Dear Oludumare, Ancestors, Guides and Angles...For 2011...

Dear Oludumare, Ancestors, Guides and Angels…For 2011…

Dear Ancestors: Papa Ebeneezer Elliott, Gramma AnaLiza Huggins, Aunt Lilla, and all others in their Power,

I write to you the following wants, intentions, wishes and manifestations for January 2011 and every day and month thereafter, for the rest of my life, till completion, and fulfillment, and seed for bigger and better:

1/. I want protection. Safety,. Shield, to be Indomitable

2/. I want my own house, home, land, farm, garden, Beauty and Bathrooms

3/. I want my guaranteed stream of income for the next fifty years and beyond: Employment, Employment Creation, Contracts, Growth, Seed and Flourishing

4/. I want to be a Successful Entrepreneur with ArtPost ® © (2010) in 2011

5/. I want to make my first TT$ Million in 2011; my first US$ Million in 2012

6/. I want a contract with Vasant Bharath, Ministry of Agriculture, Land, Marine Resources and Food Production, for five years, (2011-2016) at TT$35,000 per month, or US$6,000 /month

7/. I want the Love of My Life to Show Up, SSS, : fabulous, healing, loving, generous, tall, gorgeous, hetero, balanced, worshiping me, full respect for women, no children, no past lives or wives, baggage or ugly, earning my regard and respect daily, neverending rich, wealthy and classy;; who gives me everything I need, everything I want, lacking in no thing and being a perfect fit in my personality, growth, and as a lover of my body and soul; mind and heart. Hand and future; and making beautiful grounded children who fly like eagles and reinvent like the phoenix

8/. I want a wonderful company, ownership, management and staff (publisher/printer) to do, continue and expand Art Post as I envision: my own publishing imprint; my own publishing house

9/. I want a sleek website, and International Pay site for Art Post, for Social Entrepreneurship, for Maven

10/. I want to stop crying in 2011.

11/. I want to laugh more

12/. I want to be carefree.

13/.I want to connect with Pa Neezer’s Family (already happening)

14/. I want to write about Pa Neezer’s Life, Work and Family Heritage; do a film documentary of him by 2012 (47

15/. I want my writing to be captured, heralded,. Published and promoted by a big powerful international publisher in 2013 (48)

16/. I want to be married in 2013

17/. I want my own preparation and provisions and survival for any and all impending disasters.

18/. I want to hire Troy Hadeed as a Personal Yoga Trainer

19//. I want to live close enough or on the North Coast to walk Las Cuevas at dawn every morning, receive a massage on the beach and take a swim each morning.

20/. I want my own Personal Multi Talented Adjuster and All Round Masseuse

21/. I want my own Personal Assistant House Manager

22/. I want health, Boundless Vitality, Strength and Resilience; a Renewing of Self as when I was 18

23/.I want the people to whom I belong to find me; to be with those of whose mind, purpose and values I embody and they mine

24/. I want my life journey, life movement to stop the valleys, the fallings, the undulatings, ups and downs.

25/. I want my life to be a constant upward climb and journey from this day on.

26/. I want to become flexible, cooperative

27/. I want to cease my critiques; my criticisms; my offering of thoughts for change or improvement; I want to let people and things be just as they are

28/. I want to make and have my relationships to be just like Honey

29/. I want to Be Honey

30/. I want resolve and peace with Carl Huggins

31/. I want resolve of all interpersonal conflicts

32/. I want reprieve, forgiveness, and dissolve of all incorrect action, and with Leisa Bocage and any and all others

33/. I want to get along and a long neverending life in the world as Honey; and Bees and Ants

34/. I want a wealthy, generous loving kind in love patient skilled passionate, romantic and healing lover

35/. I want Good smooth honey understanding relationships and relations with my family and All People I meet and encounter

36/. I want a wonderful fabulous impressive solid renaissance, competent healing balanced outstanding exceeding man who can be God’s next model to be and fit into my life, perfectly and wants to be no where else, taking me around the world, everywhere he is..

