MONEY NORMANS

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  • Remedy in the Bitter Root

    Money Normans has tasted the "bitter leaf" and discerned that it is good.


    Article Source mentioned in the Podcast:  

    Afr Health Sci. 2017 Mar; 17(1): 147–153.

    doi: 10.4314/ahs.v17i1.19

    PMCID: PMC5636238

    PMID: 29026388

    AUTHORS:  Jane Ogoamaka Okwuzu,1 Peter Odeiga,2 Olubunmi AdetoroOtubanjo,3 and Oliver Chukwujekwu Ezechi1

    ARTICLE TITLE:  Cytotoxicity testing of aqueous extract of bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina Del) and sniper 1000EC (2,3 dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate) using the Alium cepa test.  


    13 min
  • That Visitor, Loneliness!

    There is a visitor that is never in a rush to leave us, and it make us believe it is the only companion our souls will ever enjoy. - Money Normans


    Loneliness, That Visitor!


    Loneliness, What are we who encounter you

    Advised, Ordered, or just Prone to do --

    When you "drop in" unexpectedly,

    swing by our homes, unlatch our gates, stroll into our dwellings, 

    explore our hiding spaces,

    in our domains of solitude 

    wherein we pray for peace and companionship,

    yet all we seem to get is "played" repeatedly,

    and sentenced to a life, existing alone, 

    and playing solitary games?

    Loneliness, when you come around,

    are we to divert our eyes,

    look away from your seductive face,

    Shun you as evil, buck up and run?

    Are we to lie our colorful hands of cards

    down, flat, upon the blank tables - set or unset -

    tables for one?

    Are we to poker our faces and pretend

    that it is our choice to be black and

    blue, broke and bruised. 

    Is it is our choice

    or the strange anointing

    poured on us as a curse 

    camouflaged a gift?

    Loneliness, are we to fear you?

    Are we to clutch our belongings to our chests,

    Afraid you will snatch the treasures our

    Lonely souls have amassed in our hearts?

    Are we not strong, yet pitifully

    ALONE, 

    According to the world’s evaluations?

    Loneliness, do we let you come stay with us sometimes

    Because you are as close to a companion or friend as we

    May ever even imagine having?

    Are we afraid that if we do not belong to you

    Then we may never belong anywhere, with any one or two?

    If we have no communion with you, then we will commune with whom?

    Loneliness, are we to make eye contact with you?

    Are we to just grin or grimace, accept that

    You at least express some interest and

    never seem in a rush to forsake us?

    Should we not be grateful that

    After we go and work and stress all day

    That we have you to come home to?

    Should we not feel happy, lucky or

    blessed to still be alive,

    even if we feel so alone,

    in this “ju-ju” neighborhood

    on this “rooted up” planet

    that never, ever . . . feels like home?

    7 min

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