Mugure Sculpted "Black IS Beautiful (Melise)"

Mugure Andrews 

"My dear, it is not just named for you. It IS you. Remember our day of pulling face molds in the studio?"

tripping and waiting for word and confirmation
But seems as though my long time girlfriend
Charmagne Andrews, Artist Extraordinaire, carved, formed, sculpted an art piece
that is magnificent. stunning and phenomenal; and magnificently all, so

And... best of all that is blowing my mind...seemed to have named it after me/./

"Tried to send you this on fb, but no luck. This is called: Black IS Beautiful (Melise), cast iron"

And then for the medium to be Cast Iron.
I am beside myself. Raging with Internal Laughter

Touched by the love...but ways, before I get ahead of myself. lets wait for confirmation..

In any case, it is so beautiful, I have to share

October 24, 2011

I am humbled and lifted up by those who so dearly hold and love me!!!!

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and it gets better. an Astrology reading done by another friend

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"I got this interpretation from a site - I put in your birth info and it gave its interpretation. indiaastrology2000

Trend for Life

You will have near average height, a stout and strong build, square type face, prominent brows, prominent nose, thin lips with a small mouth, thick and dark hair, dusky complexion and an attractive countenance.

You will be bold, strong and intelligent, of reserved and determined nature, mechanically skilled, scientifically inclined, analytical mind, deep thought process, quick witted with good authorship qualities.

You will be fond of sharp humor, travel, music and dance. You will be wealthy and prosperous and have few brothers and sisters but may have many children.

You will travel to other countries and will be more successful in the early part of your life.

On the other side you may be secretive, combative, sarcastic, quarrelsome and ready to fight endlessly, blunt, shrewd, of uncertain temper, obtuse interests in the occult, love for dictatorship, fond of sex, and fickle minded.

Secret enemies, enemies among close associates, premature death of a dear friend, and accident by fire, cuts and wounds in the head may occur.

For a few of you possibility of premature loss of spouse and two marriages may occur.

You will enjoy many friendly relationships and may have friends through out the world.

Supporters among big people and cordial relation with relatives and family members will give you many facilities and gains. You will make gains of wealth from other countries, through marriage, relatives and by own intelligence and hard work. You will be well placed in high position in business or service as chemist, detective, surgeon, researcher, dentist, government officer or in defense and other similar services.

You will go up in career by own skills and qualities. A few of you may even have two occupations occurring together or one after another.

Your fundamentally strong health may face afflictions like constipation, piles, fistula, stone in gall bladder, benign hypertrophy of prostrate and disorders of the generative system. The numbers 3, 9 and 4 will be lucky for you in this order.

The days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Thursday will be lucky for you in the given order.

Depending on other factors gemstones like dark red coral or yellow sapphire may be suitable for you.


Karmic pattern and your luck based on your mental instincts

1. Physical features: Most attractive and innocent looking person. There is an inherent magnetically force in her look. If She looks at a person with a mild smile, rest assure, that person will be her slave.

2. Character and general events: She keeps equal relationship with high and low people i.e. irrespective of the status of the person. She has a spot-less heart. She does not like to give troubles to others. The only drawback noticed in this native in the behavioral field is that temper is always on the tip of her nose. However, such short-temper is not of a permanent nature. She will not hesitate to sacrifice even her life to those who love her. At the same time once she is hurt She will become a lion. She has wisdom, knowledge, and personality.

She is expert in delivering attractive speeches. She is capable of vanquishing her enemies and attain fairly high position. She is sexually inclined always and desirous of being in the company of other sex.

3. Education, sources of earning/profession: She can attain mastery over several subjects at the same time. Even if she is not academically much educated, her expression and knowledge put forward to the world will equal to that of highly educated persons. She is much interested in fine arts and has ability to write prolonged articles or books.

