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Dichotomy – a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
Is sand a metaphor for life? Hard sand is easier to walk upon While soft sand is harder to trudge through Is your life hard or soft? Does it depend upon the foundation you have laid beneath your feet?
I’ve been thinking about A Birthday Cake For George Washington “written, illustrated, and edited by a diverse group of people of color, including editor Andrea Davis Pinkney, who is black and a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.” The book was pulled by Scholastic in 2016 because “(a)lmost as soon as the book was released, it received withering criticism for whitewashing the history of slavery.”
One of the people who work at the Jefferson Library at Monticello is descended from five of the enslaved families of Monticello. He is proud of his heritage and is active in tracking down the oral history of those families.
A recent 60 Minutes featured a story about Fred Miller, a 56-year-old Air Force vet. He bought the Sharswood Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Virginia to host gatherings for his extended family in the area, only to discover that his great, great grandparents Violet and David Miller had been enslaved people on that plantation. “Buying this home has opened a window into the Miller family’s past that was not discussed within their family, and that many African American families struggle to obtain.”
To me, these three examples show that despite how reprehensible slavery was, people still managed to accomplish extraordinary things that their descendants are proud of. Should we denigrate or ignore those accomplishments because they were achieved by enslaved people? Is sharing that heritage to be dismissed as “Woke” because it does not follow the traditional narrative?
He planned an invasion that was supposed to be quick It wasn't successful Is Vlad really sick? The carnage was high Lots of buildings destroyed Deceptions and lies were immediately deployed Casulties mounted progress was halted Troops redeployed and civilians assaulted The Ukranian victory not yet achieved Russian alibies seldom believed Can a Jew be a Nazi as Vlad has proclaimed? This re-written history where the victim is blamed. They made me do it! Vlad's head is exploding, in the meantime his victory just keeps imploding.
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
Youve seen it all, youve seen it all
From Jimmy Buffet’s Mother Ocean
The creator and the introducer of this day are South Florida Kayak Fishing Club, which is relatively a new celebration, and the day is introduced first in 2013. Then the City of Miami declared this day officially. Then the day is celebrated for wondering the beauty of the ocean, and it is quite surprising for the residents of Florida who come forward with this idea of celebrating the day.
Mother Ocean Day is celebrated on May 10th of every year. Mother Ocean Day spotlights the entire magnitude of the body of water, which makes our life possible on Earth. Marine biologists are unsure how many creatures are living in the ocean. Oceans cover more than 70% of the earth and contain 97% of our water.
From you womb we crept, many of us yearning to embrace you again.
Different type of drive by shooting with no one hurt, Bubbles cause no harm.
May 7 is National Cosmopolitan Day. Better known as the “Cosmo,” the drink is a combination of vodka, triple sec, lime juice, and cranberry juice.
Probably the best-known Cosmo drinkers are Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte from Sex in the City, the show credited with popularizing (and overexposing) the drink.
There are slight variations on the recipe but a vodka drink devised in 1987 by bartender, Toby Cecchini is the one associated with the modern-day Cosmo.
Leave only footprints that are easily erased by the next high tide. Make your deeds your memorial and not your pile of stuff.
Can we all it progress if only some of us benefit? You're new park may have been someone else's neighborhood That leap in medicine came when others were involuntarily exposed. Your achievements are another's defeats. Is it win-win Or when-win?
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
https://wordsmusicandstories.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/leonardo-da-vinci/
I am a painter of words-- the mind can create visions of both but the hand is more skilled reproducing typed words than it is with recreating physical images in nonverbal form including handwriting.
Orange and blue the colors of the University of Virginia Same colors different school Same milling about in the eyes of the bystanders As we watch the fish from outside the tank, a scuba diver is watching them from inside the tank What are the fish watching?
Legs strode forward butt the rear with a mind of its own sashayed side to side
Spring creeps up the hill one tree at a time leafing a path to the top. From day to day we can't track Spring's progress clearly but a snapshot can.
