We all get jazzed seeing our students successfully searching for their dreams and their passions. The Boston University community and the student life experience inspire us. During your time at the University, I hope you looked around and caught the vibe. Listened to music. Read as much as you could. I hope you got […]
Watch this video on YouTube With a somber heart. I have learned to take time each day to celebrate our families, our communities, and the young people who give us their potential and opportunity to be our best selves. I rarely take the time to celebrate the people who got me to this place — the […]
Word! It went out a few weeks ago. Brand, spankin’ new wannabe Terriers are on the street. First, the practical. Recognize the City as a character in your life – understand the energy of cities and places. It’s the place where you can come to change it up. Restore. Write your songs. Spit your […]
Sorry I’m not surprised. Cue the sigh of relief for my daughter and son. I got the memo from my father – back in the day – when I was acting like I could do what ever I wanted on the streets of the City. One of my younger brothers got a talking to after […]
I just haven’t met you yet. That person who has not seen this: (Says a lot about the world I live in?) Not just through the mobile networks but even the mainstream morning shows have peeped it. I’ve chatted with plenty: fired up middle-schoolers; the motivated college set; and, the inspired old-schoolers. Even my […]
A little history, music and poetry from Crystal-Angelee Burrell* The graves of great men cannot contain them. Their bones are brick, their blood, paint. So when next you walk past a mural On the brick of their bone Splattered with the paint of their blood, Listen. You may hear their whispers. Billie Holiday shrieking in […]
by Devyn Buckley Like many other BU students, I was shocked to see the headline in BU Today that another accusation of rape was directed at a hockey team member. At first I believed that I clicked on old mail, seeing as this was a headline not too long ago in the same publication. Sadly, […]
If you deal in love and passion, then you’ve got to know heartbreak. Maybe the heartbreak makes the passion worthwhile. Got a broken heart again? Here’s the playlist – it starts mellow and ends with you struttin’: Got to start with Al Green’s I’m Still In Love With You After The Rain – John Coltrane […]
It has rhythm. It makes us move – together. I love music. Is it love? The kind of playlist Cupid could love: Let’s Stay Together – Al Green My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder Little Red Corvette – Prince Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill All Falls Down – Kanye West Feat. Syleena Johnson […]
Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning We cannot live, except thus mutually We alternate, aware or unaware, The reflex act of life: and when we bear Our virtue onward most impulsively, Most full of invocation, and to be Most instantly compellant, certes, there We live most life, whoever breathes most air And counts his dying years […]