37/.. I want a house full of instruments

38/. I want to learn to play the piano and guitar

39/. I want a new wardrobe; I want an alluring feminine enchanting wardrobe, flirty skirts, diaphanous tops, shaved legs and endless funds for personal grooming and hygiene

40/. I want to wear, afford, and be designed by Cloth, Effortlessly, Couture, at my place and home

41/.. I want to LET GO of everything, every Ill, every Ill will, every Hurt, Pain, Disappointment, Failure, Injury, Obstacle, Blockage, Curse, Resentment. Any and Everything standing in my way to be dissolved, This Day

42/. I want to be Light and Free in Spirit, As Spirit, in body, as unblemished as the day I was born or before

43/. I want to live and Be as a Pure Enlightened Elevated Spirit

44/.I want constant flow of good, beautiful, bounty, blessings and gifts from height to height

45/. I want unending unlimited money, cash in hand, and abundantly growing in banks, houses, lands, business, gold and resources, the world over

46/. I want a gold chaplet like Virgil’s with a ruby and sapphire, and a black and gold necklace for my waste, with an ankh

47/. I want my underarm problem to cease; and what ever is causing it to be corrected, from this day

48/. I want Clarity in All Things

49/. I want Healing Powers and Abilities; Magical Alchemical Knowing as Pa Neezer, AnaLiza and Ruth Huggins.. and to expand and grow beyond his and their Bestowing to me. Melize Huggins

50/. I want an easy Attitude that sets all at love and ease, embrace and acceptance, agreement of ME, to do all I wish, without ever asking.  I want full power over all.

12:59pm Friday December 31, 2010

51/. I want Cathal Sealy's St. Joseph house on the mountain by March 2011

52/. I want the yellow Land Rover in Freeport by March 2011
53/. I want Dean Pugh

6:47pm Friday December 31, 2010

This reads crazy, but my General Anupu made me find the bravery to post it.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=189364457745052&id=100000643805998

Anupu Amun Rah Ptah December 31 at 1:16pm Report

Please check my status about naming the days of the week after the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa. If this is in tune with you then how about you do your next calender to reflect this? Hoshaiah is gonna work on the calender as to what days of the week will be what. Ie

Mon-Ujima-

Fri-Kujichagulia 

Maven Huggins December 31 at 1:19pm

OMG> the calendar. Great IDEA>
wow
do you want to do a calendar for 2011?? that would be fantastic

if you get orders US$50/each. I will have them done
despite having problems with my current publisher printer
or needing to find another

that is a brilliant idea Anupu
told you you are an army general

"Venetian Violet" 2011 Art Post Calendar

This December 2011 I am launching ArtPost-
my line of original photographs and paintings in the form of calendars, cards, posters, books and journals

My first two products is a depiction of "Venetian Violet", my last painting
in the form of a calendar and a poster

They are both 18 x 24 size. the poster can be laminated or framed as art...as it is
the Calendar, a one page, will need to be cut to do so

The pic attached is of the Calendar

If you visit this blog, I encourage you to consider purchasing a few
Email me at mmladyh@gmail.com so I may facilitate and I thank you much and many times in advance.

;)

Portraits of Myself....

okay.
first insert. this book   http://portraits-of-eve.com/   is emerging great lines, inquiry, thoughts, pursuits and wisdoms:

from Jhae Lewis' liberation through fearlessness; to Nadine's
"my grandmother and mother were very careful to instill in me a belief that I should not be proud of anything I did not earn"

"Although I never considered myself a white woman, I was somewhat surprised to be thought of for inclusion in a book on women of color. A bit naive, maybe, but i do not classify myself or others by appearance".

Fascinating.
Does that mean she would look at my cocoa skin and never call, think or refer to me as a black woman?

can you see people's dishonesty when it arrives? valuable matters to ponder, in any case

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Getting to Maya, 23..the pic makes me echo this article..."Herb Way makes us look GUUUUUUUD!!!
http://www.beyondblackwhite.com/bwip-herb-way-makes-us-look-guuuuud/
Yes, Indeedy. He Does!!!

"Yes, I have seen better, but I am content with my body. It's the only one I've got and I wouldn't trade it for the world."

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For the second time i am reading that tattoos are life milestone markers

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Part Two

"Wear your individuality as a crown" Erika-Maxine

"I think our body is like a house." Sheila
Interesting view that I like and agree; but having been to houses/homes of others, proves an indicative and scary thought

"Beauty comes from within. It's the peace you feel inside, the wisdom that comes with time."

