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FOTD 10th February 2024: Snowdrops | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

My snowdrops seems to multiply every year. It begun with just a few, and now they are slowly taking over.

Source: FOTD 10th February 2024: Snowdrops | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

नाराज़ / Angry – Kaushal Kishore

 

नाराज़ होने के बाद, 

कोई वास्ता नही रखा तुमने,

फिर भी रखते रहे तुम 

मुझ पर नज़र,

मैं असमंजस में हूं कि यह

प्यार जताने का तरीका है तुम्हारा,

या नाराज़ होना भी 

नही आता तुम्हे ठीक से…

😡😡😡

After getting angry, 

you chose to ignore me, 

yet you continued to keep 

an eye on me;

I’m confused If this is 

your way of expressing love, 

or you don’t even know 

how to get angry properly…

*

–Kaushal Kishore

Source: नाराज़ / Angry – Kaushal Kishore

Mural by PichiAvo – In Barcelona, Spain | STREET ART UTOPIA


In their first art intervention in the city of Barcelona,PichiAvohas painted a mural in the facade of the student residence Livensa Living Diagonal Alto of Temprano Capital Partners, designed by the Portuguese architect José Quintela da Fonseca. The artistic duo has designed a mural that shows a very particular version of Pallas Athena’s sculpture in the Austrian Parliament, in Vienna.

Pictures byFer Alcalá

Source: Mural by PichiAvo – In Barcelona, Spain | STREET ART UTOPIA

Mural of Mary Ann Shadd, the first black woman to publish a newspaper in North America | STREET ART UTOPIA

Afrofuturist and muralist Adeyemi Adegbesan

Portrait of Mary Ann Shadd by Adeyemi Adegbesan outside of Mackenzie House at 82 Bond Street in Toronto, Canada. Curated by Umbereen for Toronto History Museums.

Source: Mural of Mary Ann Shadd, the first black woman to publish a newspaper in North America | STREET ART UTOPIA

Book Review: Smith’s Washington At Home, and Adulting Education | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Today, adulting education, part of Project Do Better, https://shiradest.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/cropped-dobettercover.jpg

” data-image-caption=”” data-medium-file=”https://shiradest.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/cropped-dobettercover.jpg?w=300″ data-large-file=”https://shiradest.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/cropped-dobettercover.jpg?w=512″> comes as a short post on financial self-defense in DC history, which is one of the pre-requisite bits of knowledge to be proven before one can show that one is a true Serving Adult, in the proposed Service Adulthood Challenge. This part of the three parts of self-defense (physical, financial and emotional self-defense), involves knowing your rights and responsibilities in your state or region, as well as in your nation of residence (and origin, if that nation, as often happens, has a claim on you, still). It also involves understanding our shared histories. This book, happily, has a good bit of DC history, even Black history, and a bit of Jewish DC as well.

Before I delve into DC history, please remember to “Adult” for yourself, and find out what your legal financial rights are, for instance regarding statutes of limitations on debt, which is is your responsibility to know and defend…

Here is why I am using an old photo taken of me with a fellow anti-war peaceful protester at the weekly silent Stop The War vigil  BathChronyPic2007  in Bath, England, back in 2007 (yes, the same year that I stood in that gap to stop a beating…):  it reminds me of where I personally have been, just as the research I did on DC history reminded me where my family and those around them, from DC and the MD, VA, but mostly DC area, since well before the Civil War, in varying states of free-ness, but all either MU (mulatto) or Black, and thus subject to the Black Codes in whichever of the three states they live in or passed through.  So they really had to be Adults, and know the laws of every area they were in or from.  Part of that “adulting,” as some people like to call it these days, included protecting themselves and their family members whenever possible by owning property  (Note: updated in 2023…).  So, here is the review.

Source: Book Review: Smith’s Washington At Home, and Adulting Education | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Real Estate Mogul, Others Pour $1M To Defeat Progressive LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman | LAist

Raman, who chairs the City Council’s Homelessness and Housing Committee, was a vocal opponent of Dan Emmett’s ongoing attempts to evict tenants from more than 700 units at his Barrington Plaza high-rise in Westwood — something he said was necessary to install fire systems.

An outspoken supporter of tenants’ rights, Raman sided with residents who accused Emmett of staging the mass evictions so he could raise rents in the rent-controlled building. The residents argued that the sprinklers could have been installed without evicting anyone.

Source: Real Estate Mogul, Others Pour $1M To Defeat Progressive LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman | LAist

Alma – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A alma é clássica,

Esbelta

e veste Preto e Branco

 

Gosta de poesia

e deste, inunda o seu interior

Gasta horas se alimentando de versos

Vivos, inquietos

Ela sabe o seu valor.

Foge de dicionários

Porque sempre teve certeza que o amor

Não se traduz;

Ela sequer sofre

Porque o sofrimento gera a perda da docilidade,

e da intensidade do ” Eu te amo!”

Ela também não suporta ” mascaras”

Não sobrevive o que é obscuro.

É límpida

e fragmentada como poesia

 

 

A alma é clássica,

Imponente

Misteriosa,

Sedutora.

Vestida de seda,

Revela-se

Na beleza da mulher,

Na transcendência mística entre a carne e o pecado.

 

Marii Freire. Alma

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: Autoral

Santarém, Pá 13 de fevereiro de 2024

 

 

Source: Alma – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!