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Vermillion hues of my roots
August 1, 2024
"May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
4 August , 24
Early morning classes do not inspire enthusiasm today. My books have arrived, filling me with a desire to devote the entire day to reading. However, an intimidating pile of white laundry demands my attention. As I hang the clothes, the washing line, seemingly reserved for whites, captures my affection with its gentle flutter in the breeze.
Amidst the chores, I manage to steal moments for myself. Outside, cumulus clouds drift lazily across the cerulean vastness of the sky, while the sun plays peek-a-boo, occasionally illuminating the lush greenery of my plants and a single wild white lily, which stands out like a pixie amidst the foliage. In these fleeting glimpses of beauty, I am reminded that
" life is indeed beautiful."
August 23 , 2024
Humans often think they know where they end and others begin, but I understand now that you were never separate from me. Your love, like the ancient trees, runs deep, mingling with mine, connected by an unseen web of memories, love, and shared moments. Even now, as I stand here, I know that you are still with me, your roots forever tangled with mine, nurturing me from the soil of our shared existence. We are, and always will be, interconnected, Maa—no loneliness, only togetherness that transcends the physical.
August 30, 2024
"In the silent night, in the dark of night, in the deep of night, I will come to you and listen, and I will speak, and I will sing, and I will love you.”
— Walt Whitman, The Sleepers, Leaves of Grass
September 2, 2024
At the day's quiet end, When the sky blushes with gold, She gathers the sunset in her hands, Holding its warmth like a secret, A light that fades but never truly leaves, Lingering in the twilight of memory.
September 8 , 2024
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
September 23, 2024
I ran to you not just with my bruised knees and muddy hands, but with all the joys, worries, and secrets my heart could hold.
You were the guardian of my little stories, little secrets; your embrace is my refuge where I never outgrew.
Always yours ❤️🩹🙏🏾
28/09/24
Quote from "As long as the lemon trees grow " — Zoulfa Katouh
I enjoy novels with a bit of romance just like the next guy, but I'm getting sick of reading the same lame ass relationship dynamic where a masculine man with anger issues and overprotective tendencies (that end up paying off in the end) is with a feminine woman who has little to no personality besides sarcastic comments and sex appeal (and was obviously written by a man who had no idea how to write women).
That being said, does anyone have any book recommendations featuring a relationship dynamic that's more interesting and less misogynistic? Preferably where the woman is the dominant, masculine one in the relationship and the man is softer and more feminine.
(Bonus points if there's a kidnapping involved. I eat that shit for breakfast.)
My Top 3 Books of 2022
Jewels of Truth Book Reading for Celestial Celebration Psychic Fair
Hello All, I'm up to it again for this month of November I'll be attending another local upcoming psychic fair at Spirit University here in Sarasota, FL. So consider this another rehearsal practice video of the same lecture I'll be present. For the "Jewels of Truth" series of angelically channeled spiritual wisdom covering 8 statements overall.
The first 2 spiritual wisdom statements will be from Volume 1 on the topics of Journey and Joy. Next, there will be an additional two statements from Volume 2 on Lessons and Angels. Afterward, with two statements for Volume 3 on Forgiveness and Angels. Finally new material from statements #2686 on Divinity and #2683 on Hope.
The Spirit University for this upcoming Saturday, November 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm will be a local psychic fair here in Sarasota, FL. (ie Bradenton, FL as well) The theme of this psychic fair will be on Angels and Extra Terrestrials. As I stated earlier I'll be speaking about my "Jewels of Truth" books on channeled angelic wisdom and I will also be a psychic reader for this event. I will be using an Angel Tarot deck and a Pendulum in tandem during my wisdom readings for clients.
As the only school in the country that has spiritual psychic-mediumship events All Year Long. (Just between the months of August and January there are 250 events happening) With national and Florida statewide speakers, presenters, and workshops on the psychic arts. So please come out for this event that is out of this world! (sorry had to use a bad pun on the ET's)
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 23 years of his life to the pursuit of clairvoyant automatic writing channeling the Angelic host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series of "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also channels conceptual designs that are multi-faceted for the next society to come that are solutions based as a form of dharmic service. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 13 years plus online. Your welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
Almost everyone knows that line from that book,
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move
It has been mentioned in Tumblr posts, Instagram posts, twitter jokes, what most people might not know is that this line comes from the Douglas Adams book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the second book of the Hitchhiker’s Guide book series.
This series is composed of five books and a short story written by Douglas Adams, and another book written by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer. The book I’ve read consists of the five mains books of the Hitchhiker’s series, plus a short story. In the end, the contents of this book are these:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read) Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe The moment before annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.
Life, the Universe and Everything The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription thrusts him back to reality. So to speak. Mostly Harmless Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?
Includes the bonus story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"
Having read all of them I have my opinions.
SPOILER ALERT
The books are funny, just reading the first chapters can tell you that the books are very very funny. Some passages of it are enough to make you laugh out loud because they are that funny. It focuses on the story of Arthur Dent, his friends, and the shenanigans he ends up getting involved in. These friends include Ford Perfect, an alien who has lived on Earth for year and writes for said Guide, Zaphod Beeblebrox, an alien with two heads who is also the President of the Galaxy at the beginning of the book series. Tricia “Trillian” McMillian, a human astrophysicist, who meets Zaphod at a party and ends up traveling the universe with him, and Marvin, a depressed robot. These are the main characters of the series, alongside Arthur, who is the main character, and they show up on almost all the books. One of the most important things in the books is also the guide itself, that instead of a book is more of a portable computer with a Wikipedia that spans the knowledge of almost everything in the universe. Another important character is Fenchurch, but she will show up later.
