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I am a child of slaves. I am a child of first generation black Americans to have their own New York City Home. I am a child of a African American family to be the first to go to college. I am a mother of a black child who is first generation to play tennis as his major sport of skill.
I am African American wife of a skizophrenic, (who has been missing for ten years). I am an African American wife of a African American male skizphonprenic- who has not provided child support for ten years due to his missing status and the RULES that govern the Social Security Administration.
I am an African American who can not get HEAP HELP (GOVERNMENTAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR UTILITY BILLS i.e. Gas and Electric) because the government states that SINGLE PARENT STATUS…EARNING $43,000.00 PER YEAR, PAYING $1600.00 for 3 bedroom apartment in New York City, paying full utilties of building, $158.00 per month car insurance, extremely high milk, juice, fruit, meat, vegetables, personal care products, clothing, medical needs insurances, life insurances on my self valued at over $100,00.00 disability insurances on myself (especially since my missing sick husband left me responsible for my child), catastrophic disease insurances on my self.
Having detailed my financial condition as a 48 yearold African American Daughter of slave ancestors….It would appear that I have the same if not similar problems as my white counter part Americans in some cases.
However, what makes me believe that I do deserve a form if not actual SLAVE REPARATION–is that I would have completed COLLEGE many years ago—if it had not been for BEOG/ PELL AND TAP GRANTS BEING DENIED!
Those grants were denied me when I was 21 years old! I had just been accepted into CBS Television Internship Program through Queens College in the Journalism department. I was registering for my course that was applied to the internship and was told by the college that PELL GRANTS, BEOG AND TAP Aide had been denied to me because I had used up all of my POINTS!
I did not financial aide available!!! I had ignorantly retaken courses that I had failed and then passed. However, my re-registering for those courses had caused me to use up my points.
My Academic Counselor named Barbara Blank did not guide me properly, —I am truly not clear on how this terrible mistake occured.
Whatever caused this terrible error…caused me to have to leave college after I had already completed 61 credits!!!!
The financial aide counselor had discussed the problem with my mother….my African American mother….another daughter of ancestral slaves….My mother whose parents had not been educated higher than elementary school in Virgina (Drakes Branch, and Farmville Virgina to be exact).
My mother had an option explained to her by the financial aide counselor….”Refinance your house so that your daughter could finish college.”
My mother, descendant of slaves flatly stated,” NO! I am not wasting my mortgage on that!”
My sister, who did not complete college and who was 6 years older than me– had been whispering into my mother’s ears heavily.
She did not want me to complete college…because she was jealous and she told my mother that I becoming a CAREER COLLEGE STUDENT….LEARNING BUT NEVER GRADUATING.
I was only 21 years old at that time. Also CBS television internship supervisor in charge of my internship had promised me a great future! I had to compete against other people—HUNDREDS! .. inorder to get accepted into that internship!
I had made an impression on the CBS Internship program…but now! My financial aide points had run out from Pell Grant, BEOG, and TAP were no longer funding my education.
I could not work to make enough money to pay for those classes,–tuition was a mere $900.00 back then….but it was still to high for a full time college student.
The final outcome is this….I left college, unable to pay for it.
My mother, daughter of Slave ancestry could not see the benefit of helping me to complete my education because her thinking back then was limited and poisoned by my sister’s jealousy.
Thus I left college, severly let down….my mother, daughter of slaves told me to just get a job….My mother could not understand the circumstances that would notw shape my life and her’s forever!
I went to a business school, I went to Taylor Business Institute! I learned secretarial skills. ((question–why was I able to get a loan for a trade school and not a college???))
I was hired by a temp agency and began the long road back to college. I began paying for my classes one at a time….I was eventually hired full time by J. Michael Bloom Talent Agency.
My big mistake was that I got married. The marriage did not prevent me from being educated…but I began to rearrange my goals around the marriage. My husband and I did accomplish some goals like buying a house, and having a child.
My African American husband wanted me to complete college…but coming full circle my husband suffered catastrophic severe skizphrenia and left me with bankruptcy,loss of a home to foreclosure, and a child to raise.
I am currently working on a job for the past 19 years that has abosultely NOTHING to do with my original college related goals. The job helps pay for food, and rent–barely–.
I struggle due to the previous explained debts that I worry about daily.
HIND sight is not twenty-twenty for me.
I knew that my level of success would not be fulfilled if I could not complete that INTERNSHIP AT CBS AND REGISTER FOR MY CLASSES WHEN I WAS 21 YEARS OLD.
However, not having an educated family, that would understand the value of an education, and the financial scarifices required to accomplish that goal…thus here I sit today….BLOGGING…out my frustration.
My actual, blogging is healthy for me…but it cannot replace the years of economic success I have not ever experienced, education, and opportunities that I have missed out on.
Blogging cannot give me financial power to help cover the debts that HEAP will not help me to pay …because I am just $50 or more dollars over their limit of assistance for a single parent with only 1 (one) child.
I have been told that I have to have more children to be eligible to receive government assistance.
