New To You Music Sundays – Al Jareau – “We’re In This Love Together”

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1981, Al Jareau, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Breakin' Away, California, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, LA, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Sacramento, San Francisco, We're In This Love Together, Wisconsin

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.

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Awesome”

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Arizona, Atlanta, Awesome, Baby, Big Apple, Birthday, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Child, Citi Field, Coachella, Coachella Festival, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Georgia, Girl, Girlfriend, Governors Ball, Hawaii, Kauai, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Las Vegas, Love, Mother, Nevada, New York, New York City, Outside Lands, Outside Lands Festival, Outside Lands Music and Art Festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Outside Lands Music Festival, Phoenix, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prince, Prince Rogers Nelson, Princeville, Prose, Purple Rain, Randall Island, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sleep, Text Tuesdays, The Meadows, Toddler, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake

10/11/16
I wake up,
We had an awesome choice to make,
On my mind in an arid municipality,
In the shadow of Portman western architecture,
In a lofty position amidst the empire peach of the south,
Looking down across a familiar terrain,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “What…”

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Age, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, Growth, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Kiss, Love, MW, North Carolina, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, San Francisco, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Youth

10/11/16
What is love,
I remember being enamored,
Idealistic thoughts of your youthful beauty,
Wondering what it was for your touch,

Blue Lines Blog -Throwback Thursday

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Alton Sterling, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, facebook, Falcon Heights, Fruitvale Station, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, LA Riots, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Minnesota, Murder, Oakland, OJ Simpson, Oscar Grant, Philando Castile, Photography, Police Brutality, Rodney King, Sacramento, San Francisco, twitter, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill

I wake up further enraged this morning…there is no time to mourn when the news of the next murder is broadcast. How much longer will we cast a blind eye, and allow locations, tweets, and posts to be evidence of our disgust and displeasure, yet let it end there? The pandemic of violence against us in the United States, and systematic violation and disregard of our lives is reported daily. Should my future wife have to worry whether I will come home, or whether she has to watch me die in public? Should I have to worry about my future son not returning home from college? Should my future daughter live in fear that at any moment, her father, brother, boyfriend…husband, will not return from their day? Will I make it home alive tonight?

I refuse to live my life in fear, but these are real questions to be asked in a country where increasingly obscure locations, towns, and places become unfriendly reminders of how devalued the life of a Black man is. Last year I felt an uneasiness as I rode past Fruitvale Station…what was simply a stop on the B.A.R.T. is now an eerie reminder of a New Year’s shooting of an unarmed Oscar Grant was murdered by a police officer. Our lives our being reduced to temporary outpourings of grief, vigils, speeches, and memories tied to a location. However, I wasn’t…we weren’t born to be symbols of tragedies that continue to repeated on, as we have seen the last two days, a daily basis. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are simply the new names added the growing list of disregarded lives.

Music Mondays – Janice Joplin – “Summertime”

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Aria, Atlanta, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues rock, California, Columbia, Darby Gould, Dave Getz, George Gershwin, iPhone Post, Janis Lyn Joplin, Jazz, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, music, Music Mondays, Opera, Pearl, Peter Albin, Photography, Porgy and Bess, Port Arthur, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic soul, rock, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Summertime, Texas, Tom Finch, Tommy Odetto, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

It’s Summer


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.

Shell Toe Thursdays – Adidas Originals The Original HipHop Kermit Shell Toes On St. Patty’s

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1955, 2011, 2012, adidas, Adidas Originals, Adidas Shell Toe, Adidas Shell Toes, Adidas ShellToes, Adidas Superstar, Adidas Superstar II, Adidas Superstar Sneakers, Adidas Superstars, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, Jim Henson, Kermit, Kermit The Frog, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Outside Lands, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sesame Street, Shell toe, Shell Toe Adidas, Shell Toe Thursday, Shell Toe Thursdays, shell toes, Shelltoe Thursdays, shelltoes, Steve Whitmire, Superstar, Superstar Adidas, Superstar II, The Muppets

St Patrick’s Day colors. Still can’t get all of the unexpected Outside Lands 2012 dust off of them.
  
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.

Foto Fridays – San Francisco Skyline

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Foto Friday, Foto Fridays, Georgia, iPhone 6, iPhone Post, iPhoneagraphy, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Sacramento, San Francisco

  
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 – Faith No More – “Edge of the World”

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1989, Alternative, alternative rock, Atlanta, Billy Gould, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Edge of the World, Funk, funk metal, Georgia, Jon Hudson, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Matt Wallace, Michael Allan Patton, Michael Andrew Bordin, Mike Bordin, Mike Patton, music, New To You Music Sundays, rap metal, Roddy Bottum, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sausalito, Sharp Young Men, Slash Record, The Real Thing

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.

Shell Toe Thursdays – White x Black Stripe In Union Square

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adidas, Adidas Originals, Adidas Shell Toe, Adidas Shell Toes, Adidas ShellToes, Adidas Superstar, Adidas Superstar II, Adidas Superstar Sneakers, Adidas Superstars, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chapel Hill, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Francisco Outside Lands, San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Shell toe, Shell Toe Adidas, Shell Toe Thursday, Shell Toe Thursdays, shell toes, Shells, Shelltoe Thursdays, shelltoes, Superstar, Superstar Adidas, Superstar II, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Union Square, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  
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.

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – Everything I’m Not…

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chapel Hill, Everything I’m Not…, Georgia, iPhone, iPhone Post, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, North Carolina, Photography, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, San Francisco, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I like the concept…not the piece…at least not yet.

11/14/15 – 11/17/15

Unguarded and open,
Constant smiles,
Wrapped and attached,
This is Everything I’m Not…