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

Welcome to the 18th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fiftieth 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)Memories of mirrors

3) Three poems unraveling one story

4) The Settlement - Jiausiku

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

Approximate galactic mergings

KWL romance tropes episode

The art of manipulation

GDBee kickstarter

Chocolate Cage

Black Statian Award list

CENTO Series episode 50

I will have to tear away at that very last veil

no matter how far I've come

and face the truths that have kept us prisoner
https://www.deviantart.com/bronsrealm/art/Poetry-The-Veil-978707224

We do not remember

As if a sculpture etched, in our mind's

will not be used for pottery.

As if our swimmer's know, by bone -

heavy, to speed the sinking.

We do not remember
https://www.deviantart.com/maggotsx/art/Memories-by-the-Lake-959383727

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

Memories of mirrors

join the discussion or view video
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2667&type=status

submission 

video

Three poems unraveling one story

The challenge was  simple, three poems as part of one story. You need to read them in order: PRivate Eye, Woman, Secretary

The Private Eye

The Woman

The Secretary

The post to discuss on AALBC

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2674&type=status

and the invitational

https://www.deviantart.com/xyron7777777/journal/Week-4-Folder-Open-AND-Poetry-Challenge-1044434074

The Settlement

A play of original matrimony

forum discussion
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10991-the-settlement-from-richard-murray/

DATES

May

5- Moon is closest to Earth, perigee + Moon is moving south to north to the path of the Sun in the sky, the ecliptic

6- Mercury Moon conjunction

7- New Moon + Venus Moon conjunction

8- Jupiter Moon conjunction+ Uranus Moon conjunction

9- Mercury greatest elongation in the sky 26 degrees west

10- 1908 Anna Jarvis organized Mother's Day observance at Andrews Methodist Episcopal church, Grafton, Virginia 1908

11 Moon highest above equator, rides high ; Mamertus christian saint day , first of Three CHilly Saints Pancras is second, and Gervais is third

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2654&type=status

Approximate galactic mergings

in four billion years the galaxy once called Milky Way will collide with the galaxy once called andromeda, completely, if you are not scared read on

explanation from nasa
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-shows-milky-way-is-destined-for-head-on-collision
from earthsky
https://earthsky.org/space/earths-night-sky-milky-way-andromeda-merge/

KWL romance tropes episode

enjoy the forum talk 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10968-kwl-romance-tropes-episode/

The art of manipulation

The source of the image  you see was made with computer programs but it took 42 hours of touchups to get the source of the image you see to the image you see. Human art is still needed.

GDBee Kickstarter

she earned over 1000 preorders and still time for more

the link to the kickstarter or to discuss the artist is at the following

Chocolate Cage

You take a balloon, if you have skill form it into a shape. 
Then melt chocolate. Your preference as chocolate comes in many forms. But I think you can even melt simple hershey bars. 
Then put the melted chocolate in a funnel , wait for the chocolate to be in a melting state like syrup or honey, not a liquid state. 
then open the funnel's spout and spread the chocolate in a pattern about the balloon
Then wait for the chocolate to cool. 
then once cool, pop the balloon and a chocolate cage:)
 and you can add things to the chocolate like nuts or other things for different flavors. 

referral

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1035682822/5125780174

thought on a creative writing degree

Black Statian Award list

I realize I have never seen a list of awards concerning the black populace in the usa that are federalwide. 

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 43rd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-second 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) American Fiction

3) GDBee's Hovergirls

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

24/7 Fae Farm ambiance, Blackgameselite

Book Contracts with Suzanne Lucas Gossen side Jane Friedman

The Fall That Saved Us Cover Reveal in Thistle and Verse, author Tamara Jeree

Jann Wenner and the art of the fair interview

CENTO Series episode 22

Ordained between hearts

There my disquiet soul oft finds solace

For in dreams, one dares actions

Or desecrate nature's verdant sanctum

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/What-Dreams-May-Dare-971655253

I found you in the darkness,

Captured by poisonous petals

Stripped of lies and deceit

Playing with the evil

Look at me and see me

We should run away

Oxytocin waves

there is no need in God

https://www.deviantart.com/erotesque/art/Oxytocin-972261568

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? 

