Skip to main content

Keeping Ourselves Encouraged in the midst of a SNAFUBAR Shitshow

Phew chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile.

It's been awhile since I posted, and we "sick and tired of being sick and tired," quoth Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer.

That man has been in office barely 9 months, and it has seemed like over a year already.

D'Angelo just died. Neo-soul has lost a King.

And my goddess, one of the articles about his death reminded me that Angie Stone died THIS year too. Two Neo-soul legends gone and one young man losing both his parents in the same year.

And that's just this week.

I could go on and on, but enough of the sadness...

Shit is hard. Seems like it's getting harder day by day. 

Folks literally trying to legislate away people's rights, existence, identities.

Corruption and cons left, right and center.

History constantly repeating itself.

Realizations that the folks who most Americans point to as the worst of history--the Nazis--actually got many of their ideas from the Jim Crow era.

Seems like controlling forces, who want to subjugate, cage, get rid of, destroy, deport, return to cotton fields, and otherwise bring hell upon our heads, keep winning. And this shit is world wide.

But that's what they want you to think.

Strongmen like to appear strong but in reality they are houses of cards. Four, five, ten, fifty-story houses... of cards.

Us being sad, overwhelmed, exhausted, and drowning in the chaos helps them, hurts us. Don't let them win.

That's why the frog-costumed protests and naked bike rides in Portland are great. This is all absurd, so absurdities in response are great. Nothing makes sense anymore, so you might as well have fun anyhow.

Find your happy places.

Find your people.

Stay encouraged.

Rest.

Resist.

When you get angry, agitated, hurt, confused, whatever, that's ok. It's bound to happen, but don't stay there for long. Don't linger in the negativity. Use the frustration for rocket fuel and always remember, "angry gets shit done," quoth Mr. Nancy/Anansi.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Every accusation is a confession

I've been ruminating on how QAnon, or whatever the fuck they were calling themselves back then, REALLY convinced somebody to run up in a pizza parlor to rescue some kids from a PDFile ring in 2016, and how certain folks BEEN hollering about an international PDFile cabal/ring for a LONG ass time--except the super gullible among us are convinced it's only Dems--and those doing the hollering have been labeled "conspiracy nuts," and how folks in power have long scoffed at this idea and laughed at how stupid conspiracy theorists sound for thinking this,  buuuuut... Turns out that  1) yes, an international PDFile cabal/ring DOES exist, has for a long time, likely will continue to as long as no one is held accountable for the horrendous, villainous actions,  2) the cabal includes some of the most powerful people, corporations, entities in the world ,  3) even if they did participate, there was a second class of powerful elite who still willingly hobnobbed with the PDFile p...
Post a Comment
Read more

Attempting to Open Eyes...

In my life, I view it as my goal and life's mission to open people's eyes to things around them, information they've been fed or led to believe, and in general, make people think for themselves .  I seek not to make people think and feel as I believe, but simply to encourage them to think and know for themselves. I am a lover of knowledge.  I don't profess to know everything, but the things I do know, I am sure of and sure that they are right for me and my life.  As my son ages and my second child makes his way towards this world, I grapple with wanting to impart my version of wisdom, truth, faith, kindness, and love of knowledge and progressivism compared with simply wanting them to seek their own truths--even if they depart from mine.  This is something I'm sure I'll battle for many years to come.  Strong willed parents tend to produce strong willed children. Being a strong willed person herself, my mother raised me to be my own woman, to think independen...
2 comments
Read more

What to ADOS is the Fourth?! What to any of us does this day mean?!

There is rarely a Fourth of July that goes by that I don't think of and/or read Douglass' "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" I typically post it yearly as well. Last year, we were blessed with descendants of Douglass performing parts of his speech and reflecting on who they are and where we are today, as they relate to his speech. Today, I ask slightly different questions: what to the American descendants of slavery (ADOS) is the Fourth? What to any of us is the Fourth? In a year where we've seen the symbolic victory * of federal recognition for Juneteenth while simultaneously witnessing state legislatures across the country and nationally elected folks attempt to shut down any conversations on race, racism, slavery's role in the founding and growth of this country, and real American history instead of American mythology, what to ADOS does this day mean?  At a time when we've lost more than half a million (605,533 as of 11:25a on 7/5/21, accordi...
Post a Comment
Read more