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

Welcome to the 14th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter . A closing thought on Women's history month in the U.S.A. from a heterosexual male.  Shani and the shadow in the Richard Murray Tip Jar. Some dates in April. In, IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR, a question and answer from Jasmine Marie of Black Girls Breathing. South Side Home Movie Project 3/29/2023 webinar review. 

My Closing Thought on Women's History Month

I will start with the unimportant line, women's history is all year round. Women's history proves, an individual woman, a sole woman, one woman alone, can achieve anything. I repeat, history prove a female individual, girl or woman, immature or mature, can achieve anything, even against any level of male dominance. But history displays the biggest challenge in the community of women is growing greater as a group aside the community of men. The female collective in the last three centuries hasn't been able to overcome male dominance. Comprehend, dominance isn't evil. Sometimes the older are stronger than the youth. Sometimes the muslim are stronger than the christian. Sometimes the farmers are greater than the soldiers. The point is, in humanity, some communities are on a positive upswing while others are on a downswing, all the time. This is humanity. Females, girls plus women, need to figure out how to have a collective upswing. As a heterosexual man, women's strength doesn't frighten me or lessen me. When any other is stronger than you, if you want to be stronger than you have to become that. The challenge isn't a threat, it is merely a reality you make yourself. And, if you have no desire to be stronger than another, then you don't, and that is completely fine. But if you want to be stronger than any other by any measure, then the challenge is merely there.

Shani and the Shadow

A Upendi style poem. In my notes I have this as Shani and the Lion series. Where Shani goes from town to town. Facing a Lion that changes forms. If you like this story, maybe I will do another. The complete tale is linked as an audiobook below. An excerpt is available on Tiktok or youtube below.

April

• 6th- full pink moon
• 11th- Jupiter+sun conjunction ; mercury greatest elongation to the sun 20 degrees east. Mercury will be the highest in the sky but note Venus above Mercury.
• 12th- Charles Gayler received patent for fireproof iron chest 1833 < https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/4631 >
• 14th- Dr. Harry Plotz learned the cause of Typhus , announced 1915
• 18th- 1923 original yankee stadium opened, the yankees played at the polo grounds , in harlem, the stadium of the new york giants before
• 19th- Death of oldest known spider, a trapdoor, 43 years old, in 2018
• 20th- New Moon ; Annular Total Eclipse , visible over australia
• 22nd- Earth Day
• 23rd- First Youtube video , me at the zoo, uploaded 2005 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo > 
• 24th- spain declared war on the u.s.a. 1898
• 30th- U.S. department of Navy created 1798

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Questions and answer with Jasmine Marie of Black Girls Breathing and the Salem Witch trials with stacy schiff

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All questions and answers

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prior from Jasmine Marie

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Medgar Evers Wife 

A relative of Jeannete Foreman

Webinar with south side home movie project started by Jaqueline Stewart, my review of elements while experiencing.
Positive Black life in home movies. 
Women and History in home movies.
A 1940s party
Community tagging using an interaction between Jeanette Forman side Justin Williams
Oldest Black Home Movie in their collection

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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. 

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

Welcome to the 9th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

For someone special, I present music honoring black music from the past throughout the black american experience. To end Black History Month, i share a gallery, celebrating Black joy. Thistle and Verse have a book reveal. And, I begin an epistle series which is another arm of my Rohonamo worlds, inspirited by others. And if you make it that far: Nina Simone y'all and Creative Soul Photography , the cover image of this newsletter edition.

Afro cuban music honoring Chango and the Negro Spirituals in European concert halls

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A gallery celebrating black joy

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Book cover reveal of OFf Time Jive from A. Z. Louise by Chloe of Thistle and Verse

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Messages at the end of a rainbow, is an epistle series. Even though the first published work in the Rohonamo series temporally is moments in a day of Mumu. The first work that was thought upon was Messages at the end of a rainbow. It took longer because of my parameters. Rohonamo, industrially, is meant to show that one can make what they want in another world without changing that world. I don't think that white characters need to be made black or vice versa, specifically to the rings of power series or house of the dragon series. Harad or Sothoryos exist already for those who are in the phenotypical range called Black. I see this not as fan fiction but as complex world building. Allow various artist to build in a world one artist made. I didn't make the world that the Messages At The End Of A Rainbow is in. That was Kuroshi-Tenshi LINK , but the world she made has space for me to make my own space as I like it. 

