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finally, wikipedia steps up

 

N · Nabokov

nana rapping, and interfacing friday black
how cool is that, thats my boy

dec 23, 2021, 7:08 am

my wikipedia entry

about fucking time

i was feeling unloved and
under appreciated

i was like what does it take
lopngevity apparently

extensive too,, where did he get
this stuff, my father was a nationally

ranked bridge champion, thats not
something i tell folk but dude found

a NYT article bout some tournament
he won and Im like damn dude

you know more about me than i do

 

 

aint about what you want to do

dec 20, 2021 11:23 am



been working on memoir

novel in decent if i die tomorrow shape

need to clean up memoir,

basically done but then im researching this book on aging well
im doing with douthet and ima add a section about being
a hoodoo elder, this me trying too figure out parametera,

raw text always a series of questions 1st

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IMA HOODOO ELDER NOW

been trying to figure out what that mean,
just what is elder wisdom
just what is the adventure of eldership

mean coming to a certain peace with my life

a lot of it has come into focus writing this work
I need to address unsettled relationships in my
life, mercy and forgiveness for all, including me

I want to be a resource of elder wisdom and guidance

for all within the scope of my radiance, for my loved ones, my
community, all humanity and all god creature great and small

and I believe it mean getting off the grindstone
still got works I want to do but I am not as driven
need to move from driven to some sense of grace

productive grace

more being, less doing, being cool w/just being
facilitate movement from physical to spiritual plane

reinstitute meditational practice, sanctify my life
move into alignment with the dance of the stars
in preparation for my return to the all, calm myself

make peace with my regrets / life choices
accept physical decline for spiritual grace
make peace with myself, reach for serenity

 

dec 13, 2021  2:43 pm   (pg 47 of 150)

 

turns out this was a fake, an advertisement
not a real encounter, ah but the idea . . .




dec 13, 2020  8:23 am   (pg 1 of 150)

okay, looking at it, 150 pages, 17 days till the
end of the year,, thats clearly 10 pgs a day

got a couple of manuscripts, get them off my plate
clear my decks this week so last two are mine




dec 13, 2020  7:43 am

woke up this morning with the blues

and im still trying to get into this book
and not succeeding, physical issues
and a good friend just sold her novel
good for her, must feel good, must
i got the blues, im tired and im weary

i might take the day off


PS: dec 13, 2020  7:54 am

fuck a day off, best cure for the blues
is to get some work done, keep trying
to bust the move on life as pilgrimage


PPS: dec 13, 2020  8:16 am

okay i had me a littlle groove going but
as i broke thru i realized this is not what
i should be doing, end of the year project
its got to be the novel, what was i thinking
thats why i couldnt get a groove on . . .

dec 12, 2020  2:10 pm

thing to do rick is just start it now
just start it, the muscles willl loosen up

do not wait x days, you can rest
after youve gotten a groove

took a nap, im rested, start now . . .

1st step redo outline to reflect new theme
keep 52 week year in life structure
cause i dont feel like reinventing the wheel
change what you need to change, like moving
PILGRIMAGE from #34 to #1 and just start
riffring, been fiddling with new outline
finalize right now and begin new text

correlating that year in the life
with life as pilgrimage

mostly this phase will be questions generating questions like

what exactly do i mean by life as pilgrimage
what is point of pilgrimage
to get some spiritual benefit
pesronal motivation vs cultural motivations
what exactly is the benefit   (a spirituall state of mind?) 
how does the journey work
in life and in your daily grind
diff between physical and spiritual pilgrimages
and so forth unto infinity . . .

answering these will get me started
every answer generates more questions

the driving question of moment is what
is the benefit of living well, of living
your life as if it were a pilgrimage

pilgrimage to where, a finely crafted soul
what is the advantage of having a finely crafted
soul as a life goal, how does it affect your daily
grind

okay soulwork is my answer

living a life of the spirit
pilgrimage reaffirms that commitment
to the spiritual in your life

then I got to convince reader
this is critical to living life well

okay thats my answer but how to make
it work for civilians is the question

okay im already engaged, might as
well do this on the page, i gotta roll

 

 

 

