Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “What Did It Mean”

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Slowly easing into a new year,
Past mistakes behind,
Moving forward with something new,
What was there to learn,
What did it mean,

Doors opening to new opportunities,
Some reflections of the past,
Some reincarnated anew,
What was there to earn,
What did it mean,

Blue Lines Blog – #PhotoADayJuly – Day 16 – Sign – Rain (Renewal, Cleanse)

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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.

Blue Lines Blog: My Blue Print Cleanse Journey Day 3 (2/20/11) Last Day

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Blue Lines, Blue Print, C.A.B., Cashew Milk, Cleanse, Codex, Cuba, Cuban, Detox, Etsy, Front Page News, Green Juice, Key Yemaya Walker, Little 5 Points, New Orleans, New To You Music Sundays, P.A.M., Radiohead, Sassy Raggs, Spicy Lemonade, The King Of Limbs

“We can all learn something else about ourselves.”

 

Day 3 (The Last Day):

After my long Saturday with the fam, I actually woke up, headache free this morning around 7:30.  I don’t know whether that was a good or bad thing as I laid back and wrapped my mind around getting up, preparing my hot water, lemon, and cayenne pepper to drink before my first juice.  I decided to get up, and prepped as I sat at the computer reviewing the night, and deciding whether to go on to the gym to sit in the steam this morning.  The sun was bright, thought the temperature was much lower than yesterdays near 80 degrees.

 

Juice 1: Green Juice

I finished off my first juice while prepping my standard Sunday blogs, and listening to the new Radiohead album The King Of Limbs.  I’m addicted to the song “Codex.”  I decided against any of the new material to make the post of “New To You Music Sundays,” since the material is very new.  I try to reserve that for obscure artists or songs, that YOU should be up on, but are not.

 

Juice 2: P.A.M. (Pineapple, Green Apple, Mint)

My mother had been against this cleanse the entire time, and labeled it a fad diet, not truly understanding my reasoning behind it (weight loss was not a considering factor).  I waited until she arrived for her “model shoot” she wanted me to model her new shirts for her Etsy website to sell.  I walked in with the juice to get a response from her, only for her to say, can’t you make that at home.

 

Juice 3: Green Juice (again)

I drank this before leaving so that she could get a late Sunday lunch…because I knew I would be sitting there watching and waiting to drink my next juice.

 

Being Stupid – My Message From Starbucks

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“…2 days ago I fell in love, today feels like my funeral…”
words by Diddy-Dirty Money


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.

Blue Lines Blog: Prepping for my Blue Print Cleanse

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Why am I doing the Blue Print Cleanse? Is it to lose weight? Is it your new diet? Are you trying to shock your body? Why? Why? Why?

Well first, I’m not taking it because of it’s name…Blue Print – Blue Lines – Blue Hurt. I am not taking it to lose weight, I know what that takes and a lot of it is hard work and discipline. I’m not trying to shock my body.

Back around 2005 – 2006 I started to notice that I was putting on weight, and the erratic workout schedule included being content that I made it into the gym at least one day a week to lift. One day i sat back and realized that I was going in the wrong direction and had no structure in my workouts. I made a decision to change those habits. I began to run with frequency. I then added in a structured Monday/Wednesday/Friday lift routine accompanied by abdominal work and basketball on Tuesday/Thursday. I also had to change me erratic and bad eating habits. Results were slow and steady, but I was striving for my lofty goal of my high school weight of 180 lbs.

By 2007 my routine included early a.m. and lunch visits to the gym, and I completed both my workout regimens and runs each day. With friends, we began to use Nike SPARQ equipment and ran football drills every saturday morning. We had people who came to the field to run around its track ask us whether we were trainers. I laugh in retrospect. I even got my iPod Nano and Nike+ attachment to record my runs, my drive grew as my weight dropped. And although I was able to steady out around 188-185 lbs after having dropped between 50-60 lbs, I still was short of the goal of 180. Now, I had no complaints then, nor in retrospect, and I tried to think of new techniques to accomplish my goals, but I was extremely proud of my accomplishments.

Slowly life took over, a new job, slightly hampered my workouts, but I maintained the status quo. Our football drills began to die off after one too many Saturdays being the only person to show up, and I began to use my back yard for solo drills. I continued my running, and although I may not have made 2 trips to my gyms in one day, I at least had my one session in per day.

Well some good things do also pass, and I allowed life and personal dramas to take away my one perfect release, and slowly my regiment became disjointed in 2008, where I would have my runs of great workouts, and my bad weeks, but my progress was still positive enough to keep me within that 9% body fat range I had achieved and eventually drop to 170 lbs in December of 2008. 2009 was more of the same, I had good runs, but could not quite finish the regiment I had chosen. I did run my first Peachtree Road Race, and finished in 66 minutes (I thought I was at the finish and started walking).