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February 2016 English Bridge

Diary dates: SCCBA are very proud to confirm

that the Henfield Candles is now to be run by the

County on 5 June and will be a Blue Pointed event

SCCBA Spring Congress (incorporating the

AGM) at the Uckfield Civic Centre on 8-10 Apr.

Entry details and more information can be found on the

SCCBA website.

AFTER 4 matches in the Inter County League,

Warwickshire are leading in the Dawes, lying 2nd in

the Porter, and 4th in the Markham

Diary dates: 9 Mar, 6.45pm Non Expert Teams,

West Mids. 25 Mar, 3pm, Really Easy Congress, West

Mids. 31 Mar, 11.30am, Seniors Teams and lunch, West Mids.

THE MALVERN Congress once again proved

extremely popular and was enjoyed by all.

Warner Solomon, Taf Anthias, Richard Samter

and Pat Davies won the Origin Financial Swiss

Teams and Diane & Filip Kurbalija won the Wall

James Chappell Championship Pairs.

In national events, Worcestershire have qualified for the

Tollemache final, winning all the matches except one in their

group - we wish them luck in that. Stewart Fishburne, Mike

Willoughby, Chris Philp and Tony Poole have reached the

final of the Silver Plate and we wish them well in that match.

Nearer home, the Healey Cup is open to members of

Herefordshire as well as Worcs. This year Malvern BC won -

Nigel Laville, Geoffrey Herbert, Heather Westcott and

Jennifer Romer, with runners-up Evesham BC - Mark

Stretch, Barry Sayers, Ronnie Moore & Veronica Enticknap.

former chairman Philip Mason on his receipt of the

prestigious EBU Silver Award - see page 32.

Yorkshire's team of Richard Pike, Dave

Robinson, James Thrower, Phil Godfrey, Sandy

Davies, Tom Gisborne, Sandra Penfold and Brian Senior

finished second in its group, qualifying for the final of the

EBU's Tollemache Cup inter-county competition.

Frank Littlewood & David Musson won the

Championship Pairs at the EBU Seniors Congress. Ian Martin

& Richard Cross were second in the Swiss Teams.

A successful inaugural Members' Meeting was held at the

Bridge Inn Wetherby alongside a pairs event to celebrate the

YCBA's 80th anniversary.

Diary dates: 7 Feb, Doncaster Swiss Pairs; 11 Feb, Margery

Cartwright Simultaneous Pairs (clubs); 19-21 Feb, EBU

Spring Congress (Harrogate); 13 Mar, Northern Pairs

(Bradford); 13 Mar, Yorkshire Improvers Pairs (Leeds); 25-27

Mar, Northern Easter Festival (Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley).r

Diary dates: 13 Feb, Café bridge Seminar with Bob Baker.

20 Feb, Championship pairs and plate at Woolavington. 11 Mar

Non Expert pairs at Woolavington. 12 Mar, County teams of

eight at Woolavington.

Staffs and Shrops

WE WOULD like everyone to join us on Sunday

15 May to commemorate the life and Bridge

contribution of Roy Edwards. Details and entries

at .

Jason & Justin Hackett won the Premier League and go on

to represent England in the Cammitchellmj@btinternet.comey

have also been selected for the England team in the European

Championships. Paul Hackett was in the winning team in the

Asean championships in Bangkok,

Our Tollemache team, David Beavon, Roger Keane, Dan

Crofts, Alistair Kent, Barbara, Jason, Justin and Paul Hackett

and captained by Paul Cutler had wins against

Gloucestershire, Devon, Notts and Bedfordshire and finished

in 5th place.

Reserve your place in our county Congress at the Park Inn,

Telford. Pairs on 16 April and teams on the Sunday. Both

events are green-pointed. Entries and information from Judy

Mitchell, 01743 235374 or email

CONGRATULATIONS to David Price on winning

the EBU Premier League and earning selection to

represent England in one weekend of the 2016

Camrose Trophy series, and the European Champions' Cup

2016 if England qualifies.

Congratulations also to Ipswich & Kesgrave who have

qualified to represent Suffolk in the Garden Cities 2016.

You can play Green-Pointed Swiss Pairs and Teams at the

East Anglia Bridge Weekend at Ipswich UCS the first

weekend of March. Our Championship Pairs semi-final is at

Kesgrave on 19 Feb and the Jyl Marsh Individual at

Framlingham on 21 Feb.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Tollemache team

who qualified for the final in February.

It has been decided that the format of the

bridge at this year's AGM will change to a

bracketed Pairs instead of Swiss. This gives members an

opportunity to meet and play against several other members.

Please put the date in your diary now - 3 July, 1pm. Venue tbc.

Forthcoming events: Sunday 21 Feb, 1pm, Men's & Ladies

Pairs, Oxshott. If insufficient numbers of pairs of each gender

enter for this competition it will be run as one event. County

Pairs 3 April, 1pm, Oxshott.

Please would players book online using the new website. If

you do want to book by phone please call Shirley Pritchard on

0208 5407636.

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Normally I don’t like sequels. I often find them to be inferior products. So when John Potter asked me to review On the Track of the Monmouth’s Galleon, I said yes with some dread. The book is a sequel to his autobiographical book My First Nine Lives. It continues Mr. Potter’s story from 1954 to 1958. But On the Track is a new story, and it is good.

