Happy Kwanzaa!

NGUZO SABA (The Seven Principles) Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.            ­ Maulana Karenga

Two-s - Day - I'd like to have...

 I'd like to have...


1- a complete collection of Dr. Seuss Books


2- a complete set of WJJZ's annual jazz CDs

Two-s Day: Two Perspectives - One situation

Subject: Dear Diary

DOG'S DIARY ENTRIES...
8:00 am Dog food!
My favorite thing!
9:30 am A car ride!
My favorite thing!
9:40 am A walk in the park!
My favorite thing!
10:30 am Got rubbed and petted!
My favorite thing!
12:00 pm Lunch!
My favorite thing!
1:00 pm Played in the yard!
My favorite thing!
3:00 pm Wagged my tail!
My favorite thing!
5:00 pm Milk bones!
My favorite thing!
7:00 pm Got to play ball!
My favorite thing!
8:00 pm Wow! Watched TV with my master!
My favorite thing!
11:00 pm Sleeping on the bed!
My favorite thing!

Excerpts from a Cat's Daily Diary: Day 683 of my captivity:

My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape.. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the floor. Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. The audacity! There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage. Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs.I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released --and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded! The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. The captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe....... for now....

In All that You Are - Antone Oliveira Fonseca

In All that You Are - Antone Oliveira Fonseca



In all that you are
There are no untruths;
For you speak with the rare trust
Of a longtime sister as the warmful
Ease with which you listen makes me
Long less for home. Truth is only that
Which is real to one, as you are real to
Me.

In all that you are
There is much wonder;
For as the beauty of the wave is as
Uncertain as the sea itself, then so
Is the beauty of your mind. And as the
Beachcomber searches for the wave’s perfect
Then so do I search for your concreteness. Won-
Der is only that which complements the presence of
Desire, as you complement me.

In all that you are
There lacks little strength;
Looking at your whole petiteness I see
The ounce of black fold which reveals all
Of your strong womanhood. There are no words
To describe the vibration you lend to the thought
Of life. And as each second builds strength in the
Year, then so do you build strength in me.

In all that you are
There is genuine beauty;
All that you are is beauty and as the
Seasons change then so do the shades of
Your beauty, when you frown, smile, and open
Your eyes wide to laugh. Your beauty is insepar-
Able with self as it is your nature to be such. As
The night is the enhancer of the star’s beauty then
So does the world’s impurity enhance you.

In all that you are
There is great innocence;
For you draw from life only that
Which is yours as I find life guilty
Of your misgivings. And in the space
Where there lies no guilt there lies the
Whole goodness which flows from your heart
With each pulsation. As I watch you walk I can
Not help but love you more with each step for just
Being. Innocence is that which refines guilt as you
Have taught me much.

In all that you are
There is innocence, beauty, strength, wonder,
Truth, Wisdom, happiness, sadness, love,
Peace, generosity, tenderness, ambition, hope,
Compassion, purity, freshness and so much much
More.

In all that you are
There is
A deeply
Beautiful
Life pulsating
Freedom.

You are a mountain
Climb yourself,
And let no one drag you down…

(especiallyforrjr – 4/20/1973)

Sunshine - Antone Oliveira Fonseca

Sunshine
Antone Oliveira Fonseca


Your beauty I only witness in my
most pleasant dreams by day
For your freshness cannot be imagined
by night

The warmth you radiate is as the swift
but ever so gentle rays of the sun
For I’ve never really met you but know
you enough to depend on seeing you and
feeling you

You not realizing how much I appreciate
your existence. And me, wishing for the
Day when you will shine only for me

Oh, why should I worry myself
there are many fish in the sea
Funny though, I do not feel like a fisherman
tonight…I did not last night…nor the
night before that…

Come to me shining one
And spill yourself
Over my troubled
Mind.

Things you might not know I like

1- trees (actual trees, pictures of trees)
2- hot air balloons (the colors; shapes; the possibilties)
3- daylight savings time
4- driving on open highway on a warm, sunny day

5- sunrises-sunsets (actual sunrises/sunsets, pictures of them - if you add trees to the mix then I'm really pleased!)

6- the shore/ocean
7- reading

8- needlework (counted cross stitch; sewing, crocheting; quilting -I really love it )

9- pictures of a little girl and boy (it makes me think of my son & daugther)

10- rice
11- bread
12- chocoloate

13- ice cream (now chocolate ice cream is the best of both worlds! and if you add nuts I'm in heaven!)

14 - warm breezes on my skin
15- the sound a lit match makes when it has been thrown into water
16- learning things - just about anything
17- gadgets/technology

18- plants (you probably knew this already); (truly its the leaves -the many shapes, sizes and ways that new ones appear; and the various shades of green and of course the shades of red!)

19- Hugging ( hugging and being hugged - kisses too :-D )

20- seeing men with their children

DIRECT HIT or Never too old...

A co-worker sent this to me today and I decided that I always wanted to have access to it!

This woman reminds me that it is so nice to be old enough; big, bold and bad enough to set someone straight and keep it moving!

so Happy Birthday to me! I'm not too old! Just old enough not to be thrown off my game! LOL!

Below are the instructions that came with the video:

Sound on...make sure you look at guy in car at end. Don't think because you get old you aren't with it!!A lady was video taping her son riding a skate board when her attention switched to an old woman trying to cross the street. It is the best "direct hit" I have seen. You can hear the lady who is doing the taping giggling as she records the event. Open the attachment. It's a quickone.

Two-s - Day - to -do

Two small things for my ever increasing To-do List

1- go to as many different beaches as possible.

2- plant flowers in my DD's and DSnL's the garden (side yard or pathway -grin) of their first home

Two-s - Day - travel

Two places I'd like to go soon...

1- Alberquque, New Mexico for the fiesta hot air balloon festival in October...(but I'm planning a hot air balloon ride for my birthday so maybe that'd be enough we'll see.)

2- West Africa for a month (but I'd go even if it was only two weeks!)

Two-s - Day

I just found out that there is a "protocol" for Thursday Thirteen. So until I work through it I'm creating a Two-s - day list...Two things instead of thirteen.

Here are Two things I want to accomplish in the next 200 days!

1- clear out every unneeded, unnecessary thing from the basement

2- turn the middle bedroom into a tranquil study

Two-s - Day

I couldn't think of thirteen things this morning! But I was determined to post so here are two!

Two things I want to do next year (2009)

1. ride in a hot air balloon
2. learn Tai Chi

Two-s - Day - learning

Two things I want to learn:

1- spanish

2- tai chai