It was poetry that dragged me seduced me into reading writers of color, primarily women: Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Rita Dove, Naomi Shihab Nye, etc., etc. Jane Kenyon and Mary Oliver, too, and others. But while YA and fantasy and scifi brought women--Piercy, McCaffrey, Norton, McKinley, LeGuin, Cherryh and others into my life it was poetry that opened me up to POC.
My food is problematic.
River ,'The Message'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - Dec 03, 2017 1:53:36 pm PST #19512 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 2:02:44 pm PST #19513 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
3 eBay listings up. It's a little more challenging doing it on my phone, but I'm gonna get more done.
Dinner is going to be black bean, corn and green chile dump with queso on the side. No work.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 2:34:06 pm PST #19514 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse you've read Dana Stabenow and Laura Lippman, yes?
Oh yeah. I have stacks of Lippman. Stabenow I've mostly read from the library.
aurelia - Dec 03, 2017 3:21:27 pm PST #19515 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It was a beautiful day here and I spent the afternoon in a laundromat because a cat decided to pee on the bed while I was cleaning the litter box.
I've kept my reading weighted toward women and POC for the last six years. Intentionally so for the last four.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 4:05:22 pm PST #19516 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So someone invited my mother to a grief workshop that is apparently about being a medium or whatever. I said it's in Florida in January, she should just go!
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 4:20:47 pm PST #19517 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
8 listings up now and pics taken for 6 more.
If I can keep this up, I might get a chunk of mac's old toys up and a bunch of yarn or fabric. Thus far this is clearing out the last of my Lularoe over buying from last year.
As is always the case, I wish I had another day in this weekend.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 4:33:47 pm PST #19518 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hahahaha that's hilarious Jesse.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 4:59:41 pm PST #19519 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kept trying to think it was more metaphorical, but no. Literally about talking to your dead loved one.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 03, 2017 5:57:05 pm PST #19520 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Someone put a flyer for psychic readings in my car door while I was at the movies today. A real psychic would have known not to waste paper that's just going to go in the trash.
-t - Dec 03, 2017 6:39:47 pm PST #19521 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
She could go to Florida and skip the medium stuff to go the beach, I suppose.