American Fiction

What is the role of private ownership in the artistic industry under a government that utilizes fiscal capitalism? Is it a space where those who have money are free to do as they will? Or is it a where those who have money have to act according to some philosophy/standard/viewpoint? 

Leave your thoughts in comments here or the article linked below

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10600-black-writers-your-thoughts/

GDBee's Hovergirls

Congrats to GDBee for getting her first paper publishing , get more information and various links to preorder at the link below
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2500&type=status

or if you are too lazy

I do calligraphic commissions

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

DATES

• October 22: 2008 India's first Lunar probe 

From Official  Indian Space Research Organization (I.S.R.O.) pdf file
https://web.archive.org/web/20100613064645/http://isro.org/publications/pdf/Chandrayaan-1-booklet.pdf

wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

• October 23: Venus greatest elongation from the sun 46 degrees east
• October 24: Saturn Moon conjunction
• October 25: Moon nearest Earth in its orbit about Earth; Neptune Moon conjunction
• October 26: Moon at Equator, center of Moon plus Earth at Earth's equator;Jacques Villaneuve is the last  non european formula 1 winner in 2008
• October 27: Moon crossing south to north of the path of the sun in the sky, the ecliptic. 
• October 28: The Moon surface facing the earth is fully illuminatedby the Sun, -Full Moon- called a hunter for this time is best for hunting in North America; Lunar Eclipse as the Moon is in the shadow of the earth, when the light of the sun is blocked most by the earth.

Trivia: DO full moon's and lunar eclips'es happen at the same time. 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

24/7 Fae Farm ambiance

showcased on Blackgameselite

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/400-enter-the-cozy-realm-of-your-dreams-247-cozy-ambient-videos-make-your-dream-link/

Book Contracts with Suzanne Lucas Gossen side Jane Friedman

an in depth discussion , video free to view

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10547-a-discussion-on-book-contracts/

The Fall That Saved Us Cover Reveal in Thistle and Verse, author Tamara Jeree

click the image or url to see the cover and hear from the author

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10549-the-fall-that-saved-us-cover-reveal-in-thistle-and-verse-author-tamara-jeree/

Jann Wenner and the art of the fair interview

I read Wenner's [a creator of 'rolling stone magazine'] New York times 09/19/2023 interview  in completion.  He was asked a very personal question. How did you choose subjects for your book? His answer was honest while judgmental, but he also conveyed his own method for interviews which the interviewee of the times was ignorant of. I find it a simple reality. Wenner didn't relate to non white + non male rock and roll artist cause non white + non male rock and roll artist are different. Labor practices among women are well known to differ than men, even in the same situation. This relates to how non black or non male artist interview , which Wenner judged disconnected to the talking points of white male rock and roll artist.

The complete interview is linked using the photo or url below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2461&type=status

For automotive lovers, do you know how to say Porsche correctly?

The most recent solar eclipse, only visible in west coast usa

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 10th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

 Do you know of Wabi Sabi, a perspective philosophy from Japan. I have created a work in its honor. GDbee created coloring pages for Black History Month. One is here, click the associated link to get more.

WHAT IS WABI SABI? 

I am no elser student of the viewpoint/aesthetic/lifestyle. As I comprehend it, the goal is to embrace unorder. Not to seek it out but to embrace it.  For a HaikuWriMo I created the poetry set with the Wabi Sabi concept as I comprehend it. Itself, a concept that suggest one does not need to make a scene if one is not complete in comprehending a thing. 

I have a preview before links to the complete work. 

In the audio of Kobo or the literature+ GIF <graphics interchange format> in deviantart in more detail in their descriptions

THE PREVIEW

THE AUDIO

THE LITERATURE OR GIF

BLACK HISTORY MONTH COLORING PAGES

GDBee , a great artist, recently with work showcased at Times Square in NYC made some coloring pages for Black History Month. One is below, but click the image or the link to see more. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2268&type=status

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2269&type=status

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 7th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

I offer others questions and my answers concerning Valentines Day. And Carnival is alive and kicking in Brasil. Are you ready for your local variant?  I offer others questions and my answers concerning Black History Month. I will love to know your answers, remember you can guest comment. If you want to read the 590 page civilian complaint review board assessment to the NYPD in 2020 read above IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR. 

