Image Courtesy of "A Welsh View" http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/img_alt_srchttp_151.html http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott They say you can tell a lot about a person by watching how they behave under pressure. If the last four months have been any indication of the real me, you have likely found that I'm a gold medalist in the Whimper's Olympics. This accomplishment is not one [...]
Author: darlene anita scott
...yeah, the one you met the other day in the grocery store. She made you wanna say something to her. You did. And now you can’t remember her name. But that wasn’t really the important part of the meeting anyway.
I'm an excellent tryer and dedicated if not so-so runner. I’m probably too old to still play on the monkey bars. But I do. Maybe too young to groove to Sam Cooke. But I listen to him. I'm powered by plants, a pacemaker, and anything creative.
I like making collages, making up my mind and sticking to it, and making up recipes; almost anything by James Baldwin; almost anything with black beans in it; and probably more than is healthy for the average human: I like alone time and homemade popcorn—not necessarily together.
I daydream constantly. I write poetry and prose. Sometimes I teach it to people. Sometimes I read or recite it to people. And even less often I publish it.
I could be more tolerant of overpriced grapes, people who drive with parking lights on, and deafening car stereos.
I like to laugh but don’t do it as often as I should. Some people think I'm shy. Some think I'm a mute. I'm happy to be here and try to make the most of it.
A Poem (trying to find itself)
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott In Another Life I might’ve been a girl who took evening swims in brown water bathed in it in grey morning decorated my eyes with coal and never felt anything you do to me but instead I am a girl who dreams too much about other places and people I could never be [...]
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Monthly Meter(s)
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of November: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: Secret Shame: How long it took me to finish that one book I read. It's not you, Adichie. It's me. Chimamanda Adichie, the author deserves every award she's received for the novel; it's excellent in its ability to be objective in [...]
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WORLD AIDS DAY
Today I think of Mr. Williams, Beatrice's mom and dad, Delvin, Victor, Chester. If you have no person to think of, here's some other stuff you can think about to fill in that grey space in your brain. On this 20th Annual World AIDS Day In many developing countries a woman's biggest risk factor for being infected is getting [...]
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Welcome the New Moon!
(Diagram from http://www.moonconnection.com) http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Check your calendar: It's a new moon! Okay that may mean nothing or something depending on how you define "pagan," but I enjoy observing and reflecting on moon cycles; including my own. I didn't really understand why for most of my life; just figured it was another of my weirdo tendencies, but you [...]
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Fail better.
Imagine it like being in water. It's when you fight it that you're most likely to drown. Go with it. You might not float to the top as quickly as you'd like. But you will float back to the top. If you don't fight it of course. That's what I keep trying to tell myself. [...]
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Miriam Makeba Makes Her Transition
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Miriam Makeba, South African singer/activist/conjure woman, has transitioned at the age of 76. I'm not anything close to the biggest fan of her music. I only remember listening to one of her songs songs ad nauseum a couple of years ago—can't even remember its name—that was especially good for getting it going on the [...]
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Something to Cry About
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Just after a punishment—corporal or otherwise—my parents had a saying, “Stop crying or else I’m gonna give you something to cry for.” The statement defies reasonable thought: whatever punishment had been dealt out was already plenty enough to cry about. Wouldn’t an extra portion be adding insult to injury? Afraid not. According to the [...]
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Three Questions for Barack Obama
(reprinted from http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott 21 October 2008) Asking me about my politics or my spirituality is like asking me what color panties I'm wearing. Those are intimate conversations to be had with a very select population. But I was reading a blog by a guy I used to know; he was writing about his skepticism with the election [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of September: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 0 Secret Shame: that clumsy part in the choreography to Jill Scott's ultra-erotic "Crown Royal" (I just saw the dvd of my summer dance recital)...so not sexy Books: *Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *still reading it
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