yo? phillies, what's up with that?.......

cool zik [to groove to] http://www.discontinued.cx/Mixes/discontinued/discontinued20030728.html

We Went to an orioles/phillies game this early this afternoon, had great seats for a double header, to make up for the rained out  game last night. [My Husband, Brother in-law, My  Husband's Parents who are visiting , from Bim.]

My Husband was pulling for the Orioles, ...........and of course, I was suckered into placing my bet with my heart and rallied for the very inconstant playing Phillies, instead.  I lost the bet...

The Orioles decided to get lively today [rare...]
They  handed  the Philadelphia fans their bruised egos & bruised bums right back to them on a used greasy cheesesteak platter,  they really treated us like crumbled expired septa [transit] transpasses , this afternoon!  lol lol lol lol C'est la vie! I guess I have to  get in the kitchen soon, whip up a batch of annotto choux pastry to make My King's reward  - Hot & spicy beef patties from scratch! I guess he was due for some! [i don't know who will win the blasted game this evening]  Update...I owe the Man big time, now! Phillies lost again. whoa?

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sites art

a great artist [jamaica's & Temple U 's ]  - Mr. Keith Morrison http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/9-1-05/morrison.html

http://www.keithmorrison.com/bio.html

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This Brother  [ Haiti Bluez] has a bad page![nice]  

http://www.blackplanet.com/gw/haitibluez/canvas/view.html

code z arts magazine

It will launch soon! CODE Z 's BlackVisual, Culture Magazine. Code Z will also be a portal for black visual creatives to share ideas, thoughts, beefs, resources, and trade secrets. Code Z will be an unmatched source for insider
news on black visual culture, from fine art to graphic design to
fashion to filmmaking to architecture to photojournalism. http://www.codezonline.com/

margaret warfield's lovely art - http://www.margaretwarfield.com/catalog/index.php

ALL ABOUT BOOKS JUNE 28TH ISSUE  http://aalbc.com/current.htm

literary

Harlem World Magazine's, Harlem Book Fair 2006 Commemorative Edition
http://aalbc.com/harlem_world_magazine_ads.htm

http://www.harlemworldmag.com/

AFRICAN CULTURE ONLINE
http://www.africancultureonline.com/

exhibits

PEM Of Gods and Mortals TRADITIONAL INDIAN ART GALLERY
STARTING JULY 15, 2006

http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/exhibition.php?id=55

http://www.pem.org/press/

Jazz Photographs Exhibit

july 22 - oct. 22

http://www.brucemuseum.org/

beautiful art prints from puerto rico of bomba & dance - http://www.studioporto.com/

the art of angel botello [my husband & i ,  collect  his work &  visit this museum often] http://www.botello.com/   &   <AHREF="HTTP: target="_top" angel_botello.html? www.remediosvaro.biz>http://www.remediosvaro.biz/angel_botello.html

cool photos of michael chambers - http://michaelchambersphoto.com/

other [shopping] - shop the world

I've fallen in love with lobi maternity & paternity figures "BATEBA Tl PUO" -  i want one & will get one soon ~ with the
the outstretched arms are symbolic of keeping evil & witchcraft away. Others are depicted getting it their  freak on [ intercourse for procreation & fertility] .They're pretty cool. I already adore the bwa mask form that region. http://www.randafricanart.com/Lobi_Bateba_figure11.html

interesting recycled Senegalese furniture  http://www.pylones-usa.com/product.php?product=206

abc carpet & home [great stuff!]  http://www.abchome.com/

great incense, moodstar [favorites like cinnamon silk, tea, chinoise, jasmine  and musk -
beware~ rich scent,   i burned a stick of  chinoise 2 days ago & my house still smells like it, leave a stick in you car, it will always smell nice] - http://www.moodstar.com/index.html     http://www.sensia.com/moodstar.htm     http://www.moodstarincense.com/   

This is an excellent site for it's diverse african  beads,  books, cloth, kente, headrests, zoomorphic carvings,  jonyeles & passport, fang, baule, lega & metoko masks. http://www.africadirect.com/ - Awesome 5ft tall thin Nyamwezi figures [under $135].& reasonable cameroon Namchi/Namji Dolls.