The first two books are funny, lighthearted and make a good show of world building (or destroying). The story begins with the Earth being destroyed to build a special highway, and Ford Perfect escaping just before the Earth explodes with Arthur Dent. With them they take a towel, the most important item anyone can take with them when they travel the universe, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, a guide, much like our earthly travel guides, that tells you the best activities and places to visit whenever your travelling, Ford happens to work for the Guide.
In the end they end up watching the end of the Universe, seeing the last message form God, discovering that the Earth was nothing but an experiment to find out the ultimate question to all things in the universe (experiment funded by rats, the smartest lifeform on earth) they also time travel, travel through different parallel universes et cetera et cetera.
In the end the books are a very fun read, with one exception, which is the chaos. The books are very chaotic, and while that is part of the attraction of the books, the chaos is funny, makes you confused, in a good way, and works to explain what is happening to the characters and how Arthur Dent feels most of the time- However, there comes a point where it’s too much, and what happens its that you end up so confused you’re not really sure what you’re reading. There is no character index, a small summary of each other books in the end, nothing of the sort. So, if you’re confused, you either google the events of the books, or you read back a few chapters to see if you can make sense of it. And sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t.
By the second to last book, it seems like the author is pulling at straws, Arthur is, for some reason stranded on prehistoric earth, travels to space again, and manages to time travel back to his own time, where the earth isn’t destroyed, sponsored by the dolphins (the second smartest species on Earth) who then vanished from Earth. Arthur meets a woman, Fenchurch who can float, falls in love, (they also have sex flying through the skies of London?) travel to visit a man who knows what happened to the Dolphins and then travel to see God’s last message to the Universe (Which funnily enough ends up being “We apologise for the inconvenience”). And then ends up travelling the universe with Fenchurch, although throughout his travels all he wanted was to go back to his own time on Earth.
And then, by the last book, Fenchurch is gone, the company that edits and publishes the Hitchhikers has been taken over, the universe is in shambles because of time-travel. Arthur and Trillian have a daughter, a new guide shows up that can turn into a bird and time/dimension travel, takes Arthur’s child into a version of Earth where Trillian never left, still goes by Tricia, and is a journalist, and then the Earth is destroyed again however this time, Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and the daughter all die. (However, Elvis is alive and either playing shows in diners throughout the universe or runs a diner somewhere in the Universe, I am not sure)
And if you were confused by that last chapter, you can see how I felt throughout the book, because it somehow manages to be more confusing than all the others combined. In a sense, the last book seemed, to me at least, to be a last-ditch effort to just finish the story and be done with it.
The ending came out of nowhere, Fenchurch came and disappeared out of nowhere, so did the daughter, no actual explanation is given to what happened to the Guide, and why is the Guide now a bird thing?
None of these questions are answered, however, this still doesn0t detract from the book, and even as confused as I felt, as well as the anger on how it ended, doesn’t detract, in my opinion, from its five-star rating, because it’s still an amazing book.
Its funny, engaging, entertaining, easy to read and worth to read. Even with all its faults this is a book I will recommend to everyone I can and will read again, even if it’s just to read the passages I found to the funniest once more.
I recommend this book, give it five stars, but I must warn that this book is very chaotic, and has little to no set structure, and if that isn’t for you, well, you have been warned.
nowadays it’s easier to find recommendations from POC authors and books on own voices, but sometimes i wonder about the so called “classics”
six crimson cranes
these violent delights
a magic steeped in poison
daughter of the moon goddess
wicked fox
spin the dawn
etc etc.
hope this helps haha <333
I want more women of color in fantasy. If you have any book suggestions, send them my way.
when my name was keoko
ahhhh hello hello (not me coming back from the dead to talk about a novel of all things) but i just wanted to get this post out first before giving myself time to breath and enter the social media world again haha.
i think i spent the last few months researching about korea, its history, and just the folklore surrounding the culture. and there's just one book i stumbled on that i thought i had to talk about: when my name was keoko.
set in Korea during Japanese colonization and WWII, this book alternates the POV between a young boy and girl, both siblings, who have not only lost their names but identities as Koreans. it's the most heartwrenching and heartwarming book you'll ever read.
and it's hard, finding a book about Korea colonized. i'm just grateful that this book exists, and I had the opportunity to read it.
so if anyone wants to check it out [and read my long ass grateful/sappy review] go right ahead!
i'm just grateful for this book for existing.
if you don't know, Korea has been colonized by Japan for years, decades even. as a Korean American, there's barely any readings (much less teachings unless you search for them) on this topic; it's also even more difficult to find a novel based on the context of this era.
this era is so, so, important. it is the cause of the strained relationship between the two countries, a consequence that continues to this day. it is an era that all, and I truly mean all koreans remember. colonization has shaped us, but haunted us as well.
I come to Korea, and my grandmother remembers like it was yesterday. my mother lived through the park chung-hee era, under a dictatorship and through the march revolution. so many historical events and issues in Korea that I was never taught as an American, that I could never follow, that i was ashamed to learn.
it just shows the strength that we had. we lived through this. we found ways to fight back. we found ways to preserve our culture - our names, our language, our national symbols.
it's insightful, horrific, intriguing, heartwarming, and tear-jerking. but I'm just so grateful that somewhere out there, this book is piecing together another part of Korean history that is unheard and untold of.