Man
You a storm coming or a breeze
you steel you suede you subtle
a two-tone hustle
whose prints you wear on your being
hands you come from
who knows your stories
who cares about each one
ask cause I want to know
the color hovering beneath your wings
is it silver sapphire gold
where you dream of going
when you look out your morning window
who put that dream there
who was your father
who was your teacher
how much did it matter
did you ever let them know
n your path
a line straight
or curving at those inopportune places
your scars
where you hide them
your stroll
where it come from
what genius you carry in your sleeve
what you wear around your neck
does it choke or set you free
ask cause I want to know
what life knits into your fabric
and in thirty-three years
what will we say about you
faded photograph pewter frame
will we say
they don't make them like that
anymore
- Ruth Forman
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
It's been way too long...let's see where the journey leads us!!!
Happy New Year....and like 5 more months!!!!
To all who have been following me for the past couple of years on this blog, I am so sorry it has been so long since I've posted. Life has been kicking my butt...for real! Not in a super bad way...I'm not depressed or anything...I've just been busy with work, school and everything else. BUT...I'm coming back!!!! Real soon...here and on my group blog Craniotome which I've started with some grad school chums. So stay tuned...In the meantime, you can also catch me on my tumblr page at: http://zorakatsdawta.tumblr.com/
Until next time...be cool!
To all who have been following me for the past couple of years on this blog, I am so sorry it has been so long since I've posted. Life has been kicking my butt...for real! Not in a super bad way...I'm not depressed or anything...I've just been busy with work, school and everything else. BUT...I'm coming back!!!! Real soon...here and on my group blog Craniotome which I've started with some grad school chums. So stay tuned...In the meantime, you can also catch me on my tumblr page at: http://zorakatsdawta.tumblr.com/
Until next time...be cool!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
A Brief Note: Power and Art and Renewal
I am contemplating the timeliness of Kanye's new song "Power"...not so much in terms of what it means to him as an individual artist/being but how the shift it speaks to represents the dawning of a new era of art and creative thinking and living. Power is being redefined as it tries to recover from all it has destroyed. Meanwhile, the artists and creators of the world are being empowered to make the growing pains of all of this transitioning a little more bearable for us all. Oh the irony...exciting stuff, no?!?!? I suppose it's why I have been suffering from insomnia all summer...the good kind...the kind that keeps me up...where I create and breathe in others' creations and...dream about them all day long...
Speaking of dreams...
Speaking of dreams...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Why I Haven't Blogged In Like...Forever...
Long time no...blogging, eh?
Honestly, I am not exceptionally lazy or anything. I really do want to blog regularly and think that I am intellectually capable of doing so. The honest to God truth is simply that I have too much on my mind at any given time. Thus, I suspect that I may spontaneously combust in the midst of a blog entry and we don't want that. At once I am thinking about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, state of Hip Hop, Oscar Grant travesty, depiction of young Black women in the media and networking via social media to name a few. On top of all of that, I am bogged down with my own issues like research proposals, raising money to finish my album, writing new songs, paying down debt, advancing my career, spending more time with family, fixing up my apartment, going to the gym more, eating better, traveling and an array of other things...being a Vogue-toting feminist aint no walk in the park my friend...let me assure you! With all of that on my mind, I am always afraid that I will say the wrong thing and although I have the ability to edit...I can't be too careful.
Cop out? Maybe. Yet this is how I have been feeling, what I have been thinking and why I haven't been blogging. I will say that this exercise of full disclosure has been quite therapeutic so perhaps it will aid me in unpacking some of this mental/spiritual baggage...
Actually...this feels really nice...my fingers feel liberated and my brain a little lighter. If this is any indication of what is to come, I think I will be in good shape. Note to self: You will not know how things are going to turn out (like writing a blog entry) until you actually sit down and give it a go. What do I have to lose really? Aint nuthin to it but to do it...seize the day...go for what you know...YOU GET THE POINT! I herein now declare that I'm going to try this bloggin regularly thing again real soon...I promise. Until then...Good day sir, I said GOOD DAY!!!
(HINT: Shirley Sherrod, who may be my new hero, is likely to show up on this thing real soon!!!)
Honestly, I am not exceptionally lazy or anything. I really do want to blog regularly and think that I am intellectually capable of doing so. The honest to God truth is simply that I have too much on my mind at any given time. Thus, I suspect that I may spontaneously combust in the midst of a blog entry and we don't want that. At once I am thinking about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, state of Hip Hop, Oscar Grant travesty, depiction of young Black women in the media and networking via social media to name a few. On top of all of that, I am bogged down with my own issues like research proposals, raising money to finish my album, writing new songs, paying down debt, advancing my career, spending more time with family, fixing up my apartment, going to the gym more, eating better, traveling and an array of other things...being a Vogue-toting feminist aint no walk in the park my friend...let me assure you! With all of that on my mind, I am always afraid that I will say the wrong thing and although I have the ability to edit...I can't be too careful.
Cop out? Maybe. Yet this is how I have been feeling, what I have been thinking and why I haven't been blogging. I will say that this exercise of full disclosure has been quite therapeutic so perhaps it will aid me in unpacking some of this mental/spiritual baggage...
Actually...this feels really nice...my fingers feel liberated and my brain a little lighter. If this is any indication of what is to come, I think I will be in good shape. Note to self: You will not know how things are going to turn out (like writing a blog entry) until you actually sit down and give it a go. What do I have to lose really? Aint nuthin to it but to do it...seize the day...go for what you know...YOU GET THE POINT! I herein now declare that I'm going to try this bloggin regularly thing again real soon...I promise. Until then...Good day sir, I said GOOD DAY!!!
(HINT: Shirley Sherrod, who may be my new hero, is likely to show up on this thing real soon!!!)
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Woman of Interest: Rue McClanahan (1934-2010)
I will let this genius speak for herself...bye for now dear Blanche...I hope you rest well on that Lanai in the sky...
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