"Imagery is deceptive" Lena

Fascinating to note how all the photos depict the work of each model/person.
"My sensuality and sexuality attracts both males and females" Jessica Mai

Jace
writes the best and most poetic homage of this total collection; but alas, with pdf, copying is not possible "My body is home to a soul"

"...now the thought of femaleness embedded in motherhood seems pretty ridiculous." Mieka, 29

"I was invisible..." Rose

"Love that temple." Jules

As an ode to my own mother, deceased, Christine, living with lupus

"If a man feels good when he is with you he'll stay with you. Men leave physically perfect women all the time. That's because there is no laughter in the bed...no good meals on the table.."  Roz

"My body is a canvas of scars" Robin

"I have often fantasized about being a tree"  Maria



"They also teased me about how often I changed my clothes, (several times a day),  how often I bathed, (2-3 times per day)..." I totally relate to this . And she is Trinidadian to boot. Janelle

I love the business mind and accomplishment of Carol. I hope to emulate and exceed one day

"...and i feel more beautiful today than at any other time in my life.." Rosalind
what a wonderful quote to close this blog on Portraits of Eve...in honor of these brave souls clothed in women's bodies. ;)

Thank you, Herb Way   


http://portraits-of-eve.com/

Thursday Morning Mollees

every beggar isnt poor. remember that. i told my self that a few hours ago.
i went begging to someone i did not know. the ceo to a publishing/ printing house..to make calendars for me. he said it was too late to make calendars but offered to make me postcards from my photos. then he put me onto his sales manager. she eventually cleared me for calendars, in addition to two series for post cards (christmas and general); a book journal and now today, we are also doing a poster.

beg and beg bold. never cowering. the universe is ours to own. it may just be in the hands of others. and their ignorance of these facts have nothing to do or stop our plans, trajectories, destiny or god/dess/universe's plans and provisions for us..

i begged and found an answer. I begged and created a 2010 production line. I begged and is facing the map of my own fruition. strategic and future planning.

and there might be many nos and slaps in faces, closed doors and squeezed fingers. I have learned of resilience...

you do not think to fill any other;s shoes. just walk in your own.

i think you need to revise that 12 list. for the show does not appear on that list. and i did think that was a bit stratospheric.
you are just like me. part of why i was lost is i was one, not grounded; and two, not focused. your list of 12 is not grounded.

try again when next you are moved to..

The Day's Generosity

I was rereading this post; did it twice before i realized I was reading a blogspot entry 



Maven Huggins

So many thoughts I awaken to:

I am not a stupid woman; maybe a stupid person at times; but the both are intrinsically separate and different

It is hard for a woman to do any business, in certain industries, dealing with men and their entrench...ed disrespect, disregard; myth and mythic self-perception. #yardwork

I am left to ponder to what extent do I exhibit perpetual propensity and capacity to human frailty and failure (wipeout/lessons/start again) when I watch the repetitive and cyclic seasons in people; doormats, unlearners/nonlearners and others motivated by what I do not know; anything but change to elevating

When people try to fuck-you-up one day, do you begin again with them the next? At the same time and place? What’s the name of that movie?

And actions without consequence bears no change. Just repeat

I just pulled the bus cord. (do buses still have cords? LoL. That is to tell you when last I was on a bus- 1979) Stop. I am getting off.

I might be committed to another’s journey until I see the wheels spinning. The stories on repeat. Stuck. No movement. Just grief .

I got my own business to mine and mind

Hang Tuff (I believe, incidentally, a brand of garbage cans, bags and other stuff). Um/




Good Morning Baby/Cocoa
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So how it works is that there is a session. Then the lab -- a week of experience, observation and reflection. Cool.

Yesterday I learned my life is so busy, I no longer have time for nazel gazing…was asked a question about my observation and I laughed…for once ever in life, I had given no thought…just living..

