Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

As I walked on the beach picking up trash, I contemplated the history of my favorite holiday – Earth Day. In 1969, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of beautiful Santa Barbara, California sparked the modern day environmental movement in the United States and influenced Senator Gaylord Nelson to found Earth Day. Millions of…

If not for Black voters in my home state, South Carolina, Joe Biden would be fishing in the Delaware river, instead of being the Democratic party’s nominee for President. Black voters have the power to pick the next president. If you care about keeping your healthcare in the midst of this Covid 19 pandemic and…

In a time when racial and class divisions erupt into violence and our very existence as a species is threatened by nuclear warfare and climate change, music is a healing balm that can unite us. The English author William Congrave wrote in his play The Mourning Bride, “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast.…

Effective July 31, 2020, millions of unemployed Americans will no longer receive the extra $600 per week in Federal COVID 19 unemployment benefits. In Oklahoma, the average payment will drop to $49 a week. The CARES Act moratorium on evictions ended July 24, 2020. While U.S. Senators return to upscale homes, their constituents stay awake…

Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural high. Exercise is another way to release endorphins, which reduce perception of pain and like laughter, makes you feel good. When I read messages from fans who tell me they got up and started dancing when they heard my song “We like to have FUN” or…

A whole lot of people started gardening during the 2020 corona virus #stayhome shutdown, but I was gardening way before Covid19. I’m an organic gardener not only to grow healthy food for me and my family, but to meditate among the sweet flowers, relax, and forget, if only for a little while, about all the…

Young people across America are “pranking” older, smaller ladies by strutting and standing real close without masks in store lines, hurling curses & insults, while their friends video the encounter. When this happened to me, I followed my one love/peace philosophy, left my food in the cart and walked out the grocery store, willing myself…

Racists are not only calling corona virus “Chinese virus”, they’re attacking and harassing Asians. After I placed my shopping cart in line in front of the grocery store and waited in the parking lot for them to open, I witnessed a young intoxicated white man shouting at a small, middle aged Asian woman: “It’s all…

CDC (Center for Disease Control) and the media advise sick folks who have or think they have COVID 19 (coronavirus) to stay home, but without paid sick leave, Uber drivers, restaurant workers, nursing home workers, etc, take over the counter medicine and go to work, infecting others. Their logic is simple. Starvation and homelessness are…

I can barely wait for my new romantic love album to drop. For the last 5 years, award winning songwriter/producer Karl Marrett and I have been writing beautiful love songs and I’ve been in the studio recording lead and background vocals. Also, I co-wrote one of the sultry songs on my new album with production…