How to share Joy to the World

Parang with Alicia Jaggasar Feliz Navidad

How great thou art..A Steelpan tribute to the Republic of Barbados

Celebrating Republic of Barbados 

A stirring Steelpan rendition of How Great thou Art 

#onecaribbean #steelpanmusic #trinidadandtobago🇹🇹 Reposted from @servicesatyourrequest

And if God was a voice..Morgan Freeman prays Invictus

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And as if God himself spoke

 Hear Charlie Rose's utterance ..the sigh...God 

Morgan Freeman in his inimitable poetic delivery Invictus. 

 The voice and words share cosmic chemistry And it no longer is spoken It is felt 

Invictus 

William Ernest Henley 

Out of the night that covers me 

Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be 

For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance,

I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance, 

My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 

Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 

Finds and shall find, me unafraid. 

It matters not how strait the gate, 

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate 

I am the captain of my soul.

A voice of Courage and Hope - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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A most compelling and elucidating address on the theme of courage, hope, justice, and redress. With the most unassuming non-threatening composure, to an audience that primarily is comprised of and resembles the perpetrators of the very wrongs committed against society, and in this case, about the stolen relics, artwork, and spiritual artifacts of African nations, that sit in museums of those who colonized in the most barbaric of circumstances, Germany, France, England, the eloquence and poised delivery of a stinging reprimand is presented with coaxing command. 

When she describes how the stories of missionaries were conferred to the Africans with regard to their cultural and religious artifacts as magic, she paints the magic of Catholic Christianity beliefs that a man could be believed to have died and become the symbolic bread of life. "The point is that belief systems vary, and as long as they feed the spiritual needs of a people they are valid" 

"Just as we can't be dismissive of a history, because we are uncomfortable with it" 

The many aspects of storytelling interwoven with the harsh truths of history as she intones "It is not that Europe has denied its colonial history, that will be too crude.. it is instead that Europe has developed a way of telling the story of its colonial history that ultimately seeks to erase that history" 

For is this not the what, the why, the present of social unrest in the intellectual conversations in the USA that are rousing controversy and opposing contradictions on critical race theory?   

With demure vocal prowess, she harpoons the pillagers of cultural travesties against the Africas, to raise the level of human conscience, amend the wrongs wrought, and rightfully return the stolen museum-encased treasures to whom they rightfully belong. 

A voice of Courage and Hope Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses The Humboldt Forum 

"Courage and hope are intertwined. Courage is an act of hope. And hope is born of courage. Acts of courage create hope. And there is nothing more essential to the human spirit than hope So Here's to courage Thank You"

Normalizing death and dying with hospice NurseJulie

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One of the greatest gifts we received in the dying process of my mother in 2001 was the at-home hospice care that made her transition so healing and comforting.   I remember the tenderness that the nursing care provided to the end. The last nurse told me, she is near the end.  She stated that her breathing has slowed.  She gave me a reassuring soothing hug as she left. 

My mother died peacefully in her sleep within 72 hours. I remembered watching and thinking that I could never imagine how one can have a lasting career in Hospice care.  

 As I came across this tiktok with Nurse Julie it reflects the grace and the professional spirit of what final days caregivers provide.  

To take Hospice care and give it a voice through a platform such as tiktok and to make the dying process for loved ones so enlightening and so reassuring is a testament to our need for community, connections and healing.  

@hospicenursejulie and to the many frontline health caregivers we owe you a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid A million thank yous Here is an article https://ift.tt/3FlxPng Created by InShot:https://ift.tt/3fTQQCg

Wayne "Doppie" Dopson performs a Kaiso for World Kindness Day Nov 13

Watch A Covid19 Miracle Story Jamal & Cierra Chubb Cierra Chubbs recovery walk ninety five days after diagnosis with COVID19. In September, after contracting the virus, with her due date less than two weeks, the baby had to be delivered early. In the days, weeks months that followed her husband Jamal documented the journey on his tiktok @jamal.chubb with frightening details. With millions of followers watching, praying, hoping and assisting with financial gofund.me donations today's outcome is a joyful miracle testimony Google Jamal Chubb and Cierra and read a true and authentic story of Hope, Faith, Recovery and the prayer power of our Human Connection https://ift.tt/3mr8rWq

Cierra Chubbs recovery walk ninety five days after diagnosis with COVID19. In September, after contracting the virus, with her due date less than two weeks, the baby had to be delivered early. In the days, weeks months that followed her husband Jamal documented the journey on his tiktok @jamal.chubb with frightening details. With millions of followers watching, praying, hoping and assisting with financial gofund.me donations today's outcome is a joyful miracle testimony Google Jamal Chubb and Cierra and read a true and authentic story of Hope, Faith, Recovery and the prayer power of our Human Connection https://ift.tt/3mr8rWq

What Ever Happened to Our Blackness? Our 'Wokeness' is Under Woeful Siege and We are Clapping Out Loud and Proud

The era of Black wokeness and stardom has never been as dimmed with its pretentious dysfunction and destruction of sensibility, nobility, and pride.  Our ancestors became free from mental and bodily bondage,  and for and by their sacrifices, they paved the way for ours and future generations to be free and lit and woke,  to be our full unapologetic authentic selves.   

