Blackberries and Coconut

Haitian-American. To live and love deeply; vibrantly, honestly and vulnerably. Be disciplined and courageously compassionate with myself, my life and the people I choose, that is a project of mine. This blog is a story board of hopes, laughter, pain, beauty, and silly things - in a way. I want to live a life that’s a little more brave and a great deal more generous.

[dyingenigma]

Den Muso [1975]

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Regina Baltic

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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Anne Lauer

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Julia

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On the Bani River in Mopti, Mali © Hubert Guyon

[feelingsoftheday]

When you finally realize that someone’s behavior has more to do with their internal struggle than it ever did with you, you learn grace. You also naturally learn detachment as well.

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Campbell Addy

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Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

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Luv 4 rent