In the work field, she can shine well due to her extraordinary capacity and capability. Laziness is a remote question for her. Once she opts to undertake a job she cannot turn back till that job is completed. Even in the case of utter failure she is not desperate. If she is employed she will reach to the top. In most of the cases it has been noticed that even if this Nakshatra born persons are employed initially in the lower or middle level positions, they later on reach to a good position and they always receive reward and praise from others.

It has been noticed that her stability in life or even the slightest upward movement begins after her marriage. She starts her livelihood at a very young age say 18 or 19 years of age. She will have important changes in the professional field at her 19th, 21st, 28th, 30th, 35th and 42nd years.

4. Family life: While She keeps praising her father on the one side due to the prominent personality and religious rigidity of her father, She cannot virtually derive any benefit from her father. She leads a neglected childhood. She is normally subjected to a life away from her home town.

5. Health: Her health will be very good. She is non-care about her own health. Hence she will search for a doctor only when she is seriously ill. She is prone to paralytic attack, stomach problems, piles, and hernia.

Other possible effects:


Females born in this Nakshatra will also enjoy more or less the same results as that is applicable for male natives mentioned above. In addition, the following results will also be enjoyed:

1. Physical features : She is of medium height with stout body. Large and protruding eyes.

2. Character and general events : She is a real "Lakshmi" (goddess of wealth) in the family. She is the embodiment of a real family woman. Her behavior is extremely cordial, respectful and praise worthy. Adaptability as the circumstances warrants. Suitability as the occasion warrants and lastly impartiality as the country needs are her main characteristics. When all these three essentials required for the present day are combined in one, what more I can describe or attribute to her character.

3. Education, sources of earning/profession: Employed females can attain good positions due to their own effort. She is best suited to the profession of a lawyer or arbitrator. She is also a good nurse or a doctor.

4. Family life: These females will be a gem in any family they are born or married. In other words, their foot-steps are sufficient to bring in Laxmi (goddess of wealth).

5. Health: She is prone to rheumatic pains, acute indigestion, constipation, hernia and in some cases tuberculosis of low intensity.





Effect of Individual Planet

Effect of Sun in your birth chart

Courage, initiative, ambition and adventurous attitude need to be kept under control. Intelligence and affable nature will maintain some balance. You will be quite successful in life, witty and affable. You will be religious, God fearing and will have much peace in your inner mind. However you may not be very interesting as a company and may appear to be too pushy and slightly boring.

Effect of Moon in your birth chart

You will have a very happy and successful family life. Your spouse would be a very caring and much jovial person and will bring much happiness and confidence into you. You will get limited number of children. But your children will be very good and dutiful and obedient. Such children will do well I their lives and bring charm and happiness to all. However they may have to live away from their parents due to their education or work being in other countries or in far away places.

Effect of Mars in your birth chart

You will be quite learned, educated and very wealthy and acquire good property. You will act with much intelligence and will be quite influential. You will be in a commanding position and happy. You will get much support and help from your friends too. You will be successful in keeping your negative tendencies under your control. However such control will fail in case of pleasurable indulgences.

Effect of Mercury in your birth chart

You will be a very good person with many simple but rarely available qualities. You will overcome your cruel and crude tendencies and would develop a much calm and peaceful mind. You will be very tactful, diplomatic, discriminating and sensible. You will be quite religious and God fearing. You would be given to worship and will donate much to charities. You will be fond of your friends too. You would be highly intelligent and will do well in career. Business tendencies would be pronounced. You are likely to have many children, most of them sons."

the first part, the male part, unlabeled, read totally me. until it got to the female part..."having sons",limited children, etc..." more confirmation



"Effect of Jupiter in your birth chart

You will reach high positions in career but would be constantly troubled and not happy. Despite your high intelligence you may not be equally successful. You will remain rather unlucky, unnoticed and obscure and often nearly ignored rather deliberately. But from your side you would be of patient nature and will maintain a happy and witty countenance. Despite facing many obstructions, you will acquire much wealth. You would be quite famous for your lands and enjoyments of many vehicles. You will easily destroy and eliminate all your enemies.