The goal in this article is to explain why SLAVE REPARATIONS would have helped a person like myself.
I have been working ever since I had to leave college.
Understand that I only left college because I had no money to pay for tuition. They would not allow me to take a loan….my mother would not refinance her home (which she actually did refinance some years later…so she could make a basment apartment for rental purposes)—I have always pushed to further my education, I recently partly completed a program NYACK Adult Continuing education–called ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGMENT…I have to pay off about $600.00 and complete three essays to receive my Bachaelor of Science in Organizational Managament.
I should have done this two years ago. So what is the hold up you ask? I have my child who has been suffering with seizure disorder increasingly over the past two years, and I also am caring for my mother who has become an invalid and stroke victim over the past 4 years.
So here I sit. I am gearing up to complete my 3 essays in the next few weeks and receive my full credit and I can graduate in November of this year.
I have traveled a long road. I know there are many others who have traveled a long road as well.
Do I believe that educational reparations would have helped me….OF COURSE IT WOULD HAVE HELPED ME!
My educational goals would not have been tied to my mother’s personal finances..and I would have been able to complete the internship at CBS in Journalism.
What type of EDUCATIONAL REPARATIONS would I have used you might ask? Here is my concept of the best form of education reparations for children of ancestral African American Slaves:
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE AND RECEIVE GED/HIGHSCHOOL DIPLOMA
- MAINTAIN PASSING GRADES IN COLLEGE
- TAKE REMEDIAL COURSES TO IMPROVE ACADEMICS AND SUCCESSFULLY PASS ALL REMEDIAL COURSES
- NO—-TERM LIMITS ON EDUCATION
- STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN COLLEGE CONSEQUTIVELY—UNLESS EMERGENCY IN FAMILY, MEDICAL PROBLEMS, FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES TO BE EVALUATED BY REPARATIONS COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC REPARATIONS
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE BACHELOR OF any ACCREDITED COLLEGE, IVY LEAGUE, CITY, STATE COLLEGE PROGRAM
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE ANY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE ANY TRADE PROGRAM: ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, TRUCKING, NURSING, CAR REPAIR AND DESIGN, ETC.,
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE PROGRAMS AND HAVE ACADEMIC GOALS, AND JOB BOOKLET ON PERSONAL/INDIVIDUAL ASSESEMENT, and RESUME– COMPLETED AT THE END OF EACH SEMESTER.
- MAINTAIN ATLEAST A — C– AVERAGE…WITH EXPLANATION OF GRADES AND RESTRAINTS AND DETAILING PROBLEMS RELATED TO COMPLETION OF ACADEMIC GOALS TO BE EVALUATED DIRECTLY BY ACADEMIC REPARATIONS COMMITTEE.
- FULL TUITION PAYMENT FOR ALL AFRCIAN AMERICAN SLAVE DECENDANTS
- FULL TUTITION FOR BACHELOR, MASTERS PROGRAMS.
- FULL TUTITION PAID FOR DOCTORATE AFTER PROVIDING 4OOO HOURS OF MENTORING, PROJECT GIVE BACK, AND EACH ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAMS FOR SUMMER YOUTH AND YOUNG MOTHER PROGRAMS.
- FULL TUTITION PAYMENTS FOR 2ND BACHELOR DEGREE FOR 7000 HOURS OF MENTORING, PROJECT GIVE BACK, AND EACH ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAMS TO BE DEVELOPED BY THE AFRICAN AMERICAN REPARATIONS PROGRAM.
- ALL CANDIDATES MUST SUBMITT DOCUMENTED PROOF OF 3000 HOUR AND 7000 HOUR GIVE BACK AND MENTORING PROGRAMS INORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR DOCTORATE PROGRAMS AND 2ND DEGREE PROGRAMS.
- ALL GRADUATES ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE 100 HOURS YEARLY TO TALKS AT ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, JUNIOR HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATION, HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATION, AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS FOR MENTORING AND PASSING ON THE LEGACY OF THE BENEFITS OF EDCUATION AND TAKING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REPARATIONS AND BECOMING SUCCESSFUL IN ATTAINING ACADEMIC GOALS THAT ARE A STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE IN THE AFRiCAN AMERICAN SLAVE DESCENDANTS.
This is my concept of proper reparations. I would abide by these rules so that I could have the opportunities to pass on the goals and future that keep America growing and great.
We as a American Citizens do not need a hand out! We need a hand UP! Help me to educate myself so that I can help continue the legacy of Pride in the United States as a Super Power in the World. Help me to educate myself so that I can give back to the generations to come.
As it stands right now…I can only give this blogg!!!!
I could do so much more if my education was free…but with RESPONSIBILTY AND DEFINITELY STRINGS ATTACHED. The type of strings attached will cause success in the future decendants of slaves…but those decendants would eventually be called desendants of SUCCESSFULL AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO HAVE MENTORED, AND GAVE BACK, THEREBY ASSISTING THE UNITED STATES TO MAINTAIN ITS ECONOMIC STRENGTH, EDUCATIONAL POWER, LITERACY, AND GROWTH IN THE WORLD.
