Novel Ideas

I couldn't imagine waking up one day to my home and life inexplicably ripped from me, surrounded by the antiquity of plantation-style homes and cries of pain amidst fields of crops and enslaved persons toiling about. Dana is made to endure the world that follows in our stead when we imagine plots of progression and equity just beyond the horizon. Slavery and racism lies in the ground, flows through time, and carries itself in the present. It follows Dana and it follows us as we tune into the newest episode of the podcast. BYYEEE!!!!

Leave it to me to consider a book on what mortality means and include my two cents as if I'm in the book; but what else was I to do? I have enough to complain about and life doesn't wait for me to finish a book on life to teach my something. Enjoy the ending of April with a musing on my life so far, and what we can get out of pain. Please enjoy! BYYEEEE!

Please understand that it was not my intent to cry on the mic, it's a fortunate accident. Emotions run free in today's episode on the past, growing up, and things never being the same again. We are alive and it comes with the territory that most things come to an end, and we are blessed to remember in spite of it all. I hope you enjoy my cries to the wind and a plea to always remember the lives we've come to know.

To be is to change, alter ourselves beyond the point of our own understanding. Annihilation. Reminds me of "abomination" in Dune; a loss of self and the tragedy of awareness. We have to be ourselves, influenced by others, in a constant state of flux. How else are we to become what we will be? New and unidentified, waiting to be explored. I hope you enjoy today's newest episode! BYEEEE!!!!

Hush it up. Listen. What is that? Leaves rustling, wind pushing its way through metal bars, water cascading over shingles to slide down windowpanes.Nature speaks all the time; it's just over the cacophony of modernity we slowly lose the connection to that which sustains us. Step outside, go for a walk, visit a park, and listen to the episode with the one thing that's kept us alive all this time.

I hope you've enjoyed the Dune series as much as I have so far. Paul's an enigma wrapped in a Messiah narrative, and his kids have to bear the brunt of such a legacy. The Atredies are still having to fight for their lives, and the Golden Path that Paul tried to avoid is waiting for his son to inherit such great responsibility. Someone has to influence mankind into becoming themselves, and they can't do it alone. I hope you enjoy the conversation and summary!

I had to make this bonus episode because it lay on my heart to reflect on life in its moments to remind us of our limitations. Paul is just a man, as infallible as us all, leaving us with lessons on the meaning of life and its procession, a collection of actions that ultimately defines us to what we inevitably become. Remember that we are to be present and involved with our lives, good or bad. I hope you enjoy this bonus episode and many more to come.

I would never presume to be a messiah; I don't get paid enough. Nonetheless, Paul and I are agreed. The weight carries much responsibility that harbors latent danger and consequence. Is it worth it? When one sees into the infinite expanse, it'd be hard to disagree with the weight of choice that befalls us all. I hope you enjoy today's episode!

It would be an understatement that this episode has been a long time coming. Space witches, over-calculating men, a Guild of space travelers hooked on drugs enough to take bribes? Throw in a reluctant, white savior and I'd figured it was a thing of my dreams. Paul doesn't want to draw too much attention to his cause, but I'm asking for you to do check out this newest episode of the podcast. There will be revelations aplenty and sandworms for all who join!

It's hard enough living in a world defined by absence, of identity and meaning and home, but to maintain persistence in the face of such rigor bodies a greater will and spirit that drives us to live for more. Bryan Washington employs well-crafted language to explore complexity within movement, growth, and change through life in its expression. Tune into another episode of works highlighting Black voices in the most pivotal of times in persevering representation of those pushed into the fringes and the choices coming from all that entails.