Magellan's useful gear for traveling http://www.magellans.com/

dharmashop [cool statues , taras, yabyum & dzi beads, malas]

http://www.dharmashop.com/display.mgi?mgiToken=1CFK0BF0144F680E8F&CAT=st&T=Statues

decorative hanging torans [from india] http://www.homeindia.com/catalogue/wedding/toran.shtml

senufo [african]  stools http://www.hamillgallery.com/SENUFO/SenufoStools/SenufoStools.html

http://www.africanart.com/browseproducts/Senufo-stool.HTML

http://www.africanaccents.com/shop/enter.html?target=Home_Furnishings.html

http://www.tribal-arts.com/african.html

for ithe best ideas of how to display  & light your african art! check this page out- a visual adventure!

http://www.randafricanart.com/house_photos.html

I love the "shelf" idea got ours from West Elm.com. also bought clear acrylic stands from the container store.   http://www.containerstore.com/

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loving west elm's new selection of embroidered duvets, monogrammed  bath towels,  pillows & cubist style wood tables.http://www.westelm.com/   and domestications http://www.domestications.com/

an interesting site for suzani bedcoverings, antique lamps,  kilims and more.. http://www.yurdan.com/yrdn/default.aspx

more aboutsuzanis http://www.textilemuseum.org/totm/suzaniindex.htm

vintage telephones

and this site, I've always loved vintage oscillating  fans,  old  radios & old telephones, - I've  acutally inherited  my Nana's princess  & monster type.....http://www.1-noveltyphones.com/index.php/cPath/19/osCsid/26dac76acb29f67fe44e4886e6c69c21

http://www.1-noveltyphones.com/index.php/cPath/12

http://www.1-noveltyphones.com/index.php/cPath/11

and NOVICA for so many items -  http://www.novica.com/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. http://www.metmuseum.org/store/

cool stuff  for baby & nursery http://www.netkidswear.com/index.html

more  http://www.gap.com/browse/division.do?cid=6344

more cool stuff  http://www.babydevine.com/catalog.php?maincat=Ethnic

http://www.babydevine.com/catalog.php?item=27

 magazines & more  - http://www.creativechildonline.com/    &  http://www.vegetarianbaby.com/

http://www.mochamoms.org/news_resources.html    &  http://www.babychatter.com/childproof.html

zik [music]

mark de clive- lowe's music  http://www.markdeclivelowe.net/index.html

omar - http://www.omarmusic.net/

dubpoets collective http://www.dubpoetscollective.com/

lover's rock  http://www.ariwa.com/

carleen anderson music http://home.att.ne.jp/apple/powersamurai/carleen/discography/albertas/

victor davies music http://www.afrogigolo.co.uk/

awadagin pratt music  http://www.awadagin.com/

jahworks org. http://www.jahworks.org/   http://www.jahworks.com

gaelle [haitian club diva ] http://www.astralwerks.com/naked/ or  http://www.gaelleonline.com/

suphala's music [india influence ambient]  http://www.giantstep.net/artists/196

 jai uttal's music http://www.jaiuttal.com/splash_flash.htm

julie dexter http://www.soul-patrol.net/julie.ram

cool veggie sites

a cool chef -  Ras Doobie local - http://www.citypaper.com/eat/review.asp?id=3327

http://www.travellady.com/Issues/April04/TimeafterThyme.htm

chef skai  & oluku - the yabba pot & empress catering - http://www.theyabbapot.com

http://baltimore.metromix.com/restaurants/balent-broke-yabba,0,6489504.story

http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2005issue1/vj2005issue1action.htm

(ayinde howell's cafe & music Hillside Quickie's )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2001964629_hiphopvegan25.html

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=16887

Totally Vegetarian Catering [Philly} http://www.petaworld.com/roots.asp?c=11

(2005 brooklyn african fest) vegetarian http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2005/09/2005_brooklyn_a.html

Other Links

a new guyanese site submitted in e-mail  by a friend - http://mittelholzer.org/

bajan voices page - http://groups.google.com/group/Bajanvoices

an interesting site , james ravenell's beautiful photograhy - http://www.PhotoRaven.com

http://photoraven.com/folio/

ilford photography papers- http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/homeng.html

http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/sds/PhotoHealth/photohe1.html

jobo page [darkroom & photograhy tools page] http://www.jobousadarkroom.com/products.htm

fuji film online - http://www.fujifilm.com/

adorama cameras  & supplies - http://www.adorama.com/

tamrac photography gear - http://www.tamrac.com/welcome.htm

a good photo  magazine http://www.pcphotomag.com/

author,  mocha sistah's page - http://www.mochasistahonline.com/

once written [a writers] page - http://www.oncewritten.com/

update:

another music site [reggae love songs] - http://www.staminasound.com/schoice.html

