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October 5, 2006 - Thursday
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Pondering & Rambling About LOVE
Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Romance and Relationships
L?VE?????
Lately, I've been overly consumed with the notion of L?VE... Even w/everything else on my plate, L?VE seems to be one of the forerunners in my mind!
Maybe it's because I'm interacting w/some pretty decent brothas or maybe just maybe it's my season for L?VE. I'm not sure, but what I do know is...
It accosts me, when I least expect it & bombards me w/questions I can't answer... I'm confused by L?VE... I don't 100% trust it... but I crave it!
I've been in many conversations recently about it... oftentimes, others are confused, or they give me their anecdotals & remedies for trapping it... holding on to it... or their woes of losing it.
I question if I'm too methodical... too practical (not), or if I just over analyze things to death, to be in L?VE...
Anybody out there have the answers to the questions about L?VE? Help a sista out... gimme the potion...
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September 12, 2008 - Friday
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Saturday Morning Rendezvous
Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Writing and Poetry
Saturday Morning Rendezvous
I posted this poem (it's since been edited a bit) on the blog page of a friend, April Sims, a phenomenal, multi-talented sistuh, who's a photographer, writer/poet/spoken word artist & goddess. Check her out she's on my top 24.
She posted a picture of a park bench amongst nature & asked her friends to come up with a scenario. This is my interpretation...
Ever since I moved to Manhattan
From the burbs
I've had to walk Briscoe
Not having the luxury
Of owning a home any longer
And no backyard
I get up every morning @ 5
By 6 we're out the door
We walk a path that seems
Untouched by 21st century standard
Almost surreal
In it's quiet repose
But then I remember
It's Saturday morning
And everyone is snuggled down deep
Dreaming of Friday night's festivities
At the break
Of a family of ancient maples
Just around the corner
From a mammoth
Of a weeping willow
At the bend
Of rows of azalea bushes
Briscoe & I find the quaintest scene
A park bench
On it sits a couple
Senior in years
Hand in hand
Heads almost touching
Noticeably engaged
In a rapture of conversation
As we approach
I have "Good Morning"
On my lips
With startled expressions
They look our way
Kiss & embrace
Say a quick good bye
And right before our eyes
They vanish
Surprisingly
I'm not afraid
I know
I saw
What I saw
When I walk up to the bench
And lean in closely
I see an inscription that reads
Reginald loves Leora
Forever and a day
August 8, 1899
And a message that says...
Time may age
One day we'll be gone
But our love
Will always be
Through eternity
Let's meet here
For Saturday morning breakfast
And catch ups
LORD ... GOD
I've just witnessed
A love
That transcends time
One that laughed in the face of death
A never-ending journey
That only gets stronger
And solidifies itself
On this park bench
In the heart of
Mother Nature...
copyright 2006 Erika L. Finney aka ~eshe~
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June 28, 2006 - Wednesday
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Deeply Rooted
Current mood:  relaxed
Category: Life
Deeply Rooted
written June 1, 1994
I can use the strongest lye
To straighten my hair
Spend thousands
To reconstruct my nose
Strict work out regime
To alter the curve of my hips
Or use some makeup trick
To lessen my lips
But what I am
Is embedded within
I can charter a yacht
Shop at the most exclusive boutiques
Socialize only with the so-called
Upper crust
But foremost, I'm Black...
And damn proud
I can run and try to hide from it
Go as far as to change my name
Swear on the Bible that I'm half this
Or part something else
Be a sugar-coated Black
A Black only at my convenience
When it's popular and fashionable
But I've been soaking...
Soaking in my culture for 36 years
Now I'm basting in the spirit
Of a proud people
My ancestry is permanently stained
Like beet dye on my soul
And my heritage is...
Deeply Rooted
©1995 Erika Leora Finney ~aka~ "eshe"
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Currently
listening
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New Moon Daughter
By
Cassandra Wilson
Release date: 05 March, 1996
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June 23, 2006 - Friday
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Just A Thought...
Current mood: mellow
Category: Life
If you're gonna love, love unconditionally, or don't love at all...
Putting conditions on someone, is having them to live your reality, your rules...it strips them of their autonomy! It says...I can deal w/you as long as you make me happy, but once my happiness is compromised...to hell w/you. How selfish is this!
Love your loved ones for who they are, their good & their bad. Remember...no one is perfect but CHRIST & HE was persecuted & crucified, & died for our sins, but yet HE loves us, though we're so unworthy.
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Currently
listening
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Bitches Brew
By
Miles Davis
Release date: 08 June, 1999
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June 9, 2006 - Friday
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May 26, 2006 - Friday
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Mr. B. Diff'rent
Current mood: satisfied
Category: Romance and Relationships
Mr. B. Diff'rent
Mr. B. Diff'rent
That's all that I ask
Don't step to me with game
A cat call, a "psst"...
Calling me outta my name
Mr. B. Diff'rent
A "Good Morning" would make my day
A chivalrous gesture
Like holding the door...
I'd go smiling on my way
"Damn, yo azz is phat"
You're stating the obvious
Wanna turn my head
Get my attention...
