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Created Colorful

Close your eyes and use the very first color that pops into your mind as a starting point.Tear papers/pages in a magazine with that color into pieces, and create a color collage. Positively Purging–I welcome your feedbacks in the comments … Continue reading

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Bailey’s Café 

Baileys Café  by Gloria Naylor -A powerful read – quite harrowing in some places, uplifting in others. The 229 pages read more like a series of interconnected stories than a novel. Each story is different in the telling, the voice, … Continue reading

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Seattle Police Department: Don’t Terminate Court Oversight

Re: “SPD illegally searched trunk after driver says he was stopped due to race, judge rules” [Aug. 7, Local News]: The report on yet another instance of Seattle police officers pulling guns on a Black driver for a minor traffic … Continue reading

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Spontaneous Grooms

In July 2000, San Diego Pride held a mass commitment ceremony for several dozen same-sex couples. Single, I attended to witness all the love. “Please turn to your partner and repeat these vows,” the minister said. On a whim, I … Continue reading

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Life

I have never had a bucket list; instead I said ‘yes’ to life…Money always comes back, but if you miss out on an experience, the opportunity may never come back. Positively Purging–I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your … Continue reading

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