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SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 15
With your answers, please remember we are in the SYW world and which may not always match our reality.
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Name one thing not many people know about you.
I was a Telex Operator at the Reader’s Digest Advertising offices in Manhattan during the mid-1980s. At the time Ms. Wallace was still living though she stayed in the Pleasantville, NY location. It was a wonderful place to work. For my fellow Baby Boomers you know what a Telex Machine was. As for you young folks ~~ Google it!! LOL!!
If a distant uncle dies and you were always his favorite and leaves you $50,000 (any currency) in his will, what would you do?
Pay off as many bills as possible and take a vacation somewhere in the Caribbean with my brother Stephen.
Where do you hide junk when people come over?
I don’t get many visitors but when I do they all stay downstairs in the Living Room which is much neater than my bedroom as you can see!! LOL!! 🙂 😀
Complete this sentence: I want to learn more about …
Photography and learn to speak better Spanish.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
Grateful that I got to say Farewell to my co-worker from the Cameroon who went on Maternity Leave. Her baby girl Destiny is due at the end of this month. We have become very close over the last few months as she has no family in America. All her relatives are either in the Cameroon or France. Her Mom will be arriving soon.
I was never able to have children and this young woman is like my daughter. Her baby girl Destiny will be my granddaughter of sorts. I’m grateful and thankful for her. A connection to the Motherland. Africa. I’m Thankful to and for many of my African co-workers as I’ve learned so much about the continent of our ancestors over the last eight years. One day I will make my pilgrimage to the soil from whence my fore-bearers sprang.
Looking forward to next weekend for rest and relaxation.
The above picture was borrowed from Cee’s web blog page.
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 
Telex machine! I would bribe the girls in another department at my very first job so I did not have to use that bear!!!
The telex machines in my office used the tape. The tape could be corrected before being run through the machine and the message sent to our other offices. At that time I was a fairly good typist so I did not make too many mistakes. However I was glad when Fax machines came along. Less tickety, tickty, tack and onto learning other advanced technologies like the first IBM PC and those truly floppy disks!! Thanks for allowing me to press the button on the Wayback Machine for this jolly!! LOL!! 🙂 😀
Haha! You are taking me way back to all those machines I never liked–and they never liked me! 😀
I the Nubian Ninja conquered them all. First my Dad’s old Remington typewriter, then the IBM Selectric, the PC & all those various softwares that needed to be mastered before Bill Gates executed WordPerfect & Lotus 1-2-3! Even the dreaded Punch Cards as they flew down U.S. Army stairwells laughing 19 year old PFCs, E-2s, E-3s, & a few SP4 let those carefully ordered cards fly from their boxes and sorrow in dismay as shoved them back into the boxes and totally out of order!! Bah! Ha! HA! Ha!!
A Trader Joe’s sack is a class act even in the corner of the room…
Thanks! 🙂 The Trader Joe’s bag is from my Japanese girlfriend who lives in Manhattan. Those type stores do not come to Brownsville, Brooklyn where I live. Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods ignore poor/working class neighborhoods. I Live in BodegaLand! A virtual food wasteland. The Hipsters get the better stores and better food.
You will be a great surrogate grandma to Destiny. 😀
Looking forward to her entrance into the world. My dream is to spoil her rotten!! 🙂 😀 ❤ I'm excited just awaiting her birth!! Hooray!!
Yes, I do know what a Telex machine is! As always, I enjoyed your answers.
The more I learn about you, is the more I see just how beautiful you are, inside and out. You never fail to mention your brother ❤. You are there for your friend and her daughter (when she is born). You are such a strong, inspirational lady. x
My heart went out to this particular co-worker as she was badly treated by certain supervisors during her pregnancy. I did my best to stick up for her and pressing her case with the Union. Black people need to stick together. No matter what part of the diaspora we are really all one. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be alone in a country with no family and expecting a baby. I feel we have a bond. Fortunately by now her Mom & other family have arrived from France. I believe in doing the right thing not what is most convenient for me personally. I have a big mouth and I will fight for Justice even at my own person risk. Sure my life would be smoother if I kept quiet but I could not live with myself so I fight. Activism is in my blood.
I wish I were around you when I was being battered and was pregnant. My family were in the UK. I was so isolated. I am really pleased you are there for her. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I did. Thank you for being there for her. x
What made things worse was that the abuse came from white female supervisors. You would think a woman supervisor would be more sympathetic but all they saw was her color Black and the fact she was from Africa! However the Hispanic woman supervisor and the Muslim woman supervisor did right by her, watched over and protected her. I did tell my young friend that she had certain New York State and Federal rights and that these two dumb-ass white women did not have the right to bully her. Many other women in the locker room Asian, Indian, Hispanic stepped up in her defense. Sadly as I told the young lady in Africa you can be you however in the USA you will always be Black first not a human being.