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I need to say these things. If nothing else to staye where I stand on the Race War in the United Sates. Let's start with something simple. How you treat other people should not be based on race. If you don't like a particular race that's fine. Some people will lose their shit at me just saying that. Listen though.

People have a right to be biased. Bias is a normal human experience often for good reasons other than the culture a person was raised in or parental influence. In my case, I was jumped by a group of black teens when I was 15 in an alley way in broad daylight. To this day I carry a bias that I have to always be vigilant to suppress.

It's not a choice. This bias is implanted into my brain at a subconcious level. What is my choice is to rise above it and treat others who may be a part of that representative group as equals regardless of how I feel. I do not consciously think or feel any kind of negative things towards African Americans or Afrikaans...or any other person with brown skin. This is my choice. Even if I have to push that negative baggage down and beat it back into submission. That's my responsibility as a citizen and fellow human being.

What is NOT ok is any persons who use these kinds of experiences as a means or basis for justification of cruelty or intentional discrimination. You do NOT have a right to these behaviors. You're freedoms do not extend to that. Speaking as a veteran who raised his hand and swore "...to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from threats both foreign and DOMESTIC", if this is how you conduct yourself then you ARE that domestic threat.

Our country is a melting pot. We are the only nation (to my knowledge) on the planet with hypenated membership. You can be African-American, Saudi-American, Latin-American, Indian-American or any other combination. Other countries of the world are not like this. You either are or you are not ethnically of that nation. This distinction is a major part of what makes our nation special. This, while not neccesarily the intention behind the words of the Founding Fathers accounting for their times, is the true value of the opening statement in the opening preamble of the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This is what my service means. This is what I swore to protect. This is the code that I live by and expect my fellow citizen to abide by.

Let me make this reductive enough to get through to anyone. It's as simple as everything we learned in kindergarten. Treat other people like you want to be treated. That's it. That's all you have to do. If you want to be racially biased that's your right and you may even very well be justified in your bias, but you aren't a racist until you act upon that bias. This is the simplest means of explaining it all.

That's it people. Just own your shit. If you hold bias that's acceptable. Just don't act upon it. That's when things go from your own personal shit to shitting on other people. So, knock it off.

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Lily the Thief by Janne Kukkonen. English translation by Lola Rogers. First Second, 2019. 9781250196972. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781250196972?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Lily, an ambitious young thief, is tired of getting easy jobs. She wants the thieves’ guildmaster to assign her real burglaries, and she’s annoyed that the other, more experienced thieves don’t think much of her. After she overhears the guildmaster telling her mentor that she’ll never get any of the tough jobs, she helps herself to one of the guild scrolls (and the job it contains). Her mission: to steal a bit of treasure from a coffin in the Earl’s castle. The problem: it’s heavily guarded, The Brotherhood of Fire wants it, and what’s she’s done has angered her guildmaster as well. The job doesn’t go well, and Lily is soon doing even more dangerous work to try to save herself and her mentor.

This is a fairly lighthearted, beautifully drawn graphic novel with a bit of magic, spookiness, and violence. I’d have read it to my kid when she was in grade school, and I think young readers are really going to love it.

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Whoa!!! It's like...Black and White photography porn.

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I love it. Been so into the Alice metaphors lately and this just hits my Black and White fetish just right. Makes me want to explore shooting old books myself.

Love Letter to Myself - Pt. 2

Hey man, it's me. You know, you...

I wanted to talk to you while you were feeling alright. I know that the last couple of weeks of have been hard for you, so I guess it's a good time to tell you to enjoy your uptime and celebrate it while you have it.

You have only just begun to unravel the lies and deception that you have been living with for the past four years of your life. You are starting to laugh again. You are starting to have fun again. You are taking everything life has to offer and embrace it to the fullest...and you should.