WITH EDUCATION….COMES AN EMPOWERED WORKFORCE THAT CAN STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMY…..CRIME BASED ON ECNOMICS WILL GO DOWN IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES, BLACK MALES WILL BE INSPIRED TO GATHER RESOURCES AND BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL AND STRONG. YOUNG WOMEN WILL GATHER RESOURCES AND BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL AND STRONG.
The program of reparations needs to be looked at.
It may take many years for it to come about.
MOst likely not in my life time, or even my child’s life time.
But the concept does need to be addressed.
Maybe my concepts are not all acceptable… there may be better methods of ACADEMIC REPARATIONS.
IN CONCLUSION:
DO NOT GIVE ME THE FORTY ACRES AND AN MULE….
I WANT A FREE….RESPONSIBILITY ACADEMIC BASED REPARATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF AFRICAN SLAVES.
(((JOBS WILL COME WITH AN EDUCATED WORK FORCE!!!)))
NOTE…MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES MAKE EDCUATION FREE FOR ALL!!!!
REPARATIONS ON AN ACADEMIC LEVEL WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ECONOMIC STANDING OF THE UNITED STATES AS A SUPER POWER AND ALSOIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AS WELL.
“`RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY
July 30, 2008 at 1:04 am · Filed under All Race Families, amateur poetry and prose writing, AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE MAKING, being strong willed and determined to over come lives p, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, BLACK WOMEN PREACHERS AND ITS AFFECTS ON THEIR MARRIAGE, CAN I GO HOME TO MOTHER AFRCIA?, Catholic...all denomiations---How do we teach Love?, Charles Darwin and Natural Selection---Endangered Speic, CHARLES DARWIN THEORIES AND RARE ANIMALS, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, children and mothers's in slavery, Children of All Races, Christain Faith and Love in Action, comments on life...when people try to hurt one another, Compassion for the Needy, DO NOT GIVE UP! KEEP GOING AND WIN THE RACE~!, Faith, food, recreation, painting pictures for hobbies, sing, FREE WRITE, Have Faith in Spite of the Circumstances, Selfesteem, single parenting, Views from Within, WHO IS LISA JOY??????? and tagged: AWARENESS OF CREATIVE ABILITIES IN ALL PEOPLE, CONNECTION TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND CREATION, CREATIONISM, SELF DETERMINATION, SPIRIT OF A HUMAN BEING, WHO IS LISA JOY???????
UNIVERSE AND WEAVE IN HARMONY
Who am I you ask?
What are my abilities you wonder.
I have not come this far by your
direction, or by your power.
The higher authority that breathed
life into my frame, who
very much ordained my name
decided…and so it was!
Perception is sometimes powered by
STEROTYPE!
Misconception is sometimes powered
by dislike!
Who am I you ask….
I am the force and the will of creation…
I am the power of the volcano’s eruption
molten lava rolling and burning a path through
everything!
A tornado in all of its thoughtless, callous chaos….twirling
in beauty and destruction without apparent destination, or goals…
intent on devastation…yet in simplistic natural beauty powered by an unseen
machine and engine.
A hurricane large and moving in speeds of one hundred mile an hour winds, ripping trees from their root beds and tossing homes and cars like children’s toys…yet again powered by an unseen mechanical engine of such power as to draw all living and dead into its path.
So who am I you ask?
Incased in this flesh I am mortal, a woman, an individual with thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Yet you perceive me weak, you know….first impressions and all….
But oh, do not be deceived….just as you are ….I see through to your very soul….
we are both
the force and will of creation!
Just as I have and you have the ability to be creative, so do I ….just as you have the ability to be destructive so do I.
I chose life…
what do you choose?
Within me reigns the absolute power to choose—to be the FORCE AND WILL OF CREATION!
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This picture was taken from archives on slavery. It was placed in this fiction story written by me….I thought a real picture would help the reader to understand the harsh treatment of slaves. It was a course that I took that enlightened me to the terrible experience of the MIDDLE PASSAGE and what it did to the many tribes that had been taken hostage by the SLAVE TRADERS.
That is why I had written an earlier post regarding PAT BUCHANNON’S shallow view on the slavery of African Americans and how he, (((PAT BUCHANNON))) thought that black people should be thanking “God” for slavery.
I will be writing short stories based loosely on the readings and course work I took for my education. I am not an expert….but being African American and having lived in circumstances as an Afrcian American for 48 years may give me a little insight to attempt to “channel” some of my ancestors and their struggles through fictional dipictions of slave experiences.
I hope I do them justice.
At the bottom of this you will find a discussion I raised and copied regarding the emancipation of the slaves due to Lincoln.
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******************** Middle Passage and the Loss of my Village and Family—-Slave Memories…#2
OUR VILLAGE WAS CLOSE BY THE SEA. MY MOTHER HAD A GARDEN AND MY FATHER HUNTED FOR OUR FOOD WITH THE OTHER MEN FROM THE TRIBE. There was a rival tribe that had stolen some of my mothers, and other women’s vegetables from their gardens.
