tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49658283649059801432024-02-06T19:28:21.185-08:00p i c t u r e l e s sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-85429364665606871632021-01-06T21:04:00.002-08:002021-01-06T21:04:55.228-08:00w o r d<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">HRU / HNY!!!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Create Your Word for 2021</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Friday, January 8, 7 - 8pm EST via zoom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">A By Donation Event:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hoopyogini.com/offers/zeZL5swm/checkout&source=gmail&ust=1610078913586000&usg=AFQjCNEZJNpdzVNWzt9RpOtpsb-igHaiNA" href="https://www.hoopyogini.com/offers/zeZL5swm/checkout" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://www.hoopyogini.com/off<wbr></wbr>ers/zeZL5swm/checkout</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Have you created your WORD for 2021? A guiding light, elevating purpose, anchor and high vibe reminder of who you are and what you are cultivating this year?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Join <a href="https://www.hoopyogini.com/pages/about-us" target="_blank">Jocelyn Gordon</a> and me for a visionary hour where you will be guided to create your 2021 intentional frequency for the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">new year.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KX1QGk7o-HcnlLa0i3dHBe_wDUzTNytkE4Vna2FAcJMaWVnWAuMF6ygZnyKpmjkKHA8jtcL8RRI_r4f7_EQ0Qk91F0eOzoFr4FZ2BZFQuZPgo17p4x3FhOS9LiAvzkxFtyKkbegRT25_/s1080/IMG_8948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KX1QGk7o-HcnlLa0i3dHBe_wDUzTNytkE4Vna2FAcJMaWVnWAuMF6ygZnyKpmjkKHA8jtcL8RRI_r4f7_EQ0Qk91F0eOzoFr4FZ2BZFQuZPgo17p4x3FhOS9LiAvzkxFtyKkbegRT25_/s320/IMG_8948.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span>
From our vantage point, one positive word can make all the difference in the world. One positive view possesses the power to transform. It is our forever hope that among the thousands of words we illuminate, one will resonate and shift the vantage point of the receiver to a view of the world that vaporizes for at least a brief moment any and all negative emotion they ever could have visualized. l o V e!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-64382731230058298802020-02-03T14:16:00.001-08:002020-02-03T14:16:17.115-08:00Toasting to History<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Happy History Month!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Last week, winds carried me over miles of white sands. Goddess circle love suspended me. We lived in our own Jamaican #GoopLab. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Uhmazing news had me weeping openly under bronzing sun after days of House Music all Night Long. Jacqueline and I layovered in the Mobay Lounge before the most comical HIGH flight ever. I watched Messiah and finally listened to Of Children of Blood and Bone.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Mid week I sprinted. I dabbled on a new piece and played with blankets crocheted by my Granny. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Happenstance put Craft and I in the 254. We started Black History month with a bang— one of us by making it... You may have heard... his graphic novel, New Kid, won the Kirkus, the #Newbery and the Coretta Scott King awards!!!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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We toasted with coconut milk drinks, #novelteas, fresh pressed passion fruit juice and ginger lemonade. We laughed about crinkled grocery sacks.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The Sweetness made a college break guest appearance for a book store date. A best friend accepted a marriage proposal. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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It’s Sunday again. I’m here for half time & commercials. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Farmer Guy and I bid au revoir to the SLU. He is en route now. Let’s see what FABULOUSNESS this week will bring. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Roboto","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Missing Margot. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: A few things all at once: hearing a public radio show on slavery, meeting my students who “HATED” reading, and attending family reunions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q: If you were the boy in the book, what would you do and why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: There will be no spoilers here. I would do what Washington did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q: What would you do if that actually happened to your son?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: Still no spoilers. I would be thrilled for my son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q: Why did you decide to write about DIRT? It is my favorite book. Is Washington a real person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: THANK YOU! Dirt is everywhere. There is no shortage of supply. I thought it would be a perfect technology. Washington is a fake character that might be a mish-mash of my son and others I have met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q: How did you make the book realistic?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: By describing real life in the words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q: How long did it take to make the book?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A: The book started as a workshopped short story and ended eight years later as a part of my graduate thesis at Seton Hill University.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Doesn’t everyone l o v e Edith Piaf? </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just
finished today’s five minute French <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.duolingo.com/" target="_blank">Duolingo</a></i> session. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A
few weeks back I travelled to the French island of Martinique. After being
there for only forty-five minutes, I remembered I already knew French, A LOT of
French from a long time ago. I lived in Paris more than twenty years ago… maybe
from longer longer ago? In my mind I knew French, like when you see someone that you
know you have met somewhere before. You know you know them. I knew French like
that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I
had worked as an <i>au pair</i>, so my l e v e l of French sounded more like third grader French.