The central focus of the book is a two-year diving adventure to recover the treasure from the Monmouth, a Spanish galleon that sank in 1702 in Vigo Bay. In many ways, Mr. Potter’s book reminds me of Moby Dick. On the Track provides a fascinating and detailed discussion of the equipment, the research and planning required, and the way such a venture is financed. The book also vividly describes the dangers the diving crew of the Dios te Grande encountered.

Interspersed among the diving material are vignettes that are lively and fun. Mr. Potter meets several celebrities on his travels including Errol Flynn, Richard Burton and Andres Segovia. There are also several touching stories. My favorite involves the sinking of the Ave del Mar off of Vigo Bay in 1956. Twenty-five fishermen were lost. Mr. Potter and his crew from the Dios te Grande spent two weeks searching the ocean bottom for the wreck. Eventually they located it and were able to recover the dead bodies. This was extremely important to the family members of the victims because they believed without burial it would be impossible for the souls of their loved ones to travel to heaven.

Stylistically, On the Track is impressive. Mr. Potter’s descriptions are vivid. His memory of events 60 years in the past as well as his knowledge of European history are encyclopedic. The book is also fast paced with mystery. You wonder whether these courageous divers will find their treasure, but you won’t get the answer from me. You’ll have to read the book. It’s a worthwhile endeavor.

I wrote this review two weeks before John Potter died on January 4 of this year. It was a sad day for East Chop and for me because he was a special friend. A celebration of John’s life will be held on Sunday, June 15 at 3 p.m. in Union Chapel. I hope to see you there.


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A history of tiles and a Busted Flush

In Uncategorized on November 27, 2014 at 12:12 pm

I was invited, probably on the strength of the books I have written about bathroom design, to the launch of ‘Busted Flush’, a book by Geoffrey Pidgeon about who really invented the flushing water closet and the Pidgeon family’s five generation involvement in the bathroom business. Lucinda Lambton gave a rousing introduction and it was held in The Smith Centre, a fascinating small museum at The Science Museum.

One of the Humpherson early WCs as donated by Pidgeon to The Science Museum

One of the Humpherson early WCs as donated by Pidgeon to The Science Museum

A few days later I was in Bethnal Green to see Lee Thorley of Bert & May. He and his business partner Harriet recently opened a stunning new showroom in Vyner Street where they show not only reclaimed tiles from old houses and buildings in Spain and France but also new collections made in the encasutic style using natural pigments.

new encaustic tiles from Bert & May

new encaustic tiles from Bert & May

shadow people and jigsaw style tiles from B&M

shadow people and jigsaw style tiles from B&M

And this will be my last blog as Design Editor of The Times Magazine. I resigned last month so from 1st December I will no longer be working for News UK. I am now doing a number of exciting projects including a consultancy job for the Doyle Hotel group.

Berkeley Square and all that

In Uncategorized on November 10, 2014 at 1:44 pm

First to Berkeley Square for the opening of PAD the fine art fair. What I love about it, apart from all the amazing artifacts, furniture and stylish people, is the way that the whole event works around the trees that have lived in the square for centuries. As well as seeing Michael Hoppen’s great stand and enjoying a delicious lunch I was also given a copy of The Art Book an amazing tome that is worthy of shelf space rather than the magazine rack.

Tree and fine art at PADPAD blog

Diane Blog

Diane looking leggy and leanDiane frocks blog                                                                               Examples of the D von F wrap dress at Phillips

  A few weeks later back to Berkeley Square to the amazing new Phillips Gallery for the opening of the Diane von Furstenberg exhibition, and the lady herself jetted in to over see things. She really looks amazing and it was a treat to see her iconic wrap dress in so many form and patterns, not just on the mannequins but also on so many of the guests.

Colour and Quirky designs

In Uncategorized on October 14, 2014 at 10:50 am

During London Design Week I had Georgia Small, a student from Durham University, doing a work placement with me . As part of her learning curve I suggested she wrote a blog about her experiences, for those of you who would like to see her view of things this is the link

My take on Design Week was COLOUR and quirky design…. a rainbow of  seat balls at 100% Design and a  wonderful cocktail and viewing ladder at the V&A

design week blog 1

Design week blog 3

Today I’m lunching in Berkeley Square for the opening of PAD  the modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts fair. We recently did a shoot with photographic gallery owner Michael Hoppen who is showing at PAD, the feature ran in Saturday’s Times Magazine.

With Georgia Small, and photographer James Balston I also did a shoot at the home of the delightful Sue Timney who recently launched a collection for West Dean at the V&A based on the surreal designs of Edward James – all colour and quirky designs.

Home Coming

In Uncategorized on September 9, 2014 at 11:12 am

September again and there is that same old feeling of  ‘back to school’  although it’s really ‘back to work’  after the summer break.

This week I went to recce the home of the couple behind The Artful Project a gallery run on-line and from a converted ice-cream van. The aim is to encourage people to have art in their homes, so The Artful Project source art, posters and photographs at affordable prices. The house is colourful and fun so I’ll be back with a photographer in a couple of weeks.

There was also had a fun evening at the opening of the Mini Moderns exhibition at the South Bank Center Shop, glasses of Prosecco and singing on the pavement outside the shop

South Bank Shop full of Mini Modern

South Bank Shop full of Mini Modern

and more on Kitchenalia

Showcasing the power of styling, this sneak preview of a new book from interiors expert Vinny Lee, Kitchenalia, takes a classic kitchen from Martin Moore and shows how a kitchen can be transformed into something completely different, just through accessories and a change of wallpaper. The book is released on 25 September and features inspiring styling advice and ideas for furnishing the kitchen with old and new buys, whether starting from scratch or transforming an existing space.

