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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 12th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-fourth 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)The Precipice

3) Center for Black Literature Highlights, day 1 +2

4)sign on a signpost

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies that move we reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be?

Are you a Dune Fan? 

What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with?

Questions of Supermen?

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

Black Poetry you are feeling now

CENTO Series episode 44

so for better or for worse

for the next generation is in our hands

be they nuclear or diverse

and they move onto the next lands
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Parents-982918450

this art generates pure bliss

that can leave the mind blown

putting skills to the test 
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Gift-Art-984156376

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

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? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

The Precipice

of the Jiausiku shadowowrlds  series
Author/Artist:  Richard Murray
 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Precipice-1033130281

stageplay

Ikwawezi in snowfur form

colored
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-march-madness-1033124804

coloring page

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-coloring-page-1033123230

tutorial to create

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tutorial-of-the-Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-1033119449

Pandaj family character page
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Pandaj-Family-Coloring-Page-1033117291

Center for Black Literature Highlights

Day 1 highlights: Michael Eric Dyson

I saw Michael Eric Dyson live at the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, the following hold my thoughts

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190

Day 2 part 1 highlights: Dionne Bennett, Levi Catoe, Russell Nurick

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193

Day 2 part 2 highlights: Tiya Miles interviewed by Brenda M Greene

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212

sign on a signpost

what would you put on the signpost?

DATES

Happy Belated March Equinox story

_{The March equinox is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere while autumn in the southern hemipshere}

Story 1https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-march-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=878  

Happy belated Saint Patrick's Day story   

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=889  

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies That Move We reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

Review of all three movies from Movies That Move We

I offer my thoughts in the comments

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10865-movies-that-move-we-rustin-2024-american-fiction-2023-the-color-purple-2023/

View the Color Purple Review below, but use the link for the others plus my thoughts

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be? 

Hmmm I went with the tomato dog in the attack of the killer tomatoes cartoon. See, it isn't a dog, it is technically still a tomato , thus a plant. so it needs water and light BUT it barks and has some sort of permanent leaves that act as   legs to crawl about. I have no idea if it is male or female... or both, and what happens if it cross pollinates . I don't know if anybody else has read this far, as I rabble on, but what if the tomato dog cross pollinates with a pumpkin or a pomegranate or a watermelon. As long as I don't see any audrey signs I am good to go. And as a tomato it has to have seeds... but, as a tomato dog, what if it mates with a canine of sorts. I don't know if the tomato dog has .. um a penis or vagina but i will love to see it mate with a black belgian shepard wolf, imagine a burgundy belgian shepard tomato wolf. I have money right, land right. I don't know what will happen. IT could be my doom. The Fall of the house of Richard by the Burgundy Tomato wolf . Imagine the howl of the tomato wolf Yeah , my dream pet is the tomato dog , I have officially convinced myself

https://www.deviantart.com/writeddreams2reality/journal/Weekly-Community-Journal-146-1027766557

Are you a Dune Fan?

Did you know how Dune the book came to survive the magazine zone

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10866-name-a-black-story-told-in-magazine-format-that-you-want-to-see-as-a-book/

 What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with? 
 

I want to speak on how grammar plus punctuation are approached. 
Louis 14th , or another french monarch if I am wrong, made the first french, labeled, standard.  
Why? There was a time in France where the people in the various regions spoke so many versions commercial or communicative purposes were stymied. A modern example I can give is a few years ago the coach of the english women's flag team stated the women come from so many different places , in modern england, that they have a hard time comprehending each other talking together on the pitch. So they use the standard english to communicate to each other.  
Grammar rules or punctuation rules in any language in all of human history are made and enforced to improve communication or commerce among a set of humans. 
Sequentially, don't treat said rules as the essence of writing but a ruleset. No different than the equation of a line: value in one axis equals the slope of the line multiplied by the value in the axis perpendicular  to the intercepting value in the one axis. 
You have the right to forget a rule. That is why they have rulebooks. Take your time , go through your work, and make the changes if need be. Use a reference book. Use the various electronic tools if accessible. 
But, As Zora Neale Hurston or Robert Burns prove, in opposition to commerce or communication, creative purposes do not require said commonly accepted grammar or punctuation rules. Both of said artists have work that was and is deemed negative grammatically or punctuation wise because they don't fit the commonly accepted standards. 
I end with, listen to Writed, use or apply the commonly accepted rules of the written word. They are mostly known or accepted. They do aid in making communication or commerce better. But, if you creatively wish to go another way, you are free to or not erroneous in doing so. Just be willing to accept many may or will chastise your creative work because it doesn't embrace said rules.
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1028537409/5121061562

