“Chasm” by Daniel Popper and AG PNT in Las Vegas (7 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA

Sculpture Daniel Popper and Graffiti Artist AG PNT

“Chasm” by Daniel Popper and AG PNT (graffiti tags) in Las Vegas, USA at Electric Daisy Carnival. Photos by Jonx Pillemer.

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Review: The Threads Of Time, The Fabric Of History: Profiles Of African American Dressmakers And Designers From 1850 To The Present, by Rosemary E. Reed Miller | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

I read this book for the tours I created while I was running my walking DC cooperation tour guiding company, SHIRtours, in DC, in 2012.  The well-known work of Elizabeth Keckley is mentioned first, after a brief biography of how Lincoln’s dress maker came to DC with her son in early 1860, quickly became Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker and confidant before a misunderstanding over Keckley’s book (Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years as a Slave and Four Years in the White House).   Reed Miller goes on to mention Margaret Mohammit Hagen, who established dressmaking shops in DC in the late 1800s, and apparently had an interest in medical electricity, and died in New Jersey in the middle of the next century, but is buried in Baltimore.  The Black Fashion Museum also figures prominently in this book, described as having opened in 1979 in Harlem, and then moved to DC in the early 1990s.  It apparently stood at the site of what the author described as having been successively, the site of an Underground Railroad station, then the location of the Ladies Relief Association, at some point also the Sojourner Truth Home for Girls.  She also cites Lois Alexander’s 1982 work Blacks in the History of Fashion.  While the editing left a good bit to be desired, there was interesting information to be gleaned from this work, and it continued to raise awareness of Black women hidden behind the scenes of history…

Source: Review: The Threads Of Time, The Fabric Of History: Profiles Of African American Dressmakers And Designers From 1850 To The Present, by Rosemary E. Reed Miller | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

नादानियां / Follies – Kaushal Kishore

 

आती है पसंद 

मुझे सबकी

हर नादानियां,

बचपन से मैं भी 

करता आया हूं 

यही तो अब तक…

😊😊😊

I embrace every folly 

that comes my way, 

as I too have been 

doing such silly things 

since childhood,

and do it even now…

*

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: नादानियां / Follies – Kaushal Kishore

Tune in…by Mágica Mistura – Mágica Mistura

Let’s be complete

Come be whole, whole

Surrender, feel, want

Uncomplicate, take off the blindfold

See yourself, that one, the other

Tune in to the common particle

Dig deep and there it is

Intrinsic, palpitating, present

Your Self… sublime, latent

Amazing in life adventure

Facing the sea of ​​eternity

Rejoice, take a deep breath and dive

Because there, in your privacy

Your Universe is born, lives and grows

And you, only you… really know him

Be in the form of a poem

Verse, poetry or prose…

✨️Mágica Mistura

Source: Tune in…by Mágica Mistura – Mágica Mistura

Early Feb. 2024: Settlers Carve Unauthorized Road in Susiya through Private Palestinian Fields | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

…Later in the week we visited A. in the outskirts of Susiya. Settlers of Sussya settlement and its satellites have now been harassing A. and his aging parents daily (I wrote about him in past reports). Last Saturday, February 3, 2024, wildcat settler “road work” began, paving a track through his own farmland, the same land the settlers have prevented him from tending since the outbreak of the current war. They just brought a bulldozer and began carving the land. They work at night. As usual, there is no justice. No one to turn to. We sat in the morning sun with A. and his father, next to what would be a house when A. would be able to afford completing its construction. We saw the injustice with our own eyes.

So much sadness was in their eyes, and no rage. I heard myself telling A. what I had already said in Taban this week, and for the second time this week I was asked why I said this. I told A. the Taban story and gave him the same poem, printed out.

When he was done reading, he said: “We don’t think about revenge. We think about ways to stay on our land. We would gladly live in peace with our neighbors. But they do not want this…”

Source: Early Feb. 2024: Settlers Carve Unauthorized Road in Susiya through Private Palestinian Fields | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine