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Soul Thomas Evans / Blog

Someone put up a link to 3 of my 5 Albums of Poetry & Music

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2HYR1m4kmbQUiuSpEo7CA

as I need to get them to put up the links and songs/poems to the other two albums

The Personal is Political & The double album of music & poetry I did A Beginning is an Ending in Disguise

as I just hope we all take time to create some in the present and near future because I think for most of us it is so fulfilling!

Negro

I am a Negro Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa I've been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of Washington, I've been a worker: Under my hand the pyramids arose. I made mortar for the Woolworth Building I've been a singer: All the way from Africa to Georgia I carried sorrow songs. I made ragtime. I've been a victim: The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo. They lynch me still in Mississippi, I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Langston Hughes

The Potter

Your whole body has a fullness or a gentleness destined for me.

When I move my hand up I find in each place a dove that was seeking me, as if they had, love, made you of clay for my own potter's hands.

Your knees, your breasts, your waist are missing parts of me like the hollow of a thirsty earth from which they broke off a form, and together we are complete like a single river, like a single grain of sand.

Pablo Neruda Nobel Laureate

Profound Video on Using Stoicism to Be Unbeatable

Video of Ryan Holiday speaking to U of Alabama Football Team (which has won the national football title a whopping 18 times) as this video is chock full of great tips from one of my home states which is AL and FL but I would say my forever state after 5 years of living in NJ is NY with my favorite city being the one I live which is NYC and so check it out if you need to get motivated.

Some quotes as I will add the others I liked throughout the day are the following.

Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZPdgA11nE

More Haikus

Resting in hot tub Stretching the sweat from my pours pure and forgiven.

Always traveling When I really want to rest and be with myself

Hiakus

Haikus

We be living the hell out of our lives. We be sober but feel high

Celibrity A nonymous is so fun yet nobody knows me

It's good to forget my dreams, cause it hurts to much to remember them

Why do people see ones they love after they're dead instead of before

I tend to be an earnest listenere when I have my foot in my mouth

Always traveling When I really want to rest and be with myself

Trees green with power The sun burns my backside till tan I look up and smile

Damn, If the condoms in my wallet are looking a little too old

Please love me as much as I love you and I want to love you a lot

Feel Words Move Forward All night I wait for a phrase that I will not forget

You Don't Find Happiness, You Create It

https://www.ted.com/talks/katarina_blom_you_don_t_find_happiness_you_create_it

From Howards End

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exhalted, And human love will be seen at its height Live in fragments no longer. Only connect. . .

E.M Forster, Writer

As I age, I notice my body doing something

As I age, I notice my body doing something, and I want to see what it's doing. I don't want to interfere with that. It knows something I don't. It's like being pregnant. You don't know how to age, except intellectually. But your body knows. I think I first noticed this when I thought about menopause because I saw that my body was gettingrid of everything it needed to produce another person and retaining that which was necessary to support one person. It was a process I was observing, not directing. It gives you some respect for the wisdom of the body.

Gloria Steinem

Your Definition of Success

I believe your definitiion of success is personal and in how you define it.

Don't let others define what's successful for you and what makes you happy.

We only have one time to go around on this planet.

Have those in your life that you love be in your life not because of a sense of obligation but because they want to be in your life and they see the value and the benefit of you knowing each other.

See that by letting them go that when they choose to be in your life there's not only a freedom in that choice but a different type of security, accountability and a more present sense of being grateful for having them in your life.

By doing this I believe that those that are important to you will see that the love you share for each other is supported by truth, actions reciprocity and reward.