Please adopt a pet and encourage friends and family to go to their local animal shelter and adopt a furry friend today.
Thank you!
This handsome kitty looks like my cat Sylvester.
Month: May 2017
“Anthony Bourdain’s ‘No Asshole’ Rule: Life’s Too Short To Work With Them”
“Anthony Bourdain’s ‘No Asshole’ Rule: Life’s Too Short To Work With Them” @DariusForoux https://medium.com/art-of-practicality/the-no-asshole-rule-why-life-s-too-short-to-work-with-assholes-97d5562587fe
Dismiss and Delete all the Assholes from your life. Freedom from Dumbfuckery!
A Quality of Mercy
I am a big fan of the Twilight Zone and Rod Serling. This post is very timely given the negative racial climate of the USA. All my life I have been the “Other.” Along with all the accompanying stereotypes. I’ve worked as a Museum Security Officer for 9 years and for the first 8 years I worked days now I work at night. During my day shift time period I was constantly sexually and racially harassed by white visitors. White male visitors propositioned me for sex and assumed I was a drug dealer. There is unwanted attempts to touch me or my hair. I have been called everything except a child of God including a Nigger. This resulted in me throwing them out of the galleries and/or calling my supervisor. Finally last year I made the decision to work the night shift where I have very little interaction with the visiting public. More money. Less problems.
Fortunately I plan to retire either next year or 2019. At this point I can truly say that I don’t want to assimilate into the dominate culture nor do I wish to integrate. I only want to be me.
This post is on point. It did remind me of the movie Watermelon Man starring the late great comedian and actor Godfrey Cambridge.
Watermelon Man
Official Movie Comedy · 1970 · R · English · CCA bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a black man! His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor, his neighbors want him to move so their property values won’t drop, his wife takes the children and leaves and his boss’ desires to capitalize on him as the man to tap the black insurance market. © 1970, renewed 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Director
Melvin Van Peebles
Running time
Ryan Swinton knows how it feels to be an outsider. In The Singularity Wheel, the sequel to The Eye-Dancers, set to be released later this summer, Ryan is in a major slump. Now seventeen years old, on the cusp of his senior year in high school, he struggles to find his place in the world. To his eyes, it seems that all of his classmates know what they want to do with their lives. Even his kid brother, Tyler, has plans to become a marine biologist one day. But what about Ryan? What will he do?
From chapter 3 of The Singularity Wheel:
“He [Ryan] walked into the living room. A fifty-gallon saltwater aquarium, with bright orange-and-white clown fish and yellow tangs and angel fish, lit up for the night with a florescent bulb, served as a reminder that Tyler was focused, determined, sure of what he…
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Flexin’ In Her Complexion
KHERIS
Ten Year Old Girl Bullied by Teacher and students because of her Dark Complexion.
https://www.flexininmycomplexion.com/
To All My Readers of African Descent Please Support this ten year old entrepreneur! Also to all my subscribers of Color I know that many of you can relate. It is sad to see that Colorism is still going on in 2017. I had hoped those negatives would have been left behind because as a Dark-Skinned Woman who was a bullied dark-skinned little girl I know exactly how little Kheris felt. It was years even with my Dad’s support that I was able to accept and glory in all those God Given Melanin. Now that I’m almost 60 I realize the truth of the statement, “Black Don’t Crack.” No wrinkles. Very few lines.
I am also very Thankful for Lupita Nyong’o. Dark Skin Ladies Let’s Celebrate our our Skin color and encourage our daughters and sons who face rejection.
Black is Beautiful. As my Dad used to tell me when the kids on the playground made fun of my dark skin, “The Blacker the Berry the Sweeter the Juice. If the berry too light it has no use.”
Kehris you are our 10 Year old African Goddess!! ❤ We are Melaninated Queens and Goddesses!!
Share Your World – May 8, 2017
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/08/share-your-world-may-8-2017/
Share Your World – May 8, 2017
When you’re alone at home, do you wear shoes, socks, slippers, or go barefoot?
Socks and Slippers. I never go barefoot.
What was your favorite food when you were a child?
Chocolate. Seriously, My Mom’s pot roast and mashed potatoes. Comfort food.
Are you a listener or talker?
I used to be more of a talker but I have been trying to train myself to be more of a listener.
Favorite thing to (pick one): Photograph? Write? Or Cook?
Photograph.
What is the easiest way for your to learn something new? By reading, by seeing and doing, in a classroom?
Hmmm…. This question was on last week’s Share your World so I will give the same answer as I gave last week.
Doing. I am a
Kinesthetic Learner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning
I can read about something or have someone explain the process to me but unless I perform the task hands on it won’t stick. As for the Classroom which seems eons ago I would say I did well in every subject except Math. I have a math block. No amount of doing or explaining ever helped me. College was a different story. I excelled in College. I made the Deans List in 1999 and Graduated with a 3.6 GPA in May 2002.
Optional 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 was able to Celebrate my brother Stephen’s 56th Birthday. We had fun going to the movies to see The Fate of the Furious and visiting the American Museum of Natural History as well as the New York Historical Society.
Stephen and the Titanosaur
Looking forward to this coming Friday when I have another week of Vacation!! This time I might actually do something for me which is really rare!!
♡
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 