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Raisin

wax on, wax off

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Raisins are sweet due to their high concentration of sugars. If they are stored for a long period, the sugar inside the fruit crystallizes. This makes the fruit gritty, but does not affect its usability.

My Interests

afros and fist combs. allowing my soul to glow and drip drop real slow. baby elephants and monkeys. baking. black holes. cereal with lots of RAISIN. cleaning supplies. college sports. crocheting. documentaries. dreadlocks. egyptian queens. essential oils. farmer's market. fertility. forever evers on mars. golden tickets under chocolate bars. good coffee. goosebumps. honey. la la la-ing. laughing with the universe. letting things go like keisha cole. making contact with the mothership. metaphysics on my upper lip. my friends and their friends' friends. nag champa. naps. nighttime. not seeing right thru ppl. numerology. p-funk. poetry and poetic ppl. resurrection. riding the boogie and sharing the beat of love. snacks. spoken word. stem cells. tattoos. white rabbits in holes and red-tailed hawks on lightpoles.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

"i'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree/and i'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows/and i flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain/and i fly, just like a bird up in the sky/and i'll surely die, just like a flower plucked and dragged away and thrown away/and then 1 day it turns to clay/it blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way/and there it lays until the rain and sun/then i breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows/and I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding/ and it's beautiful/that's life and that's life and that's life and that's life" -ms. badu

Movies:

a good woman. an inconvenient truth. a time to kill. belly. blood diamond. blow. born on the fourth of july. boyz in the hood. charlie and the chocolate factory. city of god. coming to america. diary of a mad black woman. dirty dancing. dot the i. easy. empire. eve's bayou. fight club. imagine me and you. imitation of life. indiana jones and the temple of doom. karate kid. kill bill. k-pax. lackawanna blues. little miss sunshine. loose change. lord of war. love and basketball. love jones. malcolm x. match point. office space. pan's labyrinth. premium. rent. requiem for a dream. robin hood and the prince of thieves. roger and me. sister act II. step brothers. stompin' at the savoy. talledega nights. the corporation. the fugitive. the last samurai. the matrix. the number 23. the secret of nimh. the skeleton key. turtles can fly. vanilla sky. "v" for vendetta. waitress. waking life. walmart: high cost, low price. what the "bleep" do we know. willow. wizard of oz. x-men 1, 2 and 3.

Television:

david the gnome
LOST
mystery diagnosis

Books:

"the birth of tragedy" + "thus spoke zarathustra" + "human, all too human" + "beyond good and evil" + "the antichrist" ALL by nietzsche "the book of secrets" by osho + anything by j. krishnamurti + "god is red" by vine deloria jr. + "waiting for godot" by samuel beckett + "assata: an autobiography" + "dreaming me: an african-american woman's spiritual journey" by jan willis + "so said the shotgun to the head" by saul williams + "the fountainhead" by ayn rand + "everything happens for a reason" by mira kirshenbaum + "dialogues concerning natural religion" by david hume + "tao te ching" by lao tzu + "notes from the underground" by dostoyevsky + various works by sonia sanchez, thomas merton, steinbeck, edgar cayce, normandi ellis, kierkegaard, rumi and thich nhat hanh

Heroes:

life is one big road with lots of signs. so when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. wake up and live!
- bob marley

today You are You, that is truer than true. there is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
-dr. seuss

My Blog

Scattered

too many serious triesto shed shackled skinto enlist tissue bundlesto publicly pulsateto lie to rest impervious inventionsto dismember dreamt up wrongsto stop saying and shaking headNOwe call herdange...
Posted by Raisin on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:39:00 PST

Right Now

gander, ganderfurther from the nucleusblade in bloody handmeat gouged from freedom's fruitdamn, this juice tastes nicethinkthat I will stuff itin my pocketgander, ganderfurther along the front linegon...
Posted by Raisin on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:00 PST

LOL?

So, here's the story... Someone sent me a message directing me to that facemaker site that's been going around. After clicking the website link, messages and comments got sent from "me" with a link ...
Posted by Raisin on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

Dear Ms. G, I love you!

During my one and a half month stint as a substitute teacher, I came across my share of interesting situations. For starters, on the first of 3 days with a particular 2nd grade class, the children in...
Posted by Raisin on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:42:00 PST

"Bush Mama" :: I Love This Poem

BY KALAMU YA SALAAM   * i want to bust out oh, my nerves, battered vacant eyes torn like tenement windows looking out into emptiness and onto so much unprettiness   some changes same changes...
Posted by Raisin on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:39:00 PST

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Chief

Grrrrr. Goes the sound of my stomach after drinking Silk Soymilk Nog So as we were sitting at the table feasting on our glorious spread, my dad was reminiscing on his early Army years. As the story g...
Posted by Raisin on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:31:00 PST

Genesis

genesismarks a beginningorange horizonworkers risin'tongue lashingsback thrashingspink lust thrustsin supremacy he trustschrist they never seelifelong blasphemychildren growin'bellies showin'he stores...
Posted by Raisin on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:26:00 PST

Chew Z :: My X-istential Poem

Wrote this some years back...I am Choosing to be meTo be freeLife is meMy hungerGrowling!Reminding meNever going awayPerpetual emptinessOr fullnessWhichever I chooseI choose...The following (long) quo...
Posted by Raisin on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:25:00 PST

7 Degrees *&^%$ of Perfection

don't want to be itbut i am bitter fruitseedless jamon the earth's axisi spinweightlesslike within windimpermeable to understandingspace and time reclusivethe truthcan be elusivewater drinks from mesh...
Posted by Raisin on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:16:00 PST

Dominion

my stares become blank as I gaze at sloppily spackled walls/i think to myself, what could be worse than this/the feeling I have that it's over before it has even started/i press into time to try to im...
Posted by Raisin on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:32:00 PST