Like <i>Tu veux ma photo</i> French? This happens to be the English equivalent of take
a picture it will last longer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even
when I lived in France, French was something I felt I knew in an intimate sort
of way. I’ve only had one proper French classroom semester in the seventh
grade, when they made us take foreign l a n g u a g e, and we studied Spanish for one
Semester, and French for the other. I remember my teacher, Mrs. Finnen, but don’t
remember the l e s s o n s so much. Maybe <i>Francais </i>comes with such ease because of the Latin I learned for several years during high school from Mrs. Wray. </span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Salve Magistra!</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s
more intimate – it’s more inside of me. It’s more mother tongue, like
motherese. Kay told me that I once was a Caribbean slave. Like that,
like genetically, or previously coded. This is my s p e a k. So, I travelled to
Martinique, and remembered for the third or fourth time this lifetime that I
needed to learn one of my native languages – French.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sweetness
and I took a quick jaunt to this neighboring island. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
stepped off the f e r r y in Fort De France to get our bearings and straight into a
possible iguanas’ lair. On our little side street, we saw at least three too
large lizards.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Bienvenue</i>.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“To
speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” Frantz Fanon</span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This
birth place of <a href="https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/fanon-frantz/" target="_blank">Frantz</a> had streets and a vibe named after him to evidence
the connection. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
marched in the same direction with this uhdorable elder from Trinidad. She came
over only to “shop” for the day. She lived on this island many years ago and
got work in hotels with her impeccable English.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When
she referred to those many years ago, she looked wistful and glossy eyed like
Joe sitting in therapy with Dr. Nicky talking about Beck in the Netflix creepy original, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/you-netflix" target="_blank">You</a>. I wanted to imagine
that Ms. Elder Trini was obsessively stalking a past lover to have a cup of tea
before a possible rekindling rendez vous. All – “ Voulez vous coucher avec moi
ce soir?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She
had all the spirit that I wanted to have in my 80s. I didn’t know if we asked
her, or whether she invited herself, but the three of us ate breakfast baguettes
in the f a b u l o u s diner, Le 62 at 62 Avenue des Caraibes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
language trigger happened. I couldn’t make myself stop spouting my rusty ass 20-year-old
French. Like a cartoon character, I wanted to slap my own hand over my mouth, to
stop the broken French from seeping out. If our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY" target="_blank">Lady Marmalade</a> meal companion had
been 20 years younger we would have exchanged social media information, but we Frenchie
French on both cheeks s m o o c h e d her an au revoir. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
stumbled toward the Schoelcher Library (Bibliothѐque Schoelcher) on Rue Victor
Sévѐre. Because well it’s a library, and uh free Wi-Fi. They named the library after
<a href="https://www.ohio.edu/chastain/rz/schoel.htm" target="_blank">Victor Schoelcher</a>, a French writer, that worked tirelessly to rid the Caribbean
of slavery.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In
the library, I asked for directions to the Aimѐ Césaire exhibit. Of English and of
French, a lady with a Blaxploitation sized afro gave us directions. Oh, BTW, Martinique
houses some flyed out magnificent hair. Had me considering a big chop. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
started our trek. Sweetness realized I didn’t have an itinerary. Uh-oh. I had
downloaded a <a href="https://www.gpsmycity.com/" target="_blank">GPSmycity</a> on Martinique, and read exactly two blogs, but nothing
really thought out. We wandered around the bubbling city of Fort Du France,
that sleepishly awakened for the day. We carried our bags that weighed more
each second. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We f o u n d the Hotel De Ville and chopped it up with cute curators. Césaire’s poem, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://guesswhoandwhere.typepad.fr/carnets_de_poesie/2008/05/aim-csaire---et.html" target="_blank">Notebook of a Return to the Native Land</a></i> on the steps toward his office touched my s o u l.
We rode a boat to our side of town, Les Trois<span style="background-color: transparent;">-</span>Ilets. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
stashed our luggage, grabbed our turquoise beach wristbands, and called our cab to my
one plan planned destination. <a href="https://www.uncommoncaribbean.com/martinique/uncommon-attraction-anse-cafard-slave-memorial-martinique/" target="_blank">Anse Cafard</a>. I don’t want to write about Anse
Cafard… yet. Not here. One does not just mention Anse Cafard in a blog, one
writes an entire blog, or story, or novel dedicated to it or not at all. The
taxi tour was mystical and magical. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We
chaise lounged on the crowded holiday beach for quite a while. We dressed fancy
for dinner to eat pizza at Hasta La Pizza. We took a morning coffee at a spot in
the Village Creole called Ice N Coffee after walking in the rain. Even the
rain. So much like France. We spent more time resting on the beach, and I snorkeled.
We water taxied back from Les Trois-Ilets and people watched in the square and
watched people pile from cruise ships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then
I saw what I didn’t know that I had really come to see. We passed her on our
way returning to port. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In <a href="https://travel.usnews.com/Martinique/Things_To_Do/La_Savane_des_Esclaves_21316/" target="_blank">La Savane Park</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"> stood a statue of Empress Josephine, Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife. She was
born in Martinique. More than twenty years ago this art form had been enhanced – decapitated. I can’t
really say defaced as there lacked a head and a face, but defaced, nonetheless.