The classic English Kitchen the designers worked with is referred to as the White Kitchen, although it is hand painted in a subtle off-white finish, giving a warmer feel than pure white.

Barbara Moore comments, “the design combines fitted and freestanding elements, both of which can be scaled up or down. It is adaptable and works in any period building, from rural cottage to period town house. For this opening scheme, showcasing the neutral canvas the designers were given to work with, the kitchen has been styled to look simple and understated.

“I especially like the look you get from mixing lots of different pieces of white china together; some is classic French style with scalloped edges while other pieces are contemporary with a textured, raised surface. But because they are all white they can be mixed and matched.”

Here the kitchen was given a makeover by kitchen shop, Summerill & Bishop, owners June and Bernadette. They chose bright glassware and linens to bring bursts of colour. Texture was brought in from platters and pots, many of which are vintage finds. Bernadette Bishop says, “I can’t envisage a house without some vintage pieces, they give a place authenticity,”

Vinny Lee comments: “The history and character that comes with vintage pieces is off set by the new, such as the coloured Clair Glassware that they have specially made by a French artisan and has the glassblower’s signature on the bottom of each piece. They chose this glassware as part of their scheme to introduce ‘spot’ colour to the plain kitchen. Texture is an important part of the scheme. These beaten tin-plated copper cooking pots are from Syria.”

Styled by founders of House of Hackney, husband and wife team Frieda Gormley and Javvy M Royle, the kitchen is transformed by the bold Palmeral print used on the walls, china and linens including oven mitts. The striking and confident use of a single colour gives a contemporary update without detracting from the classic appeal of the kitchen. Keeping the same pattern throughout the accessories brings unity and cohesion to the scheme.

Vinny Lee offers this insight into the success of this makeover: “The Palmeral wallpaper comes with the more ‘boudoir’ backgrounds of midnight blue or black, but for the kitchen Frieda selected the print on a bright-white background. She also heightened the impact of the print by adding the same pattern on china and linens, but then kept the balance by diluting them with classic plain white china and transparent glassware, so that the whole scheme is balanced. The plant motif and bright green of the print give the kitchen a fresh and zesty appearance, making it the sort of room that is inviting and invigorating on even the darkest and dreary mornings. Because of the scale of the pattern it might become claustrophobic if used to such an extent in a smaller kitchen, so instead you could choose to use it on a feature wall and allow the printed linens and china to carry the theme through. And in a kitchen where the units are faced with wood or laminate wood-effect doors the ‘forest’ aspect of the leafy design may become exaggerated and overpowering, so it might be worth looking to other wallpaper prints that would work with a brown, wood element.”

Mini Moderns duo Mark Hampshire and Keith Stephenson used their range of wallpapers, paints and accessories, alongside some vintage finds to create a cheerful mix of colour and pattern for a bright, retro look.

Mark Hampshire reveals: “We used our Darjeeling wallpaper because it has a tiled look, making it instantly appropriate to the kitchen. We offset the freshness of this tessellated design with our rich 1970s-style Paisley Crescent wallpaper, used in the china cupboard and area above the stove. Then we added areas of plain blue Lido paint from our Environmentally Responsible Paints range. The pattern of the vintage Midwinter Cherry Tree china in the plate rack and cupboard combines the turquoise colour with olive and orange, so we brought together some new and old pieces that tied in with those colours, then added the “Granny Takes a Trip” framed print for a bit of retro graphic humour.”

Kitchenalia by Vinny Lee is £30, published by Jacqui Small.

In Uncategorized on August 28, 2014 at 12:01 pm

Kitchenalia cover

The new book is due out on 25th September but the publicity machine has already kicked in. Homes & Gardens have featured a shoot we did with Mini Moderns as part of their cover and there is a spread inside on the one kitchen 4 ways make-over from the book.

Homes & Gardens feature from Kitchenalia

Homes & Gardens feature from Kitchenalia

Having sent an email to June Summerill, partner of the great kitchen shop Summerill & Bishop who did one of the makeovers, I was shocked to hear that the lovely Bernadette Bishop had recently died. Such a wonderful lady and  a joy to work with.

Simple Things have also featured the book in their September issue, about to hit the bookshelves in larger W H Smiths -and there is a feature in the American magazine Red Book.

A little Light Music

In Slough on July 30, 2014 at 10:25 am

Slough may not be the top destination on any style seekers list but not far from the bustling railway station, and what must be the country’s largest Tesco, is the home of Mark and Trina Reilly.

Mark was in the cult band Blue Rondo a la Turk and latterly Matt Bianco and with that impressively cool CV it wasn’t all that much of a surprise to find that his family home is a single storey L shaped American style house built in the early 1960s. What was a surprise was how ‘hands on’ Mark and Trina had been on the restoration and transformation of their house.

Jefferson Smith took some amazing shots which will hopefully make an autumn edition of the the Times Magazine in the meantime look out for The Chewing The Fat 2 CD De Luxe Collectors edition of Blue Rondo’s 80s style Latin-themed album

Jefferson in the bushes

Jefferson in the bushes

A Burst of summer

In Uncategorized on July 8, 2014 at 11:36 am

On my way to the Oscar de la Renta Home launch I walked through Berkeley Square  and got the full impact of Dale Chihuly’s fabulous 14ft glass installation, The Sun. Ten or more years ago I went to Seattle to interview Chihuly about his home and work and was accompanied by The Times Magazine Picture Editor Graham Wood who did the pictures. Graham got on like a house on fire with Chihuly and it was a very enjoyable shoot – so seeing the brilliant orange red and yellow sun brought back many memories.