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From now on, I shall, hereby, be called, Miss Maven
Mollee inspired that. After Melvin doing it since day one
(i bow)

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Funny eh, how the clouds does slink in like snake…

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thoughts and brain waves since 8:18am

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finally, realizing how much news is happening while I am living a life, not watching. guess some canadians got raped, in a country where the head of police is; and crime is the news; see if this is on repeat next year this time.

bah by

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then i got this magnificent response

Mollee D. Harper  
"Wow! Your honorable nature grabbed my attention and gave me pause to explore your gallery. Beautiful! You are most definitely a Miss Maven, a rare and powerful soul, balanced and purposed, courageous and unique, and it is my honor to start this journey of our new friendship together! Namaste' Miss Maven - I honor the spirit in you which is also in me! (I bow) Mollee "One Heart, One Team""


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Maven Huggins

how old will i be when i cease to be shocked?
arabian stallions do not roam with western brood mares
and as i write i remember my equine management professor at delaware, an ancient time ago..

 

III

Maven Huggins

A penchant I see only in Trinidad: ‘if I can’t, I won’t let you either”

And now we have posters in addition to calendars; children best would appreciate
A real nice thing: do an art piece and in production, it turns out into another. Glory!

...i do impress myself. not for me
but for the bees I attract; my friends here are cream de la crème
and oh yes, I guess “for the messes I have avoided”

 

 

IV

iph notes afternoon assessment

Maven Huggins

Generosity can come with price, strings and leveraging.

While driving through Belmont, the most quaint and meticulous houses led me to think, "When Roland roamed this land"

Defective and Degenerate Reds. Genetics
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Arabian stallions don't run with brood mares And just so in raid round the savannah, I feel for a PBJ

Nice wheat Indian Food. Fresh Hot off the talwah

Life now. Funny. U get a $200 - u buy toiletries; the last $100 to top the gas tank with premium. Provisions

And then I get home and think. "Standards is everything; it all comes down to Standards" what are yours?

BBC Reading List

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams***
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell ***
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis ***
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë ***
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë ***
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling 
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien ***
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll ***
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl ***
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen 
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell ***
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens ***
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett ***
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl***
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind***
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl***
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy***
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer ***
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie***

Mad Hatter Truths

Bradd Powless

People who go out of their way, to be out of the way, in the illusion that they are different from anyone else, cannot live in
the ways that we call society. All known addictions, behaviors and group formations are a result of this simple non-ability to respond adequately....to make it right in their minds. These are the most Natural...ly sensitive peoples of the world.See More

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    Maven Huggins who are the naturally sensitives without the addictions, behaviors, at best, just isolation, resistance and inflexibility?
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    Bradd Powless Yes...but they...like you and I, have either overcome the addictions to the illusions, or are carrying other addictions as replacement...IE Spirituality industry and religion...coping mechanisms.
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    Maven Huggins

    wow.
    you just told me why my life is so hard.
    i have given away all illusions and have taken up no other. none
    i have no protection or shield to flow.
    
    ...just an apparent resistant inflexible rod standing...
    deep

Cocoa

Maven Huggins

my cousin calls me cocoa. i should be growing it then, no?

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    Kahshanna Evans Absolutely!
    
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    Kim Maharaj do it!!! make also cocoa butter and send some for me!
    
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    Kahshanna Evans

    Mmmm, I imagine a day of celebration on special harvest days, such as the days we grind the cocoa, days we churn the cocoa butter and days we dry herbs for tea and other island herbs and remedies. All of this through an organization to emp...ower women through cultivating a relationship with the world around them for sustainability and for their own health and happiness. The first successful model becomes a template for women world wide, Afghani, American, African...the Angels are calling on you, Maven...you can write grant proposals in your sleep.
    

    
    
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    Kim Maharaj love that idea Kahshanna!
    
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    Maven Huggins
    

    Kahshanna, when exactly are you arriving down here?
    {as i lick the pencil tip, holding the schedule book, dispatch driver in waiting on side --ready for airport p/u}
    
    
    by that description Kahshanna, I think the company name will be simply Cocoa......for us, the cocoas, and the cocoa we make in different forms
    
    thanks for the dreams and the confidence.
    