It was striking. Purpose filled brokenness. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A loud quiet. Or what Sal called a desperate
situation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I always believed
that the Caribbean spirit had been more fire, more able to stand up to overthrow
– like Toussaint, more able to cull writerly leaders – like Cesaire or Garvey
and more able to create independent thinkers in the midst of oppression and chaos
swirling around humanity – like Fanon. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You know? Like Peter Tosh publishing and singing
the lyrics to Equal Rights in the seventies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How
much Martinique reminded me of France made me uneasy. It was as if we were
actually in France. It was like telling me there was no Black Santa. Martinique
didn’t seem to own any underlying resistance. I thought it smelled like Octavia
Butler’s Lillith’s compliant complicity. Maybe that’s what it was, how it had
to be. I thought I would see more of Ye’s it’s all a choice mentality. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And
there it was. It WAS there in her. I needed to see her, <a href="https://www.uncommoncaribbean.com/martinique/uncommon-attraction-beheaded-statue-of-empress-josephine/" target="_blank">Empress Josephine</a>. She quelled my growing disenchantment. In
the middle of the town square, unfixed and unphased, a “resister” (I’m reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Adulthood Rites Book Two of The Xenogenesis
Trilogy</i> by Butler) had spray painted in an angry red over the word colony
and affixed a question mark next to it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Colony? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like
I got your colony, Boo. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I had hoped. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Listening
to Lana Del Rey “Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to Have.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>À demain.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>love</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>I</b>'m writing in 2019! Where creates you?</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-71616710977755650212017-09-14T20:13:00.003-07:002017-09-14T20:15:56.770-07:00FABULOUS Steven Tyler Love<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Speaking of Janet, Funny. How. Time. Flies. When. You're. Having. Fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Très vite, y'all!!???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have you heard the story about how I tripped out, and actually tripped, and nearly fell when I saw THE Steven Tyler in a Dallas restaurant a couple of weeks ago? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Farmer Guy witnessed me wobbling before he saw HIM, and asked me what happened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cool as this wind right now, Steven Tyler said, "I think she just fell for me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yep, that happened. Tyler definitely has "Soul Glow". We claim him, right??!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Afterward, we spun around downtown D in the whip, AKA, Farm Truck, blasting Coltrane with the fabulous Derrick Barnes celebrating Crown reviews. His forthcoming release from Denene Millner Books and Agate Publishing, CROWN: An Ode To The Fresh Cut (October 10, 2017).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This ALL happened only hours after ME being on the same program, and in the same building as SONIA SANCHEZ at the Tulisoma Bookfair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you, Patrick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fabulism meets mystical magical - hashtag my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These storms have my locks perpetually EXTRA knotted up. And the moon that looks like fire, and the fires. All of it reminds me of that one YA book, what was it called? Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, not to be confused with It's the End of the World, by R.E.M. Did anyone else read that series?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To uncoil, I try my best to write 19:18, read The Perfect Find by the fabulous Tia Williams, and watch Ozark, but I keep being reminded of the fragility of it all. Life---what really matters? I keep returning to LOVE. That's it. I love y'all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">254, we lost another one this week, Rest In Love, Andre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Love</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-37955561363265997652017-09-14T20:05:00.003-07:002017-09-14T20:05:45.916-07:00Amarillo Love<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Listening to Alicia Keys with Sweetness... Some people want it all... I stare outside of my Amarillo hotel corner room and see this #catastrophe happening. I watch this guy struggle against gravity in snow drizzle without chains as his truck on an incline slides kiss close to another vehicle. I can't stop watching. Life, 'eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He tries to break the inevitable with a spare tire from his bed. When his host of friends arrive, I'm giddy. Life, eh. How many of us have them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes I get to do this. I GET to be a friend. This is my life. I get to help young people on the incline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tonight, I was lucky enough to be one of the #dancemoms to a national qualifying #nexstar #hiphop group!!! The other day Farmer Guy and I and a few first gen college students met at the Wagner. We saw #terrycrews live. He chatted about the 'secret' and Humor in Leadership with #jbs. "If you can reach your dreams, they aren't big enough." The other other day I witnessed super young college students receiving awards. Every day I get to be a friend to nearly 200 at risk students. Le jeune!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is why I write. This is why we watch #13reasons which I finished last week. Same thought in #everythingeverything which #amreading now. We need our tribe, our friends in this life, eh! "Sometimes it snows in April</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes I wish life was never ending</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And all good things, they say, never last."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From my window, I watched them work their friend out of a conundrum. It's snowing in April in Texas. Music swirls from the Bodega across the way. Manchild released a new track over on SoundCloud. Fabulous food from Yellow City Street Food, #ycsf fills my heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How can we be better friends in a codependent no more kind of way? Life, eh! Ha! Sweetness just snapped in her sleep. Eureka!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">{Repost 4/30/17}</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">See website here: </span><a href="https://www.woodyrvrentals.com/winnebago-voyage#.WUMSOIY8KEf" id="LPlnk872907" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> https://www.woodyrvrentals.com/winnebago-voyage#.WUMSOIY8KEf</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While we squeamishly waited, Farmer Guy now aka Hero Guy had to fix reconnect or whatever, with his own gloved hands apparently just in time for us all not to die of toxic shock (maybe not TSS, but toxic inhalation) in Manchester Heaven. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-38864275423276987432016-11-09T20:34:00.001-08:002016-12-17T15:30:39.632-08:00w o r l d <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pssssssst! I have a secret to share....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is nothing wrong with your world. Fix the vibration. l o v e</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-12051692094946642802016-03-15T18:35:00.001-07:002016-03-15T18:35:17.516-07:00m a r c h & m a g i c h (repost)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Faction before blood." Hmmmmmm...Rather - faction and <b>b l o o d</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We do all, we are <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840309/" target="_blank"><u>Divergent</u></a>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>a b n e g a t i o n</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>d a u n t l e s s </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>a m i t y</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kudos to <a href="http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/p/books.html" target="_blank">Veronica Roth</a> for these <b>f a b u l o u s</b> words! Haven't seen the movie yet, but just finished the book. <b>s m a r t</b> world building! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here's another faction...the <b>m a g i c h</b>! My brand new word for a sect that I don't see referenced often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>magich</b></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="pronset"><span class="show_spellpr" style="display: inline;"><span class="prondelim">[</span><span class="pron"><span class="boldface">maj</span>-<b>eech</b></span><span class="prondelim">]</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">noun, plural ma-gich-es</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f. la magich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">m. le magich </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. your MAma's GIrlfriend's CHildren.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. magical serendipitous fantasy parallel universe subliminal bond.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. the offspring(s) of your play aunt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Treesia, my older magich, attended UNT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you were young, you played with these <b>m a g i c h e s</b> , while your mothers shared "tea".</span><br />
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assume the mamas talked shop, traded recipes, reviewed articles and
books. They probably chatted about their loves and passions. Maybe they
debated education, politics, religion, diets and parenting styles.
