I spent my evening hanging out in the back of a seafood market.
It's run by friends who used to employ me at their Chinese takeout. They speak Fujian Chinese with each other, Spanish with their current employees, and a mix of English and Mandarin with me. All of their customers speak Black.
On Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, the night before Inauguration of our first black president, there was nowhere else I would've rather been.
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Thoughts of the Day - a collection of random thoughts and observations while going about my daily life. The story of my life as a series of cryptic essays.
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I am: a roleplayer, a fiction writer, a sci-fi fan. A yoga enthusiast. A former Battlenet brapper and member of [Wolf]. A marine scientist, former Chinese takeout cashier, and freelance writer (mostly science articles for BrightHub). I presently live in Mobile, Alabama. Feel free drop me general comments here, or I can be reached at (in reverse order): com dot gmail at rynko.brown
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood. --anon
When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Try to live a life so that when you die, everyone else is crying and you're smiling. --anon
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. -- a fortune cookie
When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Try to live a life so that when you die, everyone else is crying and you're smiling. --anon
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. -- a fortune cookie
4 comments:
This is so awesome! I am so happy tonight -- thank you for describing a scene that'll stick in my mind forever. It's so right. That is what I think of when I think of Real Americans.
It's like watching the Dark Ages pass away... all at once the shadow lifts and I can breathe deep, know the world has gone right, know that the wrong has been righted in a deep way and the illusion shattered.
I'll be inside, being housebound, but oh I will be blogging tomorrow morning.
Robert
I wish I could watch the event. But we still have no TV. I guess I'll have to wait until we get the connection back and then watch it on youtube or something...
An excellent image.
Thanks.
Yes, excellent. I don't know what else to say other than you've said something profound in so few words.
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