Award-Winning Poet Lamont B. Steptoe on Healing Wisdom

This week, on Healing Wisdom, Lamont B. Steptoe discusses premonitions, dreams, ancestors, and the anti-war-hero climate for Vietnam War veterans. His fifteen books include volumes of his poetry and anthologies he's contributed to or edited. His own Whirlwind Press has published three collections of the late South African poet and activist, Dennis Brutus. Brutus was tight with Nelson Mandela and his anti-apartheid efforts helped drive out imperialist Dutch corporations and policies.

Without dance and full body exercise which regulates the emotions and mood, people can become stuck in thoughts, beliefs, and patterns which should remain flexible and fluid. Purging and starting over is such an important process for emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health. Sweating, cardiovascular exercise, burning fat, building muscles and bones, are as important as reading, teeth brushing, music, sharing storing and prayers of gratitude.

Today, I learned that things which appear innocuous may in fact be so, and things which appear insidious may not in fact be so. Life is full of checks and balances, a play of light and dark. Thank Goddess for friends and gyms. Let's go hug a tree and give it a smooch, because life is beautiful and trees give us oxygen.