Questions of Supermen?

I answer the following two questions

• IF discovery channel takes your name out of a container of random writers names, and gives you the chance to do a superman movie. Describe your film in one sentence?
• LEt's say Discovery channel chose you and not tae nihis coates to do a black superhero movie, what will the superhero be and describe it in one sentence?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10870-questions-of-supermen/

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

_{the following was a comment to the following video concerning the work of tolkien not finished}

The beginning of the New Shadow reminds me of Ivanhoe from Walter Scott. Ivanhoe at its heart is a book about two whose bloody merger will become one. The beginning of New Shadow suggest one who is becoming two. 

Did Tolkien ever write a story about the Haradrim or sothyrons? I know of characters but never heard of a story tolkien wrote.

To your final question, I am surprised no one in fanfiction has tried something. Tolkien has so many fans and so many fans are writers. 

Black Poetry you are feeling now
what is some favorite black poetry, I share some of mine
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10847-still-i-rise/?do=findComment&comment=65884

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-fifth 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) Princess Candace new year celebration

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know Dredd?

Danse Macabre from Camille Saint-Saëns

Focus Comics

American Baby

CENTO Series episode 35

 so when your turn has finally arrived

live life like there is no tomorrow

you have only so long to witness all the sights

embedded so deep within our soul

in a world that is everlasting 
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Time-980353227

Denn nichts ist was war

Dem Leid zu entfliehen

Im sinkenden Rausch

Trost in der Leere

Bricht Bahn zur Unendlichkeit

Nur abwarts der Strom

Because nothing is what was

to escape from suffering

In the sinking frenzy

solace in the void

Breaks a path to infinity

Just down the stream
https://www.deviantart.com/solddown/art/Charybdis-original-953609310

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

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? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Princess Candace new year celebration

Princess Candace is working on her statue outside the city of  Nemito [some call four rivers] for the four rivers that sector the land. Others call this place Yawakati [for the four districts in different technological times]. She won the right to build her statue on the bay of the city through her success in a gatlopp. It is new years and the city is celebrating but she is busy enjoying herself with her winnings.

color

coloring page

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know Dredd?

I am a huge fan of the film Dredd starring as the top bill, Karl Urban

It's financial utilization, and its approach to a science fiction story that is quite entailed or historied into a one and done movie, i argue need to be commended.

and while we are at it, a look at the film, Underworld

Danse Macabre from Camille Saint-Saëns

Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition:

    Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence,
    Striking with his heel a tomb,
    Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
    Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.
    The winter wind blows and the night is dark;
    Moans are heard in the linden trees.
    Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,
    Running and leaping in their shrouds.
    Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
    The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—
    But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,
    They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.

Focus Comics

They have classes for autistic children to make comics and more. 

Thank Tony Todd, the thespian for sharing the organization.

https://focuscomic.com/

American Baby

If you were financially wealthy and lived outside the usa, never been to the usa, will you want a baby sharing your blood born there?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10715-american-baby-on-pbs/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 46th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-fifth 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) Lee and Low 2024 titles 

3)Kobo indie book cover contest

4) The Women of Brewster Place reviewed from Movies That Move We

5) Calling N.A.S.A.

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know about female snakes?

The legend soundtracks

The Music of Vi Redd

Angelique Noire and the modern dress code

CENTO Series episode 25

A Surprise Lyric Cento. I will cite the original at the end, but let's see if you can figure it out first.

Attack of the Killer Great Fungoids!
Attack of the Killer Great Fungoids! 