Asking for my friends, the parents of small children, teens, and young adults, when did our collective "wokeness" become skewed in the fallacy of leading social media influencers and their abject disregard for the societal, moral, and behavioral norms or considerations?

When Lil Nas X was a practical unknown, his hit song Ole Town Road, won him millions of audience streams from toddlers to young adults.  He skyrocketed to orbital reach capturing the hearts and pockets of children and adults with a ravishing appetite for more of his music.

As Lil Nas X climbed the pinnacle of fame and stardom, he climaxed his torpedic rise in the music industry, with his flaming sexual agenda of  'out and proud' and being his authentic self.

Is it his musical talent or his prized openly gay sexuality that makes the artistry so evocative and themed in the armor of his pleasure palette?  Should we question or criticize, we may have a Twitter tsunami of followers exhaling hate expletives to anyone daring to contest the hard-core exploitation of its younger school-aged generational audience. No, parents were blindsided. Lil Nas X became more prolific as his music catalog became more X-rated. 

Can we present the Nicki Minaj viral award for maleficence? Minions of barbs and many public international media houses provided exhaustive forums and unsubstantiated discussions on rabid mistruths about the pro and cons of vaccination. All the nonsensical pontificating, because Ms. Minaj with her millions of followers,  spoke to her truth with the unlikely cousin, uncle, swollen testicles tale of  C19 vaccine inertia.

Cardi B has created a bible of song scripts describing actualized definitions of sexual prowess.  That WAP is treated as conjecture for young girls of every age,  up through teen to adults is the public education in sexual exploration. Every erotic fantasy in lyrics conjured is poetically enunciated and articulated verbatim verse for a verse like pros by young listening ears.

In the new social etiquette dictionary search, where being obscured from any form of reality is a remedy for viral reach, the words large or fat are labeled as truth shaming.  Lizzo is Queen of the debacle of the monstrous notoriety of excessive and visually over self-infatuated BIG. She is the anointed woke glamor example.

Lizzo Bares Almost All in See-Through Mesh Gown for Cardi B's Birthday Party
All the rumors are true: Lizzo showed up to Cardi B's 29th-birthday party in a completely see-through dress. See the "Good as Hell" singer's bold look below.

A picture paints a thousand words.  I see naked over the top with a sheer sheet covering. Do you see what I see? 

For Pop culture readers,  the last paragraph in the article glowingly sums up this iconic spectacle

There was also no shortage of love for the rapper as fans, friends and other celebs, including Halle Berry, showered her with birthday wishes. "Happy birthday to this sweet sweet soul," Berry tweeted. "Hope you have the most beautiful day @iamcardib." The actress' message did not go unnoticed by Cardi.

"Thank you soooo much," she tweeted in response. "Like imagine Halle Berry wishing you a happy birthday? Like omgg."

From the 2nd verse of the Black Nation Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

When Cecilia Salazar Rhapso on the Steelpan of Trinidad 🇹🇹 and Tobago

On This Night 🌙An original poem by GraceCaroline Walker

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On this night

More than a day, a year, this is the Now, We are Infinity

Our lives were paused, Silence Boomed like thunder
Tragedy visited and no one was spared

Not She, not He Not even Who


On this night, we gather, with our masks, our shields
Face curtains of insecurity, fear, despair
and Death.. the great Equalizer un masked

Was it that Force, A Presence, An Energy, beyond Words,
that poisoned Invisible
that COVID spared no one Continent, Countries, Mankind white black brown yellow
WE Our Humanity were Sacrifice
Death lived in the air, graveyard to millions

On this night,
the most precious Present is the gift of breath
So Breathe

Breathe because the Ancestors are in our hair, in our eyes, in our skin, in the invisible Silence
We are no more We are No less
We Are

On this night
Hear, See, and Breathe,
the Dance, the Song, the Music
Reveal, beyond the Mask
That We Are, One in Spirit, One in Hope and One Forever Becoming

We are Alive in this Presence.. We are Here
On this Night

Our Mothers ..the Sun, the Earth the Moon the Stars

Here
On this Night