Maria, still vibing for your DH. Off to Doctor myself.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Typo Boy - Sep 02, 2011 11:28:04 am PDT #28907 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ginger - Sep 02, 2011 12:07:23 pm PDT #28908 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Atlanta has the universities and firms to hire engineers, but it's so spread out that the concept of neighborhood is rather diluted. The most affluent African-American community is Cascade Heights in southwest Atlanta, where Andrew Young and Hank Aaron live. I don't think it has much of a Jamaican presence. The Jamaican communities are mostly on the east side. The overlap would be Redan, parts of Stone Mountain and other communities east of Atlanta and just north of I-20. There are a number of Jamaican restaurants and clubs on Covington Hwy, and not many white faces.
billytea - Sep 02, 2011 12:13:01 pm PDT #28909 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Today is a sad day in the house of Tea and Bee. Wallybee's parents are going back home to China this morning. Waiting to see how Ryan will react.
Hil R. - Sep 02, 2011 12:30:28 pm PDT #28910 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Pretty much all of the NYC neighborhoods I can think of where I know affluent black people live are fairly mixed, or at least mixed enough that white people wouldn't stand out. (Actually, the only places I can think of that I've been where I felt like I stood out as a white person and most of the black people around me seemed fairly affluent were the Howard University campus and some parts of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard.)
P.M. Marc - Sep 02, 2011 12:38:14 pm PDT #28911 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
ita, [link] may be perfect.
Beverly - Sep 02, 2011 12:40:54 pm PDT #28912 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Maria, I've been wishing good thoughts for days, but only posting now.
Matt, good thoughts to your friend, too.
Oh, bt, I'm so sorry. How long will it be before they can come visit again?
Scrappy - Sep 02, 2011 1:09:38 pm PDT #28913 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Continuing ~ma for Maria and Husband Of Maria. I have been refreshing all afternoon hoping for news.
Anne W. - Sep 02, 2011 1:10:59 pm PDT #28914 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Much ~ma for Maria and her DH
WindSparrow - Sep 02, 2011 2:30:23 pm PDT #28915 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Continued ~ma for you and your husband, Maria.
Safe travel~ma for Ryan's grandparents.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2011 3:01:20 pm PDT #28916 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Plei, that's just about perfect. Is there an adjacent neighbourhood that's also affluent and black? I want them to travel a little to get to the Jamaicans, if possible.