As the Incense Burns 🔥

In this episode I reflect on my early reluctance in tracing my roots and the power of dreams. To having a role in mapping out over 200 years of my Family History, becoming a Genealogist and the "Ancestor Whisper" all while receiving love and disaffection juxtaposed with losing myself in a corporate space, it was through understanding the heroism and sacrifice that allowed me and my Family to perse...

On Episode 15. I discuss the realities of being a Black man in corporate spaces, against the backdrop of layoffs, pandemic, racism, the interview process and how the ability to convert the ugly in my fuel has served to be my saving grace and a bonus teaser at the end... like a Marvel 🎞 movie.

On Episode 13 ... A reader asked about my pause between episodes (mid season break, no?) So I'm back and reflecting on serial acts of inhumanity juxtaposed against serial acts of goodness, wondering if we are better than the "headlines". As I dig in the crates from some essays from 2017 and 2019 via www.shunpwrites.com with a bonus reading of some new work.

In this episode Shun P. reflects on one of those timeless instances where the darts of racism attempted to relegate his humanity to an afterthought and the strategies that he employed to ensure his survival.

On this episode I read from the crates - a piece from 2014, as I reflect on purpose, fear, synchronicity, honoring the Ancestors, a lesson my Aunt gifted me, the power of humility and a reading from some unreleased work.

In this episode I reflect on an incident in where a soul showed me their racism in the workplace with a joke about an Asian girl in a photo (the girl was my niece) uh oh... I expand on how I turn the tables to convert racism into my muse. And... I include a bonus reading of some unreleased work.

In this episode I delve into the creative process, the inspiration for my second book, a reflection on the workplace and the method(s) I use to convert racism into my fuel for prose.

In this installment I reflect on the lessons gifted to me by way of my Father and how those echoes of purpose guided my steps... and I drag an old foe through the confines of prose as the capstone to the episode.

In this installment of As the Incense 🔥's: I discuss the frequencies of love, gratitude, those notions of speaking truth to ourselves and the omnipresent battle to accept people for who they are versus who we want them to be.

In part two of my reflection on my efforts to trace the winding roots of my family tree - I reflect on the power of dreams and my visit to the seat of over two centuries of family history.

In this episode I discuss some of the most important reflections and lessons that my Elders provided me with in the search for the origins of my family... along with words of advice for aspiring Genealogists.

In this episode, I speak on the concept of Black men being weaponized by virtue of their skin and the power of my Father. Growing up, the world implied that I should stay in my place, but the mandates that I was given charted another path for me.

In this episode I expand on the notion of how history repeats in families, my genealogy efforts and how the selflessness of my assorted family members echoes from the historic record and into the present.

In this installment l discuss the power of Mothers with a missive to my Momma and a reflection on the influence of my Grandmothers in mapping out the winding roots of nearly 200 years of family history.

In this episode - the Author, Poet, Blogger & Genealogist Shun P. Writes tenders an introduction to the "who" behind the "he" and a brief reflection on the lessons that he is "still" learning on the winding trails of life.

As we kick the tires on the podcast... we delve into a reading from the latest book: "From the Water's Edge Volume II and reading of the first 3 pieces from that section.

I'll touch on those uncomfortable truths and the lies told in humankind's oldest war with its greatest foe... itself. We tell lies to ourselves because the truth is too much to bear.