    

    • Himrajee Singh Please don't forget you got to "dance the cocoa".... in bare feet sounds like a wild party?
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      Kahshanna Evans

      Je tam Cocoa! The best tools to begin, fingers to type ideas, items needed, GoogleDocs which you can share with anyone, Skype where you can talk for free, Google voice which grants you a free google phone number with text meaning you can m...essage your associates from the computer (not sure about international), ability to dream and imagine the possibilities like land, support of organizations that help women to build organizations, mission statement, footage of the ideal place and reason to build such an organization and mission and begin fundraising on websites such as Indie GoGo so others can directly support your mission, proposed activities of Cocoa.org, such as hosting rescue women, local women or women in transition who would benefit from learning about such activities.See More
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      Kahshanna Evans ‎@Himrajee YES it's a celebration which we will charge a small feel in order to sustain the grounds and rally for more support for our project. @Maven...I do run with spontaneous ideas but I well know they are seeds...my current SEED is my short film I wrote confronting crimes against children and our ultimate freedom...while I am nursing that baby, I LOVE planting more seeds. Once this baby's walking the sky is the limit! Indeed exciting times. Hope renaissance.

Mother Doctor Maven ...Being Called; Emerging

Kahshanna Evans November 17 at 2:47am Report

Why the arse-kicking? Love back.

Maven Huggins November 17 at 5:12am

girl. if you dont know the answer to that K, you are lucky, but people who insist on living with their back and nose straight, by hard principles and uncompromised lines, will always get their asses kicked

more specifically, for me to be 45 and did all i did in life, becoming a phd so i can be independent and not depend on anyone, guess where i am...with nothing, no home and having to depend on people who do not give a shit about me. to be unemployed after all that work and investment. trying to make my way with nothing...that is the ass kicking...and having to move ---=and find my own place with nothing...an ass kicking

doing all of that and have the standards of queen of sheba. ass kicking

Kahshanna Evans November 17 at 9:40am Report

Wow. That's an incredible amount of work and studies. You are certainly on that chapter of leadership from all that you know and understand - not everyone's mind is as sharp!! The packaging we are invited to believe didn't work for many and the design is outdated and quite faulty. In my time researching healing and wellness for the past several years I came across some interesting 'fellas'...at a 'Women's Financial Conference'. They spoke of an interesting approach to finances and business here in America...and they were FAR from wholesome or even Spiritual...they were more what I would categorize as 'takers'. They spoke of the non-profit structures in the American financial market and buying foreclosed properties and some other ish they were trying to sell. They impacted me...not only for what they suggested about non profits, a way for intelligent people to go for their cause and have the financial benefits, but I was still super curious about this group of all men, actually, marketing to a Women's financial 'empowerment' seminar endorsed by Fergie as an opening guest speaker. I looked around the room, a lot of elderly people...the men didn't so much care as have some solid sales strategy. When I left I looked them up. It was fascinating. I found out they are a tiered coorperation, meaning each time they sell one course or one class it is its own component until that pitch to that seminar is over then it would be collapsed into the tiered coorporation. They were based in Utah and marketing to California. Before I knew that I had volunteered to be trained by them...they were so smart, their talks included how you could, if you had the money, actually buy recently foreclosed homes and let the tennants stay in them and sell them back to the tennants after they got on their feet (or buy them up with no humanitarian persuits, of course, was also suggested). When I turned them down for the free 'training'...they got mob-ish with me. Pushy, pushy, pushy. I got pushy back and made sure they heard my no, thank you, I have changed my mind, but thank you so much. They squirmed that they couldn't control me - not like the sweet granny who had bought $2000 worth of crap she didn't need, chasing security after her retirement offered little. I watched these slick fuckers with an Eagle eye. If they can do it...I thought, we can. We wisdom keepers...we women, we people who care. There's no doubt we are as smart. The focus on their goal was like none other. I thought, wow, if these people were integral, it may have changed my life...well it did anyway, but I determined to be that smart, and then to find a way to use it for myself, my happiness, my art.

I did hear how very competitive the PhD scholars have it from bureaucracy and politics...it sounds very painful...one fellow who spoke about it, yes, lol, a fellow, explained similar hurtful things. What I find, though, is that if you are wise in spirit you surpass the template given to you, provided for you by the scholars. When we surpass something that great, we inherit the designer position...I know you know that...literally, the day we see through all of the structures means we have inherited leadership to re-design our world...including burning that those structures were ever meant to anything but provide some age old, intricate knowledge.

