MONDAY
a week later, between schoolhouse closeout and maintaining production
have not had much discretionary time, that inital 9 segments in 2 days was a
fluke, im thinking 3 minimal a day this week and maybe more next week when
school is officially done, starting to implement research again which is
also slowing me down, so i need to do lets say 4 a day then i can do
research the rest of the day, lets see if that work
im gone, all my love
TUESDAY
tubman on the 20, thats deep, im dug in, plan is to
do a movement (9 of them) every two days
(cause thats what the initial run thru took, two days, i can
do it in 2 days minimal, we will see if thats sustainable, if
so i will be thru with this draft in 2 weeks, bam!)
im on 2M:11:struggle, moving right along
there was this wonderful article about a librarian
in timbucktu saving the books from al qaeda
full title of text is
the hoodoo book of flowers: the
great black book of generations
named it black book of generations because
i want to give props to folk i think deserve props
so i did a quick and dirty draft of telling it as a story, i will
clean it up later im just filling in the hole now
to be worked as i go, this is just a research note
but ive found it useful to think of them as stories
using my fiction chops to make it like flash fiction:
when 51-year-old book collector and librarian
abdel kader haidara returned to timbucktu from a
business trip to find al qaeda in control of the
ancient city of timbuctu the more he passed
looters and blackflags flying on his way to the
library he oversaw the more he wondered what
would become of his precious manuscripts. 100s of
1000s of ancient texts, handmade korans, ancient
texts on math, astronomy and the sciences,
irreplaceable texts of history and social commentary.
by 2010 al qaeda had a reputation for destroying
impo ancient cultural artifacts in the areas they
controlled. three days after the conquest he called
a meeting of folk he trusted and arranged to have
the manuscripts packed in crates and boxes and
moved to private safe houses. the ford foundation
allowed him to repurpose a grant and over the next
few months they moved 50 to 80 boxes of books
a day by donkey to safe houses around the city so
that when al qaeda was finally driven out only
4,000 of 400,000 manuscripts had been destroyed.
demoja
i know, rough and raw but i just want to fill in the hole
if i didnt do raw right away its likely to be filed away and forgotten
now that it exists i will actually work on it when i can
one more point and i got to go - i put this up on facebook recently:
well i voted and glad to see hillary took NY w/good numbers, usually when i laud hillary on FB i give bernie some props but I'm hoping NY soundly reject the hardcore approach he has taken lately, myself i have withdrawn from the fray, i send hillary a little cash when i can and i enjoyed voting for her today, figured my college neighborhood was a bernie enclave so i call myself stepping up, but mostly I'm sitting this one out till this phase is over - Ima concentrate on getting my own work done as a corrective to the cultural corrosion that has come to exemplify this primary season and hope when its over that bernie and his folk show the class hillary showed when she lost to obama, will bernie do the same or will they have demonized hillary to point where they cannot
that i put on FB, this i will not put up on FB cause
i dont want to be running bernie down in public
but im getting impatient with him, all this dismissal of the southern ie black vote
says a lot to me, he claims the southern vote shouldnt count because they are
red states and wont vote democratic anyway but this aint the general election
this the democratic primary and why shouldnt the votes of loyal blacks and progressives
count when we are electing the nominee, aint nobody been more loyal to the democratic
party than those still holding down the fort in the south, so he saying dismiss all those (black) votes
and demanding that independents be allowed to vote for the dem nomineee, a party they
basically consider a sell out, no allegiance to the party whatsoever, he want to prioritize
these votes over folk been loyal democrats all their lives, hard to wrap my head around that
acussing hillary of collusion with DNC because she not only fundraising for herself
she fundraising for all the dems that will be running down ticket for the senate and house
while bernie using all those bucks he raising for himself and then gon try to jack hillary up
as doing something evil for supporting the down ticket democratics trying to take back congress
hard for me to wrap my head around this
then he want to claim that the superdelegate system is not democratic but he got
no problem with a strategy that depends on them to subvert the popular vote
total of millions more democratic voters for hillary and got no problem with the
caucuses in the whiter states that are equally undemocratic because they work
out for him, and his whole thing of basing his numbers on states w/o black folk
is questionable anyway far as im concerned, he has long since lost
his holier than thou glow far as i can see, but im going to restrain myself
and not get to chopping bernies knees out from under him cause it dont
do to dismiss folk we will need in november, but i will be so glad when
this phase is over and bernie comes back to earth and stop drinking
his own kool aid, i firm believe that as some point he will realize
this aint worth selling his soul
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