This weekend started with Angela Davis at the Afrikana Film Festival Evening with an Icon and ended with the five year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder. Significant bookends as I reflect on my journey and how I have to maintain my conviction for service and action in my community.

Becoming an advocate for equality, diversity and reconciliation required forgives and healing from the racist painful seasons in my life.

I ruptured by Achilles tendon and that is being repaired with surgery Wednesday. Since I am home everyday and not walking, I’m trying to understand the “why” and the opportunity for this season. What do you do when something like this happens and it disrupts even the simplest tasks in your life?

Remembering my relationship with my Daddy in the poem Twenty Years. It is the first poem I wrote about him, twenty years after he passed away. It is included in my book Poetry: The Todd B. Waldo Collection, Vol. 1 available on toddbwaldo.com

Remembering my relationship with my Daddy, feeling abandoned before he died and being a grown man missing his Daddy. And the power of forgiveness and how it frees us to receive something good and wonderful in our lives.

My hope is that we all laugh more than we cry. This story from my time with family as we gather around the table for Christmas helped create more laughter

Sharing some special moments from my time with family as we gather around the table for Christmas

Looking back over this week at the violence that has broken my heart and caused me to mourn. And the hope I have for our future

Sharing some memories and reflections as I look back over the last four decades. This episode is about Father's day and how being a Daddy has changed my life.

Sharing some memories and reflections as I look back over the last four decades. This is special Christmas Eve episode where I talk about one of my traditions.