MOMENTS IN A DAY OF MUMU

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Nina Simone had a birthday, let's celebrate

Creative Soul photography was commissioned by Disney to make a version of Disney princesses reflecting the Pan Black American (black folk from canada to argentina)experience , Cover Photo of this newsletter entry is from this

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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
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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

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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. 

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Title: Ariel Artist: RaySeb

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Title: Blackity Black Artist: Coco Michelle

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

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

Welcome to the 6th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

This is the month of purification. What makes you feel pure? Purity defined as unchaotic internally, not unmixed. Enjoy the events and dates for the month, remember, even old dates may have informative or fun links. The 2nd is the Festival of Iemanja in Salvador Bahia, Odoya Iemanja!.  Odoya mean mother. And it is also groundhog day. A list of groundhog day events throughout the USA is linked below for you to connect to. Note in the EVENTS AND DATES below, the Green Comet. On the 21st is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, laissez les bon temps rouler!.  I share my submitted and late entries into the promoting positivity challenge in Deviantart. Check them out below. They are varied in nature or content. Hope you enjoy. At their terminal is a question to Black history month. And the main section ends with two covers , one of thriller from Michael jackson by Wayne brady side the Postmodern Jukebox, the other of nothing else matters from Metallica by Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox. If you make it that far, enjoy the surprises.

EVENTS AND DATES

• 1-Space Shuttle Colombia disaster 2003
• 2-Moon rides high- highest angle above equator ; Festival of Yemenya ; Groundhog day; A Green Comet will approach earth that hasn't been as close to earth < 42 million kilometers > since the stone age. LINK LINK2 LINK3 
• 3- New York State  prohibited slavery on this day The 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery in the United States of America outside the encarcerated, was proposed on January 31, 1865. New York is the 5th state to pass the law on Feb 3, 1865. If you live in the USA , do you know when the state you live in prohibited slavery? 
• 4- Moon at apogee from Earth, farthest from Earth in its elliptical orbit
• 5-Full Snow Moon - most snow in northern hemisphere, sometimes called a hungry moon cause food was scarcest.
• 7- First ballet performance in Bowery Theater , New York City , 1827, it was the Deserter, by Jean Bercher Dauberval, some say the first ballet performed in the United States of America LINK
• 8- College of William and Mary chartered in 1693, its wren building is the oldest college building in the United States of America<U.S.A.>. The college itself is the second oldest in the U.S.A. If you want to read their original charter use the following LINK
• 9- Moon on Equator- a line of the equator from earth is through the virtual center of the moon
• 10- Mercury+Pluto conjunction ; The Treaty of Paris 1763 was signed which ended the Seven Years War <1756-1763> LINK The funny thing is the USA in the Treaty of Paris 1783 became officially recognized by England, thus accepted.  The Seven Years War was a prelude to what will later be called the War to end all wars LINK
• 12-Moon at descending node- moving north to south of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky ; Abraham Lincoln born 1809
• 13- Chuck Yeager born 1923 LINK
• 14- Valentine's day LINK and ENJOY
• 15- Venus = Neptune conjunction
• 16- Moon runs low- greatest angle beneath the equator for the moon; Saturn = Sun conjunction; Nylon or Linear Condensation Polymers patented1937 #2,130,948 to Wallace Carothers , he committed suicide drinking Potassium cyanide LINK
• 17- Pluto + Moon conjunction
• 18- Mercury + Moon conjunction ; Louis Comfort Tiffany born 1848 LINK
• 19- Moon at Perigee- moon closest to earth in its orbit ; Saturn + Moon conjunction; Copernicus born 1473  he would write the De revolutionibus orbium coelestium or On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Title , Order of spheres 
• 20- Frederick Douglass died 1895 writer of Composite Nation LINK ; New Moon - Earth blocks sunlight to the moon ;  Presidents day in the USA, did Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech make him President Worthy ?
• 21-Neptune Moon conjunction; Mardi Gras, earliest news Link1 Link2 Link3  ; 1857 Half cent denomination discontinued in the U.S.A. 
• 22- Moon on Equator ; Venus+Moon conjunction ;  Jupiter+Moon conjunction ; Ash Wednesday ; George Washington born 1732
• 24-Moon ascending node- going from south to north of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky; Sid Meier born 1954- cocreator of the Microprose company co-developer of the Civilization game 
• 25-Uranus+Moon conjunction; Christopher Wren died 1723 the exterior of pembroke college chapel that he designed LINK
• 27- Mars+Moon conjunction

