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experiment …..Better, but not right.

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the pomegranate.  there were so many blossoms.  just this one fruit.   

with Typepad Help tech suggestions,  we've gotten this far.  Image is correct proportion but the pic is only half of what it has been for so long.  which is maybe ok enough for pomegranates but is NOT  for Cloth.  the exchange continues.

and Everything Continues…

if you can take the time

Please go to NPR  Morning Edition for June 2    scroll down and listen to

Black Female Lawmaker in Minnesota Worries About Teenage Son's Safety.    State Representative Ruth Richardson and her 17 year old son are interviewed.      It's one of  some distinctly poignant  news  pieces  i have found in the last days that just   STAY with me.   that i re~feel  over and over.   that speak to the depth of how we Are,  what this is that we are trying to face.   It's very big and it's very insidious.    there is just so much that white america,  liberal white america,  like me,  just  has no

sufficient   (a Mary Oliver word)

sufficient awareness of.   of how it IS.   Everyday.   to be Black.   Latino,  Hmong .  Immigrant in general  in a White world.

i have nothing useful to offer in the moment,  but i am looking and looking and seeing so many things,  examining them for long periods of time to see them as they really ARE.   Trying to SEE.   so i can be REAL. to see myself as i really  am.   i want to talk about it but i want to take great CARE  to not speak falsely.   So,  it'll take time.   

so please…DO go find that news segment.   it will say a lot.    

Love.   Much Love to Us.   the whole of Us.   

 

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13 responses to “experiment …..Better, but not right.”

  1. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    What is that?

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    pomegranate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    if you remember, there were several blossoms. but here we are. Just one single fruit. As i give water, i breathe and ask. If it can be, please. This one Pomegranate. i will not eat it but let it dry. They make rattles. but as i type this….maybe i should plant Her seeds?????????

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Thank you,Grace, for being here.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    jaime…me being here is BECAUSE of you and Us All being here
    we ARE
    eachother
    it’s all that has any meaning

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i have spoken of Dora before. The Beauty FULL friend i had now long gone to the Other Side
    Dora who had the numbers on her forearm from the concentration camp. Dora who was a Tai Chi Master…her tiny elegant self, doing her forms, her silver comb in her snow white hair Beauty FULL Dora who i used to draw dry and dead blooms with
    who LOVED pomegranates
    who would press her face into them, slurping them juice running down her deicate chin bone
    how much
    she loved
    pomegranates

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is a GRAND MOON rising and i make my bed with
    FRESH SHEET and PILLOW CAse
    because i was at Alyssia’s today for her to take the feral momma
    cat to be spayed…i had to arrive at 7:30 am so she could be there at 8 am to be allowed in…only first come first serve for the community spay program
    and i spent the morning with Brown Emrie while her mother Brown Alyssia went off and her brother, Brown Julian slept till 10 am when his home school starts…
    i hardly NEVEr think of the brownness.
    ?
    i am the grandma, the great grandma
    maybe i should???? if so, How?

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    pomegranates are amazing, how they grow. I have decided to stop talking about what I can’t know. And just try to go out and know.

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  8. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    this I can do …
    https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868173915/how-a-mother-protects-her-black-teenage-son-from-the-world

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The other day in my comment on Jude’s blog, I spoke of how my grandchildren go to a racially diverse school and have been taught to see their classmates as friends and not see their color…last night I read something that brought me up short: words to the effect that if you don’t see color, how can you see racism?
    So I’m sitting with this and will be talking to my family this weekend…sometimes when we think we are doing the right thing, we need to step back and ask ourselves, right for who?
    NY Times today: black author Chad Sanders wrote an opinion piece titled,”I Don’t Need “Love” Texts From My White Friends: I Need Them to Fight Anti-Blackness”. At the end of his piece, he wrote:
    “So please, stop sending #love. Stop sending positive vibes. Stop sending your thoughts. Here are three suggestions on more immediately impactful things to offer instead:
    Money: To funds that pay legal fees for black people who are unjustly arrested, imprisoned or killed or to black politicians running for office.
    Texts: To your relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions.
    Protection: To fellow black protesters who are at greater risk of harm during demonstrations.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/whites-anti-blackness-protests.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    All I know for sure right now is that there is convention … it is a good place to start.

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  11. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    My mom’s dad was Filipino. My adopted uncle, Filipino. My adopted cousin, Cherokee, and another, Filipino. As relatives, we have a variety of light, dark and medium. I was darker only during summer. It was just what was, and was presumed to be normal. I think we were fortunate. My grandpa, mom, sister, an uncle, a cousin, and a nephew have experienced some degrees of prejudice. Any time I was with them, I didn’t see it. But, I wasn’t looking, and mean people can be sneaky.
    I remember in kindergarten we were supposed to color people using peach, and thinking that that was just wrong.
    I missed your proclamation of the pomegranate. I didn’t realize they could be bushes.
    I’m going to go read that article.
    xo

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  12. Greta wells Avatar
    Greta wells

    Years ago after Vietnam we got to know a beautiful Hmong family. We shared food ( beautiful foot long green beans) from seeds the grand mom carried with her. Pao, mai, their two,children. Phoa and her little sister. From far parts of our planet, but we giggled over the same silly things, learned from each other.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Hello, Greta…thank you for This…the beans from
    seeds carried far, shared in the New Place…how i wish
    this could be so, multiplied a million

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