Dale Chihuly's The Sun in Berkeley Square

Dale Chihuly’s The Sun in Berkeley Square

Then there was the trip to The Bargehouse behind the Oxo Tower to see Habitat’s Autumn Winter preview. I had a guided tour with creative director Polly Dickins, who was on Woman’s House a few days later talking about Habitat’s 50th anniversary this year.

new Habitat product at The Bargehouse

new Habitat product at The Bargehouse

Also a shoot with James Balston at the new home of budding designer Amber Jeavons. We featured her studio flat in The Times Magazine about three years ago, but she has moved up a rung on the property ladder to a one bed flat taking with her all her style and wonderful ideas, so we were happy to catch up with Amber and to do a shoot that will hopefully appear in the magazine sometime soon.

Amber's sunburst mirrors in their new home

Amber’s sunburst mirrors in their new home

Side effects

In Uncategorized on June 6, 2014 at 11:35 am

Sometimes I’m early, sometimes I misread an address but when I’m out and about I often come across unexpected delights. I was on my way to the Carter Wells Interior Design Forum the other week and went to the wrong entrance for the Pangolin gallery where the discussion was taking place. Instead I went to a side door and discovered a wonderful show of work by the eminent photographer Jane Bown.

Jane BownWhen I had had my fill I went to the right door and joined the discussion forum  led by Alice Wells and Lulu Lytle of Soane with input via Skype from two designers in New York. A very interesting evening and hopefully the first of many.

Book update

In Uncategorized on May 8, 2014 at 8:49 am

Many thanks to Country Living Magazine for an amazing feature of ‘Homes from Home in their May issue – and may it encourage many more people to indulge in small scale living!

Homes from Homes Country Living 1

Homes from Homes Country Living 2

Homes from Homes Country Living 3

Homes from Homes Country Living 4

The difference a day makes

In Uncategorized on May 8, 2014 at 8:27 am

We recently did a shoot at Strata the tower that dominates Elephant and Castle, with the wind turbines that don’t rotate. The day I went to recce the location and meet furniture designer Georg Oehler the sky was grey and the rain poured down

The Strata view on a rainy day

The Strata view on a rainy day

But Oehler was full of the joys of Spring and news of his Aesh & Tweed collection that is launching at Clerkenwell Design Week on May 20th. The duplex apartment was dominated by what must be one of the world’s largest knitted lampshade, also one of his designs.

The Big shade

The Big shade

A few days later we went back to do the shoot for The Times but the weather wasn’t a lot better, although photographer Jan Baldwin and her amazing assistant Pete did some digital wizardry in post production and you’d swear that the sun had shone all day.


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Worth it

I am on tour. The photo above is of me in my hotel room. I’m working in Colorado later this week so I came out early got a hotel for two days and am doing my writing from here.

I got up did yoga and then went to practice my swimming.

I wrote a show and I’ve been hired to use my skills as an artist for good. I am being paid a fair wage to do the work I went to college to do. I am being paid a fair living wage for the work I’m doing.

Right now. I have enough income to pay my rent, my monthly debt payments, pay for my health club membership and save for the future.

Worth it.

America is based on worth and value. Supply and demand. It’s capitalism. In my working life on this planet, in my skin as a dark skinned black woman, the system has always valued me as a sale item. The truth is that most consumers are willing to pay less for my services and expect me to give 150%.

Oh yes….as black folks have shared our experiences of having to be more skilled at our crafts in order to get a fair wage the wealth based majority has been listening.

The system says, “oh it’s how you are manifesting in the world. It’s the energy you put out”. Perhaps that’s true and at the same time, Perhaps the system is so accustomed to Black women giving 150 percent and receiving 62 cents on every dollar that a white man makes…that Americans are happy with buying Black Women’s services on the discount rack.

I’ve worked my ass off as a chef and got paid less. When I was a health coach and private chef the wealthy liberal white and black people who wanted to barter for the work I do for them.

Will that barter pay for my health insurance?

Will that work exchange pay into my pension so that when I can no longer work…I’ll have the resources to take care of myself?

One of the many reasons why I left the majority white liberal female yoga, conscious dance and diversity awareness training programs is because liberal white women did not pay me my worth.

I’d do these conscious dance classes and white and black women, with college degrees and husbands who took care of their basic needs would take my class and then expect me to coach them on how to do what I do.

They would ask me to share my playlists. To tell them where I got my props. Always asking me to take care of them…..for free. I would offer packages and coaching sessions and they would look at me as if I were totally insane. How dare I not share with them!?!!! I was uppity! I was ungrateful.

I knew my worth and refused to be taken advantage of. So I made very little money and eventually I left those industries.

But….when I left it opened the door for those who do see me for my worth to step through.

Slowly the tide is shifting

I recently reached out to a liberal white female friend from the conscious dance world because I’m ready to heal our old implicit bias based trauma from the past. I miss her as a friend and she is open to do the work…on her own and with me in order to grow.

