tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post114306422406508584..comments2024-01-31T16:14:54.816-08:00Comments on The Prisoner's Wife: mis libros son sus librosthe prisoner's wifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160398635149797677noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post-1143525200264604612006-03-27T21:53:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:53:00.000-08:00thank you for the suggestions. i don't want to ove...thank you for the suggestions. <BR/><BR/>i don't want to overwhelm him, but he's such a fast reader now. so i will definitely send him some of those. was looking at "The Covenant" last week. i might purchase 2, so we can both get right. <BR/><BR/>ps. would love to build. send me an email (if you like). theprisonerswife@gmail.com.<BR/><BR/>be blessed.the prisoner's wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160398635149797677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post-1143524348472792472006-03-27T21:39:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:39:00.000-08:00Other nourishment for his mind:Soul on Ice by Eldr...Other nourishment for his mind:<BR/><BR/>Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver<BR/>The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley<BR/>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe<BR/>and, hard to find but worth it when and if you do...<BR/>Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Return to My Native Land) By Martinican poet, Aimé Césaire <BR/><BR/>and lastly, my personal favorite:<BR/><BR/>Senegalese poet, Léopold (Sédar) Senghor <BR/><BR/><BR/>"my negritude is not a stone <BR/>nor a deafness flung against the clamor of the day <BR/>my negritude is not a white speck of dead water <BR/>on the dead eye of the earth <BR/>my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral <BR/>it plunges into the red flesh of the soil <BR/>it plunges into the blaxing flesh of the sky <BR/>my negritude riddles with holes <BR/>the dense affliction of its worthy patience."<BR/><BR/>~ Aimé CésaireAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post-1143133132205264622006-03-23T08:58:00.000-08:002006-03-23T08:58:00.000-08:00thanks uaridi for your words. her soledad: that is...thanks uaridi for your words. <BR/><BR/>her soledad: that is my goal, to raise a GREAT son, who will be a GREAT, loving, caring man.the prisoner's wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160398635149797677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post-1143108257580005672006-03-23T02:04:00.000-08:002006-03-23T02:04:00.000-08:00I am moved by your strength and courage, your brav...I am moved by your strength and courage, your bravery and honesty re: the name of your blog. I will keep you, your son and your husband in my prayers and my heart. Be blessed.Uaridihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507856981579802222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175262.post-1143091926685086122006-03-22T21:32:00.000-08:002006-03-22T21:32:00.000-08:00Loving hard is difficult but best. Your son will s...Loving hard is difficult but best. Your son will see it and emulate. And when he is a man he will take the family that God gives him and cloak his love over them just the same. And later, some mother with a daughter -like me - will be glad you came to this conclusion on this day.A Girl Againhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797343329790902606noreply@blogger.com