tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.comments2014-10-20T23:05:30.058+01:00TRAVELLING LIGHTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-15712206439470855782013-10-15T21:09:39.739+01:002013-10-15T21:09:39.739+01:00These signs were supposed to be all over London, y...These signs were supposed to be all over London, yet this is the only photograph from the UK that I've ever seen. I suspect it is a fake. It looks to me like the sign is stuck on the outside of the window by an enterprising reporter.Vothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04715751005122434993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-803506996979326972013-03-14T22:48:01.852+00:002013-03-14T22:48:01.852+00:00no no don't stop...
beautifully written poem ...no no don't stop... <br />beautifully written poem Zena, as was your account afterwards.Sloetryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182929170273645929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-90232384945299292572012-11-08T07:01:52.889+00:002012-11-08T07:01:52.889+00:00There are many Reasons...
i showed it at my blog.There are many Reasons...<br />i showed it at my blog.Suicidal Thoughtshttp://suicidalthoughtshq.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-169077480201934882012-08-28T16:43:05.790+01:002012-08-28T16:43:05.790+01:00that was great family picture. that was great family picture. rucksack best producthttp://rucksackbest.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-69880400599124317772012-07-19T16:25:59.908+01:002012-07-19T16:25:59.908+01:00Thank you. Your kind words are much appreciated. W...Thank you. Your kind words are much appreciated. With love, ZenaThe Dialoguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05455577093574666999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-82242374859100750682012-07-16T02:32:53.746+01:002012-07-16T02:32:53.746+01:00That was a wonderful picture of Aunt Gerald. I pr...That was a wonderful picture of Aunt Gerald. I pray that you and all of the other family members find peace in this time of grief.<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />Ray (nevisray@aol.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-11245556794263743472012-01-31T11:37:41.698+00:002012-01-31T11:37:41.698+00:00this is a great sentiment, but i must admit that w...this is a great sentiment, but i must admit that we must insist on being all the bridges the world needs. each and every one of us. and the only way we can teach others to bridge, is by bridging. I believe this is our purpose! The world needs bridges now. So let's not grow weary of the act, but embrace it. It's a hard job, but imagine a world where we all constructed bridges within ourselves and without: then there will be no more need for bridges! ;-)blackgirl on marshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03497832506757310228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-61114972774361776352012-01-05T21:09:13.167+00:002012-01-05T21:09:13.167+00:00Really enjoyed reading this Z. You just mentally v...Really enjoyed reading this Z. You just mentally visual things in a richer light when your able to talk and read about the same thing. Hope your well! Talk soon. Luv yaCleonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-31032351331039840142011-08-20T12:01:36.908+00:002011-08-20T12:01:36.908+00:00The demise of men? Masculinity in crisis? Here is ...The demise of men? Masculinity in crisis? Here is an controvesial but interesting theory: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=2011<br /><br />To be honest, i don't have any answers. The link i posted is only a theory, but i think it raises some interesting points. It might be that society itself places ridiculous expectations on men to be something that they are not or can never live up to (meaning they are confused exactly about what their roles are meant to be). I don't know if this explains the increase in male depression & suicides, but it might do. I think the video you posted does pander to sweeping generalisations of men like a lot of mainstream media tends to do. The one-dimensional stereotypes usually fall into two opposites - the thuggish alpha male or the effeminate sensitive metrosexual. And where do normal intelligent men who don't fit these stereotypes fit into this scenario? Nowhere. Maybe that's the crux of the issue .Jon Speedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362584144526069960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-81815357340231059732011-08-19T21:06:14.925+00:002011-08-19T21:06:14.925+00:00Absolutely...that is so true Zena. Men play such a...Absolutely...that is so true Zena. Men play such an important role in women's lives, they should recognise their responsibility not as men! But as an emotional being as well it makes life so much easier for women...this is really deep Z. You don't really think about these things at such a level like this, most times you hear in the form of constant complaining from a friend about her man. But there is a need for men to be more in touch with their emotional side not