Through the grapevine one of the white women who I used to know from conscious dance heard I was “back” o got a text from her. Asking me to sub for her class. No mention of payment. No request to see how I was. I haven’t spoken to this person or heard from her in over 3 years….and she asks me to take care of her.

I deleted the message, blocked the number and deleted the number from my phone.

Everywhere I turn in the world society tells Black Women we are worthless. We’re ignored. We’re disrespected. We are made fun of, objectified. On the other end our bodies are used as testing grounds or commodities. We’re given the worst tables in restaurants told were loud and expected to always serve. There’s this constant clawing at our hair our skin our bodies as being for the consumption of others.

I say fuck that. Fuck all of that.

Reside with people who know your worth and honor it.

When I was a kid my parents would tell me I was smart. They’d tell me I was beautiful and I could be anything I wanted in this world. The. I’d go to school and be called a nigger by the white kids who lived in the trailer park, be ridiculed by the rich white and black kids who lives in the suburbs. I held on to what my parents told me and held on to my truth and held my head up high.

Those years of duality prepared me for being a black woman in America connected to her true worth. We are precious jewels and our lives depend on us caring for ourselves first.

We are worth it

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Radical expression

I love my regular asana practice. Asana are the physical poses of yoga.

Many people don’t realize that yoga is much more than the physical practice. There are, depending on the practice 7 to 9 limbs of yoga which includes how we treat other people and much more.

I also love freestyle conscious dance. I use conscious dance as a tool in my work as a movement based theater actor.

People often ask me if I teach yoga or if I make the fan veils I dance with.

Why can’t I just be a person who loves yoga? And with years of practice some poses I am in this moment able to execute skillfully.

Why can’t I be a person who just loves to dance and uses dance as a vehicle to bring people together?

Our culture trains us to expect to be sold to. To expect to be able to consume to buy to take to own.

This week thousands of people will come together for a festival in the desert of Reno Nevada called Burning man. A festival where once you get in there is no exchange of western money for anything. People have to bring everything and it’s a gifting society. Sharing gifts.

It’s radical beautiful annoying and freeing.

I’ve been to the Burning Amanda festival twice 8 years ago. It shifted my perspective.

I love consuming as any average American does and at the Alsace time I appreciate the power of gifting…sharing beyond currency.

I can’t tell you how many people ask me if I teach yoga or if I make the fan veils I dance with.

What if more of us could let go of the idea that we have to sell what we love to do?

What if we did physical practices just because they made us feel…good?

Now I am extremely lucky because right now I am getting paid to do one of the things I love to do for a living. And as I am able to take care of myself….I’m doing my yoga and other hobbies and with time comes skill. As I become more skilled the pressure of should arises from well meaning people who see and love what I’m doing.

Some say they live vicariously through the photos they see of me online. Sometimes they send unsolicited advice.

They “should” on me.

“You should teach yoga”

“You should sell those flags”

10 years ago I would listen to this unsolicited advice and the venture would fail.

I’ve finally learned to JSU’s smile and nod beyond the you shoulds and ground into my freedom.

I know what I should be doing and I’m doing it. And I’m so busy doing what I gotta do I don’t even think to give unsolicited advice to others.

I’m too busy taking care of me.

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I am not your social justice Mammy.

About 4 years ago, after an experience at a training I was assisting a former liberal white female friend who was leading a training (where I was one of perhaps 3 Black Women out of the hundreds of women who were actually in the yoga retreat center that weekend), where, after I shared some racially insensitive moments I endured with her in an attempt to just release tension…she said to me… “Yes. I know. I know because, you know I have had past lives and in one of them I know, I mean I really know that I was a black woman enslaved on a slave ship in one of my past lives.” And then she proceeded to tell me some long drawn out story about herself and the challenges she faces as a woman in America based on that alleged past life experience. It was late at night. I was beyond uncomfortable and so I excused myself and went to bed.

At the time, I had known this woman for several years and had let several small racially insensitive interactions with her go without ever even mentioning them. When I’d try to call her out on her liberal racism, she would just discount what I was saying and use some spiritual mumbo-jumbo to justify her bad actions. I’ve grown up around white people and have been the one black person in the room for most of my life so I became accustomed to letting a lot of shit go and just working on the friendship beyond race.

I didn’t know it then, but I realize now… I…was…a social justice Mammy!

I would be the one black friend in a group of white friends at a dinner party who would be the impromptu “race educator”during the Obama Administration.  Defending whatever was going on politically while explaining the plight of African Americans for my liberal white feminist friends.  Even though race wasn’t the focus of the gatherings… I was there and I was black and I, was one of the good ones.  So if a liberal white female friend was having a challenge with a black woman at work or had a question about anything to do with race… they felt comfortable talking to me about it.  I saw myself as someone who could bring the races together so I would have the difficult conversations. (Ha ha)  I mean I was a corporate diversity awareness trainer in the early 00’s!

What I didn’t realize was that I was being in service as the liberal white woman’s emotional Mammy, but really…that’s what was happening.

That “past live slave ship conversation” was my Ah-Ha moment. I had to stop being the one Black woman in the room and I had to stop taking emotional care of liberal white women.

I completed the assisting the workshop, and removed myself from that woman’s trainings and that entire majority white, liberal, feminist, yoga/dance community.

Once I cut that chord I felt an overwhelming freedom.   Once I cut that chord there were no more white women calling me to mine me of my wisdom, my joy, to appropriate my ideas without wanting to pay me my worth. Once I cut that chord, phenomenal African American Women started appearing in my life.   Once I cut that chord Awesome White women who were clued in started coming into my life.   I call all these women my Abolitionists.