Effect of Venus in your birth chart

You will get mixed results from this position of Venus. You will have a calm and peaceful mind. You will be much devoted to God and will be god fearing in nature. You would be charitable, religious and very intelligent. You will be fond of fine arts and quite obliging in nature. You will be quite well placed in career and would be wealthy. But you will also be imprudent and unprincipled. You will be inclined to licentious acts and very boastful about whatever you will do.

Effect of Saturn in your birth chart

You would have a soft and sweet yet intelligent speech. You will be fond of comforts and a good family life. In some way you will be dependent on your spouse. You would be quite shrewd and some of you may have a thieving tendency too. Your education too can suffer but you will be able to cross this type of problem. Career would be affected and its general prospects and chances of growth would be diminished. Your mother will have a poor health and home life will not be very comfortable or happy. You will be unhappy in your mind."

October 19/24, 2011

 totally me 0 with extra inches/pounds

"Take the positives from it because my sense from it all is strength.. and wealth "Lakshmi""

"but that piece of work with the cast iron.. reminds me of Terry Pratchett's witch heroine.. who's mind was like Iron - impenetrable. She was also able to get into people's heads...that's a powerful piece" .my friend

Life, Ironies, AC/harlatans and Teacher/Writer Stories in TriniTropics

the magic wand that adjusts myself

i woke up with so much on my mind/ so much so that i did not sleep well. it toiled and turned with me all night. and so i woke up with no abilities this morning > all i had to write, gone from me, at least in any form of coherent elegance; just pointers and quotes, no expansions. the primordials of living took over the esoteric.

the AC was sluggish and blowing warm, so i said I would tend to it before the sun rose too high. Only to my surprise that the thing is in such a decrepit state it is now out of my hands. The professionals must now come in and dismantle it. Professionals used wide, far and loosely, for the professionals were cleaning it all along and yet i have never seen any of them do the work that i now see is necessary. Then i think of the proliferation of AC installers and realize, everyone is selling to gain a dollar or a few. None are servicing, maintaining or building relationships. When they sell these machines, why dont they sell you a year's worth of service automatically? And even as I propose such a thing, when you call them you would not be able to find them. Anyway, the point is, many of the AC sellers/servicers have no clue what is it is they are doing. I just got confirmation from one of the providers, the one I prefer from convesation that he has a lot of business correcting the errors made in installation and service. He emphasized, many are not even installing units properly/ that customers feel "a cool" and have no idea of the technical aspects..One more area of charlatans. So here I am searching on a Saturday morning on an emergency call for an extreme AC Service. Good business to go into, if one is skilled, methodical, and organized, especially in this global warming heat and living in such a polluted country where your unit may need to be serviced every two months. sigh

then my mechanic calls me to give me an update on my vehicle. it is locally bought, so guess what? harder to get parts. So if i had bought a foreign used, he would have an abundance of sources to check for my part. Did you see me channeling the facets and fact of irony and ironic living in trinidad the other day? more points to ponder

so, my Saturday morning has started, albeit glad for the quiet and silence except all the fans in the house blowing on me even as I sit on the no window patio...looking out at the green under full direct top sun brightness... having to release all my plans and intentions>>>for i am out my capacity and fretting will do nothing for morning glory

so let me shift into telling you how living is continually entertaining...
my cousin, in from Baku, in from Houston had a lime last night that no one told me about..both his siblings on here, talked to one almost every day, and nothing, only a frantic aunt phoning me at 7 to tell what she neglected to I dont know how many days prior and running. I get it this morning as I am working the phones on an ac gig. this after the whole family was together on the bess bashment shindig last Sunday. Irony

