Rev. Dr. LaDonna Poetry & Creations

06/08/2026

✍🏾🌍 What are your favorite Prince songs? . Cc: & Add Yours.

06/06/2026

✍🏾🌍 When you do what you love and you love what you do and be. YES! Mama Alma Marie’s Daughter is out here. Doing just what you said. Taking it all in! Much more to report later. Join us BuildingBridgesAcrosstheWaters GlobalPoetatWork HealingIllinois

06/06/2026

✍🏾🌍 📅 From June 6, 2023 Livin’ in Kigali, Rwanda to yesterday June 5, 2026. From Rwanda to Chicago to Durban, South Africa and back again. Join us on the Journeys! What is your Dream you are going for in these days?

06/02/2026

✍🏾🌍 Gaining new perspectives: Where are the places you go to gain new perspectives, new vantage points? This is one of mine. 📸 A few years ago friends joined me for a month-long birthday celebration in which we experienced “Chicago Like A Tourist.” YES! What a way to spend a month in the summer in celebration. Here we stopped at one of my favorite locations, 96 floors above the city. When I need a shift in perspective or to see the bigger picture, in the past I would go here. What are your favorite spaces and places that bring clarity and perspective? Let us hear from you in the comments. ❤️

05/30/2026

✍🏾🌍 Weekend blessings and abiding peace all! How are you doing and be-ing? Pause. Breathe. REFRESH. Is this you?? Who’s joining us for Gratitude Holiday Africa Exhale REFRESH Retreat Rwanda? Or New Year’s Africa Exhale RENEW in Rwanda?

💚🎉We’ll be holding space for the EXTRAORDINARY. Rest. Inspiration. Connection. Restoration.

🗺️Also come and learn about Relocation, Investment & Real Estate opportunities if you so choose.

Limited seats are available. Who’s in? It’s time to REFRESH & RENEW.

📩Direct Message to join the invitation list. DrLaDonnaGlobalRetreats UbuntuGlobalCollective

📸 AfternoonViews You’ll stand with us at one of my favorite views and places of renewal at Mereneza Prayer Mountain in Kigali, Rwanda. Yes, I took this photo on one of our visits to the mountain. Such a gift to be there. I am looking forward to sharing this and more with those who join us this November and December!

05/30/2026

✍🏾🌍Nothing like the sun. Even when it’s shining brightly in your face. ☀️ Question: How do you decompress and de-stress in these times?
Answer in the comments.

📸 For me, my mid-week escape to Barbara’s Market and the Stein Learning Garden is an oasis of replenishment every time. This week the sun was shining brightly and I was so glad. Come through Wednesdays 12-3 if you can. And find your place and space of renewal throughout the week.

05/29/2026

✍🏾🌍 A week from today! Make plans to join us. Share the invite and spread the word. Bring your peoples! If you will be there, let me know. Would be so great to see you in person!

05/28/2026

✍🏾🌍 Today and always we give thanks for the Shabazz’s lives and legacy. Some may remember in those early days when I was in Student Diversity at Loyola in the 90’s. Dr. Betty Shabazz graced us with her presence, leadership, direction and powerful prophetic and empowering words that stick with me to this day. In those days, I learned to sit on the front row. And in her keynote, she came down from the podium and stood and spoke right to us and over us - “YOU YOU YOU are our FUTURE WORLD LEADERS.”

She repeated this again and again and addressed us this way from that time on. She did not hesitate. She did not hold back. I mean she spoke it like she really believed and as it was already so.

My my! Her words, this affirmation lodged in every cell of my body. As I am here today, I see her words have come to pass and are coming to pass.

In many of our cultures and circles, we belittle each other, dim each other down or at best don’t say anything. In fact, I’ve worked in some cultures here where they refuse to compliment, celebrate, affirm or acknowledge each other’s greatness, assignment, or what is blooming.

Sitting under Dr. Betty Shabazz’s voice and teachings taught me so much. In fact it was that day, early on that I thought, THIS is the type of Dr. I want to be.

From her I learned that right and boldly spoken words can cut through all the uncertainty of current situations and expectations and that those words do indeed come to pass.

What are we saying to people? What are we saying to ourselves? To one another.

From that point, I latched on to Dr. Betty Shabazz as a mentor from a distance. I think I may have heard her speak one other time and communicated with her once. Always, I would think what it would have been like to witness her and the Honorable Minister Malcolm X El-hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The power and love of their lives live on, even through us. ❤️❤️🌹I am grateful.

Born May 28, 1934, Dr. Betty Shabazz walked through this world as a nurse, a professor, a civil rights advocate, and a mother of six. She gave generously — of her knowledge, her heart, and her time. Today we pause to honor the fullness of who she was and the light she left behind. Happy Birthday, Dr. Shabazz. We carry you with us. 🌹

05/28/2026

✍🏾🌍 Honor your process. It needs to be said. You are here for great purpose. Be faithful in that. Lean in. Go for it. At the same time, be gentle with yourself. Listen in. Honor your process. I am doing just that as this big Dream & Assignment breaks out. What about you? Take a pause. Breathe. Behold. Goes for me too!
Does this resonate with you? Can you relate? Let me hear in the comments. Or send us a Direct Message. Innovators