Episodes
There are 43 total episodes in this view, with 10 items displayed per page.
Songs to Invoke Time
Curated by Shefik
Some may believe that time is linear, the progression of one moment to another. This may be one of the dirtiest of nature's many tricks, a mere design flaw in the structure of the human machine.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Strength
Curated by Shefik
Strength is a fundamental property of people – some have it, some do not. However, a lack of strength does not mean a lack of potential for strength, or even an inherent weakness. To have strength, to be strong, is about being able to surpass challenges.
Yashi Brown is an author, poet, speaker, and active leader in the mental health community. Poetry became a safe space, when she began experiencing severe emotional challenges in her late teens.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Society
Curated by Shefik
Our friends and neighbors, our enemies and haters, all of them together in one simple, neat little word. The good, the bad, the ugly, the rich, the poor, and everything in-between – society has them all.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Sex
Curated by Shefik
Sex is integral to our experience as human beings. Whether we dive head first into sex with eyes wide open, or huddle in the corner alone, we cannot escape the effects of a sexual experience.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Sentimentality
Curated by Shefik
Life has a confounding way of determining the course of your days and nights. It can build you up, step by step, to a crescendo of emotional fury so torrential it must be outside the laws of nature and of love.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Revolution 3
Curated by Shefik
Sometimes it is all too easy to forget that the world really is revolving around you. Revolutions come, and they go. You are still here, with the arc of the future bending so far off in the distance, all you can see is the flat line of the horizon ahead.
Sam Allen is a Community Liaison Officer at the City of Balch Springs, Texas. He served nearly 40 years as a police officer and administrator before retiring in 2008 and joining the police department of Balch Springs (located near Dallas).
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Revolution 2
Curated by Shefik
A revolution can mean many things. By themselves, underdogs likely had no idea of the ripples their actions would cause, of the turnings they would then set in motion, and the revolution they would ultimately undergo.
AJ Woodson is Editor-In-Chief at Black Westchester and Co-Owner at Urban Soul Media Group, the parent company. He is a father, author, writer, rapper, radio personality, hip-hop historian, and a freelance journalist.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Revolution
Curated by Shefik
We all want to change the world. Well, most of us anyway. So, where do you stand, when others fall? As we talk about revolution, about the turning of tides from one wave to the next, let us drown ourselves, at least for a moment, in definition.
James McCrae is an award-winning strategist and author at the intersection of business, creativity, and consciousness. His book, "Sh#t Your Ego Says", is available through Hay House.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Resilience
Curated by Shefik
Life is a constant dialogue of veiled meaning and interpretive dance. Oftentimes, dreams are lost in moving translation, via the echos that channel voids of nothingness and unfulfillment.
Duration: 01:00:00
Songs to Invoke Rain
Curated by Shefik
Does rain quench your spirit? Are you content by the function of your umbrella? Are you more than what you see, or are you just drowning in the sea?
Duration: 01:00:00
There are 43 total episodes in this view, with 10 items displayed per page.
