Jane, it’s plain to see
you folks are instrumental in changing me &
we the world. Something in me swirls
as your words fly in particular patterns like birds
or butterflies that flutter by to remind us
we have & are gifts to give
this is why we live.

Received this and other remarkable rhymes and letters from a delightful man, Dwayne O’Neill Parish.

Dwayne self-weaned from medication through meditation and the creation of “hyp-hop-no therapy.”

“My intention is to be a successful social entrepreneur.
http://laptop.org/ They’re doing great things for poor countries overseas & I want to bridge the digital divide in the ‘hood.
I want to set up shop in the parks where these folks drink and smoke their welfare money all day. I want to hire them to do research for me to find the easiest opportunities for the un and little skilled individuals to raise themselves up the social ladder. So they may latch on to something and share it with others.”

“I want up & out in ways that inspire others. “I live what I do for a loving.” Is my daily act-as-if affirmation. I work with non-profits, worthy causes & want to develop products & services for their benefit.
I’ll attach, “Affinities” a collection of pieces I’ve written & recited at their fund-raisers. I do all this pro bono but my landlady, insurance, utilities companies, Safeway & others insist I should create an enterprise that can sustain me & support the work I love so much, I do it free. We just had an exercise in my humanities class Tuesday. You’ve just been given one billion dollars. How are you going to spend the day? I’d get the hell out of town, away from all my brand new friends & relatives I’ve never met but have been meaning to call me. Get a room in beautiful Carmel, overlooking the ocean. With pen & notebook, I’d spend the day listing all the things & organizations, worthy causes, underserved, art groups, food banks, etc., etc. that make my humanitarian heart beat.
including your cafe”

I read all of Dwayne’s “Affinities” collection. It is big and brilliant.

“I do a little thing with acrostics. Here’s what I did using the letters of my name, DWAYNE ONEILL PARISH”:

Divine Presence presents me with presents of prosperity & opportunity
Wrapped oft times disguised as adversity. Stinking-thinking attempts to tempt me away from
All-sufficiency but that can never be-‘cause I’m in harmony. Nothing can harm me & the Universe
Yields unto me ‘til my desires are fulfilled & running over. I accept my abundance in right, Divine order with
No end in sight. I got the Midas touch & might as well do as much as I can to help others excel.
I LOVE living my life in this fashion.
Everything I do is done with passion like smashing
Old beliefs in lack from attacking or trashing my Divine Inheritance in fact, I
Now commence from “nowon” to dispense with any old conditioning that’s just not contributing to my trust fund of abundance &
Excellence of endeavor. I find the circumstances I desire by chance or make them when or wherever.
Infinite Mind is there to aid them, pervading all I survey without strife with the Omnipotent opinion
that I claim dominion in my
Life. This life that’s been awarded me, if I wasn’t me I’d want to be but I want to be more! I’m playing the Horn of Plenty &
Lord, anything I have you’ve given me, lovingly, generously. I merely opened the door of my awareness to your endless store.
Prosperity for posterity is our Creator’s plan for the planet. My plan, as I understand it is to demonstrate the Laws of Cause
And Effect—which I’m obliged to perfect & I expect to see with ecstasy nothing
yet to compare with my share of manna I manifest from thin air.
Real in-comes from God within not my job but then, each paycheck contributes to my wealth.
Treasure without measure is what is now felt!
I advance the eternal substance of my soul to optimize my health & retrieve my loftiest goals & dreams from off the shelf.
Sure as the sun rises above the horizon, I’m rising above my lower me
I live what I do for a loving. I give from what I am
Here for. Something that nothing is more important for me to do.
That is to awaken the Glory of Creation in you.

Dwayne talks about “reaching the chewy, chocolatey centers of people’s souls.”

He shared much of himself in letters to The Cafe and we’re all touched by his openness, creativity, and caring.

Please join me in warmly welcoming Dwayne to our community here.