You are not a helpless victim anymore. You are a survivor. You should be proud of who you are. While you have a much longer journey ahead of you, many other men would have never survived or would have simply given up on themselves. You didn't. You continued to fight for yourself all along and eventually, you managed to find enough courage to make your escape from the warden of your heart.

Don't you EVER let you tell yourself that that isn't a feat that beats all the odds. You nearly lost yourself to another bad woman and this time the stakes were even higher. The last time you let this happen because you were heavy in the heart and wracked with guilt about how you treated Theresa and didn't know how to process. You felt like you needed to be punished for handling a good person with such neglect...and even she wasn't exactly great for you.

This time, however, the stakes were different. While Melissa was a punishment of your own design for your guilt, Nicole was and is a psychological sadist intent upon nothing less than controlling you and playing with you like a cat does an injured bird.

You did not consent to this abuse. This abuse was put upon you and were taken advantage of during a time in your life when you were at your lowest and felt like you had finally made penance for your deeds of the past. You were ready to heal and move on with your life, but she had other plans for you.

So, why exactly am I bringing all of this shit up? Because I want you to remember how she manipulated you. "Beware of Greeks, bearing gifts" as the expression goes. Don't ever let yourself start to ever feel again that you need a relationship or a woman in your life to be complete. You are freaking awesome and a very talented writer, photographer, and musician. You don't need someone in your life romantically to validate who you are. You need to start using your art to do that. If you want to be validated so badly, do it with something that represents you instead of something that makes you subjugate yourself and compromise.

It's great and totally awesome that you are starting to build your support network and get back out into Madison and make your own connections. You need to keep doing this and remember how important it is to build anchors of connection. This is the key to you maintaining your happiness. Don't let yourself slide and keep making the little moments count with the people that you like to hang out with. Take the time for them and they will be there for you when you need them. It's a give and take, ok? You need to lean on them through bad times and the good if you want to be really healthy.

I just want you to be happy, homie. You have been through something pretty bad and in the end, when the sadness hits along the way, come back to this letter and reread it. Remember how good it feels to be able to hang out at the DJ shop without someone else's time table to have to report to. Remember how much fun it is to feed yourself spiritually without needing to worry about if your partner likes that particular church. Remember how awesome it is to be able to spend your time the way you want without someone else needing a part of it. You get to decide now and that is something you need to cherish.

So, the next time you feel down, fall back and think it through. You're doing great and are going to be just fine as long as you remember that it's ok for you to have fun. You earned it so enjoy it.

I think it's about time that you settle down and tuck yourself in for the night. You need to get up soon and start building your connections in town to feed your spirit. Have fun there and let the healing begin.

As always, man. I love you. Take care of yourself, OK?

With all the love I can muster.

-Yourself

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Model : Melle Sweet Candy

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This is a great pinup photo. It's just simple and that's what really makes it work. I like it a lot.

Love Letter to Myself - Pt 1

Hey Man, it's me. You. At least the side of you that you always lean onto get you through the harder times. I know we haven't connected much lately, so I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that I am still here for you. I heard that you have been going through some rough times, and I just want you to know that I love you. Try to to remember that, OK?

Life is going to get really hard for you over the next couple years. You need to expect that and learn to lean on me. No matter comes your way man, I got your back bro. You know that I have always been there for you.

When you first moved away from home to join the Navy and you were lonely, who was there for you? When you didn't fit in all through high school and you felt like a loser, who was there for you? When you felt like you didn't have any friends when you were younger because you were smarter than the average kids but not as smart as the really smart kids, who was there for you? I was, bro...and I am still here for you.

Please, don't turn your back on me now. You need me more than ever before. Just have some faith in me and let me take care of you. You know that I love you with everything I am and that I would never let any harm come to you. The problem is, you keep wandering off and taking this little journeys that take years at a time of your life without me. To be honest, you really hurt my feelings when you do that. You just leave without really talking about it or thinking it through. You just abandon me when I am always there for you. That's not right, man.

