Love is not Concerned July 14, 2009
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I am a big fan of Alice Walker. I make no bones about it. I felt blessed to have discovered “The Color Purple”. I remember the summer my mother and a girlfriend came to visit me in Germany for the 1st time. Although my mom’s not much of a reader, she did read “The Color Purple”, as well as “Rubyfruit Jungle”, that summer while in Germany. “The Color Purple” is also one of the few DVD’s I actually own.
I have also read many of her other novels with relish and revelation. Other personal favorites: “By the Light of My Father’s Smile“ and “In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women“.
Evelyn C. White’s insightful work, “Alice Walker: A Life” also stands high on my list of favorite biographies.
Poem – Derek Walcott May 21, 2009
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I haven’t thought about the fact that I don’t copy any of my own poetry here. Except one. A long time ago. I had planned to do just that and comment on how I remember my frame of mind when I wrote it and/or what the poem means to me today.
But just now I looked over at the window sill behind me and a poem I framed several years ago caught my eye. I framed it because it resonated with me then. It resonated with my soul’s best intentions. It used to hang on the wall in my apartment in Düsseldorf; now it sits in its frame on my window sill along with a statuette of a dancer, a small plant, a candle and some cards.
This poem is taken from Derek Walcott’s “Collected Poems 1948 – 1984″
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, who you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the lover letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Garden (April 2009) April 4, 2009
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I have promised myself to keep a better documentation of the progress we make in the garden this year. After having worked in the garden on average one hour a day this week, these are some of the first pix of the pulsatilla and the ranunculus:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEAN!!! April 3, 2009
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Dear Sean,
Today is your 24th birthday, and I just want you to know how much I love you and that I am proud of you. Always.
Enjoy your day – and have a spectacularly blessed year! You deserve it!
Much love,
Mama
What I’m Listening To Now March 17, 2009
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Melancholy and frustrating day. This is the perfect companion piece. I was turned on to Anthony and the Johnsons by my Dutch friend, John. I loved this song immediately. The delicate voice. The pensive lyrics.
I lost my MP3’s the this album when my laptop blew up last year, but had thought about it this past week. Thanks to a former colleague for inadvertently reminding me….
Finally: Some Katt Williams Comedy that’s (almost) SFW March 7, 2009
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Ok, I admit that Katt Williams is one of my guilty comedy pleasures. Although I don’t approve of his language (i.e. continual use of the notorious n-word), I think he is so on-point on some many things.
Still, I have hesitated to put any clips of his on my blog, because I didn’t want it to seem like I condoned the language, per se. But now I’ve found a clip of him performing at a BET awards show, where he’s obviously been asked to clean up his language. Now all I need to know is why BET has problems with a comedian using the n-word, but not with using the b-word….
Enjoy!
A Musical Pre-Inaugurational Interlude January 18, 2009
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Ok, so the rhyme doesn’t always scan. It’s cute and light-hearted, so I just thought I’d share.
Uh, and once again swagger-jacked from OHN.
NSFW – And I Don’t Care! January 16, 2009
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“Borrowed” from the good folks over at OHN