Happy Besooned Valentine's Day

What medium or style of art are you most obsessed with?
None, I am not obsessed to any medium or style of art. But the art I will like to be satisfied in creating that I am farthest from is literature based games. But I am romancing it, so to speak.

What love-themed artwork(s) do you believe are the most powerful, and why?
I will say love songs are the most powerful from love themed artworks. Why? At their best they are a blend of two heart felt passions wrapped in one. 
The words when best, have a comprehension that can be sung by a mute lover through their eyes or a lonely yearning person calling out in isolation. 
But, when a vocalist is at their best, they can utilize the words to emit frequencies that massage the doubts or dismissals from one who has no memory of a loving touch or provide paths for memories in the wind to re-enter the silverhaired. 
Unlike the film, the song need not be seen. 
Unlike the painting, the song touches the body. 
Unlike the book, the song has a voice when one can't imagine it on their own.
If you are interested in some love songs, consider the list in the following work, I suggest Nat King Cole, Fly Me To The Moon

Has love or obsession inspired you to create a work of art? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
Yes, love has inspired the following work. I am a private person. It is a gif + poetry, click to see.

If you will like something to color for Valentine's day consider the following version, please share with me if you do

If you want to listen to the poetry , I offer the following

Referral Page
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Heart-to-HeArt-Share-love-for-Valentines-Day-944781878
 

Carnival 

Salvador Carnival begins on the 15th and ends on the 22nd

And honoring Yemanya never ends, Odoya Iemanja!

Video is available at the link below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2227&type=status
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Q&A

What Black artists have inspired you, and what about their work do you find inspiring?

For writing: Zora Neale Hurston+ August Wilson+ Dwayne McDuffie

For drawing: Jean Michele Basquiat 

For sculpting: Dahomey sculpture artist , Edmonia Lewis

For dance: Sammy Davis Jr, Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson

For photography: Gordon Parks

For Music: Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Sade 

I have more but they came first to mind

Zora Neale Hurston for cognizing the value of Black Art that was being forgotten or lost during her own time, while creating art that cherished an aspect of the Black community that wasn't as in favor as other black artist or white owned media cared for.

August Wilson for the way in which Black communal life is presented complexly while unaffrontingly, I find too many Black artists write Black people as weapons. 

Dwayne McDuffie for influence on Milestone and his width of imagination.

Basquiat for his unique art way and being a fellow New Yorker, surviving for a time, the life of an artists, which can be tough

Dahomey sculpture's for an art work I like a lot they made and it is poignant to me personally.

Edmonia Lewis for never quitting while having two elements of herself that she had to accept met various resistance, and her cleopatra is magnificent.

Sammy Davis jr for how multitalented he was while always a dancer at heart

Gregory Hines for how he always presented tap dance in a street way

Michael Jackson for making dance mandatory in musical acts after him

Gordon Parks for how long it took him to begin to make it, in his 40s but he never stopped trying and reached out creatively when he did, not settling

Louis Armstrong for being relevant artistically while watching his art form change/grow/morph throughout his entire life

Marvin Gaye for telling it like it is with his art

Sweet Honey on the Rock for the soul in their voice

Sade cause she never forces the sound. 

I have many Black artist I am inspired by. 

I hope I can do as they did to me to someone else Black.

What are some of your favorite artworks that depict African American culture?

The People Can Fly written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Dianne Dillon. Virginia Hamilton in the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston kept alive stories that many Black homes had forgotten on their own intention. And she rewrote them lovely. Leo Dillon cause working with his white wife, Dianne, they just had a great sense of making art that didn't seem imitative but was accessible in intent to all. 

A few private works in my home. :) 

In what ways do you think art can be used to foster understanding and appreciation across cultures?

Art by default is messages from one or many individuals about their heritage<what they carry > or culture < what they grow> to whomever access it. 

I argue that art is meant to convey, the comprehension or appreciation some want art to instill in those who access art must come from the accessors themselves. 

I like the works of Ravel or the marches of the national socialist part of germany. But neither of said artful acts is why I don't attack french people or why I don't concur to the Nazi party. 