From Richard’s lab come forth each week 
The ripe white monsters of which we speak
Except when he has, a security leak!
Great Fungoids, Great Fungoids!

Oh, isn’t it a pity? - Fungoids eating the netty!
Can no one stop these mutant fruits? Where will we find our brave recruits?
Can Chaos get rid, of that dumb parachute?
Great Fungoids, Great Fungoids! Yes!

thanks to menaomar of youtube for the original cartoon's lyrics

Cartoon song - I don't know who manipulated the film theme for the cartoon, if you find out, do tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixpFgIxpffU

original film song - words and music by John De Bello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1mWDyVL7Vs

photo inspiration
https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Emissaries-of-Ye-Third-Kingdom-974299166

Left to my fate, left to drift on the silver spangled sea 

Till the end of time, 

Beats the heart she stole
https://www.deviantart.com/royalartist91/art/Universal-love-968762349

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

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? 

Lee and Low 2024 titles 

they suggested the following

MILES OF STYLE: EUNICE W. JOHNSON & THE EBONY FASHION SHOW
by Lisa D. Brathwaite & illustrated by Lynn Gaines
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/miles-of-style

SAFE PASSAGE
by G. Neri & illustrated by David Brame
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/safe-passage

I wrote a review for Miles of Style, I am getting it published soon. It will be too late for this newsletter.

The seasonal showcase

Edelweiss review book
https://www.edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=4928356&page=1

URL
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10640-lee-low-spring-2024-titles-for-review-consideration/

Kobo indie book cover contest

If you published a book this year on Kobo, submit the cover, you only get one per author so do it for your cover illustrator. It must be an indie book. 

more information
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2510&type=status

I submitted the following book's cover as my entry , if you didn't see it already

The Women of Brewster Place reviewed from Movies That Move We

The discussion on AALBC

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10643-the-woman-of-brewster-place-review-in-movies-that-move-we/

Calling N.A.S.A.

I asked , don't know if they will reply [I will post in a later newsletter edition if they do]

Most governments in humanity are poor, they don't have the wealth or resources of the USA. Engineering is a process of gradual improvement. For example: people who built unmotorized bicycles went into automotive or aircraft manufacturing. My question: before a mission control for space exploration can be built is the prior construction an air traffic control ?
ask
https://nasa.tumblr.com/ask
First WOman comic [text/audio/video free to view]
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2511&type=status

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

DATES

November

• 13: New Moon- moon gets the least visible light from the sun; Mars+Moon conjunction; Uranus at opposition to the sun [look reverse of the sunrise]
• 14: Mercury+Moon conjunction
• 15: William Herschel born 1738 

Original manuscript of his Symphony No. 15 in E-flat major (1762)

Replica in the William Herschel Museum, Bath, of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus

He was one of the earliest to note infrared radiation in europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

• 16: Moon closest to the south pole, runs low; skylab 4 launched 1973, the usa's only space station
• 18:  Mars +Sun conjunction ; Pluto +Moon conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know about female snakes?

I admit I knew about female snakes while totally ignorant about female snake vaginas. But I must go to the beginning. I saw the following image.

And I realized something. How can a snake-woman mate? In many images, snake woman seem to have a vagina like a human woman but that doesn't fit the snake anatomy well. Now I know that many species have an organ some call a cloaca [I learned for bird research a while back] which is designed to be a place for peeing/defecating/birthing. And I was right in my guess that snakes have cloacas. So I searched for one for females and I learned this is not commonly known. Knowing this if I ever do a hybrid snake-human woman in the future I will consider that reality in her posture. A study done in 2022 says the following in italic, with the entirety at the URL linked after the italic text. Remember to click read more. 

Despite more than two centuries' worth of data on hemipenes, however, nobody had described an equivalent structure in female snakes. The lack of evidence caused some scientists to speculate that snake hemiclitorises might not exist at all — or that, if they did, they had been reduced to a stunted evolutionary remnant.

