How I’m celebrating this holiday: by admiring the sights of rainbows from my studio apartment and getting out to vote! The weather here still isn’t pretty, but I’ll always enjoy a rainbow sighting (the one pretty thing to come from this icky rain). And my state’s Primary Election Day is in two weeks. If you haven’t yet voted in your state’s primaries, get out and vote! These days, all elections matter!
I did this a year ago, and, if time/weather permits, this may become a New Year’s tradition! And after all the rain we’ve had, oh how I miss a clear, sunny sky.Â
Yup. Although I’ll be more focused on writing my latest work-in-progress instead of the NYE festivities on TV tonight. A book can’t write itself, you know!
Happy New Years to you all! 🥳🍾
I’m always intrigued over what my favorite celebs will do for Halloween. So far, Christina’s Cher had me gagged, Mariah’s Jessica Rabbit served, and I’m wondering if/what thee Kylie will dress up this year.
Then I saw this clip…
…and I don’t know if it can be topped. I can be a sucker for anything Showgirls-related. And I didn’t know that was Ariana Grande playing Nomi Malone; she nailed it!
Happy Halloween, everyone!
In honor of this Juneteenth holiday…
(Side note: Opal Lee is AMAZING.)
and…
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Happy (almost belated) International Women’s Day! I may be late in this (Wednesdays are usually my Mondays in terms of work week, and let’s just say I had a helluva busy “Monday”), but celebrating strong, fearless, and creative women is not limited to one day in my book. In honor of this special day, two poems from two of my idols!
and…
For those in a romantic mood on this Valentine’s Day, a loving poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Credit to this tweet for introducing me to this poem!
Today is MLK Day, and while I could’ve done another Quote Of The Moment/Message Of The Day post, I was more intrigued by these two poems that honor the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.
“Won’t You Celebrate With Me” – Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
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“In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr.” – June Jordan
The East Bay Area (west Walnut Creek, in particular), on the first day of 2023, after that awful storm at the end of 2022. I sorely missed seeing the sun. What a way to start a new year!
What else but party music on this New Year’s Eve?
Years ago, a friend turned me on to some YouTube videos featuring extended dance mixes from the mid to late 1990s, and originally broadcasted by the UKs BBC Radio One. As a longtime lover of 1990s dance music, that friend knew the way to my heart. Since I won’t be hitting the clubs for New Year’s this year (we just had an awful rainstorm and who knows who has the flu or Covid in those clubs), the mix above is currently providing aural entertainment for my solo celebration at home. The first fourteen minutes alone always awakens my inner 90s party girl. Happy New Year, everyone!
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