Art unfortunately is asked to be the peaceful bludgeon and that is unfair. 

The best way to utilize art is to allow art, the freedom of art. Said freedom will generate art work that you may oppose or dislike heavily, in my case Birth of a nation by Demille. But, it exposes the truth of the communities that create them. 

And rightly or wrongly, the truth is the beginning to any peaceful comprehension or appreciation between any, even if said duo is never reached in part or whole by one who access art. 

If you are interested in my writing , consider the following

enjoy my interpretation of a mascot for deviantart

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2240&type=status

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Title: Ariel Artist: RaySeb

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2228&type=status

Title: Blackity Black Artist: Coco Michelle

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2230&type=status

Title:  A Champion <The artist said the sword is enchanted obsidian> Artist: GDBee

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2235&type=status

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2243&type=status

It's about trust y'all

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

Happy Belated Perihelion

It was January 4th 2023 11:17 am and the earth was 91,403,034 miles from the sun, at that moment, the Earth continued its elliptical turn but now going slightly farther from the sun to the perihelion, which will be July 6th 2023  at 4:06pm with a distance of 94,506,364 miles. To do a general thought experiment, the Earth in the year 2023 will have a solid three million mile  difference in distance to the sun. Think on that, three million miles. 

Pokemon Plushie for Charity

Bedtime with Sudowoodo 

A bookreading list is available in the description of the plushie to consider for your child

A coloring page version is linked below as well for your enjoyment

BLACK ART

click on the images for more information

Monthly Notes

• 8th - Moon at Apogee - moon is furthest from earth, elvis presley born 1935
• 9th- Connecticut became 5th U.S.A. state 1788
• 12th - Mars stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars; Charleston Museum, 1st museum in the USA founded 1773
• 13th- Moon on equator ; Meeting to organize the national geographic society 1888 ; saint hilary catholic saint's day, considered by some to be the patron saint of lawyers
• 14th - 40,000 pounds of liquid chocolate flooded I-40 due to overturned tanker near flagstaff arizona
• 16th - Moon descending node, crossing north to south of the ecliptic, the path of the sun in the sky ; Martin Luther King jr. Day ; 
• 17th ; Eartha Kitt born 1927 ; Benjamin Franklin born 1706
• 18th - Pluto+Sun conjunction ; Mercury  stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars; A 0.66 pound meteorite crashed through a doctors office in lorton virginia in 2010
• 20th- Moons run low , lowest point under the celestial equator, the imaginary expanse from earth's equator outward to infinity ; mercury+moon conjunction ; Naomi Fraley- inspiration for the 1942 poster "we can do it" spirit flew in 2018
• 21st - New Moon , sunlight blocked by earth most greatly; Moon at Perigee, moon is closest to earth; pluto+moon conjunction
• 22nd- Lunar New Year - Year of the Rabbit, everyone!... BRIGHT EYES!!!; Venus+Saturn conjunction; Uranus stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars
• 23rd- Venus+Moon conjunction ; Saturn+Moon conjunction; 
• 24th - Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California, 1848, starting the commonly called california gold rush
• 25th- Jupiter+Moon conjunction; Neptune+Moon conjunction ; conversion of Paul- circa 34-37 Anno domina , year of god, when Paul stopped persecuting the followers of Jesus and became a follower of Jesus
• 26th- Moon at the equator
• 28th-  Moon ascending node, south to north of ecliptic, path of sun in the sky; Uranus+Moon conjunction; Helen Hogg astroner who did important research in variable stars or globular clusters spirit flew in 1993; Thomas Aquinas, whom bertrand russell claimed in more words was a semi charlatan, saint day, gardless of criticisms, aquinas is arguably a large advocate of main structures in white european culture, like natural law, that are now throughout humanity
• 30th- the moon will eclipse mars , some call an occultation , occult comes the word meaning to hide; Mercury will have its greatest elongation to the sun, its visual distance in the sky, 25 degrees west; aviator orville wright's spirit flew 1948
• 31st- Raccoons generally mate now, the word raccoon is from a native american tongue which means one who scratches with hands; Explorer 1, first successful usa satellite launched in 1958