Everyone was angry and running around. I was 8 years old. My brothers were 12 years old, and 15 years old and a 7months old. My parents talked and then my father and my older brothers ran with their spears to meet the other tribes men. They had put on body paint, and war feathers.
The tribesmen gather in the center of the village and began to chant and sing and jump up and down until the air was filled with their voices and the dust rose up making swirling clouds around our heads.
My father and the tribesmen ran from the village in anger and excitement chanting with raised spears. My mother took me back to our hut and began to prepare the midday meal. The war was on! I did not know if my father would be back.
My mother cooked yam and potatoe and meat. She seasoned it and then we ate. Suddenly there was a noise at the far end of the village. Women were screaming and running in our direction. My mother dropped her bowl and looked to the center of the village.
She screamed and then grabbed me and my baby brother. She pushed us into the jungle and ran, and pushed me and ran some more. When we came to the beach we saw big things on the water floating.
I had never seen anything like that before. It was brown on the bottom, and had cloth on the top floating in the wind. Suddenly my mother screamed and I looked up as saw my mother being dragged away from me with my baby brother in her arms. She looked back at me and screamed again and I was picked up and carried away too.
I began to scream and cry for my mother, and my father. I remember being in a small boat that carried us to the big brown boat with the floating clothes. My mother was forced to climb the boat, and I was forced too. When we got on the boat we were chained together and then put down in a black place that smelled so strong that I gagged and threw up.
I was hit from behind and forced to lay down next to my mother and baby brother. My baby brother had not stopped crying since this all began. My mother held my hand and I was sobbing.
I heard a language I did not understand. I could only see legs, and arms of people I had never seen before. They looked angry and they shouted at us. There were many people from our village, some old men, and some sickly men who had not gone to war with our rival tribe.
Young boys, girls, and women from our village were on this big boat too. Everyone was throwing up from the smell. Everyone was crying and scared of this new tribe that was attacking us in our tribesmen absence.
What would happen to us? Where were we being taken? Why did these tribesmen look so different from us? Why did they seem so angry at us? What law of their tribe had we broken?
Some of my tribesmen and women I heard talking amongst themselves thought that these were evil spirits from our rival tribe that had been sent by their witch doctor to destroy us!
What a powerful witch doctor they had…some of the people said. What will my father think when he comes back from war? Our tribe was the stronger of the two….we had more people, and our tribe was tall and the rival tribe were not so tall.
So our wars with them were usually quick. Our men would fight and battle for several hours, and injure some of their tribe and then fall back to our village until the next conflict…showing our dominence over them. But now, who would cook for my father and brothers?
Who would cook for all of the tribesmen. How could they fight this new foe who had taken the whole village captive? I began to feel sick, and I had to relieve myself. I was laying down on my back and my legs were aching. My baby brother was wimpering now.
My mother was chanting and squeezing my hand. The angry strange looking tribesman started pulling some of the villagers out of the areas that we were chained to.
My mother and baby brother were taken away from me and all I remember was my mother wailing and screaming my name, my baby brother’s name and then her voice cut short and then other villages started to wail and scream to our ancestors.
Their was alot of noise coming from above my head in the blackness. I could see specks of light….something dripped on my head and it smell bad. I threw up again, and then I passed out.
I woke up again seeing that my mother was gone and so was my baby brother I began to cry. One of my captors hit the bottoms of my feet with something very hard. I cried more and then they left me alone. I had relieved myself on myself. I smelled it and I threw up again.
Next to me was an old man from the village. He had been quiet for a long time. I called out to him but he did not answer. He never answered me. I knew he was dead. I screamed for the ancestors to take me away from this black hole and torment.
I prayed as my mother had taught me to. I asked forgiveness of my ancestors for any thing I might have done. I felt a tug and a yank on my feet and I felt myself pulled to my feet. The old man came out dead on the floor next to me.
My captors separated the chains and then reconnected them to a living villager man. They took the old man away and moved me down to the next villager. They took us out into the open air.
Something stuck into my foot as I walked. I stumbled and one of my captors hit me in the back again. I began to wimper. I know what wailing would cause to happen so I wimpered to myself and prayed to my ancestors again.
The sky was clear, blue and few clouds were around. The big boat rocked from side to side. I began to feel sick again. They thrust a liquid in my mouth. I began to throw up again. I was hit again from behind and they yelled something at me. I heard screaming and I saw a woman from the village being chased.
She ran around the boat while the captors chased her. They were laughing this time. She finally was caught and they did something in a crowd and encircled around her while she screamed out the name of her husband and ancestors.
I saw blood come crawling from beneath the crowd of captors and the woman stoped yelling.
There was silence again. Suddenly one of the captors tossed her dead body over the side of the boat. Many of us who saw that gasped, and moaned and sung the song of sorrow for the dead. We called as one voice for the ancestors to come to carry her away to our ancestral home.