On April 20, I noticed that WordPress had a new layout for comments.
We also lose that capability when somebody likes a post.
I like being able to check out the post of somebody who likes one of my posts or who comments. Sometimes they are first-time visitors or people who come by infrequently.
Yes, I do fall into the trap that if you like one of my posts, especially if you also comment, I will try to reciprocate and check out your post. Some of the blogs I visit are not necessarily ones that I want to follow, but I like them well enough to drop by and reciprocate.
WordPress, please us give back the additional info. Sometimes a cleaner look is not really an improvement if you have stripped away useful information. Do you prefer the old look or the cleaner new look?
Retreat: an act of moving back or withdrawing.
Sometimes we all need to retreat–maybe a strategic withdrawal for the sake of ourselves, our families or jobs, the institutions we support, the beliefs we hold sacred.
We're not giving up we're not giving in We're exploring fresh ways to advance our thoughts, energies, perspectives honing in on what is essential what is important and what is extraneous. When it all seems overwhelming it is time to withdraw and focus the light where it seems the darkest. What do the colors of your prism reveal?
Beautiful blossoms drop from the limbs like the blood of the betrayer drop by drop petal by petal littering the ground in puddles of pink Unlike the human limbs green leaves show where the petals have been Did Judas leave behind a pile of 30 silver coins?
Do you see the man removed from the cross who's life was given to save ours from loss? Do you see the bright sun whose light gives us shade without light just darkness in the place He was laid? Do you just see a shape cast on the wall a long ago story you no longer recall?
When the sun slants in through the window just so the stained glass puts on a colorful show decorating the walls with color and swirls some lines are straight and others are curls Some patterns crisp like geometric design Others soft images, both look quite fine A gift from the sun for those in the pews If the sermon is boring, you can come for the views.
Androgynous Gender blending Evolving
At the gym today, I saw a trim, older man climbing out of the jacuzzi. His pecs had started to sag and had begun to look like moobs.
Have you noticed that as we age and start to lose muscle tone and firmer skin, we begin to look more like each other? Our hair thins and grays, our shapes shift and soften, as our ability to do most things easily declines. (Who would have thought that getting up off the floor would count as exercise and leave you huffing?)
She starts plucking hair on her chin and if particularly hair suit may have her chin waxed. The hair on her legs becomes sparser than the hair on his head. Each holds out hoping that the other will get up first. You become nostalgic for the capabilities you still had a few years earlier.
Declining eyesight is a mixed blessing–you can not clearly see that your looks are withering, but hopefully not your mind or sense of humor. Cheaters become stronger and get to the point where they may no longer help.
You become much noisier–popping joints, snoring, having your phone set to a louder volume so you do not miss a text, phone call, or email, entertaining the world with the randomness of your thoughts as you vocally analyze things that pass through your head.
Bedtime arrives earlier with the passage of time. Seven goes from being the normal dinner time to being the normal bedtime.
Your definition of fun may change to how much effort it requires. Distance is measured by how far away the nearest bathroom (preferably with a tall boy toilet) is.
Clothing requirements change from does it look good to is it easy to get on and off?
What you may lose in height you may gain in weight.
There once was a girl in a car who did not get to drive very far while trying to turn she had to re-learn that stopped vehicles, her progress will bar.
Dedicated to the teenager that did not look ahead at the stopped vehicles ahead of her, when she was too preoccupied trying to make a left into a busy gas station to get something to eat. The good news is that nobody was hurt; the bad news is that three vehicles now need varying levels of repair.
Just found out the insurance company totaled the car because it would cost more to repair than the 5 year old car was worth.
The sun has drawn forth: the daffodils from their bulbs the leaves from their buds the groundhogs from their burrows the insects from their winter hideaways the bears from their caves the allergies from their dormancy and our limbs from their winter coverings. The right to bare arms, legs, and feet!
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