The African American  Abolitionists who appeared in my life valued me and without hesitation, paid me well for my services and…were authentic friends unconditionally.  The White liberal Abolitionists were there for me without needing me to be their emotional crutch or their “one black friend to help them believe that they were not racist.”

And… the drama, the feelings of discomfort, the trying to fit and not fitting in, the feeling that I wasn’t being understood, respected or heard that had been a part of my friendships and relationships in NYC were gone.

Once I realized I was being a social Justice Mammy and stopped taking emotional care of white women and my heart started to heal, my mind became clear and I could more easily connect to my authentic joy.

Then, we got a new president.

And Charlottesville happened and systemic racism and blatant bigotry are now front and center in our culture and liberal white folks are freaking the fuck out.

I’ve been getting texts or even live phone messages from many of the former white friends I stopped initiating connections with.

The calls or messages start with “you’ve been on my mind”.

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America was built by white people forcing Black People to take care of them and pretending that black people love to nurture.  This country is designed to  pound white supremacy into it’s white children so that the expectation of, particularly white women, to be automatically nurtured by black women, particularly dark skinned black women, is just how the  white world works.

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As these former friends call to reconnect and seek some sort of comfort from their one legitimate like black, black former friend, and when they speak with me, and when they say the stupid subtle racist shit they have always said to me, and I call them out directly on the stupid subtle racist shit, they have a rude awakening and are shocked! They call me angry and rude. They wonder what happened to their friend who was so nurturing?

And when I speak with them, I feel not the anger they immediately push on me when I’m direct, I feel that mix of discomfort, that dealing with having to do the mental gymnastics it takes to care for the fragile white Liberal female ego. Because, you see, these types of personalities always find ways to make every conversation about their experience and their “trauma”.

That mix of discomfort that comes from having to care for the fragile white ego is what is distracting Black people from taking care of ourselves.  That weight of having to be extra whatever in order for the white person to feel comfortable around a black person is, I strongly believe, the seed of many illnesses that are killing African Americans young.

I was having a good old time today at Sweetgreen eating my favorite salad sitting on a bench outside in the sunshine when I got a message from a former liberal white female feminist friend I’ve not called saying I was on her mind.

As our conversation escalated I took a breath and did an emotional mind body scan.

As she was talking I thought… does this situation feel good? Am I feeling nurtured? Is this a relationship that will make me a better person? What do I feel in my body?

I noticed I felt all tingly around my sinuses and there was a pounding in the base of my skull where my skull balances on my spine.  My heart was pounding, I was clutching my hands and my brow was furrowing.  And when I spoke back to her I was really loud.

In the middle her doing the white girl thing she (and other) white liberal female friends have done to me dozens of times before in our friendship, attempting to justify the micro aggression I had called her out on, I decided to interrupt her and opt out of the relationship.  I thanked her for her help and friendship in the past.  Said I loved her, because I do love everyone, and said the friendship was over.  We hung up and I deleted and blocked her number. (This action is more for my own sake because I’m a wussy and often time second guess myself and call people and apologize.  Blocking the number and deleting the interaction forces me to stand with my decision)

Once I took those actions, I immediately felt a wave of calm wash over my mind body and I felt at peace. I felt light.  I went back to enjoying the sunshine…and my salad.

If my friends of any race, can’t take me as I am,  they aren’t really friends and we can  move on without wasting any more time.

This call today hasn’t been the first time a former white liberal friend from my past has reached out to get their old social justice Mammy to soothe their discomfort. I’m grateful she called me today because this call inspired me to just go public and announce to the world that social justice Mammy has been working out.  She’s lost all that fat and is now fit and focused on nurturing herself first, then her immediate family then the black women and girls in her community.

White people need to stop looking to Black Women to nurture, lead and educate them.  Our resources are depleted we need to revitalize. Please, don’t waste our time with your white guilt.  Get on google and find the resources you need to learn whatever you need to learn about your whiteness and systemic racism. Once you do your work and evolve to the level of Abolitionist…then we can start having some conversations.

Social Justice Mammy is dead.

And the Black Woman who has replaced her is laser  focused, particularly now, on nurturing Black Women and Girls and our communities.

These are just two of the many situations where white folks I used to know have “reached out” to me to soothe their white guilt.

The liberal white former friend who I assisted did a reach out via email to me earlier this summer to find out why our relationship ended.  When I was direct with her about her “past life experience as an enslaved African woman”,  comments, she tried to do some “whitesplaning” and fell in line with the behavior I mentioned above, so I clearly cut the chord and ended the friendship for good.

Our lifetimes are short.  African Americans are dying at the average age of 65.  We need to care for ourselves better, we can’t always be doing the heavy lifting for the benefit of other groups.

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Be the friend who is actually there.

Suicide is grounded in a feeling of isolation.

We live in a society where the cowardice of social grace is the norm.

Our culture celebrates the illusion of happiness and avoids reality by any means necessary.

Youth, beauty and wealth are considered to be the highest form of success in our culture.

Suicide happens because we ignore people.

When we are so wrapped up in our individual families that we don’t check up on our friends… we are contributors.

It’s so sad to me to think that our culture has gotten to a place where if someone is feeling like they must end their lives they only have a suicide hotline to call.

