greenfirewriterseditor | Fired Up! Creative Expression for Challenging Times

Outrage is Love Rising, by Barbara Newman

Posted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 22, 2017 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing

I want to be a Warrior for love.  

And in the deepest part of my belly,

where my fire lies…

let me be a flame for transformation and change.   

Photographer Rodney Tate Captures the Beauty of Birds

Posted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 22, 2017 | Fired Up! Art & Photography, Fired Up! Writing

Photographer Rodney Tate of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is out almost every day capturing images of birds–especially the shore birds and eagles that stalk and soar around the beaches near his home.

A Love Letter to Mother India, by Amber Chand

Posted by greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 20, 2017 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing

“I have sat with the doctor of spices, with his kohl-lined eyes and thick dark beard, as he poured tea into porcelain tea cups infused with saffron, cardamom and cinnamon – an elixir of magic….I have felt ecstasy as the full moon has lit up the sky over the Mughal parapets and the dancers have whirled and twirled around me to the sound of tinkling ankle bells.”