Surely, they consulted and advised on fashions, fads and all issues
personal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know they talked about us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know because I am a mother, and I have girlfriend tea. And we talk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://hellogiggles.com/tea-its-not-that-thing-youre-sippin-on" target="_blank">"What's the <b>t e a</b>, Girl?"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our tea is not always as traditional as an old school version. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If I see a <b>f a n t a s t i c</b> blog on "<a href="http://hopeave.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/how-to-talk-to-your-daughter-about-her-body/" target="_blank">how to talk to your daughter about her body</a>", I immediately text it to all of my mama girlfriends. We discuss and <b>v o w</b>
to affirm our children like the article suggests. We begin to talk with
our girls differently creating a similar experience for our children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This <b>c o l l e c t i v e</b> parenting consciousness can even be a side comment in tea conversation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Martial Arts had such a positive impact on Is." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Weeks after this tea comment, I enrolled my son into a martial arts program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This co-creation comes in a <b>m y r i a d</b> of forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There
are many influences outside of your family of origin that deeply affect
your upbringing. I will boldly say that we are possibly more alike in
experience with our magiches than many other people on the planet. The
same <b>b o o k s</b> lined our shelves, the same television programs
were watched, the same foods plated our dinner tables, we may have even
shared a holiday or a day trip or two - because our mamas were friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For
some reason this relationship escaped my heart's magnitude until a few
days ago. I couldn't define who I lost to onlookers. My speech
shattered. I couldn't quite explain my connection to this love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I have the word, the words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I lost a <b>s u b l i m e</b> and fabulous magich. This world lost <a href="http://www.donatelifefloat.org/prod/components/media_center/riders/nmcpherson.html" target="_blank">Nefeterius</a><a href="http://www.donatelifefloat.org/prod/components/media_center/riders/nmcpherson.html" target="_blank"> Akeli McPherson</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You see, I'm the older magich, the Big Tee, at least that is what Ms. Martha, our nanny called me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She was Little Tee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then along came a Baby Tee. I love you,<a href="http://theenglishschoolhouse.com/about/#1" target="_blank"> Tamara</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm not quite sure how it all <b>m a g i c h a l l y</b> worked with me being eldest, but Little Tee has always been in my periphery - a validation across the aisle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you have magiches...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You don't even know why you know all about these people's lives. It would
make much more sense if they were actually a limb on your genealogical
<b>t r e e</b>, or if you had chosen the relationship on your own.When we talked as adults we didn't have to 'catch up' on on-goings and
recent events - not because of social media or gossip, but because our
mamas already told us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We participated in a lot of the same experiences, probably at the orchestration of our dear mothers. They all get to take <b>j o y </b>and ownership of 'their' childrens' successes, the mama group also share pain together with 'their' childrens' losses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They become theirs, we become theirs. <a href="http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/Sarabi" target="_blank">Sarabis</a> holding down Pride Rock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>J'aime mes magiches</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My
mom called last week to tell me, Little Tee only had hours to live. A
quake shocked my soul. I don't know a world without her. We arranged for
the Fabulous <a href="http://mocreole.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mo Creole</a> to escort Mama Rose three hours away to quickly be at her <b>l o n g</b> time friend's side. Thank you, <a href="http://mocreole.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mo Creole</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I
wanted to play it super somber, and super cool. I wanted to hold a
supportive s l a s h comforting role. Then I heard my anthem for the
week... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU" target="_blank">Turn Down! For What?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I listened, prayed, kicked, screamed, cried and laughed a bit. I questioned the fairness of all things <b>g o o d</b>. Then my pen hit the paper and I drafted the w o r d list that I rattled off at her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28ceremony%29" target="_blank">wake</a> of all the things we were able to share by having mamas that were <b>d e a r</b> friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you, Farmer Guy, Manchild, Daughter and Puppy <b>G i n g e r</b> for escorting me across Texas for this magichal trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you, Enterprise for surprisingly renting me a car with <b>a n g e l</b> West Virginia plates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These 'honest' gifts that we received as<b> w o r d s</b> - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because of our mama's friendship, we do... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mothers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Friends, Girlfriends, Grace and Graceful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lipstick and Smiles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Positivity and Kindness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Education and Degrees. More Education and Degrees. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Children and Community. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Social and Activism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Flowers, Beauty and Travel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Parties and Celebrations </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sweets and Food. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Black. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Volunteer and Intern. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cheer and Mascots (Cardinals, Mustangs and Eagles). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Piano Lessons and Fashion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Justice and Integrity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank yous and Gratitude. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Life, Death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and Tea. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See Tee's <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cancer-sucks-a-cheer-up-story" target="_blank">b e a u t i f u l inspirational story</a> and fund Cancer Sucks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Click here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cancer-sucks-a-cheer-up-story </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>l o v e</b> </span><b><br /></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-68180389123260571842015-12-05T21:34:00.002-08:002015-12-05T21:34:22.783-08:00Positive w o r d s Research!!! #pwrCheck out this <a href="http://positivewordsresearch.com/happy-endings-slash-big-reveal/" target="_blank">blog</a>!<br />