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Until next entry, Walk Good & Peace,---------nyao ~~~ a WAY- Way,  too loyal phillies fan!!!!!!

summer blessings

Listen to [the jazz classic] "You gotta have freedom"  click below

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Outdoors-Mountain/7027/pharoah1.ram

 other greats sounds - http://www.geocities.co.jp/Outdoors-Mountain/7027/audio4.html

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{ok, I'm probably a jazzhead, too[ even worse than my husband]  but this song really gets me going!}[love pharoah's wailing horn & lacy piano accents]

painting above - 18 x 24  oils , and gold leaf titled- " tantie in blue". My beautiful spirited wild grand auntie [from photo taken in the 40s or 50s] who's still very much alive - loving travel, all manner of homemade souse [a bajan pork specialty] an original clothes horse, who loves vibrant colors, extroadinary hats, cock fights and dog races, good rum or brandy, sports & fine gentlemen! 2nd image in pink is self portrait/caricature  from early spring- from an old blog entry, I hope , that i've inherited a little of my Auntie's love  of adventure and her joi d'vivre, if i am ever blessed to live that long! & the embossed caricature that's [mine].

Summer Greetings! ~ as the song says -You gotta have peace & love. Honestly.

quote pharoah sanders "The creator has master plan, peace & happiness for every man..."

more on pharoah sanders's music

http://members.aol.com/ishorst/love/sanders.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharoah_Sanders

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=224

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quote

Peace is the cessation of againstness,
If you want peace, stop fighting.
When you're not against yourself or others, you are at peace. Peace Be Still. ~nyao

lyrics - The Creator Has A Master Plan [one of my dad's absolute favorite tunes]


There was a time, when peace was on the earth,
And joy and happiness did reign and each man knew his worth.
In my heart how I yearn for that spirit's return
And I cry, as time flies,
Om, Om.There is a place where love forever shines
And rainbows are the shadows of a presence so divine
And the glow of that love lights the heavens above
And it's free, can't you see, come with me, The creator has a master plan,
peace and happiness for every man
The creator has a working plan,
peace and happiness for every man
The creator makes but one demand,
happiness through all the land

(music and lyrics copyright 1968 by Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas)

SPIRITUALITY IN JAZZ

Ellington & Coltrane

http://www.jazzitude.com/spirituality_jazz02.htm

http://www.notcalledcommon.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=65&sid=b59248d7f3432552848674bae4fd1225

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poetry - kidnap poem by nikki giovanni

kidnap poem

ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i'd kidnap you
put you in my phrases andmeter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i'd kid
nap you

poetry  - {{ mine }}

Last Dance is Best Dance

I remember years ago
when I'd come visit
while hanging out at the late night clubs

You would not dance with me?
but, I'd always feel and catch ~
your beautiful eyes watching shyly and the thing  that used to get me
was the fact, that you're not really very shy, ordinarily..
as you stood somewhere on sidelines, drink in hand...

Not wanting to start beef with My Family or all of my Brothers,
Irk, Irritate or Alarm Your current roster or  jealous Lovers.....

You'd just smile as You'd watched me
Letting sweet opportunity & time  pass by..
while I,  aware- would  dance all night with another

You knew, I was a "good girl" and wasn't going home with
any dance partner...and wasn't one to bring strays back home to
My Granny, it's funny thinking about those time....

Sometimes now
When you come home from work

In Greeting, You grab me and start to dance slowly
holding me safe in your arms

I just close my eyes and follow your lead
body to body, heart to heart

I  know  and love the way you move

whether to ~  jazz, salsa, soca or steamy konpa's plogue'
hot timba, zouk, silence or even soothing rain......
I adore you , I'd dance with  you anywhere Man,

from crowded dancefloors, in jammed packed clubs
grass underfoot at open air festivals in parks,
to sensuous private moments in elevators
on the glass bottom dance floor of cruise
honeymoon's boat

whenever the mood takes hold of you
I know, You'll take hold of me
and We'll move as one, dancing triumphantly over adversities,
or  in life's  sweet celebrations.

by  me!  [nyvette] :)

poem

HOW YOU EXCITE ME   [i'm loving this one lately, peace ~nyao  somment ]

How you alarm me.
A foot, elbow, fist
Pounding my inner-belly
Like an eternal drum.