We were taken back down to the hole and left until the captors took us out again. Some men and women and children were beat, until they bled. Some men were beat until you could see pieces of meat from their backs fly off in different directions. Then we were taken back into the black hole.
Day turned into night and night into day. One day the big boat stopped and we who had survived were taken from the boat and washed brutally, and greased.
New chains were placed on our hands and feet and we were taken into what appeared to be a village with more of the tribes people who looked and dressed differently then us.
They looked angry and laughed at the same time. I passed out. I awoke on a wood floor. There was a large animal that looked like something I had never seen before.
One of the captors had been sitting and looking away from me. I looked around and saw some of the villager men who had survived the trip. I sat up and then I saw a big white hut. There were other tribes in this new land. I did not recognize any of them.
When the big animal stopped we were all yanked off the wood floor and put on the ground. I was very weak, and sick. I began to throw up again. I was hit again.
I was yanked to follow my fellow villagers to a small white hut. When we arrived more of the strange looking tribesman and some tribes men from my mother land were there. We were handed bowls of food and we ate.
This was strange food but it tasted better than the food on the large boat. I began to feel better. I looked around and saw animals I had never seen before. Some were funny….a white bird with a red wobbly skin on its head and neck. It made funny noises.
I began to miss my mother and I cried again. I was hit again. I began to wimper to myself and pray to my ancestors. I wondered what ever happened to my father and the other tribesman and if they knew what had happened to us.
I was given a hut to share with other tribesman, and clothes. I was given work to do in a very, very large garden. I never forgot my mother, baby brother, and my father and kinsman.
I worked until I died from a severe beating.
~~~~~riveroflifelisajoy
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This is a document regarding the emancipation of the slaves……
COPYWRITE 2003-2008 SON OF THE SOUTH
WWW.SONOFTHESOUTH.NET
paul@sonofthesouth.
Abraham Lincoln and
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Abraham Lincoln and Emancipated Slaves, April 1865
Richmond Virginia, the Confederate Capitol fell on April 3, 1865. The following day, April 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln went to the fallen city. Throngs of slaves were in the streets, celebrating their first day of freedom, and welcoming Lincoln. Thomas Nast captured this historic event with his drawing presented at your right. This is perhaps the best portrait of Mr. Lincoln ever produced. It shows that while Lincoln was to tragically die 10 days later, he did, if only briefly, get to see the fruit of his leadership and resolve. He was able to see the grateful tears of the emancipated, and hear their cheers of appreciation. There is a fascinating story about this day, so please click on the image for the full story of the day that Abraham Lincoln walked the streets of the fallen Rebel Capitol.
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braham Lincoln Entering Richmond Virginia
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May 10, 2008 at 10:57 pm · Filed under Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, Children, Compassion for the Needy, Faith, Health, poetry about Mother's Day, Selfesteem, single parenting, Uncategorized, Views from Within
To my son you gave
money on my behalf
$60.00 is not much…
but it is too much for
me.
No, I do not deserve
it…but not
for the reasons
you might think
I am a mother,
that is true.
But, my heart….this
individual mother
is made happy by
your care laden words of
inspiration when
you see me looking
tired, and worn from
a hard day at work.
I love diamonds,
I love pearls,
and I love mink coats…
fake ones are expensive too!
But I do not want anything
for Mothers day!
Nothing tangible
nothing gold,
nothing siver,
nothing expensive
NOT EVEN FLOWERS….
gIVE HEALTH to my child
teach him in school,
give him education…..
give my child the education
that he needs and the skills to
succeed.
I will water him with life skills,
manners, and self respect
Truly, I want nothing from
my child….Oh, yes…I do want something
but it is not the diamonds, the pearls,
the vacation on the Bahama Islands
or Hawaii!
I want from my child…
for him to grow to be a man
of stature,
integrity,
and honor!
If I live to see those
things….I do not want
ANYTHING….from you
my friend…..just
your positive words when I
am tired from
a hard day at work.
Just a prayer sent to God
on my behalf…
And oh, if you want
to give someone something
GIVE IT TO MY SON!!!
wITH A WORD of encouragement
and admonition
to listen to his MOM
and follow her
words of Wisdom!
Oh, alright,
I will go to
the movies
for mother’s day
and I will see IRONMAN
..for I know that is what
my son wants to see…..the movie
is truly not for me.
NO! I am not
a martyar…..just
a mother
whose priorities
might be different
than most.
For when I cannot
work, and my son is
a man, I will look
back and remember
how much good it
did my heart to give….
rather than to receive…
So again Dear friend
DON’T GIVE ME ANYTHING….YOUR CARE AND CONCERN ARE
ENOUGH…..
GOD bLESS YOU AND
HAVE A HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
AND YES, tHANK YOU
aLWAYS!
lOVE~~~~riveroflifelisajoy!
