Music Mondays – Common feat Ft. John Legend – “The Believer”

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Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Common, John Legend, Key Yemaya Walker, Music Mondays, New Music, The Believer

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

New To You Music Sundays (Monday) – Joan Osborne – “Crazy Baby”

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1996, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Crazy Baby, Joan Osborne, Key Yemaya Walker, musical inspiration, New To You Music Sundays, One Of Us

Released in 1996, with an amazing live version on the single of the hit, “One Of Us.” The song was pre-Blue Lines, when I first had the seed or idea that I wanted to write a manuscript, but prior to the events that allowed me to write this book. The song, however, was part of my playlists when I did begin the work, both in the unrelated original 5 page draft (where it fit a male protagonist better), and then in writing the real version of Blue Lines.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

What I Learned Sundays (Mondays) – Quantity vs Quality

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2011, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Friend, Friendship, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, Love, MW, Myla, Myla Watson, Relationship, Sacramento, San Francisco, travel, What I Learned Sundays, writing

Oddly, this idea entered my mind, and changed my simplistic plan for this week’s WILS. In prepping a post that I’m working on to wrap up the year, I thought of a friend, and the work that she gave me that is the blueprint of what I’m working on in many ways.

I also thought of another friend, and the dynamic of the relationship as it relates to both of these two. One is a longtime friend, easily one of my best friends, that we hit it off from the beginning, yet the time of our friendship has easily helped further develop the quality of said relationship. This relationship, easily would follow the standard progression of the time and quality strengthening over the years. We can speak about anything, and she easily knows everything about me.

In thinking of my aforementioned friend, I can say that we have known each other for some time, yet the quality of said relationship, is amazingly unrelated to the time we’ve known each other. Though strong, the relationship is diametrically different, where we would seek each other out, and offer support, advice, and ideas to each other. Amazingly, this year, our paths have crossed each other on the extreme sides of this country, both in person and in communication. But more importantly, they crossed when they needed too. Sharing messages, when they were needed, even stories, or parables even, making us take a look at our decisions, and deciding whether the paths in our respective lives truly matched up to our wants and needs, rather than settling for something that may be before us. A poignant post we discussed while I sat happy and weary in Sacramento, and she, based in Los Angeles, was on the line with me in Atlanta.