You lay head down in the world
Floating through the streets.
The midwife feels your small back.
She pokes you with a fetoscope
And you poke right back.

I feel you are lonely sometimes.
As alone as I feel sometimes waiting for you,
Waiting to hold you in my arms.

I feel you are lonely sometimes.
I speak and sing to you.
I open my mind to see you.

I am a globe, a walking world,
Imparting secrets to the unborn:
There is a blinding beauty in space
Where stars are born.
Hundreds of star clusters,
filled with more clusters,
Where galaxies are born.
I know you know this.

Bamboo blooms every 120 years.
And the cheetah is the fastest animal on earth.
But it cannot roar.
Sometimes it chirps like a bird!
I know you know this.

Today on the UpperEast Side
I cursed the White sandwich makers.
Who ignored me standing big and round,
Waiting to order, waiting to feed you.
I cursed the store and walked out.
I know you know this.

Oh baby, forgive my unpreparedness,
Forgive my madness.
Forgive my rage and fear that send shivers
Down your spine. Forgive the world I did not make.

As you pound a foot, elbow, fist.
Pounding my inner-belly
Like an eternal drum.

by Esther Iverem

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/iverem.html

http://www.seeingblack.com/iverem_poem.shtml

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muzik  - next selection julie dexter's  - I see colors [love this tune] choices & small world*

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dexter3/from/crizik

this  talented texan sister was here recently  NDAMBI -  I love , selection - What's wrong with you?, Soul from the Abyss  &  Lonely/ Eva Song

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ndambi2

Philly's  very talented - Lizz Field  - I gotta go! &  when I see love

http://cdbaby.com/cd/lizzfields

the shadow's goumangalaon pan [soca] - http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/panmasters

the late andre tanker - wild indian band  [ a classic  favorite! soca] Sayamanda , Bee's Melody  & more...

 http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.processProduct_Id=3887745&JRSource=yahoo.datafeed.439164_CD

marisa monte [one of my fav. brazilian singers] - http://www.musicoutfitter.com/store/item/077779610426/mais.html

ravi shankar- morning love -  http://people.umass.edu/jjyotika/  [a great song]

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alot's been going on here with the summer festivals & all

but I do have a few interesting websites .

sites

 nat creolecutlural newsletter -  http://www.natcreole.com

The 8th annual Harlem Book Fair will be held on Saturday, July 22, http://www.qbr.com/

all things literary site - http://www.allthingsliterary.com/

Africreation 's POSITIVE & INFORMATIVE BLACK NEWS

http://www.africreations.com/Radio.html

Nice gear  [ headwrap video, bridal fashions & more ]- http://www.wilsdom.com/

art

the lovely art of bernard hoyes  - http://www.bernardhoyes.com/shop/bh-bio.htm

the great art of alvin clayton - http://www.alvinclayton.com/index.htm

the powerful Art of Keith Morrison - http://www.keithmorrison.com/bio.html

the art of RAS JAHAZIEL - http://members.aol.com/rastavis/prints.html

the enchanting art of albert artwell - http://www.galleryofwestindianart.com/jamaicanroomthree.htm

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ethnic children's books [ resources,  lists]

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk28.htm

http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0694010596

http://als.lib.wi.us/AACList.html

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/nappy8.html

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/afro.html

http://www.geocities.com/blackhomeschool/black_curriculum.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DLHinson/AfroBook.htm

Little Lion Goes to School - [ a children's book] by Kellie Magnus, Michael Robinson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974421103/104-4628768-7016745?v=glance&n=283155

benjamin zephaniah- J is for jamaica. new

http://news.caribseek.com/Jamaica/article_34952.shtml

caribbean canvas frane lessac [i've purchase a few of her books,
frane is great artist]

the caribbean alphabet frane lessac
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688129536/104-1248515-2067913?v=glance&n=283155

http://www.balkinbuddies.com/lessac/books.html

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announcements

Akan Prayer Brunch & Traditional Priest Celebration (NYC)

This year marks 35 years of the traditional Akan priesthood in the US. The traditional Akan priesthood was established in the US by Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu. Along withthe priesthood, traditional Akan rites such as the Edin Toa (naming ceremony) Ye Goro Bra (female puberty rites) and Ayie (funeral) rites are performed in the US. All are welcome to this celebration of the traditional spiritual system of the Akan of Ghana, West Africa. (Details at bottom) 

Come and join the Onipa Abusia community for Sunday brunch. After enjoying brunch, have libation poured to the Abosum (Akan deities) and ancestors (nsamanfo) by our chief priests, Nana Adzua Opare or Nana Esi Dinizulu.

