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Sack Up or Shut Up Conversation Part 2 of My Conversation with My BFF Janelle

Cherry Blossom Festival, DC March 2019

Better Late Than Never...I wish I had read this earlier. But if you want a glimpse in her humanness, this seems to be a great read. 

OMG I forgot I have my own bookstore, a book hoarder with her own online store!!! I'll have my Bookstore and Wine before long...Check it out, 

TNFro Is Reading Online Bookstore Chattabooks  updated to include Kamala Harris' biography and Thomas Merton's, My Argument With The Gestapo

as well as other selections from Star Trek Fan Fiction, biographies, and book swag...all at reasonable prices.

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Special Birthday Edition of TNFro Is Reading!

What I'm Reading--Newspaper Subscriptions and Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

NY Times

Chattanooga Free Press

TNFro Standing With Gov Lee

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-had-authority-issue-covid-19-executive-orders-experts-say/5612002002/

Kanye, Of the Birthday Independent Party? Da-F*** https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/TimesFreePress/

What I Will Not Be Watching is that Klan rally called the RNC but I will be post Part 1 of a 4 Part Series...

Do Black Men Hate VP Elect Harris or Really Need to Get Out of Their Feelings And Support The Best For the Job? My Chat With My Friend Yvonne 2.0

Dolly Parton BLK Statement

What I'm Writing-More From TN With Love

OMG I forgot I have my own bookstore, a book hoarder with her own online store!!! I'll have my Bookstore and Wine before long...Check it out, 

TNFro Is Reading Online Bookstore Chattabooks  updated to include Barack Obama's  Book Picks as well as other selections from Star Trek Fan Fiction, biographies, and book swag...all at reasonable prices.

Navigate to Writer's Block Coffee

and use promocode: tnfroisreading for 10% off your order and shipping. 

Navigate to Ship A Bag Of Dicks

enter promo code: tnfrogotjokes for a discount off your order and shipping and if you just want to laugh out loud!! I would like to send a few of these to the current admin..jus' sayin'

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I've been away so long that Podbean has changed the look of the platform. In this episode I will speak about VP select Kamala Harris

I will speak my affirmations. 

In addition I will talk about what I'm watching, reading

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As well as other selections from Star Trek Fan Fiction, biographies, and book swag...all at reasonable prices.

, and writing and most things in between. 

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In this week's episode I discuss the sale of my home in the time of RONA, I have to drag Bank of America and Community Mortgage of TN. 

Black Lives Matter movement as we celebrate Juneteenth and July 4th

I read for you the first part of my Novella Black Love and the Impostors. 

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A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

Over 270,000 remained enslaved for 2 1/2  years after this went into into law. 

Major Gen. Gordon Granger would arrive in Galveston with news that the war was over and yeah, we had been freed 2 years prior, June 19th, 1865.

Almost 200 years later we are still fighting for the same freedom and equality.

Why haven't we made changes? What is the hold up?

I explore the meaning of Juneteenth with my friend Lawrence Harris, reflecting on the meaning of freedom and friendship. 

This episode is dedicated to beauty in this world. Even though I am usually a cynical people hater, COVID has forced me to become more social, but virtually with weekly online games and catch up with friends. To my exploration of the Guggenheim in NYC. 

I remember my visit to the NYC Met but never to this fascinating museum...art should be shared with the masses in a cool space!!

This Virtual Visit discussed food culture and how food is used as a storyteller. I also was introduced and re-introduced to the works of African American Artists Charles Ethan Porter

Who was reviewed in the NY times in 2008

and whose work is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim and Met

And Kara Walker 2014 work Subtlety 

made out of tons of sugar which commissioned and then destroyed with the renovation of the entire of the Domino Refinery in Brooklyn. 

 Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim, and although I initially did not remember reading this article, I remember the feeling of being haunted when I saw the sugar sculpture today. 

This virtual tour also allowed me to look for other museums like the African American Museum, the DuSable in Chicago. 

and other opportunities to explore black and brown peoples returning to the land and contributing to the food culture like Soul Fire Farms and using Kune Kune Heritage Pigs for meat!

You never know where your curiosity will take you. Try to discover the beauty and you may just find yourself...happy.

Regards,

TNfro, The Unpoet

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This is one of those episodes where I could go on and on until I stop it. 

Sipping coffee by us for all...

I will chat about what I watch, Celebrate Pride 2020 by remembering those in the Alphabet Mafia who have lost their life to live in their truth, or those advocates fighting for that recognition, share with you other writings.

Still asking...

Commenting on Insecure, the run up to the series finale.

