Ode to A Delightful Young Man

 Ode to A Delightful Young Man

written by Bill Curtis / 21st Century Productions
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"Your Mind is Your Journey" 

Went on FB earlier. Ex very good friend of mine...from the mid 90s...i

 met her two sons back then...talked with them a lot...

i knew how Mom loved

her two sons...shaped them

...held them high in expectations...which

they fulfilled for the most part...

really delightful young men

...about somewhere say

14 or 15 years ago...maybe more...in Kmart i was verbally jacked up by the oldest son...

Mr. Bill man what happened between you and Mom, he asked...i knew his Mom had gotten married...why didn't you guys get married he asked... 

and then talked to me about why it should have happened...

what he said to me was a gift...

the conversation...need i say i was stunned and happy by what this young man was saying to me

...this young man i knew in his mid to late teens early 20s...now standing with his two young children in tow...talking to me in Kmart...i remember it so well...

and i remember a prior chance meeting near my job site...full of life was he...younger man...brimming at the top with ambition and hope...and able to articulate it

...i remember how powerful he appeared to me...being one...me...who thinks he's pretty powerful himself...i could feel his power...his ambition

...i was proud...i remember...to stand there with him on the corner for about 25 minutes

...just talking...listening... to the younger man tell me what he's up to, planning to be up to, and doing right now

...i was the older man...he the younger man...i listened to him like older men listened to me

...it is a gift an older man can give a younger man...the gift of being listened to...it is a gift a younger man gives an older man...the gift of being heard...

today...i see on FB that the younger man has  passed on...

God stand the Mom in the emotional resilience...of her husband, son and family...in an understanding beyond understanding

...that the mighty Light of her son...opens our own path to a seeing

...that we permission ourselves to receive our Good.

        Written by Bill Curtis / 21st Century Productions

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News Reports Blacks Cooperate

News Reports Blacks Cooperate

written by bill curtis 

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Sometimes...in the virginity...of my thinking...like, you know, thinking about something for...the first time...i think about my thinking ...i strike a match ...in a basement ...no power...no money ...for the bill...for power...i see...my thinking...clearly...that...i take it all in ...commercials...sports...don't own a penny of ownership...but...it's..."my team"....cosmetics...fake nails...clothes...what the pastor said...more commercials...more sports...facebook...like its a real book...more sports... yes i take it... all... in ...and... i... am still... a virgin...in my thinking...to wipe the blood...away from my thinking ...and stop laughing ...with people ...who are laughing...at me... not with me...laughing at me? ...me the degree'd miseducated ...me the drug pusher ...me the fat azz ...me the hoodrat ...me the unaware...me the fashion plate ...me the best car...me the atm...for everybody else group ...me the poison weed smoker...me the unorganized...me the step over trash...in front...my house ...me the drinker...me...the default...subservient...me the economic... atm footstool...me the fake news.

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QUICK! HIDE THE PHONE!!

QUICK!! HIDE THE PHONE!!!

written by bill curtis

What I don't know is EVerRy thing about Obama.  What I do know is that EveRY politician does something bad that I do not know about. That's the 2 party state. Then we switch. 

What I do know is that most successful politicians can control our perception of a situation or condition in our own city, suburb or town.  A good politician can make you think that progress is happening in your city but in your immediate reality you see no progress. They can make you think progress is happening and ain't any progress happening at all. But you feel good, inspired even.

OK. Now. Obama. And President Trump. HIDE THE PHONE What I find extremely difficult to believe is that Obama would wiretap Trump. Obama can and did send drones to kill people? Yes! Make me feel good? Yes! But wiretap Trump? Ahhuuummm?No!!!

Personally, I'm on tax-watch. I'm watching to see President Trump's tax returns. And I want someone on his staff to be on phone-watch. Hide the thing. Padlock it!!! Maybe not. Then he'd tweet with the nuclear codes. Oops!

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POST RACIAL SOCIETY?

 POST RACIAL SOCIETY?

written by Bill Curtis/ 21st Century Productions

When Obama was President Obama, a major criticism of him was that he was a "divider". Another good one was this: folk thought that he would "bring us together", which frankly I thought was Not something that a black President could do.

A white President could do that. He'd need to really have frank talks with the whites in the country, particularly those in small towns and hamlets away from civilization in major population belts along the southern, eastern and western coasts and near the Great Lakes.


