Painkillers: The New Drug of Choice

Harmonious Healing

The Bitter Truth About Sugar: A Cultural and Scientific Wake-Up Call

The modern world, with its obsession for convenience and sugar-laden products, has made it all too easy to fall into a vicious cycle of addiction. As a result, many of us, find it harder to escape the grasp of sugar. Sugar fosters dependency.

By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read

Harmonious Healing

The Wounded

By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read

Harmonious Healing

Abortion: A Spiritual Crime & Its Health Implications

By Jahzra Shemzura • 7 min read

A Lion in the Wur

Each society had its own significance for the hoodie, whether it be religious and a devotion towards something, or to conceal the face in war. The hoodie has a long and extensive history that can be traced in every epoch of human history.

By The Rising Firefly • 6 min read

From Fall to Rise: Part 1

The individual absorbs the smell of the world and begins to mistake it for his own nature. Fear becomes worldview, greed becomes ambition, lust becomes freedom, anger becomes strength, deception becomes strategy, division becomes loyalty.

By The Rising Firefly • 6 min read

Cultural

A Message to Black People Part Three

We must take the harder path: to look in the mirror, to abandon self‑loathing, and to remember that the greatest forces we can touch are the forces of nature itself.

By The Rising Firefly • 8 min read

When Knowledge Becomes Character

Honesty unmasks the uncomfortable realization that many who believed themselves to be the most educated have unknowingly become the greatest disciples of society's destruction.

By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read

Social

The Night Sky and Different Stars

Physical distance does not fix a fundamental lack of cultural empathy. We must ask what truly makes a person belong to a place. Is it the birthplace of their Ancestors or is it a genuine love for the soil they inhabit now?

By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read

Cultural

Writers For Tomorrow

If we truly believe that our Ancestors’ knowledge is valuable, then we must take up the pen, or sit before the keyboard, as one of the tools of our responsibility to defend their legacy.

By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read