I just want you to stop breaking my heart. All I have ever wanted was to just take care of you...but you won't let me in lately. All I am asking for is a chance. Let me try to take care of you for once. Put your heart into my capable hands and let me heal your broken heart. Don't just run into the arms of another woman again and try to act like everything is OK.

Open your heart to me, man, and let me love you. I don't want to hurt you, and I won't. I can't ultimately, because I AM you. I'm the part of you that even though you have neglected me time and time and time again, I will always ALWAYS be there for you no matter what through good times and bad...but you have to let me in.

I don't like watching you cry. It makes me sad. When you hurt, I hurt too. We used to be so close, but you stopped making the effort. All I am asking you to do is spend time with me again and try to make this work. We could really me something special together, if you just tried. So, please dont' be afraid this time. Let me in. Just lean on me now, cry on my shoulder, let out all the anger and heartache you have carried around for nearly 10 years now.

Just let it go. It can't hurt you anymore unless you let it. I won't let it. I will protect you from the people that want to take advantage of you in the delicate heartbroken state that you are in. More importantly, try to realize that you aren't alone. It's not just me that has your back, but all of our friends and family. They love you too you know. You would be stupid to think that they won't have your back just like I do.

You know that your Mom will wrap her arms around you aways and hold you like her precious baby boy, especially when you are hurting. You know your Brothers and Sister would welcome you into their lives if you just made the effort, but you have always just made them a non-priority. Stop doing that. They are your blood. Your family will have your back when I can't and when they won't I will even if I don't know how I will...but I will. I promise you that, and I won't break that promise ever.

Just, please, take care of yourself, man. Let's get back together and take care of each other again. I want to make you happy again and see you be able to look at yourself in the mirror and be happy with who you are. So, here are some things about you that I want you to know.

You are not an asshole. You joke about it all the time and you can be rough around the edges, but you shouldn't joke so freely about it. All you are really doing is hiding pain behind a joke because you are lonely and tired of struggling to fit in. Maybe one day you will realize the moment you just let go and start loving who you are, the world will start to learn to love you.

You are not unsuccessful. I don't know how many time I have heard you tell people that money doesn't matter. That money comes and goes. That it's the quality of life that you have that really matters and that the quality of life can be measured in good food, good friends and good times.

What the hell did you do to yourself that you started systematically taking yourself away from all of those things? It's like you just gave up. You need to get in the kitchen again and be the fearless culinarian that you used to be when you were like sixteen watching Emeril Lagasse on Food Network.

You need to get out of the house and meet people and when you do meet people that you like make some damn time for them regularly and make your own rituals. Bond with them. Take interest in them. Show them that they are special to you. This is what will make them stick around and then you won't be so lonely anymore...and you won't actually be an asshole.

Lastly, when did you start just floating through life as if you had all the time in the world? It's like when your Dad died you put your heart on ice and said to hell with all of it. Stop, please, because you are breaking my heart watching you do this. You literally make me sad and want to cry. You were never so hard hearted, bitter and jaded when we used to hang out. Come on man, be a human being again and express an interest in the world and make a difference in it.

OK, so now I know that I have been really hard on you in this letter becauuse you just needed to hear this stuff without filter. You always were so stubborn that you only learn from mistakes. Mistakes are great teachers, but you got to stop that. You need to let me and the other people in your life love you and help you make sense of everything that is going on right now in your life. There is no other way to get back to being whole again. I promise you this, just stick with it and let the pain come out. Let the tears fall. Don't try to run this time. It might last a year, a decade or the rest of your life...but that isn't what matters. What matters is that you keep trying and maybe just maybe one day we can be the same person again....but until that day comes I am going to keep loving you like the best friend that I am. You are never alone. I am always with you...and I love you.

Please, take care of yourself man. After all, I am you. I don't want to live in pain anymore and you don't have to. Let's fix this together, ok?

I love you man, let's do this.

Love,

Yourself

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