A lack of research around female anatomy is a troubling scientific trend. Even in humans, surprisingly little is known about the clitoris. The full structure of the organ, which includes not only the little nub at the top of the labia but also two large internal bulbs full of nerve endings, wasn't discovered until the mid-1840s. Even then, it remained relatively obscure to the medical establishment until Australian urologist Helen O'Connell's work in 2005, which showed that typical textbook depictions of the clitoris were riddled with inaccuracies. In fact, just last month, scientists counted all 10,000 nerve fibers in the human clitoris for the first time.

Data about female reproductive anatomy and behavior in nonhuman animals are even more scarce. A November analysis published in the journal Nature found that between 1970 and 2021, more than seven times as many papers were published about sperm competition in animals compared with female mate selection. A 2014 perspectives article published in the journal PLOS Biology found that about 50% of all studies of animal genitalia published between 1989 and 2013 focused exclusively on males, while 10% focused only on females. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2471&type=status

I know i am a member , but, damn patriarchy:) 

The legend soundtracks

if you don't know the film, see the following, yes full of spoilers. but, skip to the next topic if you don't want to. And, the reviewers are biased.

Okay, I will place, Goldsmith's first and then Tangerine's second as i can only do linear positioning her for embeds.

Side note before you go, aren't the covers both great. 

The Music of Vi Redd

DO you know of another Jazz musician who is not a singer while female?

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2474&type=status

an interview

Angelique Noire and the modern dress code

view her fashion tips and see an interview where she discusses fashion

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2475&type=status

Here are some examples of Angelique Noire in fashion

Some words from a spokesperson to a majority of women , who are rarely advertised

The peoples who have been destroyed or severely diminished by other peoples is a long list

https://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkarrington/53310381903/in/feed-12326253-1699158123-1-72157721693861963

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 42nd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-first 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.  But a surprise await.

2)Promptpot part 2 intro

3) A variation of my work from Supertiti09

4)criblore

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

How to make Film Noir cocktails

Ahsoka Tano is needed

Steven Barnes thinking on Ray BRadbury

Martha Wells what isn't lacking is merit

CENTO Series episode 21

I used to lay awake, afraid to sleep

Of how or where I will be a better man

And though we often come to sharper tones

I used to lay awake ,afraid to sleep

https://www.deviantart.com/polysyllogism/art/Wilted-966397568

whether in pleasantry or fear

or perhaps the bright and bombastic

we are a judgmental kind

it is our right to free will

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Beauty-970960402

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

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? 

Promptpot part 2 intro

Two more elements in the second pot. One for Arktober and the other for Drawtober. 

Arktober

Drawtober

A variation of my work from Supertiti09

Supertiti09 made a variant of my work as a prize, it looks so adult magazine-ish. Supertiti09 truly has experience in the art of lust.

Candy Picker the variant YOU HAVE TO CLICK, THESE ARE MATURE IMAGES

My original REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO CLICK THESE ARE MATURE IMAGES, note my two versions as well, braless + with bra:) 

Inspiration to see the images above

Criblore

a new work from Filledwithmagic

more information at the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2496&type=status

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

DATES

• October 15:  Mars Moon conjunction; Henry Perky patent for shredded wheat. 

Shredded Wheat Patent-expired

https://patents.google.com/patent/US548086

Patent List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Perky#Patents

• October 16: Walt Disney company founded 1923
• October 20: Moons closest to South pole, lowest under equator; Sun is between Mercury and Earth, superior.
• October 21: Pluto Moon conjunction; 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

How to make Film Noir cocktails

click the image or link below to learn, video or time index notes for specificity are present

 https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2448&type=status

Ahsoka Tano is needed
Read the full article, click following image or url 

https://aliciamccalla.com/blogs/blog/ahsoka-tano-the-badass-jedi-superheroine-we-need

