Happy Monday! I’m thankful for waking up to a new week. I‘m also very grateful that I got my hair braided in small knotless braids just in the nick of time! Back in January, I scheduled an appointment for Friday, March 20th, at 10 am for braids. I woke up the very next morning, March 21st, to news of an increase of several hundred confirmed cases of corona and a palpable single numbered death toll. So Governor Whitmer updated the executive order of limiting social contact to include barbershops, salons, tatto studios, and nail and hair salons. Jana and I were the only ones in her shop all day on that Friday, but still. Talk about timing. I am definitely in need of a braid touch up, but things could have been a lot, and I do mean a lot, worse as far as my hair is concerned. So, there’s that.
Anyway, I hope you have a Good Day…
Here are some (in my opinion) blog-worthy highlights of the month so far floating around: Don Lemon’s much appreciated question to Trump, Gmac Cash’s amusing tribute to Governor Whitmer, aka Big Gretch (but she couldn’t accept the Buffs), and @norah_yarah_rosa on the good foot, celebrating the Godfather of soul.
Oh, and Kirk Franklin is now the Mother’s day maven with the “Savage” inspired tribute to his family’s generation of mothers as well as our forever FLOTUS, Michelle Obama.
Have you seen Michelle Obama’s Netflix documentary? LOVED!
And I’m still celebrating mothers… so check out @guadypleskacz on Instagram for beautiful depictions of motherhood.
Maybe she’s born with it, Maybe it’s Maybeline. Or how about: Maybe she’s losing it. Maybe it’s quarantine. A funny from @housewifeplus.
Love to Rihanna and her Clara Lionel Foundation, the Sean Anderson Foundation, led by Detroit rapper Big Sean, the David Rockefeller Fund, Lyft, the Stadler Family Foundation, and Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall for helping groups in Detroit and Flint on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. #pullup
Quote of the month for me:
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Oscar Wilde
Remember my post on underrated things? What would you add to the list now that you have been in quarantine?
And add these dreamy hoops to my wishlist!
Also this month we are beyond vexed with the sickening reminder that The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning…
We live in a country where Americans assimilate corpses in their daily comings and goings. Dead blacks are a part of normal life here. Dying in ship hulls, tossed into the Atlantic, hanging from trees, beaten, shot in churches, gunned down by the police or warehoused in prisons: Historically, there is no quotidian without the enslaved, chained or dead black body to gaze upon or to hear about or to position a self against. When blacks become overwhelmed by our culture’s disorder and protest (ultimately to our own detriment, because protest gives the police justification to militarize, as they did in Ferguson), the wrongheaded question that is asked is, What kind of savages are we? Rather than, What kind of country do we live in?
-Claudia Rankine
RIP Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Showers of love and God’s covering to your families.
Xo
