Why am I so sad today and so afraid? Because these two beautiful, polite, aware, and intelligent young men are at risk every day they go outside alone. I am praying for God to deliver them from all evil. Let’s pray for all of our boys and men
Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest of All Time’, Dead at 74
“Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.
“After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening,” …
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”- Muhammad Ali
This isn’t realistic for adults. I’m sorry it’s just not.
Don’t fall into believing that, “if they’re a true friend they’ll drop everything and run to be by your side!” crap.
As a responsible adult there will be times that your friends are hurting and you won’t be able to go to them.
There are times that you will have to go to work, or take your sick kid to the doctor, or do many other things that will prevent you from being there for your friend.
When your friend calls you and they’re falling apart and it’s ten minutes until you have to leave for work, you’re not a bad friend for saying, “Look, I love you. I’m sorry this is happening, but I have to go. I’ll call you back tonight when the kids are asleep.” Or “I’m so sorry this is happening. I love you and I want to be here for you but I’ve got to get to work. I’ll call and check on you during my lunch.”
Adult life is hectic and busy with important things all the time and unfortunately it’s also full of shitty things happening to people we love.
Do your best to be there for the people you love and ask for support when you need it but be understanding when being a responsible adult comes before helping you.
The idea that people need to be there any time you need them is really damaging and unhealthy, too. You can’t place value on a person or a relationship based solely on whether or not they’re available, no questions asked, whenever you need them.
In addition to the above: sometimes, someone simply does not have the energy to help. Maybe they’re coming out of a rough patch themself, maybe they have been busy all day,maybe a chronic illness is flaring up. There are a myriad of reasons someone may not be able to be there.
Obviously, if someone is taking you for granted, and never seems to care how you’re doing, that’s an issue. But to write someone off because their life and your life didn’t line up quite right at a given point in time, or maybe even on more than one occasion, is not a healthy way to handle things.
“Malick Sidibé, the Malian photographer who chronicled his country’s burgeoning pop culture in the years after independence, has died at the age of 80.
Sidibé’s dynamic black-and-white shots captured the energy, hope and nightlife of a generation of young Africans across two decades of social, cultural and political change.
The photographer’s nephew Oumar Sidibé confirmed his uncle’s death on Friday, saying he had been ailing for some time but did not give details of when he died.“It’s a great loss for Mali,” said the country’s culture minister N’Diaye Ramatoulaye Diallo. “He was part of our cultural heritage. The whole ofMali is in mourning.”Born in what was then French Sudan in 1936 (or 1935; in interviews he could never remember which), Sidibé only started school at 10, when he could be spared from shepherding duties by his father. He became known among his classmates and teachers as an accomplished artist, and in 1952 won a place at the École des Artisans Soudanais in Bamako.
Sidibé’s archive from those years totals tens of thousands of negatives, and his photographs are now held in collections across the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Museum in California.
In 2007, he became the first photographer – and the first African – to be awarded the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale.
“No African artist has done more to enhance photography’s stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our awareness of the textures and transformations of African culture in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st than Malick Sidibé,” said critic and curator Robert Storr of his achievements.
Sidibé was a World Press Photo winner in 2010 for a fashion shoot commissioned by the New York Times. “We’re saddened to hear of Malick Sidibé’s passing,”tweeted the organisation, as other photographers and artists also paid tribute to Mali’s master.
In a Guardian interview, also in 2010, Sidibé said a good photographer needed the “talent to observe, and to know what you want” but also to be sympathique, or friendly. “I believe with my heart and soul in the power of the image, but you also have to be sociable. I’m lucky. It’s in my nature,” he said.”
“Because I Am Loved”: Children’s Book Author B. Keith Fulton Shares New Book About His Disabled Sister Shauna
“The book was inspired by the poem I wrote about Shauna when I was 16. The book and the lessons learned evolved out of that experience, out of realizing where those talents came from – that gift of social perception. The premise of the book is that there is a blessing in caring, and we should not look at it as a burden.
I tried to relay that reality, that truth, in the book, which is an adaptation of a poem I wrote in my youth. I thought, if I could get an illustrator, then we could bring some of those words to life, and create a book that is not only targeted to children, but also shines a positive light on caregiving.
I believed it was something that people should hear about because we do not always appreciate the gifts and talents caregiving affords us…”
Meet the incredible Wanda James, the only black woman who owns a legal weed dispensary in Colorado. And after you meet her, meet her brother, Rick, who was sentenced to TEN YEARS in jail for years for possession of 4 ounces of marijuana.
This is how your race and zip code determine whether you become a millionaire or a felon.
