Hello & happy Friday mon frers. Well, another season is upon us. Summer 2015 officially begins on Sunday. You know I do my seasonal goals - check back tomorrow for how I did on my spring goals - so you may have expected to see these today. I'm predictable, I know. I like it that way. My summer 2015 goals:
1. Make homemade cinnamon ice cream.
2. Have dinner at Tallulah's Garden and Vetri.
3. Have lunch at Pizzeria Vetri.
4. Read an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot book.
5. Purge and organize: utility closet.
6. Visit Spruce Street Harbor Park.
7. Visit The Clay Studio.
8. Conquer fears: cook on the grill and swim in the lake.
9. Increase weights and maintain exercise schedule.
10. Watch a sunrise and sunset in a beach town in the same day.
Happy happy birthday to my mom today! Love you Dalai Momma! And happy birthday to my cousin Ashley as well!
On a serious note, I wish for peace for the families of the Charleston victims, as well as the AME church community and the community at large. Hell, I wish for peace for all of us. We'll only get there if we can meet in the middle and stop being so ignorant and violent and cruel to each other. On the national scene and in my Facebook news feed, when a black person commits a crime it's described as animal behavior and there is rage and ideas that their actions are the reason people are rascist. When a white person commits a crime, they are described as mentally ill and we're sad about it or possibly worse - we're silent about it. Even though the motherfucker in this case was clearly a rascist and in fact killed those poor people because of the color of their skin. Judging by the lack of commentary I've seen on it, people must be largely okay with that. And that is fucked up. It is past time to have an honest discussion about race in this country. And God be with us all through that.
Now back to BSing...what's on your summer to do list?
