collecting pictures from the flood.

coping.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:44:00 -0400

I dont think I can look at another man with the same eyes.

Taste his tongue as if it were yours.

I dont think I could hold his gaze for moments of purity, where the vacant noise fills with the yearning of our hearts.

I’ve looked for men with hands like yours, ones that mended too many times before.

Ones that gathered my feet to your lap.

Ones that held my tears like the last droplets of water.

I’ve searched for men with your laugh, to remind me what the sound of endless mornings would sound like.

And your smell, smelled like the origins of spice, tainted with the temperaments of another women.

And your smile I don’t know if there’s anything like that I could find, cause three times it was deception, two times it regined of lust, and one time it stole the light in my eyes.

You see, I cant look another man with the same eyes cause everything is different.

Your smiled fooled my lips, your smell shielded my eyes, your taste left me foolish.

"I see him sometimes and the look in his eye Is one of a man who’s lost treasures untold But my..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:45:04 -0400

“I see him sometimes and the look in his eye
Is one of a man who’s lost treasures untold
But my heart is gold I took back my soul
And totally let my creator control
The life which was his to begin with”

- lauryn hill

ashwednesday.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:37:19 -0500

I know for Lent your usually suppose to give something up, but for the past two years I’ve stopped doing that and I started taking something on. This lent I decided to do more of an outreach type of thing. Not necessarily speak the gospel, but be THAT christian that I know I am, and suppose to be. I just feel like in college its so easy to get caught up with other things that aren’t important that we often forget our own true character and being. I just want to exemplify who I am as a person and Christian at the same time. I know it wont be easy at all, but I am definitely going to try.

It’s insane realizing how much has changed in the past year. How much I’ve changed in...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:04:26 -0500

It’s insane realizing how much has changed in the past year. How much I’ve changed in the last year. You know what, I’m happy though. Like for the first time in a minute, I’m content. And I really don’t know what you can ask for other than that. Im really really blessed. God willing, it will remain this way.

'What We Have' by Warsan Shire

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:17:39 -0500

Our men do not belong to us. Even my own father, left one afternoon, is not mine. My brother is in prison, is not mine. My uncles, they go back home and they are shot in the head, are not mine. My cousins, stabbed in the street for being too – or not – enough, are not mine.

Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who were taken by the police, or by drugs, or by illness or by other women. It makes no sense. Look at your skin, her mouth, these lips, those eyes, my God, listen to that laugh. The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.

2013.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:12:00 -0500

did this for the last two years and only feel like i should keep it going…

2012 was nothing I expected. Especially the last four months. Just a whirlwind of ?!? I wont elaborate but I’m not happy about all the turnouts, but as always God is behind every happening with a reason and I have to give it to Him at the end of the day. 2012 its been real, real, but im saying peace to you with a smile on my face.

2013. All I want is significance. I want something real to happen and God forbid it to be bad, but I want to find something thats right. That just fits and sticks. I want something to be apart of me, that i didn’t know that mattered or much less make me more of me. I want to be bold in what I want and proactive in my desires, but I also want to be more humbled. More in tune with myself and my faith. I want to grow per se into the person I am; like be my full being without losing sight. I want to spend more quality time with my family. Lastly, I want to come to terms with myself, the good and bad. 2013, just let me live, but learn. taankyuu.

dope.

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:43:31 -0500

dope.

Photo

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:37:56 -0500

Taking a step back and choosing to love myself again. Self reflection November.

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:48:00 -0400

Taking a step back and choosing to love myself again. Self reflection November.

diaryofakanemem: Slam Nahuatl @ VCU: Novakane performs...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:57:34 -0400

diaryofakanemem:

Slam Nahuatl @ VCU: Novakane performs “Carolina”

Friends that hold me down, thank you.

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:26:35 -0400

Friends that hold me down, thank you.

yeahhabesha: Miriam Tigist Green, was adopted by Clifton Green...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:32:37 -0400

yeahhabesha:

Miriam Tigist Green, was adopted by Clifton Green and his wife. Whilst at home they had no idea what to do with her hair, as both had no experience in braiding so they considered letting it go as “a sign of freedom” But after they both knew that her hair was a strong sign of her african roots so they decided to braid it like most African people did, although it took a while Clifton finally mastered the art of braiding.

summa, summa, where’d you go? sike, I’m dying in...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:39:52 -0400

summa, summa, where’d you go?

sike, I’m dying in school and its only been what three weeks? But life is good and am so so so blessed right now. God always has things ready for me and blind faith is all I’ve got.

"You let yourself inside with no respect for privacy You said there’s too much on my mind Then..."

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:28:41 -0400

“

You let yourself inside with no respect for privacy
You said there’s too much on my mind
Then you ripped out a page and set that shit on flame
I quit writing, I kept living, I kept loving

….dust, dust.

”

Today is my parents 25th anniversary. You know when they first...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:06:58 -0400

Today is my parents 25th anniversary. You know when they first told me they were celebrating it I was kind of surprised, I didnt know it was tradition in my culture to actually celebrate anniversaries and things related to relationships and such. I was more surprised in the fact that with 25 years my parents have still been able to put up with each other, they are more than just a relationship. They are in uni-cent, one person. They’ve dealt with every bump, hill, mountain, together as a couple. They’ve put four children in this world, healthy and happy. My parents have honestly taught me patience, understanding, independence, and how to love unconditionally. They’ve taught me there is no relationship with out faults, and no foundation without trust. I have my parents to thank for giving me hope to find someone I can lean on when things are tough and someone to support when things are heavy for them too. God is so good with his blessing and this, my family, I think that’s been my biggest blessing thus far. Happy 25th Anniversary Mommy and Daddy <3

so thank god the stars don’t judge us for what we do beneath them thank god the stars don’t see...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:14:55 -0400

so thank god the stars don’t judge us for what we do beneath them

thank god the stars don’t see the evil we commit under their names

thank god for the silence

for the dimness

for nights spent alone

thank god for friends who know more than your bra strap

and thank god for cab rides home

— Alysia Harris

fahteemuh: pratfall: Youth by Me, preformed live at The Zoo,...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:35:07 -0400

fahteemuh:

pratfall:

Youth by Me, preformed live at The Zoo, Brisbane.

Originally by Daughter.

Facebook Page, Download Link, More music

this cover is beautiful.

this is perfect.

How many times have you gotten up to say something, but just sat right back down? Countless. I...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:09:40 -0400

How many times have you gotten up to say something, but just sat right back down?

Countless.

I always just think…one day, I will.

snowstorminjuly: inothernews: BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. So by now...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:31:49 -0400

snowstorminjuly:

inothernews:

BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. So by now we know that U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps has broken the all-time Olympics record for most medals ever, with 19 (as of yesterday — Phelps has three more events to go at the summer games in London).

But many members of the media failed to point out exactly whose record Phelps had broken: it belonged to Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina, who won 18 medals between 1956 and 1964. She was in attendance during Phelps’s record-smashing performance on Tuesday.

“Latynina joked in recent weeks that it was time for a man to be able to do what a woman had done long ago,” wrote the New York Times. ”And that it was too bad Phelps was not Russian.”

Badass. I had no idea.

Photo

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:47:00 -0400