May 4, 2008 at 12:47 pm · Filed under ANIMAL ABUSE, Animal Interest--CUTE PHOTOS JUST FOR FUN!, Animal Planet, ASPCA, CARBON EMISSIONS AND TREE PLANTING, CHARLES DARWIN THEORIES AND RARE ANIMALS, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Death, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, DESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN FORESTS, EVAN ALMIGHTY....NOAH'S ARK....WE NEED ONE RIGHT NOW!!!, Faith, FEAR OF EARTHS DESTRUCTION FROM POLUTION, Fear of the unknown, Global Warming, Health, IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND HEALTH OF MANKIND, Jacque Cousteau--deep sea animal exploration, National Geograhic, National Geographic, Nature in Jeopardy due to Polution, NOAHS ARK, Ocean dredging, OIL SPILLS IN THE OCEAN, PAWS FOR A CAUSE, POLAR BEAR PLACED ON ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST DUE TO LOS, POLLUTION AND POLAR ICECAP, POLUTION AND EXTINCT ANIMALS, SAVE THE POLAR BEAR, starvation below the surface of the world's oceans, Steve Carell and tagged: CARBON EMISSIONS AND TREE PLANTING, CHARLES DARWIN THEORIES, DESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN FORESTS, EVAN ALMIGHTY---WE NEED ONE RIGHT NOW!!!!, FEAR OF EARTHS DESTRUCTION FROM POLUTION, Global Warming, HUMAN EXISTENCE AND CHARLES DARWIN THEORIES, LOSS OF POLAR ICECAP AND ITS AFFECTS ON THIS WORLD AND, NOAHS ARK SAVE THE POLAR BEAR, OIL SPILLS IN THE OCEAN, POLAR BEAR ADDED TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST---DUE T, RARE ANIMALS
I am writing this as an update to this article. My heart is hurting for the POLAR BEAR! It is a beautiful animal. But its natural habit is being destroyed by GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! 1010 WINS radio stated it today. That our nation… added it. I feel dismay and fear for our world and its future. AS I WATCHED MY NEW FAVORITE MOVIE….EVAN ALMIGHTY…..I WONDERED…..WHO WILL BUILD THE ARK FOR OUR ENDANGERED SPECIES?????? WHO WILL SAVE THE POLAR BEAR???? WHEN THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE WORLD BECOME TOO WARM AND THERE ARE NO MORE ICECAPS….WHO WILL SAVE US????? Think about it and start talking and start writing to your congressman…..PLEASE! OUr world depends on it….your future, and my future, and the CIRCLE OF LIFE depends on it!!!!
I love to blog about our natural resources and our animals that are part of our existence. Even if you live in a high rise apartment building do you realize that our planet is governed by certain scientific rules that keep our living enviornment a living enviornment?
We need the rain forests, and regular forests to get rid of carbon. The less trees, and vegetation the less oxygen for us all. Green cars, hybrids are part of the solution.
HOwever, the constant dregding of the ocean floor and the constant oil spills in the ocean from the barges that carry the exumed oil are killing the ocean animals and birds.
Look at these great pictures taken from Black Voices AOL TITLED RARE ANIMAL SIGHTINGS….and think of what you can do.
Even if you live in a concrete jungle….think what role you can play to save the green tree jungle for future generations of animals and humanbeings.
This cloud rat, found in a mossy forest about 7,700 feet above sea level in Mt. Pulag National Park in the Philippines, was the first of its species to be seen in 112 years. Click through the photos to see sightings of other rare creatures.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo / AP
Rare Sightings
Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo said April 16 they have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam. Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, including this one.
THIS FROG BREATHES THROUGH ITS SKIN…THIS ALSO IS ANOTHER ANIMAL THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT. sUCH VARIETY…SUCH UNIQUE QUALITIES….SHOULD BE PERSERVED.
A peculiar breed of frog discovered on the island of Borneo seems to have evolved in reverse, scientists reported April 9. Unlike most creatures that developed lungs as they crawled out of the ocean, the lungless Barbourula kalimantanensis breathes through its skin.
Guess what? there is such a thing as a wolverine! What can we do to perserve our forests….use less paper? Replant trees…Keeping it green for such animals.
Until this picture of a wolverine was taken on Feb. 28 by a motion-and-heat-detecting digital camera in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada range in California, scientists didn’t believe wolverines still existed there.
This is a albino killer whale. The ocean dredging is killing our oceans and the animals that are within. The constant over fishing is causing the sea animals to loose their food source.
Researchers working near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Feb. 23 spotted a white killer whale, which they estimate was 25 to 30 feet long and weighed more than 10,000 pounds. This is only the third time in the past 15 years that such a whale has been seen in the area.
Kerri Lukis, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary / AP
This Maud Island frog lives at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in New Zealand. The rare breed, which has changed little over the past 70 million years, is thriving in the predator-free environment. Unlike other frogs, they hatch fully formed, skipping the tadpole stage. They also do not croak, live in water or have webbed feet.
Rare Sightings
This is another animal….so rare that there are only thirty n the world. Our extistence is dependant on the extistence of our animals.
