Archive For February 27, 2023
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverb You go to bed and in the morning get up and see everything changed around. It’s been rearranged, in the night. All of it. That’s the deal for every living one of us. I’m certain it’s…
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! – Leo Buscaglia 💖 Feel a certainamount of prideI still get ads promoting, well, you know. Sex. Usually Medicare. AARP. Not fun. I knowfor a fact there’s hanky-panky going on…
“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.” Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother was the National recording secretary for the Marcus Garvey Movement which commanded millions of followers in the 1920s and 30s. His father was a Baptist minister and chapter president…
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed. – Kanye West Sometimes I feel like Kanye, sometimes I don’t. First couple lines of a poem I didn’t write. Wrote those lines back when I could…
There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable. – Craig D. Lounsbrough You may be an old man… If two cashiers are available, and you choose the funny black guy instead of the hot young blonde… If the hair on your…
Despite the fact that there were a lot of African-Americans playing in the National Football League in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there was a stereotype that we weren’t capable of succeeding at certain positions. If you played those positions in college and you got drafted, you knew you were probably going to get moved…
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein 2022. It was the best of times and the most absurd of times: A war in Ukraine; a fight for democracy; the end of Roe; ketchup on the walls at Mar-a-Lago; fantastically awful candidates, and…
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. – Ursula K. Le Guin DeSantis Gala Red Hat Ladies Night Suspected drag queens read books. He arrests them all. Bachelor Auction @ The Villages…
I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali We’re living in a dumbed-down culture because the education of most people in America is sad and not…
“Wherever my mind led me, I would go.” Joseph Elmer Yoakum was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was seventy-six (76) – dates vary, but going with that – when he started to record his memories in the…