At the vein-thin moment when we feel suffocated – just before our breath is snatched from our nostrils – when the walls close in, and when we feel squeezed into the claustrophobic confines of darkness, that’s when we catch a glimpse of just how large we are. When you let yourself go, the smallest and …Continue Reading >>>

Your soul is the people on the other side, the masked stranger hovering outside our fences, the forbidden thought leering through the cracks of creed, the path cordoned off by the authorities that care, the specter in the distance, and the wrong answer. Your soul is strange. You haven’t met her yet. Bayo Akomolafe Painting …Continue Reading >>>

Why do most of us feel like inner frauds? Like we don’t fit in? Like we are hypocrites – conflicted and broken behind smiling masks of authenticity? Muffling the voices of our daimons with loud calls for ‘love and light’? It’s because our souls are getting stranger. They are no longer clogged at the pores, …Continue Reading >>>

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” – Niels Bohr I am often told that I speak and write poetically, ‘with a lyricism to your words and thought – almost as if you were singing a song no one else could hear’. I often ‘offer’ …Continue Reading >>>

We are in a time when the response to our questions can no longer be answers or solutions, but interfering questions – questions that bump into one another, canceling one another out, spawning new ones, shifting focus, deepening humility, marking differences, reworking histories and origins, making new territories. This is not a time to figure …Continue Reading >>>