My Reply

Well... Disney-StarWars has made female strong characters in most of their recent work: star wars episode 7/8/9- ray who finally ends the emperors reign and stars a new era absent the sith or jedi; rogue one- the daughter of the death star engineer, absent any force, who sacrifices all and guides others to make important choices and sacrificial choices to do one good while very powerful deed;Mandalorian show- Boka Tan changes from a defeated isolated leader to a better communal leader, even getting guidance by a man plus older woman, still with great fighting skill, who succeeds in fufilling her goal of uniting her people; Book of Boba- fennec shand <I do enjoy her> survives being betrayed by a younger man and becomes the trusted second in command, while visibly more dangerous than her boss, an older m, to an independent underworld empire; Ashoka Tano- has Ashoka who: admits she was/is wrong, survive failure, is extremely skilled plus lethal, trusts others to help to a collective goal, and moves in a very non offensive way, and chooses to continue training a child, no one, not even a very experienced purely logical machine, thinks has a chance of finishing her education. And is accompanied by a green skinned female general who always seems level headed but never follows orders blindly and is very sharp minded. A female padwan with the least amount of obvious impressiveness, a sign of how self loathing moth gideon was, who is full of love, who finally accepts her mandalorian roots. With female strong villains in a grey haired witch who is strong and in charge, but not flashy, while a young female warrior dedicated to a master but with a honest cruel streak. So the writers at the Star WArs section of disney have been working on female strong characters from the Stars wars films for a while, and they seem to be getting better with age. And the quality of male characters to the writers credit don't seem to be getting worse but are staying with them. I think the problem with the hans solo movie or the obi wan kinobi show was the male leads. 

Steven Barnes thinking on Ray Bradbury

Steven Barnes + Charles Johnson speak on their careers and their relationship to Ray BRadbury

Video+ Transcript accessible by clicking the image or url below

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/398-a-night-with-dr-charles-johnson-and-steven-barnes/

for a thoughtful talk to inspire, consider a firedance

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10544-firedance-from-tananarive-due-side-steven-barnes-of-lifewriting-09162023/

Martha Wells what isn't lacking is merit

The problem isn't that the impotent haven't merited more in a world dominated by the powerful. It is that the powerful overrode and override merit with power.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2457&type=status

I end with some blessings

the dog lunged back when blessed, 

why is a human throwing plant at me?

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 29th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The eighth 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. 

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Joseph Bologne

Malenga Mulendema 

Films from Rosie Mbakam

Shacarri Richardson

Artistic Truth

CENTO Series episode 8

Showing feelings of love vastly grown.

Her heavy hips shifted and swayed where she seated,

Maeve said, “No, like this,”

Maeve reached a white hand, touching

"We fit together like a hand in a glove"

https://www.deviantart.com/white-rose-brian/art/Gustavo-s-Special-Night-964736804

Though friends all tried to warn her

Her heart was stolen by the fae

From the rooftops merrily 

Brushed aside and lost

In through her window he did dance

And oh, his beauty charmed her

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Chimney-Sweep-Visual-Version-855690630

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

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? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

DATES

• July 17th-  New Moon
• July 18th- Nelson Mandela born 1918; First Muharram begins at sundown; Moon is surrounded by Venus + Mercury from now till the 20th 
• July 19th- Mercury moon conjunction; 1848, first women's rights convention in the USA at Seneca Falls <DEclaration of Sentiments ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woman%27s_Rights_Convention.jpg > < Frederick Douglass said : Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence ; full text->  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments#Opening_paragraphs > 
• July 20th- Moon at Apogee, furthest from earth; Venus moon conjunction; Venus stationary, appear still in the sky; 
• July 21st-  Mars Moon conjunction; Pluto at opposition, meaning opposite the rising sun in the sky <difficult to see>
• July 22nd- St Mary MAgdalene  < yes, the wife of Jesus > 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Joseph Bologne

video review from movies that move we  and my thoughts 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10400-chevalier-review-on-movies-that-move-we/

Uptight 1968

a film with Ruby Dee, and an uncommon perspective to black militancy in the usa

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10393-the-film-uptight-1968/?do=findComment&comment=61815

Malenga Mulendema 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2378&type=status

Films from Rosie Mbakam

https://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2023/07/mambar-pierrette-4.html

Sha'Carri Richardson 

wins her first USA National

Artistic Truth 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2377&type=status

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/