February 2nd was Yemenya Day

let us honor the Spirit of the Sea

A child of Earth

Granddaughter of the Sun

Great Grand Daughter of Nature

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May she give me more luck 

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Do you know where the nearest Groundhog day is to your location?

https://countdowntogroundhogday.com/groundhogs-from-around-the-world

PROMOTING POSITIVITY ENTRIES

• Section 1: Prompt 1 - comment on any art I wanted , to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089
• Section 1: Prompt 2 - comment of unique art forms, to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176
• Section 2: Prompt 1 - use 4 colors for 4 seasons
  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324
• Enjoy the seasons image and the 4 seasons rondo poem

• Section 2: Prompt 2 - remake an artwork in a style- view the following journal link  to compare the original and the remake https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376
• The remake, the character is Wise Alek, I am slowly building him or his world. I finally has his theme song

• Section 2: Prompt 3 - remaking an older art work in another style, use the following journal link to compare the older to the newer https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678
• The remake- a pregnant woman serenaded by a cloud

• Section 2: Prompt 4 - 5 random items to make a story, details in the process in the following link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463
• The story of, The Final Distance of The Twenty Third I.R.C.L. Tour of Earth

• Late Entries
  • Section 4: Prompt 1 - asking the composite about the black concerning the arts https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/
  • Section 5: Prompt 1 - on promoting positivity https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367

Black History Month Questions

1. Regardless to who you are, composite nation members look above to Frederick Douglass in the 20th of EVENTS AND DATES, can you name an art form that originated in the Black community in the U.S.A. that has not been embraced by other communities, non black or black from somewhere else outside the U.S.A.?
   • For example: Rap or Hip Hop or Jazz of the Banjo do not count as answers.
2. If you are Black, whether African /Asian/Indigenous to America/ male/female/young/old/latino/sino/anglo or any other non phenotypical association, are you a member of a Black owned website? 
   • What would happen if every Black person on earth joined at least one Black owned website? I am a member of the African American Literary Book Club. Owned and Administered by Troy Johnson. Let us try to get every Black person in the internet to join at least one Black owned website.

Cover of Thriller featuring Wayne Brady aside the Post Modern Jukebox

And Nothing Else Matters featuring Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Enjoy more Lunar New Year Celebration craft

Mui Gwai by Alice Meichi Li LINK

https://www.myplasticheart.com/214-mui-gwai-by-alice-meichi-li/ 

Red Envelope show celebrating chinese new year
https://www.myplasticheart.com/red-envelope-show-2023/

The following is Filigre Inlay from a person whose online name is Grandma Handicraft.

youtube-gyroscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImZF2QsDk7o
tumblr- pendant
https://www.tumblr.com/ilikeit-art/705775479278452736?source=share

I read from somehwere but I have no idea if true, the following...Filigre Inlay is an intangible cultural heritage of China. This form of art was invented during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period (770-221 BC), and peaked during the Mid-Late Ming Dynasty (1435-1644).

The following is more legitimate information

The Filigre Inlay technique discussed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX41yWwGsm8

Pele saw his two grandchildren from the daughter he had out of wedlock with his maid and put said daughter in his will
https://www.ladbible.com/sport/pele-secret-daughter-will-inheritance-151288-20230117

Double dutch queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smn4juIHtuI

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