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Check out <a href="http://positivewordsresearch.com/happy-endings-slash-big-reveal/" target="_blank">p o s i t i v e words research</a>!<br />
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l o v eUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-28386249671120227672015-11-25T14:32:00.001-08:002015-11-25T14:32:05.342-08:00I CAN Alphabets!<br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Consider using the <a href="http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000523636/The-I-CAN-Alphabets.aspx" target="_blank">I CAN Alphabets</a> as a journal for your classroom.</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I is for Invigorated</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dynamic characters.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dynamic characters change and grow throughout our stories. They go from this to that. After completing each story, flip through the pages of <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Invigorated</i>. Did any of the characters shift from being one word to another? Why? If they didn’t change they were static characters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ebenezer Scrooge is a ‘g’. He travels from <b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;">green</b> to <b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;">grace</b>. We can write his name on the ‘g’ page of <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Invigorated</i>. Scrooge was primarily concerned with his riches (green). By the end of Dickens’s<span style="line-height: 21px;"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">A Christmas Carol, </i>Scrooge is full of grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Words you are not familiar with, find the definition and record them right on their page.</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C is for Character</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">literary terms.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Record the definitions of writing / literary terms on pages of your pictureless papers above each word. Below the pictureless word, draw or document examples from the assigned text.</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A is for Apple</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your pictureless pages.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For your reading notes for this class. Paper clip the first page of <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">A is for Apple </i>for easy access. On pages of <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Apple</i>, take your class notes, make your own notes, ask your questions, scribble on the page, color, record, collage. You may even tear out a page or two and give to a friend.<span style="line-height: 21px;"> </span>There is a message from me to you on each page. l o v e</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">N is for Never Night</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your Alphabet Book.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From one of our literary selections or all, write your own alphabet book at the bottom of each <i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Night</i> page. Words you love. New words. Words from a few different reads. One or many! Can’t wait to see what you come up with! Share with us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pictureless" target="_blank">facebook</a>!</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-84727731249502934442015-10-25T19:46:00.001-07:002015-10-25T19:48:06.889-07:00p r e t t y ta - tas<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Each year I repost this blog for remembrance. A couple of weeks ago my dear friend had a double mastectomy. Thanks to Angelina Jolie, we can all feel more hopeful about reconstruction and selfies</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">*Goal of the year---- MONTHLY BREAST SELF EXAMINATIONS! Love<br /><br /><br /> It's all pink again!</span><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Last October, I don't remember. <br /><br /><br /> This year, each ribbon follows me and leaves pink traces behind my eyelids. This year- the year of biopsies, the year of lumpectomy, the year my mother had a mastectomy. <br /><br /> Adrea is in the habit of sending by post (that in itself is fabulous). Sometimes the treats from my partner breathe through their packaging, forcing my children to rattle the contents. That time they were pictureless word cards. Each card presented one of the words we claim on post sized cards, business sized cards, or itty bitty cards. They were gorgeous. I traveled with them half across the state to share with my mother during the post chemo / pre-surgery / pre-radiation hospital moments.<br /><br /> Mom twisted them around and palmed them. I saw fear vanishing from her. When the anesthesiologist entered, he began to share the process. First, we will do this, then that, the important thing is to clear your mind. <br /><br /> "We have words for that, Mom, from the 'nothing' series."<br /><br /> The doctor was intrigued. I shared p i c t u r e l e s s with him- Clear Clouds, Memory Music, Invisible Icicles. He deemed them appropriate and darling. He modified my mother's instructions to a p i c t u r e l e s s place. <br /><br /> In a childlike voice my mother asked for surgical tape. When he returned she began praying and taping positive word cards on her body. Then, my fear vanished. This is l i f e and life is b e a u t i f u l. <br /><br /> Each hospital employee, visitor, and friend that witnessed that moment became instantly radiant. The words connected us, protected us, and let us breathe through those moments one moment at a time.<br /><br /><br /> It's all pink again!<br /><br /><br /> BTW, MaRose is doing f a b u l o u s l y!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-66510101900313075842015-09-11T17:51:00.001-07:002015-09-11T17:51:54.442-07:00India.Arie - I Choose (lyrics)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rKDShRdJ3d4" width="459"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-85245775673814646672015-09-11T16:52:00.001-07:002015-09-13T19:02:54.046-07:00wearing w h i t e with w a y n e<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wow, what uh week! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm going <b>p l a c e s</b> I've never gone, so I'm doing things I've never done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One should not wear <b>w h i t e </b>after<a href="http://www.wisegeek.org/why-are-you-not-supposed-to-wear-white-after-labor-day.htm" target="_blank"> Labor Day</a>. Okayyyyyyyyyy? Why not? Why is that even a thing? It's <b>c o o l</b> if you're attending a white party mid-winter, or getting <b>b e t r o t h e d</b>. Why not in Texas when it is still over a gazillion degrees?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is a scary thought for me -- wearing white after LD. Would a giant <b>b l a c k</b> Southern <b>m a m a</b> hand of etiquette reach down and <b>s q u i s h </b>me from the sky? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When do traditions <b>i n t e r t w i n e </b>with superstitions and then <b>t u m b l e</b> into fear? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hear Carrie Bradshaw. <written bradshaw="" carrie="" in="" of="" the="" voice=""></written></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not the fire and brimstone kind, nor the black cat passing. The kind of traditions slash superstitions that your mama, grandma and them <b>i c e</b> onto your eating black eyed peas for the New Year finishing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spit on broom straws that b r u s h over my shoes. I edit all over traditions in my forthcoming middle - grade novel, <b>d i r t </b>that is due to my publisher in a couple of weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Egads!!!! Yes, a couple of weeks. Needing a touch of accountability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Traditions and superstitions, even in my <b>d r e a d e d</b> op-positional defiance, have become like a guiding principle. Merde! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sweetness and I listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDShRdJ3d4" target="_blank">India Arie</a> and <i><a href="http://www.matched-book.com/" target="_blank">Matched</a></i> by Ally Condie. Condie creates this <i>Giver</i>-like post-modern world were the shoulds abound. "<i>Everyone in this house does what he or she is supposed to do.</i>" We just finished<b> </b>scenes chronicling Grandpa's 'Final Banquet'. Not to justify a spoiler alert, people live until eighty years of age in this world made <b>p e r f e c t</b> with statistics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Something about this concept makes me want to live, and live more free. So, after a few dissolves of <a href="http://www.drugstore.com/boiron-sedalia-for-stress/qxp33071" target="_blank">Sedalia</a>, I'm still sitting, but I'm still in the place of wanting to live free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What if I just did stuff, not all of the stuff I should?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When thinking about such things, I often seek Dyer. <a href="http://www.drwaynedyer.com/" target="_blank"><b>W a y n e</b> Dyer</a> one of my long time <b>b e a u t i f u l </b>angels recently left this <b>p l a n e</b>. He has coached me many times through crazylane with his <b>w o r d s</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I pull my tattered copy of Dyer's <i>Your Erroneous Zones</i> from the shelf next to my bed. The index has a listing for traditions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"The important thing is to determine for yourself which rules work, and are necessary to preserve order in our culture and which can be broken without harm to yourself or others. There is no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are great rewards in being your own person and living your life according to your own standards." - Wayne Dyer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the day that Farmer Guy started his new big time g r o w e r gig, I wore white. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-10654220390128247812015-08-09T10:33:00.003-07:002015-08-17T07:00:49.343-07:00Chris von Halle on #iwriteYA<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Check out the a u t h o r of <i>The Fourth Generation</i>, <a href="http://www.chrisvonhalle.com/" target="_blank">Chris von Halle</a> over on <a href="http://freecottonclub.blogspot.com/2015/08/writing-ya-by-chris-von-halle.html" target="_blank">free cotton</a>. </span><br />
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adults exist. Ever since the plague swept the world 100 years ago, no one has
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">Sixteen-year-old
Gorin, a collector of curious artifacts left over from the pre-plague
civilization, is on the verge of perishing from that deadly epidemic. And his
last wish is to find a way to visit the rulers’ reputedly magnificent,
off-limits mansion.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Up against the clock, he
and his friend Stausha steal into the mansion and discover a secret more
horrifying than they ever could’ve imagined—a secret that holds the key to the
survival of the whole human race.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's c u r i o u s! You can purchase <a href="http://www.chrisvonhalle.com/" target="_blank"><i>The Fourth Generation</i></a>!</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-38851378815414380972015-07-26T17:13:00.000-07:002015-08-09T10:15:53.331-07:00the age of m i r a c l e s<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found it interesting that a <b>b e a t i f u l</b> lady's post prior to her teenaged son's funeral stated that she expected a <b>m i r a c l e</b>. That seemed to be the sort of thing one asked for prior to a death, not prior to a funeral. I guessed Mary could have expected the same<b>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">See, I met this charming lady in a charming <b>b o u t i q u e</b>, during a magnificent <a href="http://www.toms.com/" target="_blank">Toms</a> sale. Or so I thought. We chatted a bit, then realized that on an occasion we stood next to each other during a yoga Saturday at the Y. I remembered her toes. <b>H a p p e n s t a n c e</b> our same aged children were students when Carver commenced all day every day GT school year. Those <b>p e s k y</b> intelligent six graders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We talked for about an hour on those couches at <a href="http://www.altardstate.com/" target="_blank">Alter'd State</a> about: marriage, <b>e d u c a t i o n</b>, divorce, about being single parents, artists we both knew around town, dating, <b>y o g a</b> and shoes, specifically, Toms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of course we became fb <b>f r i e n d s</b> right then and there. Where had she been all of my Midland life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sometimes people just get into your spirit. It's a <b>s u b t l e</b> thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our same aged children, I digress. Heavy <b>s i g h</b>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>S w e e t n e s s</b> rushed from her room during one of the last mornings before the end of school and announced, "Something is wrong with a boy!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Dear, what are you talking about?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Her response reminded me to <b>d e c i p h e r</b> it later since it was chock full of... and on Ig, and then on Snapchat, and then someone texted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">WTH was she talking about?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The day continued. That night I caught the news that Farmer Guy watched. I intentionally NEVER <b>c a u g h t</b> the news. There it was, and there it was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She. She and him. He laid in a hospital bed, while his mother raised praying, praising hands at his side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The she that I never saw off line again. The she that I thought a couple of weeks earlier to ask if she wanted to blog on pictureless, but didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All of the <b>s u d d e n</b> I felt it. I hadn't even known this person existed in my <b>s p i r i t</b> until that very moment. I don't know when it happened, but in the moment I felt that pain, I knew she was there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I wanted her <b>m i r a c l e</b> for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even at the funeral I wanted her miracle for her. I didn't attend the funeral, but I did. With a <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo.AgdLVVJQsAOscsnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWc0dGJtBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMQ--?p=Harry+Potter+and+the+Chamber+Of+Secrets+2002&vid=36057955e7eabe4e854cc2fee1b74716&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.c6noZmpOhJ%252bSs4lC%252bENXvg%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D162%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dpci7J2HgV2w&tit=Harry+Potter+and+the+Chamber+of+Secrets+%282002%29+Teaser+Trailer&c=0&h=162&w=300&l=123&sigr=11b0qlkd3&sigt=11t5bociq&sigi=12oapnieb&age=1260219948&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&tt=b" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> book in hand and a cup a tea, I sat outside of the services across the street at the GMFL football field on the aluminum <b>b l e a c h e r s </b>top row<b>.