Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Especially not these ones. Aren’t they beautiful? My daughter never much liked dolls, especially Barbie dolls, and neither did my only granddaughter (my youngest grandson will sometimes play with them for a few minutes, then usually winds up shoving them head-first into the trashcan) so I never had a reason to buy any. And really, [...]

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.” John Waters via A Peek Into My Chaos

M. Lambrechts took this picture at a gay pride parade in Brussels 2009. This was a little kid of a gay couple coming to check those curious pins on his jacket. He pulled the punks jacket and the punk went sitting on his knees, when the 2 men called their kid back the punk got [...]

This seriously made me laugh: Don’t speak too soon: I’ve been reading this clown for months now and this is probably the only time he doesn’t soak a discussion about Civil War history with melodrama about slavery. Dog forbid one should clog up discussions of Civil War history with “melodrama” about slavery. No link. I [...]

I wish, sometimes, that all I had to do was wander around and search out new things to read. And that I had time to read them all. What About Our Daughters says: STOP WHAT YOU”RE DOING AND APPLY FOR —>PBS Diversity & Innovation Fund Didn’t I tell you to stop what you are doing? [...]

You know how you learn something, and you know it intellectually, you can recite the why’s and the wherefore’s of it, and can explain it to someone else – but you know, and you know you know, that you just don’t get it? Well, that was me – with any number of things (like long, [...]

i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother’s itch took it to breast and named it History. she is more [...]

I mentioned some time back that I was going to open up my “book writing and research” site but I don’t think I ever gave the address. Anyway it’s called The Book of Louis and while it’s still a bit scattered, it is open. I’ll pull it all together soon.

Well, that’s not really true, the blank mind* part. Rather there is so much tumbling around in my brain that I think it’s created a bottle neck. I wish I could figure out a way out of that. Not that I can’t just sit down and yammer on – obviously I can. But when it [...]

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 [...]