by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was gently and willingly reunited with moments of time past that have periodically surfaced over the years since. The trigger for this re-emergence of impacts from my lived experience was an invitation received to meet up with some of my former high school year...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
In an interview by Oprah Winfrey of Nelson Mandela, the then President of South Africa, released on A Plus video, 18th July 2017, Nelson outlines some elemental truths. He talks about the people he has been in the company of, ‘some of them more qualified, more...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
In last week’s blog I outlined an initiative in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed to reach out to youth in an attempt to curb violence and death amongst young people. Homicide is the leading cause of death amongst Black males between the ages of 10 and 24, in the...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
In November and December 2016 in a series of blogs I wrote on my website, www.daviddivine.co relating to youth crime and violence and the 11 gun killings in Nova Scotia in 2016 by the time of writing one of my blogs, six of whom were Black, I explored what I...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I look out of my living room window onto a lake-a small lake, bordered by trees, and made by human kind. It is beautiful, peaceful, urging you to reflect on other things than pressures, work, relationships, anything negative. Restoring you to a height where you can...