I hear last night in another lime that I would not have been had i known of my cousin's that, "if i was not about change and making a difference in this trinidad place, I would have jobs coming my way in abundance; but because I am trying to be about something and not about 'eat-ah-food', folk are threatened. threatened that I upset their carts and bounties; their pedestals and petty recognition, name and following...something so

but that came after the most poignant piece for me. having spent the day on a thread of more than 300 comments by midday, i was left thinking and realizing, how much smart and stupidity has conflated...into one result and impact, the same difference. ergo our crisis

a great light at a far off tunnel...I met a visiting professor, who i found at my table when i returned, chatting up family and friends, and then she turns to me and engages...asking me if I am not a teacher...which launched a table talk/klatsch...the fact is I am,was born, inherent, gened...Teacher/MasterTeacher. Been hearing that all my life. supposedly written in my palm.. And listening to her talk, realized, I really should teach...Anyway, i started talking to her of a far off mentor, Parker Palmer...then she asked me what was i doing now, she presumed I was at university or the school system. I told her I was not. She asked why. I said dynamics. She said, "sounds to me that you should write about it". I said I do. I have lots. She said, "i would love to read some of it" and goes onto say, I have a good intrack with JoseyBass, you know, the publisher of Parker Palmer, Perhaps.."

and my eyes lit up, cause in a flash thought.side track, I asked, {Really, Universe, Just now, right now, here, with her, so easy?}...the dream i have been waiting for arrives as I thought it would -not with me selling myself but someone else recognizing...

[back to earth] of course all this is presuppository* so we take it as it comes, no eggs no clutch, nor chickens to count...just following the road through to see where it might lead, what may come

so it appears I wasnt to be anywhere else but where I was...last night. right now. flowing with life as it gives.

and so as I have given off frustration from the night's non-rest, to this morning's non-AC, I decided to do the one good thing I am able---to make another fb page, this one on a matter that has been mulling my brain for months now...a page for the Unemployed...those looking for gigs, work and livelihood..where we can exchange information, contacts and opportunities; list our CVs/Resumes for readers...i guess now that I think about it, it is BranchOut Local...(shrugs-who knew)--thus the way of a poorly thought out plan--an attempt at action in the midst of much inaction/non doing...

share it round to those you know unemployed and underemployed, will you
https://www.facebook.com/pages/UnemployedLivelihood-Seeking-Trinidad-Tobago/140645426033481?sk=wall

In Solidarity with Poets and Protests - Occupying Wall Street Platform

This is the fifth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.

On September 21st, 2011, Troy Davis, an innocent man, was murdered by the state of Georgia. Troy Davis was one of the 99 percent.
Ending capital punishment is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, four of our members were arrested on baseless charges.
Ending police intimidation is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, the richest 400 Americans owned more than half of the country’s population.
Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, we determined that Yahoo lied about occupywallst.org being in spam filters.
Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly eighty percent of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track.
Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly 15% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing.
Ending political corruption is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of Americans did not have work.
Ending joblessness is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of America lived in poverty.
Ending poverty is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly fifty million Americans were without health insurance.
Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, America had military bases in around one hundred and thirty out of one hundred and sixty-five countries.
Ending American imperialism is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, America was at war with the world.
Ending war is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, we stood in solidarity with Madrid, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, Toronto, London, Athens, Sydney, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Milan, Amsterdam, Algiers, Tel Aviv, Portland and Chicago. Soon we will stand with Phoenix, Montreal, Cleveland and Atlanta. We’re still here. We are growing. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world.
You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the bosses. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, the people will speak. Join us.
We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choice to march on Wall Street to our decision to continue occupying Liberty Square, were decided through a consensus based process by the group, for the group.

https://occupywallst.org/

There is A Story Waiting to Be Written - Me and Beautiful, Blithely

Martin Pratt

the reality is ugly women think they are hot, hot women think they are ugly, skinny girls think they are overweight....So stop labeling yourself and just Luv You and the Skin you are IN

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    Glendon Cameron Very true, I have a friend that is hot as hell and she thinks she is an ugly duckling and I have another friend who walks like a gazelle but leaves the footprints of a pig.....

