You should see the bush—scraggly, wilted khaki-colored leaves—somehow still producing a few of the sweetest, most flavorful yellow pear tomatoes. This little fella dressed himself in this outfit. HE borrowed the feather from the clematis vine growing next door. She has gone to seed and everywhere there was once a small yellow blossom is now… Continue reading My Garden Tomato’s Last Stand…
Category: The Skinny
Zydeco by the Bay Festival in Sausalito, CA
I’m a little late getting this out (by social media standards), but it’s really never too late for news like this: The Zydeco Bay the Bay Festival happened a week ago yesterday, on October 12th and my feet are still movin’! Don’t worry if you missed it: the City of Sausalito, California obviously knows the… Continue reading Zydeco by the Bay Festival in Sausalito, CA
Dr. Robert J. Jones installed as 19th President of UAlbany, New York
…and…we are first cousins! Our family is so proud! Robert has come a long way from the sharecropping fields of Dawson, near the other Albany (Georgia), to the head office at the University at Albany, New York. Bravo!! See/read more on the website of our family foundation and link to the UAlbany site: http://gaines-jones.org/our-very-own-robert-j-jones-is-19th-president-of-the-university-at-albany-new-york/
Happy 2nd Birthday Peach Seed Monkey Blog!
Thanks once again, Dear Blog Followers, for staying with me through another year! That’s right, October 2013 marks the 2nd birthday for this blog. I say now what I said after writing my first post:
Reminder: Love is (still) Everywhere
A dear friend and blog follower in Brooklyn sent me this today: “I was walking down the street and looked down, saw this and thought of your found heart collection and even though there is nothing special about this image . . . what’s special is that a heart made me think of you.” Photo… Continue reading Reminder: Love is (still) Everywhere
LIKE my page on Facebook
If you’re on Facebook please help me out by LIKING my page. I’m shooting for 100 LIKES by Christmas. Confused about this “Like” business? Bottom line: search engines (ie. Google, et al) are impressed by lots of “LIKES” and rank such pages higher in search results, meaning more visibility. As I revise the novel, I’m… Continue reading LIKE my page on Facebook
JFK’s Civil Rights Speech: June 11, 1963
50 years ago last month, President Kennedy spoke boldly and eloquently from the Oval office in response to the National Guard being sent to protect African-American students at the University of Alabama. Kennedy’s words ~ “We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and as clear as the… Continue reading JFK’s Civil Rights Speech: June 11, 1963
Angela Glover Blackwell says: “Turn Outrage into action”
Angela Glover Blackwell is outraged over the Zimmerman verdict. I look to her and PolicyLink for balance and direction at times like these. So can you. Click on the the picture to go to their EquityBlog, watch the video and get your marching orders.
White Privilege
…”it’s everywhere you want to be.” Thanks to my dear friend Flora Devine for the comment below. With her permission, I simply had to graduate it from a comment to a post. Keep reading after that, I share a haunting personal story that illustrates the opposite of white privilege: Flora wrote: I heard someone on… Continue reading White Privilege
Sign this petition for Trayvon
Sign this petition for Trayvon
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP, started this petition: Justice Department: Open a Civil Rights Case Against George Zimmerman.
I signed it along with 523,000 other people in their right mind. I hope you will, too.