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What I Learned Sundays – Normalize Mourning

14 Monday Nov 2022

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bob Rude, Brooke Suffern, California, Cancer, Chanhassan, Chapel Hill, Coachella, cry, Death, Don Watson, Georgia, iPhone, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone Post, iPhoneagraphy, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Love, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mourn, mourning, music, musician, North Carolina, Pain, Paisley Park, pop, R&B, Red Phone Booth, rock, Sacramento, Singer-songwriter, songwriter, Soul, Starbucks, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, What I Learned Sundays

I saw the title of an article that mentioned how Black Panther: Wakanda Forever speaks to normalizing Black mourning. I looked to find it after watching the film, as not to encounter spoilers, but all was for naught. More importantly, I chose to make my own path to mourn, especially after this week. I historically try to be the supportive person, and not address my needs when mourning…but I opened myself up to that rawness today.

I don’t know where to start…in March of this year, my dear friend Bob reached out to me. I had shared Prince experiences and more with he and his bride, Lisa, and last saw him at Red Phone Booth in Atlanta, 2 nights before I moved to California. We chatted about family, Mother’s Day had just passed, and his sons birthdays. We talked of seeing each other upon visits. Then a pandemic happened.

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Blue Lines Blog – My 2012 Movember Journey: What is Movember

15 Monday Oct 2012

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Atlanta, Australia, Awareness & Education, Belgium, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Canada, Cancer, Cancer Research, Cause, Czech Republic, Denmark, Donate, Finland, Global Action Plan, Ireland, Key Yemaya Walker, LIVESTRONG Foundation, Mo Bros, Mo Sistas, Moustache, Movember, Movember & Sons, Movember App, New Zealand, Norway, Prostate Cancer Foundation, South Africa, Spain, Testicular Cancer, the Netherlands, the UK, the US

OVERVIEW OF MOVEMBER

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men’s health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.

Once registered at http://www.movember.com, men start Movember 1st clean shaven. For the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.

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Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November. Through their actions and words they raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men’s health.

At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valor by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Partés held around the world by Movember, for Movember.

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The Movember Effect: Awareness & Education, Survivorship, Research
The funds raised in the US support prostate cancer and testicular cancer initiatives. The funds raised are directed to programs run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG Foundation. Together, the three channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programs in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

For more information on the programs we are funding please visit the following:
Prostate Cancer Foundation
LIVESTRONG Foundation
Awareness & Education
Global Action Plan

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Movember – a global movement
Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne, Australia, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.9 Million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to participate with formal campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Czech Republic. In addition, Movember is aware of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas supporting the campaign and men’s health cause across the globe, from Russia to Dubai, Hong Kong to Antarctica, Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai, and everywhere in between.

No matter the country or city, Movember will continue to work to change established habits and attitudes men have about their health, to educate men about the health risks they face, and to act on that knowledge, thereby increasing the chances of early detection, diagnosis and effective treatment.

In 2011, over 854,000 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas around the world got on board, raising $126.3 million USD.


Big steps have been taken towards changing attitudes and habits relating to men’s health around the world, but there is still much to be done to catch up with the women’s health movement. Via the moustache, Movember aims to fulfill its vision of having an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health by continuing to spark conversation and spread awareness of men’s health issues each year.

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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.

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Blue Lines Blog – RIP NFL Films Head Steve Sabol

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

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Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Cancer, Death, Key Yemaya Walker, National Football League, NFL, NFL Films, October, October 2, October Births, September, September Deaths, Stephen Douglas “Steve” Sabol, Steve Sabol

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NFL Films’ President Steve Sabol died Tuesday after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. He was 69.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.

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Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – The Last Emperor feat Poetic and Esthero “One Life”

13 Wednesday Oct 2010

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2003, activist, Aftermath, alternative hip hop, Anthony Ian Berkeley, arranger, Bernardo Bertolucci, Beverly Hills, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, BMG Records, Brothers Grym, California, Canada, Cancer, ceo, Electronica, Emcee, Empire Musicwerks, Esthero, experimental rock, Gee Street, Gravediggaz, Grym Reaper, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Indie, Island, Jamal Gray, Jenny-Bea Englishman, Key Yemaya Walker, Long Island, lounge, Magic, music, Myth, New York, One Life, Ontario, Palace of the Pretender, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Poetic, PolyGram, Producer, R&B, Raptivism, Rawkus, record producer, Red Planet Music, Reprise, Singer/songwriter, Sony, Stratford, The Last Emperor, Too Poetic, Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago, trip hop, U.S., Universal Canada, V2, Warner Bros.

Fitting for a month dedicated to Cancer Awareness. This includes one of the last performances by Poetic (of Gravdiggaz) shortly before he succumbed to cancer.

feat. Poetic (Gravediggaz)
[The Last Emperor]
1993, shortly before Thanksgivin’
I got the call she say Jamal, Derek is no longer livin
Softly she spoke
Is this a joke?
Man, you gotta be kiddin
As my question was raised this explanation was givin
A meaningless death
Made me question the meaning of life
Does my body remain at rest like when I’m sleeping at night?
Will I burn in eternal hell?
Or will I find paradise?
Be rejected or ressurected like the body of Christ
Is it like purgatory the story described by the Catholics?
Or nirvana that Buddha saw in both theory and practice
Like I studied in my college phillosophy classes
Or do my molecules and atoms travel back to the gases
I mean what I’d like to know
Is wheres my spirit go?
After the curtains close
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