&.

Sharing.

Me mostly discovering, her mostly re-discovering

Black&African Oldies.

(There will forever be odes to the time we sat in the car and drove to New York singing Sam Cooke's Bring it on Home to Me between sobs)

My MOMs

is

LIKE

DAT.

(like, actually)

The newest re-addition to our Try to Reconcile Life archive :

(oh, yea...you go dey brush up on your pidgin enh?)

Moshood Abiola (MKO) with Nelson Mandela shortly after his release from Robben Island.

In case I forget that there is much history interacting with my childhood and wonder why it often comes out of my random-wiki.search-nowheres to slap me on the face and remind me that my mother was "something" somewheres (multiple) maybe once.

Will expand later, currently procrastinating my procrastination of a paper that is due in 4.5 (hours) on a book I never finished but throughly (almost) enjoyed (Nervous Conditions).

...I'm sleepy

Adam was an androgyne.

I'm already yours.

Be Mine.

I don't have a way with words.

But they have their way with me ;)

(scandal)

Periodically

I think of how beautiful you are.

And want to laugh,

but always cry.

Delivery.. Bundle of Joy

We love Vintage Shopping
We love ebay.
(in that order...haha who is 'we' ?
me and the voices in my head possibly)

Yes. I'm serious...

Wait till you see me in this

I know it may be wack to post this on a blog

but I am actually just too excited.

I cannot wait to wear this.
I have been trying to cop this since summer and finally decided to stop being cheap and lazy.
I love vintage shopping on ebay. My gawd

The RBG motif tho yall..
Really?
Loveliness all the way.
It's on some dress/jacket status
(Pretty shameful that I think I either one will do... lets see if I have any senses when I do step out
with this on SMH, shameful)
My friend Ben said
"mmm, i like it.. its very HBCU circa 1980"
(that was in the summer & I still remember it
to the letter, or to the essence
whatever, thats not the point)


Disclaimer:
it looks better on me than on the mannequin
ha.YAS!

POWpowPOW

We Forget

"I love you" is a statement. Not a response.