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Speaker Series At Underground Books.
The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, is a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America. {Sharing The Knowledge 7.22.23}
“Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”
- Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are -
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
- Karen E. Quinones Miller -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/determination
Negative space can be just as important to a composition as your primary subject. Explore negative space in a photograph. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=712
Noë Gold here. I really appreciate your support for Hendrix Now! Backstory of a Legend, and I need some info from you to deliver your reward, a genuine "Jimi Jam" tee-shirt that is the latest hot-off-the-press offering from the Jimi Hendrix Foundation.
First, I am gonna need your preferred email address so I may informally keep in touch with you. Then, a proper postal mailing address where I can send your reward. Let's see, I think that's it. Oh yeah! If there's any further questions about my followup, they will be below.
All best,
Noë the G
Founding Editor Guitar World
Creative Consultant Jimi Hendrix Foundation
extra question for Kickstarter rewards recipients.
Now that the fundraising part is complete (and I still need funding support to add to the inadequate Kickstarter returns), the best place to stay in touch is on the Hendrix Now! website (www.HendrixNow.com/newsletter), where I urge you to sign up for the Band Of Gypsys newsletter, and the best way to reach me personally is via my email address, noe@HendrixNow.com.
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Tee-shirt takes its name from this historic spread that appeared on Pps 26-27 in JimiGW-Cover 3-88 Guitar World, HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, VOL. II, in a spread called "Jimi Jam": [http://flic.kr/p/4UUk4c].
Got another book from an awesome friend of mine and this one is called Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skulls Coloring Pages and again I wish i knew who the artist is cuz there pages looks amazing. With soo many different designs of Sugars Skulls. But here is the link to this book but im not sure where else you could find it at . www.goodreads.com/book/show/25980628-coloring-books-for-g...
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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...aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.”
- Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/curiosity
Illustrate the rule of thirds using a busy background. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=677
Goodreads Review - Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking - and to keep herself breathing during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.
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My Review - So what happened to Cass McBride you ask? Hmmm...Cass is one of those girls that you see in school as an overachiever who tends to get what she wants whenever she wants. She's not particularly nasty to peoples face because she understands that in order to get to where she needs to go she will need others to do it. But like a lot of girls her age, she has a nasty side that she showed in a note that was supposedly only to be for her best friend about a boy who asked her out.
I don't want to give anything away, but Cass will soon learn something about herself that will affect her for the rest of her life and changes the way she sees and feels about things.
The book is quite short, but I think it has the perfect amount of pages to tell a story about a young woman whose life changed quicker than she could say Prom Queen.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
- Maya Angelou -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/inspiration
[ceramics by me this autumn]
Bookmarket on" the Spui" friday afternoon -Amsterdam
...is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
- C.S. Lewis -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/friendship
Colour my week: Violet www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=552 - in the photo: some artwork by my peer-learners
...Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
- Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold -
$3.50 - Mint condition and hard cover. I have to say I'm pretty excited about this because I had to leave my soft cover copy of this book behind when I moved here to Canada and I hadn't even finished reading it yet. Pretty excited to find a new, and better, copy! We also found Friends (season one) for about the same price in mint condition. It still had the proof of purchase tag inside! It's good because it gives us something to watch until the new season of Psych starts. We like feel good stuff, in case you couldn't tell.
The new Flickr pages look really fabulous, but it also makes me groan because it gives me one more thing I feel I have to organize. (Geotagging.) Before it was tucked away at the bottom, but now it's right in my face and it makes the completionist/perfectionist in me whine. I'm already so behind on tagging and organizing and removing all old photos from my public stream; it makes me want to move to a new account and start fresh.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/557112.The_Mystery_of_the_Pur...
A choice picture from a larger set of 139 pictures, taken at the Saturday morning parade of Dragon Con 2022 in Atlanta, GA.
So proud of whoever at UM came up with the idea for this, and then did it. This quote is an excerpt:
“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.” Lauren Myracle, SHINE. www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13804537-shine
...the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3164882.Mehmet_Murat_ildan
Bright or dull use some light control in your chosen bathroom light shot www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=561
...is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life -
“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
- Viggo Mortensen -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/cool
One word Tuesday: Cool www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=581
Something for cold winter days: A. N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS.
From goodreads.com:
The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.
As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended.
HNY
[bourbon/ batman]
wild turkey 101
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Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond by Andrew Farago.. www.goodreads.com/book/show/43822794-batman
..treat yo'self 😋
...that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
- David Martin Lloyd-Jones -
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
- Martha Graham -
www.goodreads.com/author/show/47790.Martha_Graham
Hearts, Clubs, Spades or Diamonds show us your deck. Snap show us your pair. Playing cards or Tarot cards. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=528 - this is the way I play cards :)
Love this copy, especially the disclaimer:
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Book # 1 - Matched
From Goodreads - Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
MY REVIEW - Do you want to know what I find scary? It's not blood, gore, guts, veins in the teeth kinda stories. It's also not things that go bump in the night or jump out at you in a dark alley. What I find scary are stories about dystopian societies that have gone a bit cray-cray! Societies that have dissolved into something far more scarier than a ghost or a random dead body in an alleyway. The Society in this book is a bit frightening. Your ability to make any kind of choice for yourself has been taken away for you. You are told what to eat, wear, whom to marry, what job you can have, and where you can live. You are not allowed to have any of your neighbors in your house and you are monitored 24/7 by "The Officials." The Society only lets you live till your 80th birthday and you can only have children up to the age of 31. At 17 you are matched to your spouse and at 21 you are married to them. Scared yet? You screw up and you get what are called infractions. The more infractions you receive the worse off your life can be.
All of the above is what happens to the main character Cassia. Cassia is 17 and is matched with her best friend Xander. She is soon to get her job placement and if she followed all the rules like she was supposed to she would have had the "perfect" life according to The Society. Well let's throw in another guy named Ky who is considered an aberration, some smuggled poetry from the old days, and feelings that she is not supposed to have. Matched is a pretty good story so far even though it is quite predictable. I'm not a huge fan of stories where the romance is the main focus, but I knew that going into the book. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to Cassia in the next two books of the series.
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Book # 2 - Crossed
From Goodreads - In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander - who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart - change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.
MY REVIEW - Not bad, but there seems to be a theme here of redundancy. The same thing seems to be said over and over again. It was enough to make me want to fall asleep
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Book # 3 - Reached
From Goodreads - After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.
MY REVIEW - Predictable and redundant. I suggest you pick up the series at the library. It was enjoyable, but really did not have that WOW factor.
Quote by Austrian author, Stefan Zweig, sourced from www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/57597.
Image by Fabulas Fafla at www.flickr.com/photos/tesse/3481954249/in/faves-51965108@..., originally licensed attribution and non-commercial.