it's loud out here and i want some quiet.

Most of my close comrades know that I don't like going to my family's house in Pennsylvania for winter break (can't call PA home - still a TX baby), but the winter nights of Los Angeles actually do get cold, and sometimes all you want to eat is that last bit of leftover food from your family kitchen at 2 in the morning. [Long sentence/so what/EdgarAllanPoe did it all the time too]. I took this picture at a MLK day parade over in Leimert Park a few years ago, and it always makes me smile/getfuzzyinside/reminisce. Because I don't quite remember the faces, I like to think that a happy exchange was taking place. (Also, the body language can be sorta implied). Anyway, this photo kinda reminded me of what (the media wants us to think)we all long for during these commercialized holidays - a return to family. For those of us who are fortunate enough to run back home where love exists - cherish it. For those of us who can not, find that warm space of love within yourself - and run to it. Run to love.

Gem I Found.

If you can get past the beads and shells on his head and listen to this song, I think you'll feel the same tingle I felt when I heard this song earlier today.

Finals time. . .

. . . and I'm stressed.

Thanksgiving break was wonderful though. The namesake of this blog hosted me again, and as always, it was a wonderful experience filled with familial love. I like living in LA, but it's always nice to visit the Bay Area to brave the 'cold' and feel the liberalness float through the air.

I haven't forgotten about you beloved readers. I am here for you. Are you here for me?

appreciate this.

if you know me, you know why i love this. lol.

im studying tonight (all-nighter perhaps?) so that i can hopefully get that paper soon. this whole 'student life' is gettin kinda old. if i have to raise my hand and act like i care what the professor says much longer i may go crazy.

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full moon view

wondering why you felt so balanced today? full moon baby.

didn't know i was a diana ross fan til last night.

...i stayed up and watch a few of her performances and interviews, and was impressed. you can't tell me you don't feel energized and maybe even a lil starstruck when watching her performances.



(peep the 2nd song in this video "the boss" = the jurnt)

take me back.

Came across this excerpt by Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo while reading about the Inca civilization. Leguisamo was the last survivor of the original Spanish conquerers of Peru.

We found these kingdoms in such good order, and the said Incas governed them in such wise [manner] that throughout them there was not a thief, nor a vicious man, nor an adulteress, nor was a bad woman admitted among them, nor were there immoral people. The men had honest and useful occupations. The lands, forests, mines, pastures, houses and all kinds of products were regulated and distributed in such sort that each one knew his property without any other person seizing it or occupying it, nor were there law suits respecting it… the motive which obliges me to make this statement is the discharge of my conscience, as I find myself guilty. For we have destroyed by our evil example, the people who had such a government as was enjoyed by these natives. They were so free from the committal of crimes or excesses, as well men as women, that the Indian who had 100,000 pesos worth of gold or silver in his house, left it open merely placing a small stick against the door, as a sign that its master was out. With that, according to their custom, no one could enter or take anything that was there. When they saw that we put locks and keys on our doors, they supposed that it was from fear of them, that they might not kill us, but not because they believed that anyone would steal the property of another. So that when they found that we had thieves among us, and men who sought to make their daughters commit sin, they despised us.

....I dare someone to tell me that the Europeans brought civilization to the Americas.