Nola Darling & her Pursuit of Vissi D'Arte

a.muse.ments: art, life, love, merriments, musings, and passions of Anne Collins Smith. A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk, and a Stick of Butter. All ideas, expressions, and posts here are expressly my own.

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What was demonstrated when it was quite difficult to utter. Acting upon is more effective communication than impotent utterances. #HimalayanSalty

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"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows." ntozake shange #Repost @__kandake_ ・・・ Full moon release...#rp @sunshinechrysalis

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Told y'all I would be attending this event as ⚜️Miss Tricentennial and by my hair adornment, you know I represented. Truly, madly, deeply and ALWAYS, #ForTheCulture 💜💚💛 #DriskellPrize #VissidArte (at High Museum of Art, Atlanta)

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PSA The adage says, "Bloom where you're planted" and I'm so floribundant. The blooms are so innate and low key and yet so impactful that you don't yet recognize, realize, or appreciate (note to self, too!). Attune accordingly. #FeastOnYourLife #CountItAllJoy #Magnificat ⚜️ #Repost @abrahamhicks_socal ・・・ Great reminder to start your weekend off with positive vibes💕💕💕 💚*****************If you want to meet other deliberate creators in Southern California follow @abrahamhicks_socal !!! Let's make new friends who are in the #Vortex ! Know a deliberate creator who lives in SoCal? Tag them in the comments! #abrahamhicksteachings #freespirit #abrahamhicks #lawofattraction #loa #alignment #losangeles #abundance #love #clarity #spiritual #energy #inspirationalquotes #meditation #positivity #gratitude #friends #socal #woke #happy #love #thesecret #supersoulsunday #thirdeye #manifest #peace #namaste #goals #success #goodvibes

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Yes, indeed. #Repost @cbryanmusic

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"To thine own self be true." William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" #Repost @spiritualmovement ・・・ Love this. If you know the artist pls tag!! (at Elysian Fields Avenue)

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The value of the valleys named disavowal and ostracism. #Repost @iamfearlesssoul ・・・ If you don't want to BE like them... don't spend time with them... #FearlessSoul - Inspirational Speeches for your SOUL... Search: "FEARLESS SOUL" on iTunes, Spotify & GooglePlay now. - Click the link in our bio to watch our latest motivational video on YouTube: @iamfearlesssoul - #abundance #positivevibes #goodvibes #goodvibesonly #positive #inspirational #motivational #inspired #inspire #inspirationalquotes #inspiring #lawofattraction #thesecret #abundant #universe #presentmoment #connection #vibes #positivity #life #lifequotes #spiritual #quote #quotes #manifest #loa

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#CuratorialCommandment #Repost @brain.pickings

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chuckle, not so much. Seriously, have the gender wars become that degenerate? And by the way, the counternarrative, woman spreading is just as unnecessary. #Repost @newyorkermag ・・・ A cartoon by @joedator. #TNYcartoons

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This week's theme. Trying to live the charge to "look up and live," yet you were/are the wind beneath my wings. It's awfully difficult to fly without one wing while the other is tied. #Repost @nayyirah.waheed ・・・ poem. from nejma. by nayyirah waheed. published 2014. . . . . . . . #salt #nejma #literature #nayyirahwaheed

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April 10th is my Mommy's birthday and National Siblings Day. My mother and the person was intents and purposes, my sibling, but biologically my uncle and parrain, are both ancestors. This year, that day would also be the day my alma mater would celebrate Founders Day. As I watched the Convocation with fellow Spelman Sisters, I was overcome with emotion. From Resonance's moving spoken word and spirituals filled memorial, the honorees' uplifting reflections, charges, and words of affirmation; "A Choice to Change the World," and the Spelman Hymn, I was assured and comforted because I was nestled in my beloved community. My aloneness and my loneliness took a second seat. There IS a balm in Gilead. To keep it all in perspective, I think of my Spelman Sister and AKA Soror Dr. Christine who also knows grief profoundly. If five years has been hell for me, 50 years... What manner of woman is she? #ComeYeDisconsolate #FeastOnYourLife #UndauntedByTheFight #SpelmanFoundersDay #HesTheOne #QueSeraSera #FortressAroundYourHeart #LookToTheRainbow #LoafofBreadContainerofMilkStickofButter #Magnificat #NoLoveDying (at Elysian Fields Avenue)

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Wrong for that but so right. Yet so wrong and so right. 🤣🤣🤣

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🤐😌 #Repost @wordables ・・・ Travel and tell no one. 🖤 via @dailyquotes.page

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For what?! (at Castleberry Hill)

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Private access for Curatorial Studies Students to the Michelle Obama portrait by @asherald @smithsoniannpg ・・・#Repost @abbrownlee (at National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

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🙋🏾 Wordsmith 👸🏾 #Repost @nayyirah.waheed ・・・ by nayyirah waheed. . . . . . . . #salt #nejma #literature #nayyirahwaheed