Tag: brain jogging
member name: Nyota *Star*
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
The glass is half empty.
The glass is half full.
Defend your choice knowing that either belief can be a good thing or a bad thing.
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May 29, 2008 10:43 PM EDT --
What constitutes a good friend?
Loyalty and understanding are two major requirements of mine.
I was prompted to write this because I was thinking of my oldest, best, and steadiest friend, Masomakali . . .
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June 26, 2008 07:34 PM EDT --
After a lengthy bout of procrastination, how do you motivate yourself to do a necessary task?
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June 07, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
I like to do things that could be considered random acts of kindness but I have usually thought them out.
I do "good deeds" such as my latest: I took interesting magazines and distributed . . .
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June 06, 2008 11:53 PM EDT --
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-winfield060408&prov=yhoo&type
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June 12, 2008 01:13 AM EDT --
Why do these things happen in the world of television?
1. If the women have purses, where are the purses? Or, why are they first thing that disappears when women are chased? (In real life I . . .
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July 01, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
We always read about about folk's complaints regarding the way Gather does things.
I'd like to read the opinions of people who have found good things to write about Gather.
We all come here . . .
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June 27, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
List some photographs, visual art, books, music, lyrics, etc., you have published (You don't have to be the author/creator.).
I have authored and self-published a book of poetry: Necessary . . .
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January 19, 2008 07:35 PM EST --
I am ass-u-ming that a large part of folk on Gather are sensitive and sincere. I certainly am both, and, continue to observe others who seem to be so. I am not writing this to anyone in particular but . . .
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August 11, 2008 11:16 PM EDT --
I found this on the 'net and it's beautiful!
Nyota = Star (Nuru = light)
A star is a point of light. It denotes something famous or brilliant. As a metaphor, a star alludes to somebody . . .
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May 21, 2008 11:44 PM EDT --
Just wondering if anyone is as turned off by Flava Flav as I am. I caught his latest minstrel show tonight and it was so sorry I had to write to get others' opinions.
Flav sure seems to be enjoying . . .
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June 26, 2008 01:46 PM EDT --
I posted this poem on Gather over a year ago. It was written by my father in books he gave to my sister and me for Christmas when we were very young. Had I remembered, I would've posted it on Fathers' . . .
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August 28, 2008 01:09 PM EDT --
Every now and then I write to the companies who use Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben as personifications touting their products. I ask things like: Why can't SHE be Ms. Jemima and HE be Mr . Ben? I have . . .
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June 08, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
There's a lot of buzz going around about how Hillary Clinton has been treated so poorly by some simply because she is a woman.
I can't help but think of the speech Sojourner Truth (Isabella . . .
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July 08, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
Just today, while reading an article, I had one of the strongest memory of my father that I hadn't thought of for years.
He was sitting in his favorite chair and smoking his favorite pipe.
This . . .
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October 13, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
Just curious.
How many connections have you made by being my friend ?
I know everyone of you will answer this question! [(;p)]
Humor me.
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June 01, 2008 09:38 AM EDT --
It has been my experience that there are a lot of nosy people in this world. Now, I said NOSY, not curious. There's a difference because the curious are more likely to ask their question in a forthright . . .
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August 18, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
A brief history of Black Face (Asians and Native Americans also included).
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1725315794
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May 29, 2008 05:58 PM EDT --
WARNING: This article is scholarly as well as lengthy.
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot In Your Brain
Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
(I wrote an article on this movie about a week ago but Gather's techno-bug wouldn't post it. This was before the tragedy actor/singer Jennifer Hudson is dealing with.).
Have you seen the movie . . .
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