08/06/2023 RMNewsletter
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading.
Welcome to the 32nd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.
1) The eleventh of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.
2) Love That Pass Ships In The Night
3) Are you eloi or morlock?
4) Gratitude
DATES
IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
Plant Dye Pocket on Handmade Dress
Tools for fetishes
Little Mermaid Review from Movies That Move We
Earliest second phase Africanfuturism
Everyone joins the Black complaint line in the usa
Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry played on the same stage
CENTO Series episode 11
Not knowing if I was up or down, I clung in vain to the roof-top
Or plummeted, I know not which...
For my tower stood on nothing but a rough-hewn asteroid,
All whirling round me, God's own kaleidoscope...
https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Anabasis-965876507
Sweet, little, unforgettable thing
No and I'm not sorry,
I'm just loving my body
so incredible
https://www.deviantart.com/fkataylor/art/The-Real-Qveen-2023-Redraw-965966657
If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection
Poetry or more ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Poetry or more Poetry of the months or seasons , 2015 to 2017 text only" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Seasonal or astrological poetry from Richard Murray between 2015 and ...
Or if you prefer to listen,
here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art?
Shani and the Shadow audiobook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Listen to "Shani and the Shadow A Upendi style poem that display one part of a longer journey" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by Richard Murray. Start a free 30-day trial ...
I do calligraphic commissions
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995
Love That Pass Ships In The Night
A work I intentionally made within a day using 9 random prompts. Listed below, I hope you enjoy. Really enjoyed this challenge.
- 9:30 am
- The last person that should be trusted with a secret
- A Frenchman
- Apolitical parade
- Twenty years in the future
- Fossilized tooth
- Blank sticky note
- Oversized feather
- scalpel
Are you Eloi or Morlock?
I am an Eloi. The traveler didn't traverse everywhere, somewhere else the local morlocks had ate most of the local eloi and began to eat themselves, eventually, the local morlocks murdered themselves off, and most of the local eloi died off of starvation. But the eloi who survived used the local green palance and lucked up to learning. they thrived by one time invites from individuals among other tribes of morlocks or eloi who went against the grain. One day they left eart, the traveler, never knew of this clan of eloi.
What is your vote?
Gratitude
Gratitude some say is being thankful or giving good will but in modernity I will suggest the best way to describe gratitude is spreading positivity to be positive. No one owes you positivity back for being positive to them just to be positive yourself. But, sharing positivity to be positive I think, is the best deterrent to negativity in all its forms as well as positivity for negative sake.
Speaking focusedly , as an artist, all other artists work i see allows me to absorb positivity even absent intent, cause the creativity to make any art can only add in the door stop of imagination to the door of the mind.
Inspire and Empower: Gratitude by AlexanderPaupoff on DeviantArt
In my final year of high-school, a teacher I greatly admired made a comment that seemingly came out of nowhere and took deep root in my mind. She remarked on her dislike for the word 'gratitude' ...
https://www.deviantart.com/alexanderpaupoff/journal/Inspire-and-Empower-Gratitude-974549189
DATES
- August 6th- Moon going from south to north of the ecliptic, the path of the sun in the sky; Honor of the catholic feast of the transfiguration, when Jesus spirit becomes radiant as john the baptist still lives, in religio-history , it is the only miracle that happened to jesus.
- August 8th- Jupiter-Moon conjunction; Uranus Moon conjunction; catholic saint dominic feast day, founder of the powerful dominican order
- August 9th- greatest elongation of mercury in the sky 27 degrees east, mercury is farther away from the sun in the sky than any time in the month
- August 10th- catholic saint lawrence, saint of firefighters, cut a light on in the night sky
- August 11th-Catholic St. Clare, the patron saint of television- 1958 look it up , she was personal friends with Francis of Assisi, wrote the first rules of life for a catholic order by a woman, to her own, The Order of Poor Ladies. The order she started is the first catholic order to have a rule of poverty. patron saint of eye disease... I think she did use her time to write a lot. The story about her joining a convent and her father's anger and her arranged betrothed rage and francis's role or perceived role is pure telenovela:) her father:)
- August 12th- Moon highest over equator
IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
Plant Dye Pocket on Handmade Dress
from
Plant Dye For Textiles
See the short
https://youtube.com/shorts/y5kYFnB6dNc?si=HZfotUaIQzEaIz5K
The following is a complete video on the process of how she uses local leaves for dyes
Tools for fetishes
Tools are simply tools, they are used to aid in doing something. By default some tools have the ability to allow someone to do a team of human's work themselves. But, at the end, the tool is never the source of the problem in the resulted craft. That is the human role.
Little Mermaid Review from Movies That Move We
Earliest second phase Africanfuturism
free to read in completion
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/390-earliest-africanfuturism/
Everyone joins the Black complaint line in the usa
Growing up in the black community in the USA you always hear elders speak of nonviolent striving. The concept is simple. Follow the law, become a fiscal capitalistic mastermind, and you will wear down or upend the powers that be who allow themselves illegal growth or cheat fiscal capitalistic rules for their betterment.
But what you learn time and again as a Black person is not the futility of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not futile. But it has impotency against violent power. In the USA those in power achieved that power through violence. Nonviolence can't undo or overcome that power to the enslaved/restricted/limited/impotent, it never has in human history< ethiopia/china/cuba/haiti/ireland unlike their peers or similars didn't achieve through nonviolence and the reason is clear> and I argue nonviolence will never undo violent power< if gandhi's movement in india, if the nonviolent adamant black community of tulsa oklahoma , if the native american's hyper green lifestyle long before the green movement of white hippies couldn't overcome violence, how can less honest or less focused attempts succeed?>
I am not advocating violence from blacks to whites or the government system in the usa ... i am not advocating any impotent group utilize violence in the usa to their oppressor... but I am stating a simple historical fact. Power matters, power through violence isn't to be scoffed at, ownership through violence has a strength that is very strong. Those without the ability to gain power through violence or ownership through violence are not futile or dysfunctional but they have a ceiling of potency.
Now the following are two pleas. One from a latino of the usa and one from a woman of the usa, asking when the anglo, male, white owners or powerful will share power or share ownership?
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2390&type=status
Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry played on the same stage
Rock and Roll is Black y'all
Showcasing the great Norma Jan Wofford, aka the Dutchess
let no one tell you black women are foreign to the guitar