You may offer prayers for a family member, for help on a project . [donations & requests]

Sunday, July 9, 2006 11am – 1pm

Onipa Abusia 92-15 172nd St  http://www.onipaabusia.org/

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until next time, walk good! !!!!~~~peace nyvette

desert flower - mali

Here's a scan of new painting.
Bambara Girl (Mali)  brilliant colors 18 x 24  acrylic & gold leaf, copper leaf - much fun messing with all that stuff. I think, My Husband's running with this one.
[He wants to keep it, around] Men! He's very supportive, but? I just can't sell much when He's hoarding stuff, from the studio for the future. He's can't help it, He's a saver. That the Ying/Yang balance of marriage! I'll  really thank him someday...

 I think, I like oils better, but working w/acrylic's not that bad...once you get the hang of it, it's a bit heavier than than oils, and dried rapid fast though..

It's a lovely  morning  ~ Off to make breakfast !

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Play your position  [poem / song] - http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sheba

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poetry

Way of the Water Hyacinth

Bobbing on the breeze blown waves
Bowing to the tide
Hyacinth rises & falls

Falling but not felled
by flotsam, twigs, leaves...
She ducks, bobs and weaves

Ducks, Ducks by the score
Jolting, quacking and more
She spins through......

Spinning swamped, slimed, sunk
She rises Resolute
Still crowned by petals

by Zawgee

translated from burmese

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meditation for june 06

om mani padme hum

The Jewel in the lotus of the heart....
a reminder that inside all of us
there is a spark! [the jewel] of divinity.
Just as the lotus flowers grows in the bottom
of a muddy pond, pushing up through water until it eventually
breaks the surface and opens to the sun so that we can live
gloriously in the light. This gift is open to everyone, regardless
of background  or spiritual starting point.

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/meaning-of-om-mani-padme-hung.htm

http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/om-mantra.html

images of mantra

http://hrih.hypermart.net/download/omphh.htm

http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~spiral/MRTweb/webart/ArtWrx/OmManiPadmeHum.gif

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movies to rent/cinema

House of  D - cast Magali Amadei,Erykah Badu,Harold Cartier,Alice Drummond,Gideon Jacobs,Orlando Jones,Mark Richard Keith, Robin Williams, Frank Langella.

In House of D, which was David Duchovny's directorial debut, Duchovny plays an American artist living in Paris, who reminisces about growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s. The "House of D" is the Greenwich Village New York Women's House of Detention, which frequently housed prostitutes. Eventually, he returns home to reconcile with his family and friends. The film also stars Erykah Badu, Frank Langella, Tea Leoni, Robin Williams, Zelda Williams, and Anton Yelchin. It was screened at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/house_of_d/

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cool sites

KNOWING AFRICA  http://www.knowingafrica.com/

Museum of the Art of the African Diaspora  http://www.moadsf.org/

William Tollver Art - http://www.mojoportfolio.com/artist_search/african_american/tolliver.html

http://www.artnet.com/artist/16720/william-tolliver.html

mandioma decor -  shona art zimbabwe -  http://www.mandioma-decor.co.zw/

maison kenzi
tribal handcrafts & imports from north africa
[henna, ottomans, crafts]

http://www.kenzi.com/

for the exotic flavored coffee, the Ibriks, demitasse & spice mills.

http://www.natashascafe.com/html/foodncoffee.html

julian francis abele- black architect of the " often seen in film rocky" Philadelphia art museum.

[i've lived in philly- this image is near & dear to my heart]

http://unix.temple.edu/~medres/images/art_museum.jpg

http://www.blueroomlounge.com/downloads/artcolor1024x768.jpg

http://www.philamuseum.org/information/45-230-26.html

http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/news/pt110403.htm

a few interesting websites regarding
ongoing work @ the african burial ground project

http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_Main.htm

pdf  DNA analysis from bones/matter @ site

http://www.africanburialground.com/FinalReports/HUsbrABG_Ch5_Rvsd.pdf

 

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exhibit news from e-mail [afr. art guild]

