Oh Juneteenth, I could not remember which direction to turn the shower faucet to make the water warmer
On Juneteenth, I ate a salad of the last of my garden lettuce. It was a bit bitter, but good
On Juneteenth, I went to Best Buy, the only person in the store not wearing a mask, to continue my quest to figure out how to hardwire a tablet to the internet
On Juneteenth, my dog got ahold of a dead chipmunk that one of my cats must have left as a present for me, and I had a heck of a time getting it away from him
On Juneteenth, one of my cucumber vines decided it no longer cared to climb up the $20 trellis I had bought specifically for that cucumber vine
On Juneteenth, I went out for a drink and a snack and I found two bits of glass in my food!
On Juneteenth I remembered that time I found a tiny pearl in an oyster. I had been sad that day, someone had betrayed me and hurt me very badly, and the pearl made me happy
On Juneteenth, a memory of a pearl made me happy
The day after Juneteenth, I remembered that pearl again (see above) and my freewrite made me happy
This is my entry to @mariannewest daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is Juneteenth. Thanks for reading! Come write your own!
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hehehe i loved these - i felt like i was living them all with you!
the glass in the food - MY GOSH!!!! terrifying.
but everything else - hmmm the strands that make up the tapestries of our lives hehehe
loved this :)
and i love @mariannewest hehehehe i just saw our pictures the other day of our road trip and it made me LONG for a hug from her!!!
Great...
I forgot what day it is today, at least you have a better record.
Greetings, my friend. Loved this.
What is Juneteenth, exactly? (I guess I could look it up.)
A new holiday in the US, to commemorate the last day of slavery. Politics. I ignore that stuff.
Politics! you say! "A Day Like Any Other Day"!, you say. "I ignore that stuff", you say.
IF you were African American and had ancestors such as I do that were forcibly taken from their continent in the Atlantic Slave Trade and brought to the U.S. to work as slaves for plantation owners, brutalized, families split apart, treated as property bartered and sold, denied freedom, denied the right to vote, denied the concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
AND a civil war was waged due to this;
AND, when the slaves were finally freed in 1865, it took 2 years for the news to reach Texas, in which the slaveowners still didn't want to relinquish their "property",
ONLY THEN, will you commemorate JUNE 19th, known as JUNETEENTH and definitely won't ignore "that stuff".
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on what you think about this momentous occasion. I'll remember this going forward.
Thank you for your thoughts. I am well aware of all of this information, having been registered Democrat for 48 years. I've been battered by the politi-speak, told by a great many that I am responsible for their misery. I've had enough.
I am stepping away from believing what I am told to believe. I no longer support anything I am told to support. I follow the messages from my own source, and those messages are telling me that politics is illusion. I will not follow any system that enslaves me in anger, fear and hate.
You go ahead and be angry at a fellow Hivean who has supported you for years, and done nothing to harm you. Arise.
There is no anger in me. I only state the facts. And I thank you and have always thanked you for your support. Everyone has their own opinion. You stated yours, and I stated mine. Since you have never experienced it or had ancestors who did, you definitely have a different outlook.
I don't know if you read my post a couple months ago in which I told of my personal experience with racism. I was a young adult at the time, and the perpetrators were teens. You're not born with this attitude; you're taught. So I'm not be told or fed anything. I know. I know. And it hurt.
Thank you for your time.
!LUV
!WINE
I apologize if I misread the tone and content of your comment. Thank you for the luv!
@owasco, you were given LUV from @justclickindiva. About LUV: https://peakd.com/@luvshares http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUptF5k64xBvsQ9B6MjZo1dc2JwvXTWjWJAnyMCtWZxqM
You had an eventful day. I hate it when I can not remember simple things. Glass in your food, I hope your meal was free.
They did remove that dish from the bill. I might not be able to bring myself to go back tho. The vibe there was weird.
They should have paid your entire bill, not just taking the one dish off the price. I would never go back there.