Do For Self!!

On April 25, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Africa, African American Queen, African Goddess, African King, arthritis, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Turmeric, Uncategorized

Moringa Seeds from Ghana

For the last few days my arthritis has been kicking up and my ankles are a little swollen.

Am I taking this lying down? No!! Well some rest but I’m taking abbreviated Soulful Struts and I’ve also purchased Turmeric, MSM, Biotin and Moringa Living Bitters which brings me to my next topic.

The Turmeric I got on Amazon which is convenient during the cold months when I do not want to go traipsing about freezing New York City searching for various vitamins and food supplements.

The MSM and Biotin I got from GNC around 84th Street and Lexington. I find their staff to be indifferent and somewhat rude so I will be patronizing my own people. Bottles of vitamins and other products blocked the cash register. The two clerks spent a lot of time gossiping and were not helpful.

The Moringa Living Bitters I purchased from Zam Zam an African store located along Fulton Street near Franklin Avenue. Moringa Living Bitters is a Detox and Energy Beverage which is all Natural and Organic. Taste terrible but so did the Cod Liver Oil Beef Iron wine my Dad used to make us take as children.

The young man in the store was professional, knowledgeable and polite. The store was neatly arranged, clean and smelled great!! Zam Zam offers an excellent wide selection of African products for reasonable prices. Health and Beauty, Cosmetics, Holistic supplements. Everything.

Moral of the Story for peoples of African Descent. Buy Black!! Don’t just complain about the disrespect we regularly get from certain other stores owned by other races. Let’s Move our dollars to our Black Owned stores circulating dollars within our community thus building up the race without having to rely on anyone else but ourselves!! Let us form Alliances with Africa and African merchants in order to better our situation!!

DO FOR SELF!! BUY BLACK!!!

Misplaced | The Daily Post

On April 11, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Africa, African American Queen, African Goddess, African King, Afroid Dreams of Salvation, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Ibeyi - River, Misplaced | The Daily Post, Uncategorized1 Comment

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Apr 10, 2016

DAILY PROMPT

Misplaced

Misplaced. Lost but not forgotten. Every day they look for me. Divine Mother scours the land searching for her lost children. Crying because they are naught. Then once again she comes to the Island from whence the vessels filled with pale strangers cruelly kidnapped her young. Weeping. Wailing. Shrieking. Her gown is rent in two.

Taken

Then Divine Mother casts her gaze towards the wide waters. She hears the voices of her children calling her. Some from beneath the deep oceans. Others from strange lands.

She shall gather her children from distant shores and Ethiopia shall rise again.

There was a Gathering of Old Bones. Shall these dry bones live? Yes by Grace and Mercy.

Lost Tribes took in Lost Villages. Red and Black became one flesh. Pursued. Persecuted. Sometimes erased from this land only to resurface in another for in My Father’s House are many Mansions. Father God and Divine Mother call me forth to a plane of existence that the enemy can in no wise enter in.

Scented Sands. Gathered Aromas.

A Portly Golden Breeze scatters cosmic seeds into the oceans breath. Rescue my stolen children from alien Atlantic and Pacific waters. Yoruba and Jesus Dance together. The Goddess bestows her ritual Female powers. I am renewed. Orishas wash my soul.

Afroid Dreams of Salvation

We speak the language of old royal robes, the talking drums, painted faces, warrior chants…….

The Caramel, Sienna, Midnight Prodigal Daughter returns home. Indigo children reside on Astral planes, valleys, visions, 4th dimensional planets, solar systems, galaxies known only to the Enlightened Ancients.

The Misplaced Children of Africa have returned home. Lost no more. Egypt. Ethiopia. Ghana. Kenya. Nigeria. Mozambique. Togo. Mali. Namibia. Botswana. South Africa. All Nubian Kingdoms claim your Peoples from throughout the Diaspora. Baptize me in the Nile. Black Mother Moses I am Yours.

Thus says the LORD: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. Jeremiah 31:16

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” Matthew 2:18

Ibeyi – River

SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 15

On April 11, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Camera, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Photographs, Photography, SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 15, Stephen, Stephen Vincent Palmer, Sylvester, Uncategorized13 Comments

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April 11, 2016 by Cee Neuner

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.

SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 14

On April 4, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, FMLA, FMLA Inclusion Act, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Paid FMLA Family Leave, SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 14, Sylvester, Sylvester Enjoys Palm Sunday, Uncategorized7 Comments

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SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 14

With your answers, please remember we are in the SYW world and which may not always match our reality.

What makes you laugh the most?

Madea. My cat Sylvester. Human behavior in general.

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If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?

Doing the laundry, cleaning and cooking. I leave the yard work to my room-mate.

What was your favorite food when you were a child?

Fried Chicken! Also chocolate. Still love chocolate. I consider Dark Chocolate one of the Major Food Groups that gives us Happiness! LOL!!

List at least five favorite flowers or plants.

Roses
Tulips
Daisy
Lilies
Daffodils
Climbing Ivy
Evergreen bushes

Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Celebrated my Japanese girlfriend’s birthday by going to the Buddhist Temple with her. All she wanted was for us to be together on her special day. Happy for her. She was smiling. God is present everywhere whether it be a Christian Church or a Buddhist Temple.

Got good news from my lawyer on a personal matter which will be resolved in the beginning of May while I’m on vacation! Yesss!!

Grateful for the passage of Paid Family Leave for citizens of New York State. The Law goes into effect Jan. 2018. A little late for me and Stephen since I plan to retire spring 2018 but I’m happy for all New Yorkers who will benefit from this wonderful Law!! Hooray!! Thank you Gov. Andrew Cuomo!!

http://www.abetterbalance.org/web/component/content/article/49-familyleave/368-nypfloverview?can_id=6f708cddeee20a09fb78254c6be945fe&source=email-paid-family-leave-is-coming-to-new-york&email_referrer=paid-family-leave-is-coming-to-new-york&email_subject=paid-family-leave-is-coming-to-new-york&link_id=4

Looking forward to next weekend!

Handwriting | The Daily Post

On April 2, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Ambidextrous, Ancient Cave Handprints, Automatic writing, Calligraphy, Daniel 5 New King James Version (NKJV), DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Handwriting | The Daily Post, Uncategorized, 寒山 “Kanzan” (Cold Mountain) Artist:Inoue Yūichi (Japanese, 1916–1985) Period:Showa period (1926–89) Date:19663 Comments

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Apr 2, 2016

DAILY PROMPT

Handwriting

Many of us have heard the expression “Handwriting on the Wall.” Here is where it may have originated.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%205

Daniel 5 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁵In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

Ancient Cave Handprints

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/hands/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

Ambidextrous

Some people are Ambidextrous. I am not one of them. I’m right handed. Stephen is left handed. Because of past battles with carpel tunnel syndrome and current wars with arthritis I hate to sign paperwork or documents. As a writer I carry around a small notebook but some days I can’t even read my own handwriting!!

am·bi·dex·trous

ˌambēˈdekst(ə)rəs/

adjective

(of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.

“few of us are naturally ambidextrous”
(of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30667/11-facts-about-ambidextrous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidexterity

Automatic writing

Some people have or claim to have the ability to write messages from the great beyond. I’ve had my own spiritual or out of body experiences so perhaps there is some truth to this ability. Personally I believe in approaching the spirit world with great care for both evil and good exists in these realms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

https://ghosttalkblog.com/2013/01/08/automatic-handwriting-messages-from-beyond/

寒山
“Kanzan” (Cold Mountain)

Artist: Inoue Yūichi (Japanese, 1916–1985)

Period: Showa period (1926–89)

Date: 1966

I am not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination but I believe handwriting encompasses not only alphabets used by many cultures but pictorial etchings including Egyptian hieroglyphics. Love Japanese, Farsi and Arabic writing also. I find character based handwriting fascinating. Calligraphy is one of my favorite art forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy

When I was a little girl I made up my own personal alphabet, handwriting and words. Designed a book in which my main character Mr. X had various adventures. I could not have been more than seven or eight. Not to brag but I was creatively gifted as a child and my parents encouraged me. They were always buying me various art supplies and Mom and Dad kept me engaged with arts & crafts. As for my book I think it lies in the bottom of my trunk which is now in storage until I can once more afford my own place.