Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. was born on June 20, 1949. Lionel is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. I grew up listening to all kinds of music and I remember hearing many songs, mostly love songs from Lionel Richie and thinking how brilliant he was as a songwriter. Lionel said that […]
Thomas Earl Petty was born on October 20, 1950, and died on October 2, 2017. Tom was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. I totally agree that music is magic and has been very magical in my life. It does move and heal and communicates and does all kinds of things in life. […]
Mary Louise “Meryl” Streep was born on June 22, 1949. Meryl is an American actress. This is an incredible quote from an extraordinary woman. I’m not entirely sure when Meryl first said this or if it’s from something she wrote or just a conversation she had with someone. I’m not going to go into every […]
“They were both mountains of men dark black beautiful gay men”
Breaking the cycle of writing by taking on projects outside your comfort zone. Challenging yourself as a writer.
via Challenging Yourself as a Writer — D.A. Roberts – Author
Robin Morgan, Susan Brownmiller, and Gloria Steinem “Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women’s Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology […]
Juneteenth commemorates the arrival of union troops to Texas in 1865 to free all remaining slaves. Today, the NAACP Troy branch will be hosting their first ever NAACP sponsored festival and commemoration.
via NAACP Troy Branch hosting Juneteenth commemoration — WETM – MyTwinTiers.com
And as I went about looking for the structure of sound, for chaosIn the dimmed tide and the luminescence in the molecules ofAir in the dim and changing light, for the structure of light,My journeying philosophic yielding little but distractionFrom life and from love; as I went about afraid for myselfAnd afraid for my life, […]
‘supernova’ was created and added to the “starseed” series in January of 2020.
(A little bit of a refurbish for the blog; I’ve been waiting for something of my own work to raise its head and be the new title.) The sorrel was more stubborn than the roses, but it did give in to the inevitable. I washed the jar and put it back out with the sorrel’s […]
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