In October, wildlife officials caught and examined a critically endangered Amur leopard in order to possibly find out how inbreeding undermines its tiny population in eastern Europe. There are only about 30 such animals left in the wild.
This beautiful butterfly so delicate….What can we do to continue to see these rare animals/insects?
Visitors flocked to Falcon State Park in Texas after this rare telea hairstreak butterfly was captured on film by Berry Nall in October. The butterfly hadn’t been seen in the U.S. for more than 70 years.
Conservation International / AP
Rare Sightings
In May, scientists discovered these rare soft-shell turtles, once thought to be on the brink of extinction, in a once-restricted part of Cambodia.
These animals can live without our basic assistance. All they need from us for us humanbeings to clean up factory emissions, carbon emissions and chemicals that are leaking into the water and ground and stop cutting down the forests. What can we do to save this planet for ourselves and our fellow inhabitants like this owl called…..
The long-whiskered owlet, one of the world’s smallest owls, was spotted in the wild for the first time in February 2006. It was seen in a private reserve in Peru.
National Science Museum of Japan / AP
Rare Sightings
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A beautiful large eye looks out from a unique organism. Living unususal and should have the right to live its life. If we empty the ocean…what will happen to the earth? Should we dredge for oil and over fish?
In December 2006, scientists released footage of a giant squid — here attacking a bait squid — that may be the first images of a live giant squid at the water’s surface. Sources: AP, livescience.com
Please help keep the earth green for the vegetations and blue for ocean animals and for ourselves. Read, write letters, get involved. Global Warming? Who knows? But cabon emissions, polution are all quite real. So lets. come together as the human race. Does it matter that my skin is brown, yours is white, his/her skin is yellow? Each living thing is beautiful and has the responsibility and right to exist. Look at the Squid above….it is strange, but beautiful. Lets help it to survive….our survival depends on it.
——Survival of the fitest means that the higher the speicies…the more responsible that we have to be to ensure the survival of ALL SPECIES….NOT JUST THE FITEST OR THE STRONGEST….REMEMBER THE CORNY MOVIE….LION KING? CIRCLE OF LIFE….LETS STAY LINKED AND SURVIVE!
RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY`
April 2, 2008 at 11:31 am · Filed under Activities for Teens, All Race Families, amateur poetry and prose writing, and tradegy, Art, BAD BEDSIDE MANNER OF DOCTORS, being disabled and dependant, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, Children, Children of All Races, children with seizure/epilepsy, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, Coping with Seizure, EPILEPSY, Faith, Family in Crisis, Family Leave Act and Epilepsy/seizure, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Fear of the unknown, Health, How Professional Mentors influence the Young, How to Respond to another's troubles, Insomnia, Leadership and Its Responsibility, Medical Crisis in the Family, PARENT AND CHILD ACTIVITIES TO BRING THE FAMILY TOGETHE, religion, Save the Children, SEIZURE DISORDER, Seizure Disorder and the Family Affects, SELF REFLECTION, single parenting, SLEEP AND HEALTH CONDITIONS, Thoughtless words, Uncategorized, Views from Within and tagged: Emotional Condition of a patient and family at medical, Fear of the unknown
Dry like the parchment of the
scroll of a writ
of so long ago
Thousands of years
hid away
Moments in the hands of
an anthropologist
crackling under his
sweaty palms
grasp
the dry old parchment
will melt away
if not put in sealed
archival containers
dry like the old linen dress
of yesteryear
like a ball of cottom in my mouth
the medical diagnosis
has come and gone
and now my sensations are
minimized
except for the diagnosis
pain that is ripping its’
way deep into my heart.
Trying to explain to my
child that he has to
take medication to save his
life.
Cotton mouth,
loss of taste for the
things you love.
Loss of sensation in my
feet and hands
Sitting I type not
feeling, not
wanting to feel the pain
deep searing a tunnel through
my stomach
I feel full,
gas overcomes my belly
cotton mouth
prevents me from
eating
like the fullness of
emptiness I hold
deep in my belly to
unfold until I scream from
pain and agony
Take the truth,
dealt the truth
no compassion
was the final blow
given
lost in a new
hell
fear of the unknown and
the diagonosis compells
the rickety fence of hell to
open and reveal the ominous
cavern that threatens to swallow
us whole
We must proceed my child
we must go in
Cotton mouth,
sweaty palms,
sweaty feet,
sudden compulsion to
release bodily fluids,
fight or flight sydrome
in full affect
compel me oh Lord
toward the light
Let taste return
Cotton Mouth–
I cannot swallow
for the diagnosis
itself is not paletable
The diagnosis was
given with such cold
precision like the blade
of the surgeons knife
Hold my hand my child
walk together we will
toward the tower of hell
but together we will
climb to heaven
despite the steely grasp of the Cotton mouth!
