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I like museums. I’m writing this after returning from visiting a museum in Mobile, Alabama that memorialized the Clotilda, the last ship to bring African captives to the U.S. Our route was not interstate, but along a state route(s) that meandered through fields, forests, houses–mansions, shacks, and in-between, small- and medium-sized towns, and lots of…

Seems like a long time ago… I promised myself that I would travel to somewhere at least once a year. Since the COVID lockdown, travel doesn’t seem as important. I hadn’t been outside at night in a while. I think this is the three-quarter moon in a mostly clear sky and I couldn’t resist taking…

Shout out to the women gymnasts whose athletic abilities are phenomenal! The current crop of Black gymnasts are so much fun to watch. I remember gym class and the tumbling, balance beam, the trampoline… There were six week rotations in high school gym class…golf, tennis, archery, flag football, etc. We all had to walk the…

Entropy is the lack of order or predictability that increases over time. Socks are the perfect example of entropy. One starts out with two matched socks. By the time, the socks are washed and dried…only one sock is to be found. Why? I don’t know…. Some things just are…like entropy. I thought to defeat the…

Promises, Promises sung by Dionne Warwick…like in the song–sometimes you have to walk away from third party promises and affirm the promise you have made to yourself. Because we have made promises to ourselves, even if we haven’t articulated them. Today I read an article about barbarism. Of course, the article was about the atrocities…

When one is ruled by emotion, a storm is always brewing. Inside and out. People want to feel good, so they seek out activities, food, etc. which maintain their dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin levels. Hate, for some people, has become their dopamine, serotonin, endorphin, and oxytocin trigger. The southern strategy is simply keep them dumber than dumb and…

We don’t think too much about our shadow. I know I don’t. However, a month or so ago I was trying to take a picture and my shadow got in the way. Last month, I was outside at sunset and took this picture. My shadow is mostly subsumed in a larger shadow, but there is…

The above is a picture of one of the last of my climbing roses. I took this picture in August. My climbing rose begins blooming in mid to late May and, depending on the weather, will have a bloom or two in September, but not this year. I read an article recently and I do…

The above picture is of my neglected compost heap. In the past, I turned it, was careful with the brown and green, added humus and water and, in return, I was rewarded with a rich soil that I added to my potted plants and raised garden beds. This year, though, there were volunteer tomato and…

Luther Vandross sang a chair is still a chair even when no one’s sitting there. But a chair is not a house… A chair can represent many things such as power/inclusion (seat at the table), but, sometimes a chair is just a chair…a piece of furniture used for sitting. However, in the Montgomery Melee a…