    
    

    
    
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    Maven Huggins very interesting...i think there is another category i have learned..."really beautiful women, who dont know they are beautiful, they never think or grew up thinking in those terms and smart as hell"...and only when they get old, like late old, do people finally say to them "she pretty and she dont even know she pretty" or pay the beautiful compliments freely...that they pause and turn around and say, "hey, I was cute?" i wonder what my life would have been like had I acted it?" it fascinates me
    
    that is me...i have begun to wonder who else is like that
    
    and this is the first time i am writing this, about this, and it gives me another insight..."the black men i have been around aand with all my life were bullshit mf - high school, college, after..--all of them treated me like shit, dismissed me, cause i did not know who i was...not bad, or abusive, but regular jackass shit,..and i remember this white man who saw me in the Sheraton in Harare, and almost stumbled over himself looking at me, and oddly enough, that was the most gorgeous white man i ever seen in real life, I was with my boyfriend at the time... and he took great and grave offense to the attention i was receiving and was getting mad at me that i noticed...that is what i mean that black men are bullshit. the ones i have been with, it is like their platform was based on my being on my knees , they standing on my back...not me standing in all my glory, and never it be uttered by their mouths
    
    
    
    totally fascinating                      
    
    Sorry...;i went into a rabbit hole there. clearly this is something i need to write about. not sure how. "Black Men are Bullshit" tag dont work. and my Daddy did tell me i was good looking all growing up, so it is complicated. I am wondering if there is a "Dont Tell A Black Woman She is Gorgeous Syndrome"? and then my college girlfriend will tell me i acted like i was a bag of chips all through college, and only twenty years later can she say i had the right idea--all that self esteem and knowing self shtick
    
    deep topic
    
    thank you brothers..Glendon, your phrasing of 'footprints of a pig' is captivating
    
    

Occupy Wall Street/Mirela Monte

Maven Huggins shared Mirela Monte's photo.

Wall Photos

‎10 questions about "Occupy Wall Street" that should be answered urgently:

1. Why are peaceful protesters being treated as if they are criminals?

2. Why are thousands of police, and SWAT teams and police dogs, being mobilized to protect Wall Street bankers?

3. Why are almost all the mainstream media outlets in America ignoring a major civil protest in the heart of New York?

4. Why do the police not pursue criminal bankers and business leaders with the same venom and force that they use when pursuing protesters who have so far done nothing wrong?

5. Why is nothing being done to address the genuine economic problems in America? Why, instead, is the old system – the one that failed disastrously in 2008 – being rebuilt brick by brick, fault by fault?

6. How much longer will the doctrine of ‘plausible denial’ be allowed to act as an excuse for widespread corruption and criminality?

7. Why (if true) was the Occupy Wall Street protest treated as a police code 1-34, which is used for riots? Are all protests now riots?

8. Why has not one banker or corporate leader emerged to talk to the protesters or debate with them?

9. Is it a coincidence that many people in the heart of the protest have had trouble getting mobile / cellphone / internet signals?

10. Does the government genuinely believe the pent-up anger and frustration will simply go away?

David Wendt ⋅ September 17, 2011
#OccupyWallStreet #takewallstreet

Aljazeera Coverage: http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/us-protesters-rally-occupywallstreet

