I am too late. 😢 After the death of DMX, I realized that I never gave Shock G his #HeartbeatProps. I was planning to post something in this space telling him how much he and his work meant to me. But... 😢. Since I was a teen, I have never been without music by #DigitalUnderground or #EarthWindAndFire. They were always the first tapes or CD i grabbed when leaving out or first albums I loaded on a new MP3 player or cellphone. Shock G (-bka- Gregory Jacobs -aka- Humpty Hump -aka- Piano Man) and @moneyb69 have travelled with me by car, train, subway, motorcycle, airplane, bus, or on foot since “Sex Packets”dropped in 1990. While most people remember him as Edward Ellington “Humpty Hump” Humphrey III, it was his powerful yet elegant work as Piano Man where you saw his genius. From his lyrics, to his beats, to his skits, to his performances... Shock gave us everything. From “Arguin’ on the Funk” to “Sons of the P” to “Carry the Way” to “Peanut Hakim” to “The Gravy” and every musical interlude. His genius just spills out of every track. Thank you Shock. #Digi4Life. Peace and love to @moneyb69, @younghumpdu, their crew, and families. #ShockG #GregoryJacobs #DigitalUnderground #DU #PianoMan #music #HipHop https://www.instagram.com/p/CN_zYTshf1w/?igshid=1avuvcvtxmdvo
at a certain point we’re going to have to accept that all this posturing about “most people being abusive and neglectful parents” is an indication of a societal issue that we are conveniently turning into personal moral failures of parents
either because they hit their kids or shove their kids in front of screens or because they do not know how to properly feed their kids or because they do not play with their kids etc. …
so we as a society don’t have to actually structurally change anything to make life easier on families and children.
What I find most haunting as a parent right now is how negatively parents speak of their kids, as if their kids are messy burdens designed to make life hard and them look bad and the fact that I struggle to find parents like me who love their kids and enjoy letting them get messy and have fun outside … is an indication of a larger issue
The fact that my kids pediatrician was surprised my 3 year old doesn’t know how to use a phone or a tablet/has a tan … this cannot be simply classified as personal issues…
We need more parent and child support groups, educational outreach programs… it needs to be more acceptable to take kids places outside of kid designated zones—even if the kid is loud and prone to outburst…
The world is pretty hostile right now towards children … we’re a highly technologically advanced society where many of us spend a large amount of time socially participating online a place children cannot and should not go.
The convenient answer is to blame parents … but the fact that it is *so many parents* doing this *should* ring alarm bells as a larger issue … one that we cannot simply rule out as a skill issue on the part of parents doing this.
We aren’t going to get anywhere with improving the lives of children by simply shaming parents for doing things that harm kids like shoving tablets in their faces … only when socially conscious efforts are made to better lives does change for the better start to take shape.
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.
https://malcolmx.gumroad.com/l/MalcolmX
I want to repost this every day and every hour. This divisiveness is very unnecessary. We can accomplish soooo much more together than we can apart. #OneWorld #OneLove
We live on a water planet. The ocean covers a huge part of the Earth's surface – earning it the name Blue Marble.
The ocean is one of Earth’s largest ecosystems and helps moderate Earth’s climate. NASA scientists spend a lot of time studying the ocean and how it is changing as Earth’s climate changes.
In the last few years, NASA has launched an array of missions dedicated to studying this precious part of our planet, with more to come. For World Oceans Month, which starts in June, here are new ways NASA studies the ocean.
1. Seeing the colors of the ocean 🎨
A new NASA mission called PACE will see Earth’s oceans in more color than ever before. The color of the ocean is determined by the interaction of sunlight with substances or particles present in seawater.
Scheduled to launch in 2024, PACE will help scientists assess ocean health by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton, tiny plants and algae that sustain the marine food web. PACE will also continue measuring key atmospheric variables associated with air quality and Earth's climate.
2. Surveying surface water around the globe 💧
The SWOT satellite, launched in late 2022, is studying Earth’s freshwater – from oceans and coasts to rivers, lakes and more – to create the first global survey of Earth’s surface water.
SWOT is able to measure the elevation of water, observing how major bodies of water are changing and detecting ocean features. The data SWOT collects will help scientists assess water resources, track regional sea level changes, monitor changing coastlines, and observe small ocean currents and eddies.
3. Setting sail to understand interactions between the ocean and atmosphere 🚢
With research aircraft, a research ship, and autonomous ocean instruments like gliders, NASA’s S-MODE mission is setting sail to study Earth’s oceans up close. Their goal? To understand ocean whirlpools, eddies and currents.
These swirling ocean features drive the give-and-take of nutrients and energy between the ocean and atmosphere and, ultimately, help shape Earth’s climate.
4. Building ocean satellites the size of a shoebox 📦
NASA’s HawkEye instrument collects ocean color data and captures gorgeous images of Earth from its orbit just over 355 miles (575 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. It’s also aboard a tiny satellite measuring just 10cm x 10 cm x 30 cm – about the size of a shoebox!
5. Designing new missions to study Earth’s oceans! 🌊
NASA is currently designing a new space-based instrument called GLIMR that will help scientists observe and monitor oceans throughout the Gulf of Mexico, the southeastern U.S. coastline and the Amazon River plume that stretches to the Atlantic Ocean. GLIMR will also provide important information about oil spills, harmful algae blooms, water quality and more to local agencies.
6. Taking the ocean to new heights ⬆️
The U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is helping researchers measure the height of the ocean - a key component in understanding how Earth’s climate is changing.
This mission, which launched in 2020, has a serious job to do. It’s not only helping meteorologists improve their weather forecasts, but it’s helping researchers understand how climate change is changing Earth’s coastlines in real time.
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Have you ever read something, or had someone tell you something, that made you see something in a different light? Did that something make you re-evaluate aspects of your life and living?
Welp… I saw these words on IG recently and they gave me pause. A really long pause.
First of all, I am always skeptical of anything posted on social media. If these words are fake, false, or misleading; then they really don’t matter, now do they? But what if these words ring true? What do they mean to you?
For me… they are hella eye opening. So let me speak on them from the perspective of them being true and how they apply to me.
These words define a very large portion of my life. From being a 4th grade volunteer monitor on a Kindergarten playground, to sitting vigil with my best friend who experienced a miscarriage in college, to helping out family, friends, and elders in my current orbit.
For various periods of time, over the decades of my life; I have felt unloved, underappreciated, and alone; no matter how many people were around me. I also know what it feels like to feel more complete and incomplete. The words I posted made me consider whether I did all the things I did because, unconsciously, I wanted someone to care about me with the same depth of love and loyalty that I had for them. MINDBLOWN!!!
How many of my decisions and actions were based on this unconscious need / desire to achieve some level of fulfillment? It’s hard to grasp the number of possible times that I intentionally did something based upon a deep seeded need that I was not even aware of. As I sit here and draft this post, the reverse angle on these words may explain WHY I took some of the actions that I did.
I do not know what the Universe has in-store for me; but I feel blessed to have the benefit of self-reflection and self-introspection. Not only seeing myself from the outside, but also from the inside.
Thanks for reading. I hope this helps someone become a better version of themselves, learn something new about themselves, or at least expand their thinking regarding this thing we call “LIFE”.