Where are their friends who will later say…she died so young

He was troubled

They seemed so happy.

If you are the friend who is present and if you are the friend who will do whatever you can to help and a suicide still happens then yes you can validly say it’s a shame.

If you didn’t step up then deal with your guilt and be a better friend in the future.

When I considered suicide in 2014 none of my “friends” were around. Why? Because the friends I attracted were nice people but they weren’t my people.

Because I wasn’t able to be there for any of them, because I was so focused on trying to save my personal relationship with my ex and I had nothing left to give to anyone else.

I didn’t work to be there for my friends at that time so how could I possibly expect them to be there…for me.

The thing I feared most was being single middle aged and broke in NYC and I settled for someone who did not love me in fear and when he rejected me I broke down.

I’m sure my friends saw this…perhaps they didn’t because they were engrossed in their own lives…but either way neither of us invested in our relationship to be there for one another when a real crisis happened.

We must do the work of investing in our friendships even when people are a total fucking pain in the ass.

And people are a fucking pain in the ass.

We need to be the friend who sends a random text to say hi

Checks in unconditionally

The friend who listens

Be the friend who listens without having an answer.

And give hugs. Go for a walk. Yes we are always busy and yes there is always time.

That first Christmas after my breakup with my ex I was lying on my floor crying an infinite river of tears…I had the oven open with towels under all of the vents and doors in my studio apartment.

For whatever reason I googled a suicide hotline because I had tried calling several friends and none of them answered

The hotline picked up and I poured out my story…the breakup the financial fear my biological clock it all came out in this wave of guilt and shame.

It all came out and I was silent. There was a pause…then the guy on the phone he sounded like a brother, the brother s said” damn! umm yo like that’s deep but ummm you know uh it’s my first day…I gotta put you on hold and get my supervisor ”

First I was stunned. Then I started laughing. It was hilarious! I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt my belly aches and I remembered my joy. I remembered my live on this planet does have a purpose.

I decided to not end this sentence and continue my story.

New friendships blossomed where the others had disappeared and I’m finding my people.

And we live

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Don’t Follow Black Women…Nourish Us. Please.

The phrase “follow Black Women” should be modified to “Nourish Black Women”.  Women of African descent were brought to this country to work alongside our men, doing the work of men.

The tradition of African American Women has not been self care…it’s been forced nurturing of others in order to strive to just get the basic needs for our families. Our value, was defined by how well we produced while we were in forced servitude.

The African American community is having a 21st century online renaissance. Black women are at the forefront. For some white liberals, the phrase “Follow Black Women” has become a kind of anthem.

At the same time, Black women are dying young and more often from ailments grounded in constant stress. Now more than ever Black Women need nourishment.  We are not superhuman to be put on pedastals we are not magical. We break. We cry. We die.  (134 Black Women die EVERY DAY of heart disease. Every. Damn. Day.)

We African American women need to choose authentic joy.  Remember your joy, and those of you who are not African American woman also need you to choose authentic joy and focus on not following or depleting us, you need to PLEASE focus on unconditionally nurturing Black Women and Girls.

It can be as easy as saying “hello” in passing.  Saying “Thank you” and “Please”. Even simple actions like making kind eye contact and smiling are actions of unconditional nurturing.

It’s spring and the chakra of the season is called Manipura aka the Solar Plexus Chakra.  I imagine the sun activating the radiance of the Solar Plexus Chakra awakening during spring and growing during summer. What I love about the Sacral Chakra is the warrior energy.  Warm weather encourages vitality and a yearning to achieve and attract.  The other side of spring and summer energy is the servant energy.  Being constantly busy doing wears us out. Folks can possibly deplete themselves attempting to please other people in person AND on social media just for affirmations that we just sometimes can’t seem to give ourselves.

As spring rises on 2018 join the community of sustaining members of VisableBlackwoman productions and welcome art, music, creative writing and theater into your life as a daily personal practice of self-care.   I share recipes, Rhythm Therapy Rooftop video immersion mini sessions and more.  Your support enables me to create productions that make Black Women’s stories visible to preserve our legacies.  Because nobody can tell our stories like we can.

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Black Women in Service? Well first…

Since the election results in the Alabama race, these mantras are repeated among liberal progressives…”Let Black Women Lead” or “Follow Black Women”

The world of politics is the world of service.

Black Women in Amerikkka are always expected to serve.

Black women make 65 cents to every dollar that white men make. Even with that of that 65 cent to a dollar ratio, Black Women are continually expected by other groups and in our own communities to give money to help others.

I am a single child free single woman, I live in NY city and there are days where the only men who speak to me…are asking me for money.

From the homeless man on the street, to the clean air guy to the guy trying to get me to get my eyebrows threaded… I am seen as a resource.

Well, I am not a work horse to be used up until the stress of a life of services pushes me into an early grave. Hell no.

The way to our black Women first? Support our businesses. Invest in us. If you know a Black Woman who is fabulous; and know she is looking to be in a relationship; and you know eligible single men; don’t assume she isn’t dating; talk to her and see if she’d be interested in a blind date.

Allow Black Women opportunities to practice self care. Acknowledge our presence. Be kind. If a Black Woman is the only Black Women man in a room full of white people and you are white… say hello. Smile.

Wealth is created with community support. Think of ways you can personally support a Black Woman. And don’t ask her how to “support” her. Figure it out by being a friend.