March 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm · Filed under All Race Families, amateur poetry and prose writing, and tradegy, Bias on the Job in regards to illness in the Family and, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, Children, children with seizure/epilepsy, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Death, Coping with Seizure, EPILEPSY, Family in Crisis, Family Leave Act and Epilepsy/seizure, Health, How to Respond to another's troubles, Human Rights Issues, Longlsland Jewish Hospital and Synder Children's Emerge, Medical Crisis in the Family, Schneider Children Neurology Dept., Seizure Disorder and the Family Affects, Selfishness, Thoughtless words and tagged: 15 year old seizure disorder, Coping with Death, Coping with Seizure, help to heal, how to give compassionate response, Schneider Children Hospital Neurology Department
Wonderful I said.
Yes, Just Wonderful!
The weather is bright,
The moon is just right……
Wonderful!
But yet—I cry.
Why me I said,
the child of mine lays
flat on the bed.
The sun is shining brightly outside
his bedroom window.
We were just getting ready to go home
And he became ill.
Wonderful, I had said,
Marvelous, Great Fantastic
I thought and then
he was prone
attacked by a seizure.
“I Need Help! I Need Help! I NEED HELP! I NEED HELP!
Was all I could say
I wanted to wail,
and scream and
drive that evil away!
I can’t watch, I can’t see
the Evil wretch which
threatened and attacked
my fifteen yearold baby!
So what?…that he is fifteen….does it matter?
If your husband, or wife take ill….does it
matter that he or she is 50 years old? or 35 years old?
Sickness, disease….NEVER come at the right time!
Death does not live in a life of reason
or ryhme….So please do not
ask me, or chide me and say….HOW OLD IS YOUR SON?
For when he lay prone against the hospital bed, and nothing left
to be said—-Look at him with love, look at him
with compassion…..for your family, your friends could be
sick tomorrow or the
day after…..just pray for me today
Don’t say, Well, he IS 15!
Well, a lady whose husband passed away at the age of 45 from a massive
heart attack was older….and the loss is deep, and troubling nonetheless…..–Remember Jack Ritter who died from a Massive Heart tear?— from
Three’s Company Fame?—Everyone Cared…and Cried
all the same!
Just offer a hand or a hug of compassion,
and a gentle breeze of concern….
Do not dismiss my challenge with
How Old is he? Even if he were age 18—-he still would need MY help!
Yes, he is still my child….
So yes, Wonderful!
It truly is Wonderful…when people can be responsive in a most
pleaseant way.
Why don’t you try that approach
today?
P.S.
THANKYOU SYNDER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL @ LongIsland Jewish for helping my son—No matter what his Age!
FINI!
—-Riveroflifelisajoy
THE FORCE AND WILL OF CREATION!
July 30, 2008 at 1:04 am · Filed under All Race Families, amateur poetry and prose writing, AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE MAKING, being strong willed and determined to over come lives p, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, BLACK WOMEN PREACHERS AND ITS AFFECTS ON THEIR MARRIAGE, CAN I GO HOME TO MOTHER AFRCIA?, Catholic...all denomiations---How do we teach Love?, Charles Darwin and Natural Selection---Endangered Speic, CHARLES DARWIN THEORIES AND RARE ANIMALS, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, children and mothers's in slavery, Children of All Races, Christain Faith and Love in Action, comments on life...when people try to hurt one another, Compassion for the Needy, DO NOT GIVE UP! KEEP GOING AND WIN THE RACE~!, Faith, food, recreation, painting pictures for hobbies, sing, FREE WRITE, Have Faith in Spite of the Circumstances, Selfesteem, single parenting, Views from Within, WHO IS LISA JOY??????? and tagged: AWARENESS OF CREATIVE ABILITIES IN ALL PEOPLE, CONNECTION TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND CREATION, CREATIONISM, SELF DETERMINATION, SPIRIT OF A HUMAN BEING, WHO IS LISA JOY???????
UNIVERSE AND WEAVE IN HARMONY
Who am I you ask?
What are my abilities you wonder.
I have not come this far by your
direction, or by your power.
The higher authority that breathed
life into my frame, who
very much ordained my name
decided…and so it was!
Perception is sometimes powered by
STEROTYPE!
Misconception is sometimes powered
by dislike!
Who am I you ask….
I am the force and the will of creation…
I am the power of the volcano’s eruption
molten lava rolling and burning a path through
everything!
A tornado in all of its thoughtless, callous chaos….twirling
in beauty and destruction without apparent destination, or goals…
intent on devastation…yet in simplistic natural beauty powered by an unseen
machine and engine.
A hurricane large and moving in speeds of one hundred mile an hour winds, ripping trees from their root beds and tossing homes and cars like children’s toys…yet again powered by an unseen mechanical engine of such power as to draw all living and dead into its path.
So who am I you ask?
Incased in this flesh I am mortal, a woman, an individual with thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Yet you perceive me weak, you know….first impressions and all….
But oh, do not be deceived….just as you are ….I see through to your very soul….
we are both
the force and will of creation!
Just as I have and you have the ability to be creative, so do I ….just as you have the ability to be destructive so do I.
I chose life…
what do you choose?
Within me reigns the absolute power to choose—to be the FORCE AND WILL OF CREATION!
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