</b> Yes, I lovingly stalked a funeral. I waited for the miracle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">White butterflies danced over grasses. The clouds made intricate figurines, none that spelled his name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nothing much to see here. Keep it <b>m o v i n g</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tires screeched, and I saw two ginormous cutie pie dogs, one a chocolate lab puppy, jaunting around all unsupervised all <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107131/" target="_blank">Homeward Bound</a> like. A young couple out for their mid morning outing stopped their truck on a rescue mission of pets that clearly did not belong to them. <b>P u p s</b> went one way, and so did the couple. <b>P u p s </b>ran into the field, so did the couple. This went on and on and on. They spent the entirety of the service trying to <b>c o r r a l</b> the playful two into the back of their truck bed. Success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I watched them calling the numbers on the tags, and utilizing the help of two boys passing through to complete the task. I became <b>m e s m e r i z e d</b> by the unfolding drama, and the lengths average people really will go to save the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well NO miracles happened... I really expected to see, <b>h e a r</b> or feel something. I wanted to report to this beautiful grieving mother that a miracle did happen, but I sent her well wishes from aclose. Started for my car and ran into a lady I see every now and then. We chatted it up about <b>k i s m e t</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later that day while perusing the obituary for this young teen, it noted that he had a strong affection for saving stray animals. Tickled, I <b>s m i l ed</b> a bit and softened. I can say that the miracle, not grandiose restoring sight in nature, did in fact take place - a fifteen year old's miracle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-83282378000845432162015-06-26T12:55:00.000-07:002015-07-09T19:33:58.802-07:00After the Nothing, #LoveWins<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">'Bout a week ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It has been one week since THE collision. We are physically <b>f i n e</b>... we all walked away, but we had to lose some things at the scene. Bruises, aches and scrapes quickly fade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't know what happened, and you can keep asking me. I was asleep in the passenger's seat. I heard Farmer Guy exclaim, "Oh, no!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While the surround <b>s o u n d</b> air-bags inflate the mix-tape stops in the space of complete <b>s i l e n c e</b><b>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And then <b>n o t h i n g</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nothing about my elation that <a href="http://thedotsconnector.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Minister Robert Muhammad</a> retweeted my <b>t w e e t</b> about seeing him at <b>l o v e</b> airport. Nothing about the Minnesota <a href="http://ohmyveggies.com/30-minute-vegetarian-pho/" target="_blank">Pho</a> restaurant not having vegetarian offerings. Nothing about un-social media. Nothing about bills. Nothing about bickering. Nothing about <b>f l a g s </b>(loving <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/activist-bree-newsome-arrested-after-daring-south-carolina-confederate-flag-removal" target="_blank">Bree Newsome</a>, btw)<b>.</b> Nothing about posers. Nothing about terrorists. Nothing about politics. Nothing about work. Nothing about who can <b>m a r r y</b> whom. Nothing about the Meyer's amazing <a href="http://www.marissameyer.com/book/book-three/" target="_blank">Cress and Lunar Chronicles</a>. Nothing about <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smoke+and+mirrors" target="_blank">smoke and mirrors</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nuhting about Nuhting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe a lot, not all, but a lot of life is exactly that... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" target="_blank">Much <b>a d o</b> about nothing. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The only thought that I can sort of remember in the <b>v a c u u m...</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>So, this is it.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ase_%28Yoruba%29" target="_blank">Ase</a>! So it was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sound <b>f l o w e d</b> once again into too much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Is everyone okay? Is everyone okay?" The level headed Sweetness questioned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While the Manchild sprung into Power Ranger <b>a c t i o n</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>M o m e n t s</b> into smoked fumes and jammed doors, we exited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the nothing, love <b>b l e w</b> through, above, and around the entire perimeter. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-sex-marriage-supreme-court-case-waits-answers/story?id=32030418" target="_blank">#lovewins</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#lovewins #iamexcitedformygrandchildren #lovewins #freebree</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh, and #<a href="http://fmfp.org/" target="_blank">freemindsfreepeopl</a>e (#fmfp2015)!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-49669702707346039232015-02-22T13:36:00.002-08:002015-07-24T10:10:49.244-07:00what's your d a w n wall?On this chilly and blustery West Texas day, I happen to be a few degrees of separation from f a b u l o u s. <br />
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Soooo a little over a month ago, my mentor and hoop mama, fabulous <a href="http://www.youmeanbiz.com/" target="_blank">Jacqui Becker</a>'s fabulous s i g n i f i c a n t, Kevin Jorgeson, and his fabulous f r i e n d, Tommy Caldwell, became the <a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12169360/rock-climbers-tommy-caldwell-kevin-jorgeson-cap-historic-yosemite-feat" target="_blank">first to free-climb Dawn Wall</a>, the world's largest granite monolith. <br />
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Uh....fabulous! <br />
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Committing to d r e a m.<br />
Committing to w o r k.<br />
Committing to s u c c e s s.<br />
Committing to c e l e b r a t i o n.<br />
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We s a l u t e you all! Thank you for sharing this journey.<br />
#whatsyourdawnwall<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-14408012104733317352015-02-22T13:10:00.001-08:002015-02-22T13:10:18.501-08:00adidas Kevin Jorgeson: Take Today<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yOThv0gVj_E" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965828364905980143.post-69983812317577216522015-02-10T19:53:00.001-08:002015-02-10T19:57:42.966-08:00MLK Center to host Hoopy Hour - MRT.com: Culture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It occurred to me at some point - between identifying a new fad of lighted moss strands swinging free vine (new to me hence the lack of giant trees in my neck of West Texas sans woods), and searching out Aurora Greenway's / Shirley MacLaine's, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Endearment" target="_blank">Terms of <b>E n d e a r m e n t</b></a></i> house with its current situation of winter squash still donning the porch - that this was familiar. <b>H a u n t i n g</b> these same streets with the Big Al of another era. The me of another era.<br />
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The <b>e r a</b> when Houston housed two dailies and Eddie Taubensee caught for the <b>A s t r o s</b> and I caught <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2NqUdNH_w" target="_blank">Etta James</a> live at Fitzgerald's.<br />
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The era of my <a href="http://www.rapalotrecords.com/" target="_blank">Rap-A- Lot Records</a>. <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KutXyPEEbQs" target="_blank">"My Mind is Playin Tricks on Me" </a></i><br />
doot do do do doo doot doot... My mind was. My vision blurred with tears.<br />
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I took <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/the-interview-online_n_6388086.html" target="_blank">Interview</a><b> l i b e r t y</b> to silence radio <b>p e r s o n a l i t y</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Delilah" target="_blank">Delilah</a> and asked, "Would they be proud of us?"<br />
