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Papa’s Umbrella

Delightful memory…

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

My papa had this huge umbrella. He made me feel like Cinderella. Unlike many other languages in India, Catholics here refer to their grandpas as 'papa'. It really confuses everyone. About that, nothing can be done. Papa here, mostly means 'father'. But, I've been speaking this way since I was a toddler. So anyway, back to Papa's umbrella. He was a tall and strong fella. Everyone around me, especially my mommy, was using trendy three-fold parasols. They never looked like they could assault. But, my Papa was quite something. That umbrella could have housed a weapon for hunting. It was tall and huge. Great for me to take refuge. Just a single fold. You know it was so damn old. With immaculate craftsmanship. A wooden handle at the tip. It was a simple black one. And to me, it weighed like a tonne. My Papa expired a few months short…

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The announcer who blamed his racism on diabetes? That’s the Oklahoma I grew up in | Basketball | The Guardian

Image The ugly racial past and present of Tulsa can never be forgotten: from the Tulsa Race Massacre and torching of Black Wall Street, to police officer Betty Shelby killing Terence Crutcher and getting away with it, to the vitriolic images of Trump supporters outside his rallies during the 2016 campaign (at the Mabee Center where I was harassed), to Trump’s super-spreader Juneteenth rally last summer at the Bok Center downtown, to Friday’s video broadcasting a moment of hate to the entire world. But to see Black and white high school girls taking a knee together in defiance of hate is enough to make me believe in a better tomorrow.

Source: The announcer who blamed his racism on diabetes? That’s the Oklahoma I grew up in | Basketball | The Guardian

Gold mine near Death Valley sparks controversy – Los Angeles Times

Three men walk in the Lone Pine area, where K2 Gold Corp. of Vancouver, Canada, is conducting exploratory drilling. On a recent weekday, Bryan Hatchell, 27, desert policy associate for the nonprofit Friends of the Inyo, and Jeremiah Joseph, 36, a cultural expert for the Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Tribe, led a group on a hike across two miles of scruffy mountains and sweeping plains managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to an area where the group of Canadian investors has launched an exploratory drilling program. Their concern was that Conglomerate Mesa — a remote swath of ancestral tribal lands where the explosions of thunderstorms are the loudest noises one hears — will feel the constant rumble of earth movers over networks of service roads and utility corridors connecting heaps of ore and mining equipment.

Source: Gold mine near Death Valley sparks controversy – Los Angeles Times

Myanmar security forces kill 20 protesters in Yangon

Myanmar security forces shot dead at least 20 people participating in anti-coup demonstrations in Yangon on Sunday, local media reported.

Video footage showed gunshots ringing out in Bago, with citizens fleeing into narrow alleys and others carrying away the injured.

Meanwhile, a group of politicians from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy formed a parallel civilian government in defiance of the coup.

In a video message posted online Saturday, “acting vice president” Mahn Win Khaing Than pledged to abolish the 2008 Constitution that ensures the military’s role in politics and to work toward forming a federal democratic union.

The former upper house speaker said citizens’ resistance is being tested and that all nations must work together to end the military dictatorship.

“It is indeed a darkest time for our country but it is also the time before the dawn for us,” he said, while calling the uprising “an opportunity to strive for forming of a federal democratic union desired by all of our ethnic brothers and sisters who suffered the atrocities of the military rule for decades.”

Source: Myanmar security forces kill 20 protesters in Yangon

Just around the corner!

From The Quill

“How do you know love is right around the corner?”

“I keep catching myself smiling at nothing.”

Seasons arrive, and then they wither away- all in the blink of an eye. You find yourself chasing butterflies, bread, and blizzards, all in the same day, trying to put a meaning to something that gives meaning to your world- your existence!

Have you ever thought of stopping, turning around, and giving a long enchanted look to yourself in the mirror? Have you ever thought about how lonely you get, each time you rush past it, nonchalantly?

You need love. Yes… more than anything else in this world, you need love!

You need a love that holds you in the nights that chase your smiles away. A love that doesn’t shy away from sitting silently by your side even though you have tried to push it away a thousand times.

A love that…

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Opiniões…por Sêneca 🌷 – Mágica Mistura

“If you live according to the laws of nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to the opinions of others, you will never be rich. ” “Se vives de acordo com as leis da natureza, nunca serás pobre; se vives de acordo com as opiniões alheias, nunca serás rico.” ✨✨Sêneca

Source: Opiniões…por Sêneca 🌷 – Mágica Mistura