SATURDAY THOUGHTS : RICHARD

It’s the last of several drawings, I'd finished last year. I understand my urgency to capture him, now. He was a thinker...Witty...Wise. He didn’t mince words. 

I wondered what he’d be thinking, then imagined him saying, “You know what…?”, in that southern drawl that the DMV only intensified.

I burst out laughing, because I’m confident, he’d be laughing, too. 🙂

SATURDAY THOUGHTS: TELEVISION

 

"I can't allow anything to take peace from me...It's a gift."

SATURDAY THOUGHTS: OVERHEARD

Be thoughtful in how you choose to act--in the first place.

The only thing that gets in our way, sometimes, is our ego, or self-preservation.

Is you having the right of way so important, that you don't yield?

No one was righter than Jesus...and it killed him...He yielded to it. We're down here fighting for silly stuff.

There was disregard, poor judgment, and behavior, but all of the good in a thing cannot be undone.

If you're not behaving honorably; if you value nothing but money, why would anyone want to be involved?

Why play in people's faces? Why say anything, and then they have to be careful how they respond?

TUESDAY THOUGHTS: POETRY PROMPT—-RUBY BRIDGES

 

SCREAMING AT RUBY

Who were those mothers screaming at Ruby?

Where are they now?

What could they have possibly feared about Ruby?

Reviled her anyhow

Who were those mothers glaring at Ruby?

Why such alarm?

Notice those mothers shouting at Ruby

Babies in their arms

Hearing their mothers cursing at Ruby

Did they know why?

Why were their mothers angry with Ruby?

She was just a child 

They only screamed ‘cause their mothers were screaming

Lived what they learned

Ruby personified their greatest fear:

Had the tables turned?

What did those mothers, yelling at Ruby, 

Teach their children, then?

That Ruby’s heart, mind, and soul had no value,

Rights, nor innocence

Hatred was sown, while they leered at poor Ruby

But she didn’t know

She thought it was a parade they were throwing

Tears never flowed

Those kids, whose mothers were screaming at Ruby, grew up

They’re parents now 

The whole world can see how they treated poor Ruby

Every February, they're confronted with Ruby

On November 14th, they're reminded of Ruby

Every night in their dreams, they’re haunted by Ruby

Are the lies they believed, about little Ruby;

The prejudiced seed, sown to scar little Ruby;

The ignorant creed, marking people like Ruby

The dastardly deed, to keep out little Ruby 

(That didn’t succeed, or stop little Ruby)

Why they’re still screaming now?

-VRWc2020

#rubybridges

#desegregation

#racism

#brownvstheboardofeducation

#americanhistory

THURSDAY THOUGHTS: TELEVISION

 

"There's a lot of power behind names...what you call someone...what they answer to..."