A bit of the scent of summer on this chilly day 🌸🌹🌻🌼🌺🌷🪻💕

“Compass”, 12x12 inch acrylic on panel

Lauryn Hill will lead Grammy tribute to Roberta Flack and D’Angelo

I have now read the letter & I don't think it's going far enuf. For one thing, ICE is terrorizing multiple major cities across the US, but by reading the letter you'd think it's just one.

I'm reading another book on the Tulsa Burning in 1921... & I'm chafing at this. This one is written by a whytman that is haphazardly switching between the words to describe the Black Citizens of Greenwood...

... I can't find the Wait For It performance from the Hamilton ensemble (circa 2015) from MCC Theater or Broadway For Change. 🎼🎶Forgiveness... Can You Imagine... Forgiveness.... Can you imagine???? Life doesn't discriminate between the sinners & the saints. It takes & it takes & it takes 🎶

"Work has nothing to do with us." They say on a work trip, in the hotel bed paid for by the company, before going back home on the company's private jet. I LOVE this book & MUST get a physical copy soon. #TheTruthAccordingToEmber #booktok

I'm rounding the end of Act One of Hamilton (the American Musical) via Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (book) & I'm not even 30% of the way thru the book... what was cut?? How much did he write like he was running out of time???

I just got to the halfway point of Again, But Better. NOW THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A BOOK!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Tell me why my phone revoked access to my camera/microphone to, like, all my social media apps???

The competitive side of my local libraries Winter Book Bingo has set in, so I'm reading this super cringe novella because it's set in winter... I'm begging for these people to stop asking the Lord about this most obvious relationship foibles. They are holding up the prayer line, I'm sure!!!

Eartha Kitt by George Silk for Life Magazine, 1955.

Harlem Rhapsody is a book that must be a spiritual psy-op sent from the ghost of Booker T. Washington, the way it got me judging the character of WEB DuBois like this.

I show up for things IRL, I went so far out of my way & sacrificed so much in way of career & dignity... just for my mom to call my sister who hates me (her favorite daughter) on FaceTime & give her the tour thru the building. Leaving me in the dust & forgetting I was even here.

They taking the Beyonce Bowl of Netflix.... THEY IS!!! I'M TELLING Y'ALL THEY IS!!!

I'm reading this book & our protagonist is making me mad & nervous.

This is tragically hilarious. I'm reading a YA Love Story & this teenaged girl just talked herself into a third act breakup off of nothing but insecurities & riled up emotions.

i think about them every day

Committing to watching these play readings when I know I'm not feeling well is a trip... I'm trying to pay attention to this Annie Baker play while I'm basically fading in & out of consciousness & longing for sleep. Theres no production & I'm typing this during the intermission.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Wicked Spoiler!!! : Glinda using scissor tail flycatchers in her wedding jewelry was really special to me. I think it's perfect! It's a subtle nod to K.Chen's home state (& mine, OK) while tying in her (faux) animal rights schtick. Beautiful & perfect choice... & I'm not even a fan of birds.

Every movie preceding Wicked: For Good is ripping off the Wicked aesthetic. Wicked is more than a movie. It's a buzzword.

I can't wait until about a week after Wicked: For Good comes out & the Gelphie edits to Ariana Grande music hits my fyp.

This girl (in the book I'm reading) told our male protagonist that his father would roll over in his grave seeing him simp for a girl like this (aka the love of his life)... as if our MC didn't hate the girliepoo who's flappin her gums AND his bum ass hatin ass daddy!!

All the Health Guys are in the room btw.

Imagine being such a terrible human — an actual monster to young people — that there’s a measurable positive impact on your departure. Walters sounds like the type of person who would probably find joy in that. He also sounds like a small, scared, insecure and pathetic man with a boring life.

"In the U.S., 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce it & creating many environmental impacts. Food waste is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the U.S." -US EPA In the Land of Plenty, scarcity must be enforced by police.

This has no power over me, because I actually finished reading Behold The Walls ahead of the statue unveiling ceremony downtown. I've achieved my New Years Goal & your comic can't hurt me!! HA!!!

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Yes. I did wait until just now to choose my Halloween costume. I decided that I will be Micheal In The Bathroom (from Be More Chill). That's about all the spooky spirit I can handle right now. I don't even have a party to go to... but I do have a bathroom I can use, so... that's what I'm going with.

Some October roses to interrupt your justifiably ragey doomscrolling. Roses are ID’d in the Alt text.

Living as a neurodivergent in Oklahoma is tough. I'm surrounded on all sides by strangers & the current vocal stim stuck in my head in Obama's verse from Epic Rap Battle.

I'm outside & I see a woman wearing a shirt that says kNOw Jesus kNOw Peace. (Highlighted in different colors for the emphasis) & I'm wondering if they think that Jesus lived a peaceful life... or if the crucifixion was a peaceful story... or if He would take it away out of spite for rejecting Him..

PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutor says jewels stolen in Louvre heist worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million).

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Six year old Carrie Fisher watching her mom, Debbie Reynolds, from backstage in 1963 Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen. Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed 📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

“I just always assumed, despite the fact that the US hadn’t sent any women up there, or people of color, that I was going to go.” Dr. Mae Jemison was born #OTD in 1956. Doctor, peace corps volunteer, first Black woman in space, and first astronaut on Star Trek. 🧪 🔭 👩🏾‍🔬

I don't gaf bout a 🥷🏾... I don't gaf bout a 🐩 fr... I'm really That 🐩 fr. I'm really thee 💩 fr...

Octavia Butler warned us about this... she literally had it written & published ages ago.

I hope Dolly's feeling better now, because me & God been in the prayer room hootin & hollerin for her recovery.

It's like the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story... but in space.

I miss this plate so bad!! Omg, y'all don't understand.

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

I finished Kamala Harris's 107 Days & now I have the 100 yard stare like when I got home late & cautiously hopeful to check the 2024 Election results.

I made the mistake of attempting to listen to my audiobook of Angel of Greenwood while driving. It's the most amazing depiction of Greenwood I have ever seen & I don't say that lightly.

You ever walked into a book knowing it's a Charnel House, knowing that any good times & love will be overcast by certain doom??? Anyways, I'm currently reading Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink &... we get like 9 days of Greenwood Before.