LIVE Stream: http://anonops.blogspot.com/

LIVE Stream 2: http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

LIVE Stream 3: https://occupywallst.org/

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By: Mirela Monte

Carib Being HouseMaiden

while half the world was gnashing, and another quarter protesting, this morning< i awoke to breeze at the front door. i never go there or do that. and just as i thought to get settled there, perhaps, with a book. I ended up picking fruits in the neighborhood. with the sun blinding my view through the leaves. Whilst in this endeavor, everyone who walked by said Good Morning. To the boys, I had to initiate. And then this wonderful old school old world mature man walked by. Said to me, look some quite there. And asked me to hold his bag and reached for the picker. I just watched him. The shoe heels worn out at the outer corners, the old clothes, but if you see gentle and sense mannerly. And he talked of how people leave fruits on trees; he did not class them as I now lean to, except to say, people are now "strange". He said, they leave the manna but if they see you picking, they will come and pick, to sell. Only wanting when they discover others have or hold value for what ever it may be. He talked how long ago people picked and shared. After just a little while, he said, okay my time is up. And I said you will take some with you. And he said, only two, I am going to visit a ladyfriend and will bring her those two. The man walked off with me thinking, wheys...too many thoughts to extract from their interminglingness of one short concept experience. Surely, they dont make them like him no more.

Then as I turned, another neighbor called out to me asking me, "M____, you did not eat enough of that as a child?" And I had to remind her, I left remember. Then she asked if I would come pick her grapefruits/but they were too high..then we reminsce of her yard, her house, and how her father used to call me by the gate to share bounty. The housekeeper saying, once i returned, he ceased to call anybody else. just me. Then i give her a heckle for cutting down all her trees, except a few/ And told her when she ready let me buy; and she tells me how it leaving for generation...all of them away. I tell her dont leave no house and land for it to wither, you know. But leh she do just that. Is me occupying flat. will claim it as blood and family land. Multigenerations of two families share that range.

 Life is good. I am thankful. Much Greatitude. And now as I finally settle with tea, wonder, if that is all I am to be doing...being a carib wombmyn being of a time, outtatiming, gone by. While everyone rushing and rummaging to and fro, in heels and ties, and I chasing breezes.

then as me and Florence return home, I tell her, Florence, people are funny eh? The bucket full but folk only take two. whas that?

so..i returned home, washed fruit, grilled turkey steaks, chopped pumpkin, carrots and pakchoy, seasoned the first two with small thyme, garlic, seasoning pepper and olive oil. tossed and let sit; the pakchoy with just oil, next to it. I imagine these parts to mix and eat raw or just slightly heated with rice. Then I made five finger juice of what i pick this morning...with guava orchard as the base

Now i think, isnt this funny I am a good and proper housemaiden>

This Night's Moment in Time

so many things are running and filling my mind
from earlier on today
a feeling and sense of not living, having no purpose, no function/ just existence
and not one worthy of anything
For if i was called to account for the time, what will I, could I show
nothing

but it has also been a day full of my writings, and work in art creation
conscious creating, being a conscious creative; creating consciously
collecting my work, both professional and vocational into one place
here this blog, and i did feel a sense of accomplishment
I did sense that minding one's own business is indeed heady work

and then i watched this wonderful film this evening, titled, Mother and Child
and decided in addition of my world cruise to the Mediterranean for my fiftieth birthday,
i want a child, my first, for i am to have four with the names
Mercian, Maulana, Ma'At and Sage
then I wonder if the man will come. he has to come. he must be on his way
the one I will be madly in love; the one made for me, to match just this time, hour, function and fulfillment

then i just read this post about the moon and water, and movement and
how one is stuck if one is not moving in the right direction
and of course that gives me pause for that is my life: stuck and utter confusion as to my direction
though recently in the last week, I felt or got the message it was to follow Pa Neezer, Orisa Initiate
and to give my head

all the time just tryng to make sense of my no sense life
living day to day in what capacity, what gain
but it is all i have so i have no choice but to take it with grace and hope I love

then i also have thoughts that i am being prepared for greatness
that my trails, languishing and tribulation has all been to build the character
to manage the bounty that is coming

but the numbness of being where i am.trinidad
and constantly asking myself how to exist and coexist in this place
that is so challenging and undermining
i struggle to find space amidst all the noise and haste|
too much ugly to find human filtering while
watching my body develop allergies and succumb to vagaries..

my constant thought and muse of life and living