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"Who?"<br />
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"The us of before?"<br />
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Quizzically, "I think so. It could have gone many ways."<br />
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I knew what he meant. I toyed with the knob for a while and wondered.<br />
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I didn't have a hands down unequivocal answer like <b>d a y o n e</b> keynote, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPMPsxK85nI" target="_blank">Dr. Adolph Brown</a>, seemed to have - from bad boy to good man, or Drake, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpDiHNoSkw" target="_blank">Started from the Bottom, now we're Here</a>. More like started here an' am still here kind of rise to fabulous marginal.<br />
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Or was it?<br />
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What would future you tell current you? In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA" target="_blank"><i>Interstellar</i></a> way without components of time lapsed travel snaked with <b>s i n g u l a r i t y</b>.<br />
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Then theme o' the month happened. {Insert Music}<br />
You know when a theme hits. Like when you get a new (to you) Mercedes C230. Thanks, Farmer Guy.<br />
The universe starts <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doing+the+most" target="_blank">doing the most</a>!<br />
All of the sudden, every third car you see is a C230. In every other parking space adjacent to your now not so unique whip parks a similar variation. If I pay extra close attention by next week there will be a total of 230 of this same car within a thirty mile radius of my job.<br />
There you have it. Theme o' the month! {Insert Music}</blockquote>
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This month's apparent recurring theme o' the month:<br />
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<b>What would this you say to that you, and what would that you say to this you, and even better what will the next you say to you you? </b><b>Endless</b> c o n t i n u u m<b>.</b><br />
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I think<a href="http://www.hooppath.com/" target="_blank"> Baxter of Hoop Path</a> hoped they would all say, "Thank you!"<br />
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Days later confined to my sick bed, Farmer Guy raced into the boudoir to flip on an OWN's, A Primetime Soul - to Soul Event. Oprah created a montage asking guests several questions,<b> o n e</b> of which, "What would you tell your younger self?"<br />
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I opened the blogs from Positively <b>P o s i t i v e</b>, and there it was again, <a href="http://www.positivelypositive.com/2014/12/20/what-i-know-at-40-that-id-tell-myself-at-20/" target="_blank">What I know at 40 That I'd tell myself at 20</a>.<br />
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To stop the processing of mortality at every turn, I decided to answer the <b>q u e s t i o n</b>. What advice would evoke a life in which me questioning me would end an answering of - <i>this is me, in whom I am well pleased?</i><br />
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That night I slept, and dreamt an actual Bible verse speaking to me from a playing card: I Corinthians 3:9.<br />
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Okay, we ARE going there.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">1 Corinthians 3:9</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">New International Version (NIV)</span><b><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">For we are co-workers in God’s service;</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-28420A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-28420A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">you are God’s field,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-28420B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-28420B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">God’s building.</span></b><br /><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">1 Corinthians 3:9</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)</span><span class="text 1Cor-3-9" id="en-GW-28400" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>We are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field.</b></span><span class="text 1Cor-3-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You are God’s building.</b></span><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">1 Corinthiens 3:9</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">La Bible du Semeur (BDS)</span><span class="text 1Cor-3-9" id="fr-BDS-28431" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>Car nous travaillons ensemble au service de Dieu, et vous, vous êtes le champ qu'il cultive. Ou encore: vous êtes l'édifice qu'il construit.</b></span><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">1 Corintios 3:9</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">La Biblia de las Américas (LBLA)</span><span class="text 1Cor-3-9" id="es-LBLA-28420" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>Porque nosotros somos colaboradores<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#ces-LBLA-28420A" data-link="(<a href="#ces-LBLA-28420A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> de Dios, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">y</i> vosotros sois labranza<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#ces-LBLA-28420B" data-link="(<a href="#ces-LBLA-28420B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> de Dios, edificio de Dios<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#ces-LBLA-28420C" data-link="(<a href="#ces-LBLA-28420C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>.</b></span><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">1 Wakorintho 3:9</span><span class="passage-display-version" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">Neno: Bibilia Takatifu (SNT)</span><span class="text 1Cor-3-9" id="sw-SNT-5271" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>Sisi ni wafanyakazi pamoja na Mungu; ninyi ni shamba la Mungu; ninyi ni jengo la Mungu.</b></span></span></blockquote>
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Well, I guessed, I would definitely need her to embody that, but what does God do? How can I be Higher Power's co-worker if I don't know what My Boo does ("God is My Boo" #iyanlavanzant).<br />
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Then all it once - <b>g i v e</b>. God gives! What I would want to tell the many me(s) is to give.<br />
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<b>Give. Give Love. Give Thanks. forGive. Give touches. Give gifts. Give time. Give service. Give w o r d s. forGive. Give it your All. Give. Give. Give. Give. Give. Give. Give to yourself. forGive yourself. Give. Give. And then give some more. </b><br />
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New apparent recurring theme o' the month.<br />
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At every turn, people are giving me wonderful <b>g i f t s & p r e s e n t s</b>. A new romance by Melissa Foster,<u> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Game-Love-Bloom-Remingtons-Contemporary-ebook/dp/B00HZ3PEJC" target="_blank">Game of Love</a></u>. Purple sweet potato pies, notes by posts, facials from Darla @The Domain Origins, organic cookies from Emily @The Domain Whole Foods, Mama - in - Love gift package to The s p a @ Canyon Oaks.<br />
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Theme?<br />
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Or is that the holidays? 'Tis the<b> s e a s o n</b>!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml" target="_blank">Heri za Kwanzaa!</a><br />
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