dkfjlskjfslkdjflksjdflksjdfsdf: spring fever -

Quote:

i found God in myself
& i loved her / i loved her fiercely!

- by ntozake shange

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a poem - spring's back

late afternoon
lights low in the house

sipping jasmine tea at kitchen's table

before seriously considering preparing Bunmi' s dinner
[en route on the road, somewhere still traveling...]

it's alright
because
this is my time

to decompress, chill and space

Watching lace curtains

dance deflate and billow

like pristine white sails on a playful ocean's breeze

inhaling tea's jasmine mingled with

curls of powdery scented
nag champa wisps

confronting me

as it creeps

from room to room
like a thorough night watchman

signaling to all four rooms corners
that I've safely returned

Stillvisible throughkitchen's window screen
the dull blue sky, pink & white flower buds
on blooming trees

now shifting to grey tinted
stippled pastel Monet's hues

an impromptu storm will roll in soon

rain is good for the Earth
and Air

sitting here without much care

watching the changing light

as evening descends
like the softest sheerest silk around me

I've waited all through winter

to be reunited with this very special color palette

hey, Spring....

I bid you Hello!

Welcome back

[written by nyao]

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[photo above little potted indigo plant out back]

I love indigo's regal color. It is used to make wonderful

adire fabric in west africa .

http://www.adire.clara.net/indigointroduction.htm

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sewra's belly beads

http://www.waistbeads.com/new/photogallery.html

music to explore

http:// www.cdbaby.com/cd/motta1

ed motta/ed mota's great music from brazil - dwitza* [i always love his work!]

Very smooth! Um Dom Pra Salvador, Malumbulo, more.

I loved his uncles music, as well. .

ola onabule [smooth]

http://www.olasmusic.com/

to read about - brazilian singer "joyce" [her voice is so soothing & amazing!]

http://www.brazzil.com/musfeb99.htm

and zouk's tanya st. val [one of my all time favorites]

http://www.tanya-saint-val.com/

I've been a huge fan since I've
heard the song "darling, solitude & mi lanmou"

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on a personal note * -

My Dad once gave me great advice....

If you don't like your world?
Do something to change it.

I've inherited that same belief from my Dad -

I am Blessed to have married a Man, with the same "can do "spirit,

vision & drive. He's a Special Man, a Strong Man.

I have a very low tolerance for whiners and complainers.

[comes from a military family's upbringing]

It's right up there on my list in 2006 - next to -- Way too many women who repeat by rote every idea or fact presented

& fed to them without the proper study---- Usually it's Women who are so desperate for approval from men. they blindly follow any available male figure - who may not even remotely be personally experienced, or have any formal training in a particular field of study or subject. Too many intelligent women are so afraid to study, do the necessary intellectual & physical 'legwork" & research.In Effort to Truly Learn,Think for themselves & Form their own opinions. [ It happens in some cults, churches, sects & in everyday life in general ]

I like church, but?
I once got into trouble because i questioned a Sister outside of a church, taking donations for the Pastor's new car. She was announcing to everyone, leaving the multi - million dollar - mega church that "Pastor needs a new car!" ..I like pricey shoes -- i have to work for them - Let him work for it, too! -- Stop allowing yourselves to be pimped, ladies. Drop the cult mentality - Donate to your children's educational funds, instead. Tithing is fair, but I'm not buying any Pastor a Lexus. Ever.

Treat your Husbands as well as You treat some of these Men of the Cloth, then come back & tell me about it. You have some 'good" church going women, with cold hearts -- that can't even speak two kind words to their Husbands, who will blindly follow a Pastor. Charity always, always begin at home!

I thoroughly believe in -

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." --2 Tim. 2:15.

God gave you intelligence that works very well.
Check out more than a few sources on particular subject.

Actively Participate, Research it on your Own & Study,
Then deduce your own valid conclusions.
[not someone's else's rote & often biased conclusion- do the study yourself]

then form Your Own Conclusions.

[ A True King has no need to chastise his
Queens in public view with an audience, nor does

He seek to control her every word or thought.* ] Quote by Omar Allen Bey

Building on the Wisdom of My Father

I'll say --in the spirit of -

Umoja -To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, race.

Kujichagulia - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others

Ujima - To build and maintain our community together and make our sisters' and brothers' problems our problems and solve them together.

Ujamaa - - To build and maintain our own stores and other businesses and to profit from them together.

If you don't like the public schools?
- Support & Create your own charter schools & programs

If you can't stand your neighbors?
-move.

If you not satisfied with your body image
or current health - change it with diet discipline & exercise.

If you hate your job?
- Study , Apprentice& Train, then when ready? Step out on your own
Start your own businesses.

If you don't like your relationships
-chuck it, or improve them.

If you don't like your local leadership
or politicians
-vote them out of office or run for public office yourself.

If you don't like the books, out there?
-Do the needed research and write your own
follow up and [publish them]

If your want intelligent, strong minded well rounded children

Stop leaving , their nurturing up
to the TV, and public schools, the thugs in the hood
and your perceived oppressors.

- Make an effort to be a hands on quality active parent.

Support the relevant supplementary educational

organizations in your area & use them.

Once in this country - People were punished and killed for trying to learn
to read , for trying to teach their offspring how to read.

People once died trying to get education.

Yet people waste the opportunity to receive an education, these days.

People were hurt & killed trying to get the right to vote.

Join at least [minimum] two Cultural or Business Organizations in your area
wherever you happen to reside.
Participate, Stay Active & Network, with Others in Your Community.

it's 2006.

Drop the excuses and complaints,
the unending list of reasons of - [Why it is]

You're not involved and actively changing your world
It really is up to you!

It's True.

The first step to Changing the world, is changing your very own, often limited mindset.

Get Active.

Stop focusing so much - on the "it's not" & focus on the " I can! " --{nyao]

Thosewho give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
François duc de la Rochefoucauld

The first steptoward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
G.K. Chesterton

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