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The effort to preserve Simone’s Tryon home has a long, winding history, but perhaps it’s best to begin by noting how remarkable it is that the house is still standing at all. Built circa 1930, the three-room, 660-square-foot house is the kind of threadbare construction battered by Southern storms that often blends into backroads, or otherwise disappears entirely. If you go searching for the childhood homes of many other African-American artists and activists of the twentieth-century—W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X—you’ll find only a placard on a street corner. That Simone’s home has survived time and gentrification, a curtain of kudzu separating it from a panorama of the foothills and distant Hogback Mountain—well, that feels close to a miracle. https://indyweek.com/news/longform/nina-simone-childhood-home-preservation/
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A steady rain falls as i write
listening to Nina Simone. Not in haste this morning as today's OT evolves, no where i must go, nowhere to be, just Kona coffee and me and inner-tubes, in the moment, separated from the machinations of the greater web.
Kona & Simone
Ooooo both so lovely for the senses.
Good morning, Rev.
Good to see you; hoping you've a wonderful day.
(No subject) oops need to place something here, how about
this quote from Justice Louis Brandeis:
"We may have democracy, or we may have praise showered on the heads of a few, but we can’t have both."
This is as IMPORTANT as it gets
Motherfeasters, Wally, lapping at the table of money;
as DNC proves again, they are 'motherfeasters.'
Damn them and onward.
Thanks for reminding us of this ugly, corrupt and wrong state of affairs.
by "20 of 23" I take it you mean...
Harris, Biden and one other don't. Now I'm wondering....
Good morning, smiley ~~
Lovely tunes from a lovely lady. Many thanks for Ms. Simone this morning. I enjoyed our girl Bonnie Raitt in the EB last evening.
Climate debate? Phooey. Who cares that were destroying our home? Not the dnc!
Have a lovely day, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Good morning, RA,
A lovely day backatcha, RA.
Deplorables vs. the self-proclaimed Good People managerial elite
The Dream of a Managed Society
Thomas Frank discusses the matter of elites . . .
. . . from a less druidistic(?) framework in Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
When he authored What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, which was critical of Bush(ism), he became the darling of the MSM, being invited on show after show, again and again.
When he wrote Listen Liberal, MSM made sure he became persona non grata
Why? Essentially because he criticized the mangerial elite in the Democratic Party as well as the GOP.
After looking at what makes me happy and what DOESN'T...
It's been real folks.
Thanks for the kind words, the great memories and the overall fun site.
But I'm done.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Be Happy!
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Thanks for this, I have two copies saved
they get me in trouble with the pigs who pass by on the busy street poisoning my air every day. Thanks a lot, I'll miss your words. cascadia awaits
Fucked with an anchor
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PEACE
Catchy tune . . .
I'm going to have it in my head all day!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
bermuda grass xenophobia
hi! I am still making dirt with oak leaves... grew three more puffballs and a mushroom. lol I noticed some fall in the air this morning, dry leaves are blowing everywhere in the hot wind. Here it comes again... eternal september Heh and now we have eternal elections. oh yay
Anyway, that song I sing inside my head when I'm in front of this vacant house ripping out bermuda grass. omg wtf I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of growing it maybe Tejas likes it for greenery. not me Go back to Bermuda! I have to meditate a lot to let that stuff grow and learn to love it, somewhat contained. good practice
Peace be with you mhagle, keep on digging. cheers
Been thinking the same recently.
Probably need to bail before the primary is underway for realz.
The problem, though, is the one that Dylan expressed so perfectly, way back when: "I've got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane." Some of us just need to get the words out there, now and then. My own private curse: The endless internal chatter, both monologue and synthesized dialogue, that only slips away when I'm engrossed in music or my work.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Take it easy. You will leave a hole here.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Go for it! Go in peace! And strike while the iron is hot. n/t
Haven't been online much recently . . .
Busy summer. So you have probably written about your new forge system and I haven't seen it. Rats!
All the best to you dude.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Bye, DMW
Thank-you for all you've contributed here at c99, DMW — and it's been a lot! We'll all miss reading you, but you've gotta do whatcha gotta do.
