six (Started) →

A Story By: L.B.Horton. "Hey man, why do you always sit by yourself?" Austin asked one day...."You're the star of the football team...you'd think everyone would want to be around you."...."Bro....no one wants to be around a bad kid."...You're cool to me." he replied. "Yea, well you've also known me your whole life and you … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part Five (Fight or Flight) →

A Story By: L.B. Horton We've known each other since we were too young to remember. My mother babysat each of us from birth she says. He was a few months older than me and according to my mom he was my man from day one. We were tighter than tight...whenever you saw him I … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part Four (Tough Love) →

A Story By: L.B. Horton Thanksgiving came and went. In what felt like a blur, all I could think about was the two people I thought loved each other the most not loving each other anymore. During my adjustment to my new life I found myself wondering if they loved me the same. I'm sure … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part Three (Community) →

A Story By: L.B. Horton Austin: Since my father's passing I think the hardest thing to adjust to, was changing schools. You'd think it wouldn't be too difficult seeing as though I'm only a freshman but I'd certainly beg to differ. Imagine being the most popular kid in the school to and now you know … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part Two (Austin’s Intro) →

A story by: L.B. Horton Makai: Last Thursday started off just like any other Thursday during my junior year of high school did. My mom banging on my door for me to wake up, me pulling the covers over my head struggling to get a few more minutes of sleep. Which never seems to work. … Continue reading Love, Lost And Found. Part One(Makai’s Story) →

Bismillah. As usual on my days off, I write down the errands I need to run and try to get as much of them done as possible. Well, today I didn't come close to completing my lis. Not because I couldn't but because of an almost three hour conversation I had with an older black … Continue reading Reflect. .tcelfeR →

Bismillah. There's something about finally getting to a point where you realize that certain behaviors just can't exist within you when you're trying to reach certain places. One of said behaviors is, placing other people's well being over your own. After having to be isolated for the better part of the last few months, both … Continue reading Do For Self. →

I’m definitely patting myself on the back, for my last post. In regards to my previous post about the friendship dynamic in a relationship. I got a lot of really good feedback! A common thing I noticed was, people didn’t really notice how the variance in respect could effect the relationship prior to reading the … Continue reading A Perfect World Pt. 2 →

I was letting my fingers peruse through Facebook about a week ago and came across a post, that asked people's opinions on their "perfect relationship" and how would they go about pursuing it. Of course that got me to thinking. This is something I've lost sleep over numerous times, not because it bothered me but … Continue reading In A Perfect World… →

Bismillah. Over the last few weeks I've found that my physical place of peace is, my living room floor. I roll my yoga mat out and lay there and just think for hours. Among these hundreds of thoughts was the facts that, people get so use to accepting bare minimum that they almost fear having … Continue reading Achilles Heal. →

Bismillah. It's been a while.... Recently I've been having a lot of conversations about, building communities and putting yourself in position to give your future the best opportunity to prosper. So it got me to thinking about my own future and the possibility of having a family. And I came to the conclusion that, I'm … Continue reading Tribal Instincts. →

Bismillah. “The highest human act is to inspire.” - Nipsey Hussle At a few points over the last few weeks, there times when I felt like I was losing inspiration by the second. Which was a place I'd never been before. Usually when I'm like that, I sit in my thoughts until something clicks. But … Continue reading Look Around You. →

Bismillah. So...one day this past week a co-worker of mine was asked by our supervisor what was his biggest fear. And of course me being me, I decided to interject lol. Not in a rude way but in an inquisitive way. Mainly because this a question that usually invoke deep thought both in the facilitator … Continue reading GOD/GODDESS Energy →

Denying me my rights is just like denying me my sight. Or refusing me to hear....but expecting me not to fear. How can you call this a whole? When there’s clearly a crack in this bowl! And the only way you’ll allow me to take my place is if I sell my soul. I can’t … Continue reading 20/20 →

Bismillah. Crazy crazy crazy week..... I've had a million and one thoughts in my head over the last 5-6 days. None of them based on fear or set in a heightened emotional state. But mainly focused on remaining involved without allowing myself to become to the point of exhaustion. Something else I've had to work … Continue reading Pace Yourself. →

"He's resisting!!" Naw that's just you insisting that you fear for your life...without the presence of a gun, a brick, a pipe or a knife. Or you thought you were a tough guy...well at least in your own eye. To most you're a coward in some circles even high powered...get behind closed doors and with … Continue reading Bad Cop. →

First off, good afternoon hope everyone is enjoying their Memorial Day as much as possible. Now granted this isn't necessarily a recent issue, but it's gotten more light within the last few days. I normally don't delve too much into what celebrities have going on. But if you use social at all, you can't help … Continue reading The Hate, That Hate Made. →

Bismillah. Good morning everyone! As some of you may know, yesterday marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan! If you aren't familiar with what that is, it's a 30 day period in which Muslims fast(go without food and water) from Sunrise to Sunset. Along with the fasting we're called to pray five … Continue reading Hard Reset. →

Bismillah. The higher the climb, the harder the climb...at least that's what they say. Some people are willing to step on anyone that gets in their way. Me? I like a different approach. That dope transition from player to coach. It's never a smooth one but it's worth every note. You start off not having … Continue reading New Skin. →