The Wheel of Creativity Blog

The Gratitude Antidote… Appreciation is the Cure

Growing up in Texas, I knew that every Thanksgiving my mother, the clear and present matriarch of the family, would end our meal with a single command. “Okay, now let’s go around the table and everyone say what you’re grateful for.” Eyes would roll. And the moans were audible. I was in my mid-30s before I began to appreciate this ritual.

Black Men Speak: A Conversation for Humanity

When George Floyd was killed, and people began hitting the streets in protest, I started to stir from a long slumber – the sleepy comfort of not knowing what I did not know. I started to listen. This conversation is the result of what I heard. And the three men who speak here – all dear friends of mine – share three experiences of what it means to be a black man in their three countries (USA, UK and South Africa) and around the world.