2017-2018 Project Blogs
Flores flowering in gratitude
Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love form. I stumbled upon a poem that my former student […]
Feeling Good
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Party Your Way Into Fitness at Club Ritmo!
Club Ritmo Fitness is located a few blocks from the Fruitvale BART station. From the Number 1 bus that runs up and down International Boulevard, it’s the stop just before or after the BART Station, […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Affordable Clothing and Other Reasons to Shop at Rainbow Shops
I love fashion and that’s why I stop by Rainbow Shops at least twice a month. It appears they get new stock in at least once a week and the person who’s assigned to unpack […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
One of the Many
In my last article, I profiled Missio Dei Oakland. In this article, I write about how I joined the church. Entering the darkest phase of my existence in 2015, I had developed the mentality of […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
The Power of Christ in East Oakland
Missio Dei Oakland (MDO) is a house church network that is positively serving disadvantaged people in East Oakland through compassion, personal connection and spreading the gospel. In July 2012, a church start -up team of […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Love letter to the Fruitvale
Kalil and I were in bed just last night and at about 8 p.m. we heard firecrackers outside our bedroom window. Several rounds of fire crackers-crackle, boom, swoosh. We just laughed hard, what are […]
2016 Project Blogs
Martial Arts Sifu Bill Owens Reflects on his 50th Year
It’s Saturday afternoon and three rows of children stand frozen in anticipation, waiting for their Martial Arts Master, Sifu Bill Owens, to walk them through the next sequence of gestures. After the children mirror his […]
2016 Project Blogs
2016 Project Blogs
O.G. Beat Meet, a video story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0zsTayZKx4
2016 Project Blogs
Faces of Bay Area PLAN’s Family FEST
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