Ever since Tin has come into my life, I have a bias towards his brown skin and his face. There is study on CNN that says children have a positive bias towards white skin no matter what their race. In one of the first year books it says that children naturally prefer their own race up until they are six months old. Here’s what I say there is a lot of study that shows this…
Headed to Miami where I was born, little Havana. I was a child of the revolution, or rather a babe, having been born two months after Cuba ceded control to Castro. I was born in Miami where my family fled. Who knew at the time what was going to happen. When I get to Miami, I always think of my cousins – my dad’s cousins, the fun part of our family. And I think of…
Geese were floating in the water when Loca, Heidi and I passed them this morning, but they came out of the water and hissed at Heidi for no good reason. I told the dogs, “Silly goose, we weren’t bothering them.” Then we were coming down the bayou and a big Hummer was honking its horn at a gaggle of ducks who refused to go one way or the other. I told the dogs, “Funny ducks.”…
I went out to Ralph’s on the Park with T to have a quick drink and see her alone – given our family situation, these moments are hard to find. We decided to take our moments in an evening walk with the dogs but we have to wait till she can actually walk since her knee is still in recovery. Ralph’s was deserted except for some weird late night rally happening in the park and…
We’re in the thrust of a lot of heavy news from earthquakes in China to volcano ash spewing over Europe to oil spills in the Gulf – everyday you’d think that the end of the world is upon us or something close. Today, I got up and walked Heidi and Loca and they were all over the place – Heidi sniffing here, Loca jumping there – and I walked to the park where other people…
Most everyone I speak to in Louisiana believes BP is lying about its capacity to cap this oil well. They believe that BP is trying to divert the oil before they cap it off permanently so that their investment is not squandered. As well the manufacturers of the rig supposedly divested dividends in secret to stave off having to cough up liability money. Could a corporation be this greedy? You make the call. Meanwhile, WWOZ…
This morning we woke up to a few drizzles that turned into a storm to end all storms – thunder, lightning, rain galore! Tin slept in late and if I had had my druthers of what to do with a day like today, it would have been to sleep late, and then to resleep. It would have been great to start one of the many books by my bedside or even watch a movie from…
I was telling a friend the other day that it would be nice to have a six month event hiatus – no bad news – and she said wouldn’t that be nice. As I listened to yet another relationship in crisis, I wondered today if this is just the way it is, somedays are big things like catastrophic oil spills and colleagues passing, and some days are your day to day relationships breaking up, drama…
Bad News: From Silence is Violence on May 12th – This past Sunday, brass band musician and music educator Brandon Franklin was murdered in an episode tragically reminiscent of the origins of SilenceIsViolence. Like Dinerral Shavers, Brandon was a founding member of a local brass band, a young man with a spirit full of energy, and a gifted musician with a special touch for sharing this gift with other young people. Good News: NEW ORLEANS…
Tin and I walked over to the New Orleans Museum of Art this morning to see a few exhibits – Patti Smith donated some of her photography to the museum and those were interesting. There is also an exhibit called Beyond the Blues, which is reflections of African American artists that had some interesting paintings. But the most striking were the Joan Mitchell large canvases that were hung in the lobby – gorgeous. It’s quite…