Still Unfinished 2

The addenda to my main blog at www.stillunfinished.com

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#reinvigorate2016 2 miles with Leslie Sansone. Soundtrack: Vince Staples' Summertime '06.

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Back to walking with Leslie this morning #reinvigorate2016 Soundtrack: Alice in Chain's Dirt

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In America, the injury is not in being born with darker skin, with fuller lips, with a broader nose, but in everything that happens after.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Between the World and Me

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It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask, or readying ourselves to accept half as much, could not be recovered. The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments. It is the last bottle of wine that you have just uncorked but do not have time to drink. It is the kiss that you do not have time to share, before she walks out of your life. It is the raft of second chances for them, and twenty-three-hour days for us.

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I must get out… but into what? I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe , and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream.

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I sensed the schools were hiding something, drugging us with false morality so that we would not see, so that we did not ask: Why—for us and only us—is the other side of free will and free spirits an assault upon our bodies? This is not a hyperbolic concern. When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not, and while I couldn’t crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them. Perhaps they must be burned away so that the heart of this thing might be known.

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Somewhere out there beyond the firmament, past the asteroid belt, there were other worlds where children did not regularly fear for their bodies.

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There is nothing uniquely evil in these destroyers or even in this moment. The destroyers are merely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interpreting its heritage and legacy. It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Between The World and Me

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#reinvigorate2016 continues, with Leslie Sansone. Today's soundtrack: No Cities To Love by Sleater-Kinney.

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Can We Guess Your Age Based On Your Reading Habits?

Your preferences are more telling than you think.

BuzzFeed thinks I am 23. I’m okay with that.

[completelybooked]

I got 40…..I just turned twenty

[yaseriesinsiders]

23! Just turned 21, so pretty close. ;)

[paperbackprimadonna]

23! I’m turning 23 next month! 😊

[amandalovelace2-deactivated2021]

23…i just turned 24 so that’s pretty ok

[izzytheheartbrekker]

I got 23

I’m 19

[folding-corners]

I got 23 as well, seems to be the most common age, haha. I’m 20 (turning 21 in three months!) so it’s fine I guess.

[ofliterarynature]

40…I don’t think so.

[booktineus]

I got 23. I just turned 21 so not bad

[noobchic]

Why is buzzfeed lying i am not 23

[lookforthebook]

35… I am 18 omg

[foreverbookish]

I got 23. Not bad but like I’m 20

[the-girl-who-lived-to-read]

I got 23. I just turned 18 not that long ago.

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I also got 23. Ha ha. I’ll be 43 later this year.

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27. Like @pussreboots, I’m almost 20 years older than that. Will be 47 in June.

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Can't run away with you right now, Carly. I'm walking away with Leslie. #reinvigorate2016

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According to how-old.net, if you flip my photo, I look older or younger than I actually am. Hmmm.

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One foot in front of the other as get ready to walk with Leslie Sansone. #reinvigorate2016

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Walking with Leslie (because neighbors don't like to clear snow from sidewalks and I'm a weather wuss) #reinvigorate2016

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Part of my morning routine #reinvigorate2016

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Life in Book Titles 2015

Saw on Whimpulsive this morning so decided to try myself.  The idea is simple: use titles from books you read in the last year (or this case, last year) to answer the following questions: 

Describe yourself: The Torment of Others 

Describe how you feel: Hell and Gone 

Describe where you currently live: Virtual Unreality 

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Pleasantville 

Your favorite form of transportation: Predator One 

Your best friend is: The Girl on the Train 

You and your friends are: The Mermaids Singing 

What’s the weather like: Black Water Rising 

You fear: Dataclysm or strong runnerup, Annihilation

What is the best advice you have to give: Point and Shoot 

Thought for the day: Hear The Wind Sing 

How I would like to die: Murder at Cape Three Points 

My soul’s present condition: Dry Bones

All in all, I’d say I’m a pretty happy fella, don’t you think?

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From Wednesday...

From walk earlier this afternoon, to work. #reinvigorate2016 (at The Green)