The beautiful  watercolors of James Gayles

The Blues is an African American cultural expression rooted in celebration, struggle, and affirmation. It has not only been used to articulate a sense of pride, strength, and resilience in African Americans in the face of racism, discrimination, and violence, but it has served as the foundational musical form for many other genres, including jazz, rock & roll, and hip hop.
In recognition and exposure to the rich history of the blues, James Gayles will present an exhibition titled Blues Masters, which will feature paintings, drawings, and large digital prints highlighting Oakland Blues artists and the history of the blues in Oakland.

http://www.whatchusay.com/archives/2006/05/blues_masters_a.html

http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/111105.html

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the poetry of village voice writer - ekua brew- hammond

http://www.lovepoetry.com/authorlist.asp?x_searchname=Brew-HammondNanaEkua&x_List=

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zik! ~ [MUSIC] my diverse taste....

Soca Music  Mixes online - to listen to here   -  http://www.indeemix.com/soca_remix.htm

emeline michel [haitian soulful diva] http://www.emeline-michel.com/

listen to emeline 

http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/187.cfm

k-reen [martinique/france] from taxi soundtrack tu me plais

http://lamusique.narod.ru/Soundtrack/taxi.htm

for a steel pulse / tosh fix go here -  http://www.geocities.com/dav354u2/mystical.html

African divas [cote d' ivoire - galliano] "Afo! Idon" + kou kou le
"Afo ! Idon "has a sweet vibe similar to some soca classics [like the  baron's - this melody sweet]

http://frederic-galliano.coeinside.com/

a little taste of lance desardi  house music - sooner or later -http://www.nuloop.com/Details_e.php?arti=22892

a classic  oldie  break dance  track  - "boogie down bronx "  - [pilferd from my dj  brothers, collection often]

http://www.scotymax.com/dj/pages/remixes.html

  http://stickershock.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006103.html

oumou sangare [mali] baba - http://members.net4all.be/Morgaine_LeFaye/artistic/music/worldmusic/oumousangare.htm

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Lesson

Always live by your own beliefs, follow your own path. Never let other people's limitations, dislikes and hang-ups become your own.  Be Happy, Adventurous & Blaze! Avoid bad mind people & haters. Live good & you'll always "have good."

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Poem

chastised beyond the grave

Secretly pissed off with you.
Stressed, worried, uncertain of .....

Trying not to dwell on how you left me
Or now, that a special part of me, will never
ever know or see you in the flesh..

I hold it in & don't speak on it,
swallowing it like bitter pill.....

you're really gone.

I try to suck it up, and be a big girl... be an adult
loving you, but acting like a stubborn pissed off little girl , too.

Life goes on...
I decided on shopping therapy
a cold day out,  but wrapped to the gills
I am in chic import store to lose my lost self

taking my time,
I know my husband will pick me
up in about an hour

mindlessly browsing all the finery, studying the detail,
listening to the funky piped in worldbeat  music
that's playing on their speakers

I am checking out a  mustard yellow and lapis blue
Moroccan vase when it
dawns on me....the old song has ended,

music sounds so familiar?  I know every change of beat....

drum sequence, guitar lick, piano interlude?........

straining ears to hear better
the new jazzy wordlbeat tune
through my scarf
I realize, one of your  old band's songs is  now playing?....

Damn?.....Ok Daddy... . this
blatant......ok, I get it.....I get it!
no coincidence here...

Time to make peace with
your sudden exit  and move past it?....ok. Got it.

I laugh so hard,  I almost drop the vase!
I know people think, I'm crazy
for bursting into laughter so suddenly
but they don't know My Father is trip!

Dead or Alive

aided by the ancestors, I'm sure
with the help of 3 other band member
that preceded your death,
You are actively  chastising me...

but I just smile enjoying the moment,
because I am hearing my Dad's music.
Iam basking in  one of Your Labors of Love,

I know I  am blessed.

It just confirms
a Father's love's never dies
even if you're  anxious, moody 
or pissed off with his absence........
being abandoned by death

He will follow you into chic import stores on Rt. 2
and hover haunting you from semi hidden speakers
on cold winter mornings

to remind you that
A Father's love always remains.
It transcends time, and knows how to reach you!

[poem  by me  - a reflection fr. a cold day in  march. 2006]

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poetry - [not mine]  an excellent  bajan poetry page

check out "butter kissed"  by sandra s. http://www.poets2000.com/sandraemorris

 

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until next time, walk good! !!!!~~~peace nyvette