How bout..."Miss, I hope you're feeling glorious"
Mr. B. Diff'rent
Your car, credit cards or mad loot
Will not impress me
But one with depth of character...
Your horn I'll surely toot
Mr. B. Diff'rent
Recite poetry to me, place soft kisses on my neck
Love me mind, body and soul
Please, take your time...
And don't be too quick
Mr. B. Diff'rent
Mr. B. Kind
Mr. B. HeavenSent
Mr. B. AllMine...
That's all that I ask.
copyright 2006 Erika L. Finney aka ~eshe~
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Currently
watching
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Claudine (1974) (Sen)
Release date: 14 January, 2003
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February 13, 2006 - Monday
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I Love Love
Current mood:  loved
Category: Life
I Love LOVE 
I love LOVE
I have yet to meet "MY" love
But I'm surrounded by love
My GOD's love
My son's love
The love of family
The love of friends
As for a life-mate love
I'm looking for
A pure honest kinda love
A solace kinda love
That pray together kinda love
That play together kinda love
That breaking dawn, just communing kinda love
Yes, that rocking da bed & yo world kinda love
That, "he's mine" kinda love
That's sanctioned by GOD kinda love
That respect me as I am kinda love
But let's evolve together kinda love
That lets build a home, a community, a nation kinda love
That lean on me, I got yo back til mine breaks kinda love
That I can stand yo funk, cause you're mine kinda love
Through the good & the bad kinda love
A real REAL kinda love
...ya, feeling me, right? 
copyright 2/2006 Erika L. Finney -aka- eshe
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February 6, 2006 - Monday
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A Father's Worth
Current mood: loved
Category: Life
A Father's Worth
In honor of my father, Edward Finney
A father's worth...
Is in the eyes of his children
The strut of their walk
The pride in their stance
It's about the content of his character
The life lessons he taught
His passion for life
It's about the love he bestows
His prayers that go up
The depth of his soul
It's in the house he made home
The hard work and sweat of his brow
The respect that he gives
It's about his willingness to grow
His honesty and understanding
Him appreciating his family
A father's worth
Is not about perfection
It's about the totality of his package
His flaws and all
Copyright © 2004 Erika Finney aka ~eshe~
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January 14, 2006 - Saturday
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What Kinda Shyt Is This?
Current mood:  pissed off
Category: News and Politics
i was gonna blog this yesterday, but didn't get around to it, plus i wanted to see if i could get more info on this news report...
yesterday on the local news, here in north carolina, a young, black, female, high school student, in franklin county was tasered by the school's "rent-a-cop".
by her admission, she was breaking up a fight, when the safety officer pushed her down and tasered her, then while she was on the floor telling him she hadn't done anything, he tasered her again...smirking, and condescendingly, asking if she wanted some more.
student, eye witnesses that were interviewed (by the way, the students interviewed were white), agreed w/the victim's account of the incident and also believed it was truly uncalled for.
now, i understand what many teachers are up against in our schools these days...gangs, violence, weapons....but on the other hand, how do you safeguard our children, when you employ vigilante faux force and arm them w/tasers...and label them as peace officers.
the parents of the victim believe it was a racial incident. they believe that if their daughter was a white student, she would not have ended up being zapped like some damn mosquito, and they are going to sue!
people, what the fuck is going on? what's the image of the baton that we're passing on to our children? what have our schools become?
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October 14, 2005 - Friday
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Island of Stupidity...just venting (excuse me), after getting a STUPID, vulgar myspace message!
Current mood: when i started writing, i was pissed, now i'm cool
there is a distinct difference between naivete and stupidity, knowledge would solve the naive man's problem, but the stupid man is aware, but careless and complacent.
we can forgive the naive, even make excuses and allowances for him, "he didn't know, he's uninformed &/or unenlightened", but the stupid one, is stupid because 9 times out of 10 he knows of the problem, but won't work at correcting it. A frequent on that "island of stupidity", and i refuse to reside there!
GOD intended for man to make conscious decisions, to be directors of our own lives. otherwise, we'd be animals, walking on all four, living on instinct only.
for example...an ex of mine, once did some dirt, but i forgave him. he screwed up again...i dug deep & forgave him again. thrice fugg ups...i packed his bags and put him out (enough is enough)!
GOD wants us to be forgiving because HE is, but HE doesn't want us to be frequents on that "island of stupidity", and i, personally, refuse to reside there!
i have a five year old son and i've told him many times in his five years to stay away from the stove. "ellis, don't touch the stove, it's hot!" ellis once touched the stove and burned himself. why? he was naive (and hard headed...ok, i lost my focus...lol), unaware of what the word hot meant. he only knew of the word because of what i or his father told him. now because of the ill experience of the heat against his skin, he's extremely careful around the stove.
now, if after the knowledge, my pride and joy continued touching the stove all 'willy-nilly'...oh, i'd have to pack his scooby doo suitcase & he'd be on his way to that "island of stupidity" (quick fast  )!
a little knowledge goes a lonnnnnnnnng way people...stay off that island!
peace!
p.s. to you pariahs who send the nasty messages...get a freaking life. if that's your game...you'll never get any play!
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