Forget the American origin myths. In 1776 the country was set up divided: 1) Rich, white male and free. 2) Wage relentless war against and exterminate the Indian Nations. Get free land, timber, minerals and other free stuff. Kill enough Indians, you get to keep your free land, timber, minerals and other free stuff. Perfect wealth formula for whites. 
3) Welcome dirt poor whites 

from Europe. Give them free land. Have them kill Indians. 4) Enslave free Africans to make whites rich. Pass laws against their descendants.

Please tell me! Why's the black guy given mission impossible to save whites?  8 years of Obama could not undo such a pathology of cruelty, conquest and legislative and economic apartheid. As my favorite Pentecostal-Apostolic-Holiness Auntie used to say-

"Lordy, Lordy!" -- to clear the air of something ridiculous that I would say.

And quite frankly, again, the flawed Founders set up the nation to divide people.

 Just bizarre ideas. 3/5s of a man? How do people "rationalize" such a bizarre idea? Theft of Indian land, mineral and timber wealth. Fake sense of white superiority brainwashed into whites. Structural white privilege. 8 years of Obama could...not...fix...that. No way.

The American pathological thought process would need to be on the couch for about 20 years to unpack that pathology, and/or to come to terms with the

reparations required to repair the damage caused. Possibly see the evil of their ways? Perhaps have a come to Jesus moment! Or to enlightenment like Buddha under the Bodhi tree! Or beg themselves for forgiveness!

Without the couch-work, the US will stagger pathologically towards its 250th birthday in 2026. Or its 406th year since free Africans were enslaved at Virginia colony in 1620. 

Now we have President Trump in 2017.

The US goes from the black guy to the really white white guy. And super rich. 

And never elected to anything. AND his cabinet picks are of the same stripe. White white. Super rich. And "anti" whatever the policies of the US government had been for the past 40 years. It's as if Al Capone busted into Grandma's pantry and turned the pantry into a whisky drinking den for super rich gangsters. 

And as for President Obama? His policies have been tarred and feathered and only waiting for the kerosene splash and the flick of a match from team Trump, then comes the rising animal roar of a mob transfixed by the flicker and the smell of heat and fire and their own smugness that, at any cost, even to spite our faces by cutting off our noses, we take our country back. Pray tell, who exactly is going to allow the 18th century barbarism back into the 21st?

That was really barbaric stuff in the 19th and 20th centuries. It's really barbaric stuff in the 21st century. But this time...there is You...

Can I get a shout out?

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JIBBERSHIT

JIBBERSHIT

written by Bill Curtis / 2st Century Productions

 Was listening to WKYS outta DC this afternoon driving home. In the car by myself...I was embarrassed at that 100% jibbershit on the radio. The rap made no sense. It was Jibbershit. DJ said, I think, the Jibbershitter group were the amigos. I realized so deeply the importance of self-affirming the best of yourself, our culture (if you are "aware") and the Good that you are as a divine being. I had to remember --

BLACK LIVES MATTER -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To me. Not just when cops shoot. BLACK LIVES MATTER on all fronts. Specifically on our personal way of behaving, listening and talking to ourselves and to each other. Does BLACK LIVES MATTER to yourself? Then, let your friends know that that is the time you are on now. 24/7. I think I'll take that on first with me. More.

Self or Not To Discover More "Self"?
 written by Bill Curtis/ 21st Century Productions

Everybody has friends. And if not friends, at least the best of 

friends with our "self". The  "self" that we know. Or "think" we know.

Or "feel" that we know. You know, because most folk "think" with their "feelings". I know humans like that. Yes I do!

 The self we are right now is the only "self" that you or I have. OR "know".  Until we master our current self. That's when we become another "self". That self has been waiting for us to come along and give it a big welcome hug. Maybe a real loving first kiss goodbye. (If you know how to kiss. LOL) 

 Then, that

new self looks in the side mirror and sees that prior self verrrrrry slowly turning to vapor, then we say, wow, I've grown. What the heck was I doing? As much as my old self knew how to do.

The seeing REEALLY deserves a celebration. But likely not the kind of celebration that you did when you

 were the "other self", you know, the one verrrrrrry slowly turning to vapor in your side view mirror.

Keep your eyes on the road. Coming at you: YOU.
          -- Bill Curtis / 21st Century Productions

1)    #274 Powerful Quotes

When we are children, and we have a problem with someone, we get angry. For whatever reason, that anger pushes the problem away; we get the result we want. It happens a second time – we react with anger – and now we know if we get angry we push the

problem away. Then we practice and practice, until we become masters of anger.

  --  The Mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz
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