One of the exercises I had to do in an acting class once, which I failed the first time, was to spend FRIVOLOUSLY, one million dollars. No money could be spent on the practical. I didn't even understand dreaming, or frivolous in this context, lol. To this day, I will remember that and I, now, claim my ability to dream those frivolous, non rational dreams. I went back and did it...and I listed new things...like having Cirque Du Solei flown in...my house turned into a garden complete with grass, moss, trees...it was just a start. I found myself on the 'dream' theme later in my Shaman retreats when we covered the themes of limitless possibilities. I know the point isn't to be lofty or not see with our heart the aching people, but it's simply to feed us, to ensure we're happy.

I see you as able to create a whole school, Maven...a book or books, a congress woman...if the political or sales bugga-boos do it with their selfish intent and eat well WITH property, then I am sure you can. I assure you, Southern California has been INCREDIBLE to teach me about this branding stuff...it's the female entrepreneurs way and I love learning it...identifying purpose, designing it, seeking funding, newsletters, announcements...

I hope my stories, in the least, assisted in some way...I could have summed it up to say, I hope the best things for you and I know you can do it. Right now...not having a house means you are free, some are not as lucky, lol!!

Maven Huggins November 17 at 10:24pm

your mail response is peculiar Kahshanna. I hear you. I read it. You are minding me. calling to me. Directing me...I receive...

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me to Kahshanna as I consider Apollonia, and our conversation, this night...!

this was so significant...
and i had a talk tonight with another good friend here..telling me i am on an ancestral journey and maybe the doctor i was to be was not of economics and the phd but of spiritual healing for others...and here i come home to this...interesting

Aborted Flight

Life never stops being riche, so let me see if i catch it all
folk always testing you to see whether you are bouncing or holding balls
the lesson learning is something along the line that it is hard being nice in the BR  - 

people will act out but if you mirror or call it, you are the star
they show what they think by what they try to pass

and sometimes it is best to let them 

passage without comment

All my Essays In One Day: Commentary and Publicity via Emails

=Challenging traditional literacy

Published: 14 Nov 2010

Trinidad-born US-based writer and professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy will in the next few months release Connecting the Literacy Puzzle.Co-edited with Dr Sandra Golden of Ohio the book will feature work from Eintou Springer, Nancy Herrera ALTA and internationally writers from Morrocco and Senegal.Kathy Dunn of the Kent State University reviewed an advance copy of the book.
Connecting the Literacy Puzzle weaves together a collection of biographies, essays, personal narratives, an interview, and poetry to form a tapestry of traditional and cultural literacies. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, as editor, encompasses a broad definition of “being educated” rather than simply “being literate.”
African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and continental African women who participate in not only reading and writing, but in the performing arts as well, challenge the traditional Eurocentric definition of literacy.
Dr Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo fulfills her passion for literacy by working with Senegalese women and helping them learn to read and write in their native language-Pulaar. In her poem and her essay, Sandra Golden captures the spirit of the American Black woman growing up in a predominantly white society. Jen Pugh doesn’t speak Ebonics, but she wishes that she did.
Lawrence M Epps discusses the history of hip-hop and the negative portrayal of the African American female in the genre. An interview with Dowdy reveals her Trinidadian roots, her artistic fame, and her passion for teaching multiliteracies and “education in motion.”Queen Macoomeh writes a letter to young black women, advising them of proper behaviour in order to gain proper respect. She then translates the letter into the Trinidad dialect for an encore.
Professor Lillie Gayle Smith celebrates the role of the African American grandmother who helps rear her grandchildren and pushes them to excel academically. Diedre L Badejo in her narrative “Academe’s Gilded Stairway” traces her journey from New York City to Ghana to the academy. Along with those already mentioned a variety of other perspectives grace the pages of this fine edition that lauds the literate accomplishments of women across the globe.Available at HamptonPress.com
 

Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Professor
Adolescent/Adult Literacy
Kent State University


I have an essay in here as well, entitled

In Recuperation: Revelation of Illiteracy in Trinidad & Tobago

            A Woman Writing Illiteracy