All the best to you!
Sorry I missed you
I've really enjoyed your comments and contributions from lurk mode and had hoped to exchange some banter with you but of course fully support your decision to do whatever is right and best for yourself. Hope you're able to find what you seek. Peace the fk out.
Good morning
We're due a rain later today. I hope it happens. Got 1.5" earlier this week but could handle some more for sure after all the hot dry weather.
Projects proceeding nicely...looking for completion before the end of the month.
The world is still green here. In the drought of 2016 leaves were falling by now and the ground crunched when you walked on it. We've had over 50 days of 90 degrees - the last 18 days in a row set a new record.
Well hope you all have a great weekend!
Nina puts a spell on me...
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout,
in the clouds, now, pea-soup, like London. Appears to be cooling down here which is okay with me.
Moving slow today.
Have a good one.
Good morning C99ers.
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Here's Johnstone's article: Establishment Dems Are Openly Bullying Progressives. Good.
Have a nice day.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning, Azazello,
Thanks for the Lanie.
Imploding in plain sight:
https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid h/t JnH
Especially appreciate the vids down in the twitter thread showing the Sunrise Movement.
Have a wonderful day.
Gloves are off
Not surprisingly, I'm in agreement with Caitlin on this one.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Fall in Line?
Frankly, I can think of no more honest assessment of where we are than when the media comes right out and says what we know they've been thinking all along.
So those are our choices? Trump fascism or an anti-democratic process where I have to fall in line with whatever candidate the DNC decides they want?
Interesting times indeed. Can't begin to imagine what they'll say to us when we actually get close to the 2020 Election.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Um, could it be “Shut up, give us your money, and vote
for us.”?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
She makes such a great point about Trump talking about
P*ssy grabber and what Armando said to Nina. I'm seeing the attacks coming more from Neena and other centrist dem sell outs. No one attacked Liz or Kambama at that level that she did.
The primary was shown to have been a massive scam and yet so many people deny that it happened. This is considered CT on way too many websites and new sites in the comments.
Post her any time you see her.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
UC Berkeley's 'adulting' class will teach you
how to do your taxes
To be young, gifted and black
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PEACE
Good morning, eyo,
Have a fun and peaceful day.
Good morning smiley
Thanks for the Nina. Overcast here with bits of the big Mexico storm floating our way. Fall is just dipping it’s toes in. New smells and colors. The winds are changing. Driving the other day I thought to myself, I need hope. At that moment I looked up as I passed Hope Street. So mode it be. Make it so. Visualize peace and regime change to support the Earth. Have a good one...
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook
Good morning, magi,
Hope we find that spring
Though of you when a friend posted this: https://deepadaptation.ning.com/
I'm not a member, and you may be already, anyways ...
Enjoy your day.
thanks for the link
I just joined and will pass it on to folks.
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Have a good evening...
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook
Listening to the rain and Nina Simone
Sounds like a lovely way to begin your day
It's sunny here in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains but the nights have been blessedly cooler. I actually had to put a quilt on my bed last night!
Listening to the birds this morning as I water my azaleas. Actually one bird in particular. A mockingbird who has perched himself on the roof here for the last week, singing his song and swooping down and pecking my cats on the head whenever they are out in the garden. Ziggy now checks around for the mockingbird before he comes outside. I might have to give this bird a name soon. Thoughts?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Good morning, Anja,
Guess it's late in season for birdie to have nestlings nearby; best guess is catbird.
Enjoy the breezes and sunshiny day.
Hmmm, Mockingbird ?
Peckerhead was the first thing that popped in my head. LoL
good morning again smiley. Just dropped in after farmers' mkt
to see what's happened since my 6:30 am post and discovered that it is missing. Now I have to wonder if it even posted. Ah well, next week starts tomorrow and maybe everything will go more smoothly. Thanks for the morning Nina. Hope you have continued to have a slow, mellow, relaxing day, and that tomorrow is the same.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el,
Good to see you; i've been away most of the week; tired, nice to have down-time today.
Hope you had a wonderful trip.
Wikileaks associate just happens to die
in a kayaking accident
Nothing to see here. Move along