 

dec 12, 2020  8:15 am

from the soul @jeffmanning

helloo world, been off the grid i guess
been trey productive
done reformatting of novel
and memoir, memnoir only 220 pages now
from 1000+ to 500 to 220
reformatteed novel into griotic poetry
both looking good
both in need of work

sent tried piece to WAPO, we will see
putting team together to do it as performance

have not worked it online since i realized it was a
contender  - playing off classic prophetic warning motif
allowing me to do my hoodoo prophecy thing realworld

im very pleased with myself

so now im just trying to determine which project
to close out year, been trying to do my
life as pilgrimage project

been spinning my wheels trying to dig in
but thats the one thats weakest now

the criteria these days is if i die
tomorrow can i live with this

the novel and the memoir, they okay
the work on living well is not

HBOF, thats a book for hoodoos of
the future who want to walk my path
thats a limited demographic

healing souls, rootworking cultures, shaping generations &
destinywork is not exactly pertinent to folks daily grind

LAP, this one is for regular folk, makes my
cosmology accessible to civilians, my
bid to be one of historys great teachers

i guess ive answered my questions
LAP needs to be taken to the next level rick
take a few more days off and get busy

aint bout what you want to do
its what you got to do

 

go bold or go home

1/3/21 12:11 pm  (pg 119 of 139)

crash and burn, shutdown reeling in the
saddle, can i make it to the be

1/2/21 12:11 pm  (pg 91 of 123)


procession by tunde afolayan

hello world

crashed and burned 7 hours ago, just woke up
you reach point where brain is tired and you
headachy from lack of sleep and you just crash

woke up, stumbled to computer, im in the almighty zone
where the real work get done, i love the zone but it can
be hazardous to your health and domestic well being

so last night i hit my 1st cant break up this scene
till i fix it, the seven sisters of memphis scene

but i expected no less, im moving into my narrative
endgame, everything gon be more challenging

the endgame got to sing

despaired, thought i would spend days fixing it
i think tho i have the answer and wont
try to make it perfect, just reflect new thread,

before had historical hoodoos as the seven
sisters but then the scene became too symbolic
not enuf char work for my tastes

the seven sisters,, and queen mother too for that matter
part of me trying to achieve folkloric gender balance

almost every char in neighborhood afroam folklorics
the conqueror, shine, stagerlee, john henry, et al

but problem is most afroam folklorics male, aint no sista
rabbits in the brer rabbit corpus, so i used frankie

from frankie and johnny and pollyanne, john henrys
wife, whom the ballards say drove steel like a man

but they still male mate based, so i forged me some
of whole cloth, queen mother memphis, angel, the
seven sisters of memphis, et al, and used historical folk

like madam myrtle collins, problem of course
i got to write them strong enuf to anoint them

make of them mythologic folklorics

i am not inclined to give away mything up a seven sisters
of memphis, why should new orleans have all the fun

maybe if i make them all actual sisters,
lot of potential char work in that but then

i got to revise queen mother memphis history if
all of a sudden she got 7 sisters from somewhere

what about i make them her daughters
that i can work with, i like that

fuck, an ensemble, thats gon cost me timewise
a fuucking ensemble (also the secret society
hoodoo hand, need to put it thru same process)

okay still want to big up madam myrtle collins, 
legendary memphis hoodoo from hyatt in this text

and the even more legendary aunt caroline dye
now that i think about it should do marie leveau

i will have to do them as flash fictions like i got
harriet, david walker, ida b et al

and just now thought what if something
happens with jubilation at the crossroad
battle with staggerllee if all these hoodoos

from different time periods somehow know he
is need and join in - i like that, we will see

if its executable,

got to go, got to rework the
seven sisters of memphis beat
before i can press on w/the

drudgery, of making many
books there is no end

lets schedule that for today
whatever i dont have at end of
day i dont have, cant afford

to stop my flow, i want a viable new draft
by end of year - 30 days and counting

just do0 enuf of new beat to hold
in place till i can really work it

i been complaining about all the drudge work but
compared to real work mindless drudging is fun time

later, i got to go

i got too generate a lot of raw manuscript
today, i hate generating raw manuscript
its gon be putrefyingly bad but you got to
go thru bad to get to good to great, cant go
around bad, got to go thru

some folk they give up cause its bad
and end up never finishing anything

i defy you bad, i laugh in your face

 

1/2/21 5:13 am  (pg 73 of 123)


when the fam lose faith hold them up by yung.yemi


hello world

okay i realize my usual page count wont work
the done pages are twice as long as should be
and the top count keeps growning, im hoping it

dont go over 150 but it appears to be growing
fast, i work 11 point single space so 150 is really
about 300 pages, which is more than i want

im depending on the cutting to cut that down

but lets get busy, yesterday was mind numbingly
boring, just going thru breaking the lines, pure
fucking drudgery, ok less complaining, more doing

full court poress rick, i want to be done
w/ this fucking drudgery to-fucking-day