When we invest in women globally, we see how communities thrive. Why not invest in Black Women Locally… and work with us to live the change we wanna se in this country.

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When You Believe in the Power of Imagination

Once a month on Sundays when I’m in NYC, I try to make it to meditation class.   One of my favorite meditation teachers is Kadam Morten Clausen.  Kadam Morten is the  Resident Teacher at KMC-NYC, Eastern US National Spiritual Director for the New Kadampa Tradition.

The current meditation series Kadam Morten is leading is an introduction to Tantra.  Everything begins in the imagination.  Tantra in simple terms uses meditation to imagine the possible.  I’m really super simplyfiying here.

Reality is and always will be challenging.  Yes, we gotta face reality and at the same time allow ourselves time to create the future in our imagination.

For me, theater, dance meditation and music are vehicles I use for transformation on literally, a personal daily basis.

This week has been relentless and I’ve really had to work hard to remember to believe.  Just when my mind was just pounding me with fear, doubt and shame,  Lena Horne popped into my head.  I remembered Lena Horne as Glinda the good in the Wiz, singing to Dorothy…”If you believe”  with all those little babies dangling uncomfortably around her.

The Wiz is spiritual.  Seriously!!!  Think about it.  Dorthy always looked outside herself to get home when in reality, she had the power all along, it took her friends, her community to help her find her way back to believing in the power of her own imagination.  The world she believed in was the world she was able to create.

It seems really simple, it’s not.  Transformation never is.  A belief can transform a fact into a different reality.  We see this happening every day…why not use that simple logic to create good in our lives.

Bohemoth corporations and systems all began as thoughts in someone’s mind.  Remember the superhero that lives in your imagination who believes.   If you need a little inspiration…. Click Here and experience Miss Diana Ross from the 1978 movie version of The Wiz…sharing the power of belief.

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What is art? It’s a debate that goes back if not to the dawn of time then certainly to the dawn of modernism, when Picasso and the Cubists shocked the world.

Now the question of whether a three-million-year-old rock can be a work of art has led the British Museum to change the title of an exhibition.

The rock at the centre of the debate is the Makapan Pebble, also known as the Stone of Many Faces. It is believed to have caught the fancy of an ape-like creature, who took it back to the tribal cave. It provides the chronological opening of the museum’s exhibition of South African art. The display’s title has now been changed from Three Million Years of Art to Art of a Nation, amid uncertainties about the rock’s place in art history. So why was a three-million-year-old pebble regarded as art?

The argument of the museum curator John Giblin involves the pebble having one side showing a human skull and two other aspects appearing to be faces with features similar to the early humanoid finder, an Australopithecus africanus. Therefore, it was collected because it had face-like features, showing a degree of self-awareness. Mr Giblin told The Art Newspaper: “The unknown individual who picked up the pebble some three million years ago might be considered one of the world’s first creators of ‘found art’, a practice that is well established among contemporary artists.”

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Since its rediscovery in 1925 in a cave in Pretoria, the pebble has never been put on display. When South Africa: The Art of a Nation opens on October 27, one can anticipate fevered discussions about the question once posed by Duchamp’s urinal. Or some, as suggested by Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum, may simply decide that an ostrich left the pebble in that cave.

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1967 Harley Electra Glide

Mark McDermiottMark McDermiott is pictured right at the 2014 VAE Car Show in Stowe on his 1967 Harley Electra Glide. He has had his Harley for 20 years and in that time has rebuilt and restored about every part on it.

This Harley’s engine has a “Shovelhead” top and “Pan” bottom. The “Shovelhead” term comes from the engine’s rocker box covers looking like an inverted shovel and was introduced in 1965. The rocker boxes before ‘65, starting in 1948, looked like pans… hence the term “Panhead”. In 1967 Harley had kept the lower engine design of the older Panhead engine which used a generator until 1970. They then changed to the alternator bottom.

The rocker boxes to Harley enthusiast identifies the engine. Before the “Panhead” was the “Knucklehead” started in 1936 and yes the rocker covers resembled the knuckles of a person’s fist. The “Flathead” preceded the “Knucklehead”.

Mark lives in Enosburg, Vermont and is part of the McDermott family of “McDermott’s Trucking”. He and his brother Pete are the third generation operators of the company. How many of us for years have seen the McDermott’s milk tankers hauling the product from farms and to the areas largest milk market in the Boston area? Mark is in charge of the company’s three garages that keep their 80 trucks and 100 trailers on the road.

Even though Mark is a mechanic by trade he decided to farm out some of the work in restoring his Electra Glide. John Johnson of Enosburg did the paint job at his shop. The engine and transmission was rebuilt by Drew Fairbanks of Johnson. G&G Buffing of Montreal did all the chrome.

This Harley has a 45-degree, air-cooled, V-twin engine with a 1208 cc displacement. There is no direct connection by Harley Davidson but about the time they presented the “Electra Glide” model to the public in 1965 was also the time they first introduced the electric starter. Is there a connection?

Along with all the “special” Harley terms that non-Harley folks often can’t quite keep up with is the term “Softail”. We have all heard the name and love the sight and the sound of the Harley Davidson but what the heck is a Softail? It seems in the ‘older days’ and during the chopper ‘60s and ‘70s the Harley had a fairly hard suspension… some called them ‘Hardtails’. By hiding the rear suspension under the transmission in the Heritage style and adopting the “Springer” front suspension, Harley was able to offer a softer ride…thus the Softail.

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