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Wild Card
I just purchased a book, Wild Card, written by my friend Roger Bingham who unforunately left us on my “birthday” last year, October 21st. The premise of the book is set in a time of societal decay as the world descends into disorder. The president and his science advisor cook up a plan to rally the world…
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Year of the Rabbit
Finally, it’s my year! Hopefully an auspicious one. Haven’t been writing much here. I started this language app, Dualingo, 102 days ago and I made it to top 2%. Taking Spanish and French. Trying to stay in the Diamond League. Let’s see how this goes. Need to hold back on spending, but have been trying…
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Eggy’s Death Anniversary
Today is my “birthday” weekend. It sucks I have that now as a reminder when Eggy passed away. I dug Eggy up a couple of days ago. It has been around a year since he left me. I was surprised to see that his bones were shifted around in the earth, and it didn’t seem…
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Morality Police
This morning I was greeted with the horrible news of the torture and killing of Nika Shakarami, a 16 year old girl who participated in the protests in Iran, gone missing for 10 days, kidnapped by security forces. They buried her on her 17th birthday. Her death comes after the death of Mahsa Amini who,…
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Another visit from the reaper
My uncle passed away the day we buried my grandmother, a year after his twin passed away. They were both amazing people who lived incredible lives. My aunt, the twin, was a carpenter and built their homes, one in Long Island and another in Connecticut. Both were born female, but one lived as a lesbian…
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Policy & Change
Every child is my child. Every child is our child. It takes a village to raise the world.So, what’s this all about? Unfortunately, it’s the same story over and over again. History repeats. We repost. Lack of leadership has not changed and Democracy as it is is failing the American people. As of this time…
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Will’s Slap
If they were white, would the outcome be the same? Historically, and in most Hollywood films, if a white man were to defend a white woman’s honor, he was seen as a hero. Here, we are looking at an awards ceremony that is historically racist. We see a black man defend the honor of his…
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Justice?
I have been quiet on this blog for sometime, but I have been writing a poem a day for a 30/30 group. Each day in April a prompt is presented for poetry month. Many of the poems I came up with dealt with social justice issues. I’ll blog it out at the end of the…
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Inay turns 102 years old!
My grandmother turns 102 years old today. Unfortunately, she suffers through dementia and is barely present in the mind. I am at least thankful she isn’t out getting punched in the face by white supremacists running rampant on the streets. A 75 year old Asian woman was attacked yesterday in San Francisco. She was able…