by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
I started this daily challenge the same day another friend did and it’s a daily reminder that I skipped a few days. It’s a great opportunity to practice grace with myself, by reminding myself, that in everything I do, the best I can do is my best. What always helps is...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 16, 2022 | 100-day challenge
Ucraine, I’m sorry. I have a hard time feeling sad and outraged for you. Not because what is happening isn’t awful. But because, there are so many other tragedies I’m still grieving. I’m pissed about what violence generates outrage and what is considered “normal.” I...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 14, 2022 | 100-day challenge
I asked my music mentor one day, what he believed united us as Italians. I was curious about his answer. I had my own ideas, ideas I still have a tough time putting in writing. Italy is an extremely young nation. We became a nation only in 1861–without Rome as...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 14, 2022 | 100-day challenge
Thursday night I went to and open-mic event in Philly. It was raw, it was profound, it was alive. Just the way I love my art. And it was a lot more than that, too. It was a space of ancestral healing. Two poets did more than recite poems: they channeled on stage the...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 11, 2022 | 100-day challenge
My voice started with a scream. turned soft-toned down by expectations of false femininity of pretended fragility My voice has been shifting and changing with my healing sanctuary My voice is growing stronger. Flowing with more vehemence When before it blocked behind...