Conversations with my cousin Drac, another creative and my BFF Janelle in his own words. In doing so I hope to honor the memory of Mr. George Floyds and reinforce the principle anti-racist movement sweeping this country, in doing less it would be irresponsible.

COVID and Racism Are Real…

If your depression, anxiety or  addictions are worse services are

Available 24 hours everyday

There is also an online chat feature https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

 And if Vodka is the problem, call  1-800-662-HELP (4357) for 24/7 help.

There are app like Talk Space and Headspace

an Dr on Demand that are also available in the privacy of your car and at a fraction of the cost of conventional therapy, so check them out! This journey is hard, it’s OK to ask for help.

Martin Understood the Rage.

 If you are marginalized, beaten, killed, it may seem logical to strike back to be noticed. But brutally restoring order, destroying businesses, will not solve the problems. When you march and speak the message and make your demands clear, that is when you are heard and then action can be taken. 

"It was through the Chicago marches that our promise to them-that nonviolence achieves results-was redeemed, and their hopes for a better life were rekindled. They saw a human police force-in contrast to police in Missisippi-could defend the exercise of Constitutional rights as well as enforce the law in the ghetto. They saw in prosperous white American communities, that hatred and bigotry could and should be confronted, exposed, and dealt with." Martin Luther King Jr, McCalls 1966.

COVID Is Real...

Available 24 hours everyday

There is also an online chat feature https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

 And if Vodka is the problem, call  1-800-662-HELP (4357) for 24/7 help. 

There are app like Talk Space

an Dr on Demand that are also available in the privacy of your car and at a fraction of the cost of conventional therapy, so check them out! This journey is hard, it’s OK to ask for help.

I start with blessings to all for a new day!

I wrote about the meaning of the  protests

I will Honor George Floyd His Life and in Death

This nerd is Watching Insecure

and The Great on Hulu

This Nerd is Reading

My Notes on this Memoir an amazing and entertaining read...or cautionary tale...

COVID Is Real...

Available 24 hours everyday

There is also an online chat feature https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

 And if Vodka is the problem, call  1-800-662-HELP (4357) for 24/7 help. 

There are app like Talk Space

an Dr on Demand that are also available in the privacy of your car and at a fraction of the cost of conventional therapy, so check them out! This journey is hard, it’s OK to ask for help.

I pray for understanding, and peace. A week started with another murder of a unarmed black man, caught videotaped and we are now in day 6 of violent fiery protests.

In the week prior to his death, being picketed and jeered by maybe the grandparents of these fools protesting the quarantine, Martin Luther King was very clear 

“…it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?…It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” (“The Other America,” 1968).

Celebrate Law Enforcement Doing the Right Thing...From Lansing to Miami to CA

So I have a crush on Sheriff Swanson, I do dig a man in uniform...

Lansing Sheriff Doing the right thing

The images over the last few hours have been horrific and frightening. But the sight of law enforcement doing the right thing, make me cry and try to find ways that more people need to know 

Florida Policemen Doing the Right thing

CA Policemen Doing the Right Thing

Officers like the LAPD expressed the thoughts of other law enforcement that they are not the enemy, there are bad cops, and they need to be punished. But it should not spoil the relationship of law enforcement and the community in general. 

A diversion of truly wonderful things happening like the successful launch of Space X on Saturday ushering in a new chapter of the Space Race,

more survivors of RONA, Treatments to block infection and Cytokine storm

 416,000 and Counting!!!

Because of the turmoil for the past week, I have added to my WTF Rant

Nerds Are...

    Watching

        Insecure Episode 7 Low-key Trippin'

 The Weekend from 2019 was hilarious, The Recovery of the slightly suicidal comic, Sasheer Zamata made me laugh out loud.

         The High Note--I tried not to like this because not a Traci Ellis Ross fan.

     Reading...Finished and moving on to Edith Wharton

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           Tolstoy, Finished Anna K.

     Writing

           Noir Noveau Riche-Novella Series and Screenplay

Does it seem to anyone else we are living in a collective high anxiety stream of verbal abuse? In our 24/7 news cycle, Twitter, Instagram the barrage of trash talking and incinderary language  coming from so-called leaders and other charged to protect us. We have been in a nightmare abusive relationship with our current administration, state, local, law enforcement it seems as if the world is off it's axis. Never has there been a better time to ask for help by professionals. 

Available 24 hours everyday

There is also an online chat feature https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

 And if Vodka is the problem, call  1-800-662-HELP (4357) for 24/7 help. 

There is Headspace

Dr. On Demand

and TalkSpace

You can't do this alone, and family and friends are not equipped nor trained to unpack years of psychological detritus.