Serenity… an expedition

I’m going back to attempting to write daily but instead of just whatever blather comes to mind I have set a sort of theme for this month, based on this quote from Ornette Coleman, which I am putting up for September: “I decided, if I’m going to be poor and black and all, the least [...]

I’ve just noticed that I’ve completely lost my blogroll – and I haven’t a clue where it went. Or how to get it back.

We’ve had something like 35 days near or over 100 degrees so far this summer and much less than normal rainfall the past few years. Of course, this being California – with our ever green lawns and ubiquitous swimming pools – you’d never know it, if not for all the melting people. The farmers are [...]

Well, sort of, on the bookstore. On the ads too, for that matter. They ARE there, in the sidebar, just some google adsense ads. I don’t really know how effective they are – I’m pretty sure with as few visitors as I get, not very, but every little bit helps. Especially these days when the [...]

The problem with reading about historical events that you may or may not have had a previous interest in is – is the more you read, the more you realize how much you don’t know. And need or want to learn. Already I have been leafing through the extensive bibliography in this book, Bound for [...]

A great answer to a stupid, and frequent, accusation. Teaspoons 101: I Am Not the Thought Police by Melissa McEwan [...]I am not the thought police. I am challenging you to think about things in a way in which you may have never thought about them before. The entire rest of the world, with its [...]

I clicked through a Google search for “old pictures” today, looking for inspiration.  I was thinking more of something “retro”. Instead I found this and thought it was interesting. It definitely qualifies as “old”. Here’s what wikipedia has to say: Old Nubian is an ancient variety of Nubian, spoken until about the 15th century AD. [...]

I’m sitting here opening and closing various posts I have in draft – writing a little here, changing a little there and, in general, being completely uninspired and not accomplishing much at all. And all the while – for days in fact – that phrase has been running through my mind: “Sufficient unto the day… [...]

Even I would be tempted to get one. (I stole this ad from the one on Atrios). And I don’t run around collecting memorabilia related to this or that celeb. It’s just such a rarity to see contemporary, realistic Black figurines and to also see particularly Black women depicted with such… well, grace is the [...]

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