just for women but to make them more intune with the world and the people around them. Brings out expression in men if you ask meCleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661514274041031893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-42243923064061054432011-07-29T20:05:30.149+01:002011-07-29T20:05:30.149+01:00Awesome! Every good woman must also know the numbe...Awesome! Every good woman must also know the number of a good man, a real sistah and her own inimitable boundaries.Teju Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18064025632104100167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-76583912714250762702011-07-29T20:04:04.868+01:002011-07-29T20:04:04.868+01:00Awesome! ... every good woman must know the number...Awesome! ... every good woman must know the number of a good man also :-)Teju Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18064025632104100167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-20417644483824223802011-07-27T20:54:56.925+01:002011-07-27T20:54:56.925+01:00logicallylogicallyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-41391665375471089832011-07-27T20:30:02.877+01:002011-07-27T20:30:02.877+01:00I love her writing,always inspiringI love her writing,always inspiringAnna Merythttp://amerytpoetryetc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-62016290974014190652011-07-09T09:50:55.350+01:002011-07-09T09:50:55.350+01:00Hey Z
I need to send you my poem all about hair. ...Hey Z<br /><br />I need to send you my poem all about hair. It's inspired by the hairstyles Samuel L Jackson wears in his films but weaves in my own history with hair and a wider history too. I've been told that it's political without being in your face. You might be interested to read it.Dzifanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-87874590664210422462011-06-25T10:52:40.656+01:002011-06-25T10:52:40.656+01:00I struggle with this piece full-bodily-heartily an...I struggle with this piece full-bodily-heartily and intellectually. I actually do want to chew them up and I am not exactly an alpha-male. If I even wanna give it that much attention. I am not even going to go into the esoteric flakiness of it. Wait, actually that’s part of it. You referred to narcissism, if you ask me a lot of this new age aesthetic is a product of exactly that. That’s why the guy actually felt it’s ok to forgive HIMSELF for the history of male domination. Forget about being political, forget about collective struggle and action, its all about healing our own souls and for each to become a celestial temple and as long as we “keep it clean” - be it through “ethical” consumerism, “pureness” of thought etc or in this instance spirited gender harmony-(whatever that means) it will all be good. really? I tend to believe that social change, and that’s what women and men need, not praise for some projected supremacy of being, that social change is a messy thing, not a pure one. It’s struggle, not harmony. I don’t want my partner (either gender) to worship my gift of the feminine. I want respect on eyesight. The gift of the feminine? Please. What exactly is different about their idea of “feminine energy” compared to Victorian ideas of the feminine as the supposed pure domestic goddess of calm, nurture, beauty and morality? <br />“Destructive actions of the unconscious masculine in the past”? Jeez. sorry i raped you it was my unconscious energy, let me have a yoga session so i can find back to my real divine self? WHAT. I am ranting I know but its winding me up. I can take the unconscious bit as so far as I am certain that gender binaries imprison the minds on both sides. All societal divisions that are maintained to keep hierarchies intact do so, race, class, gender. That male aggression (as a fact, not a state of being), just like female subjugation are roles in which we are grown into by societal norms and expectations. To some extent they are cages we grew up in and breaking them up is a life long journey. and a tough one. But its not about worshipping the respective Other, especially not if that worship just turns gender roles upside down and swops inferiority with superiority. It’s not about forgiveness. The notion of the Other remains. We have to start at the base and challenge the very notion of defining male female as binary opposites to break up the rule of divide and conquer. <br />So men wage wars and women plead peace? Or maybe its just that women have rarely been in the positions historically to stage wars and instead were busy trying to fix the broken homes that war has left them with. From the Amazons, Cleopatra, Nzingha and in various armed struggles in history women have fought and even initiated wars. Not to speak of this country, Thatcher, the respective queens. Or where those male females? <br />And what is all this let’s start anew thing about? Sorry but no, history provides no blank sheets, it’s layer over layer over layer and we have to deal with it. This doesn’t mean we cannot reinvent ourselves, generation to generation, in personal relationships and even eventually heal – if only to face new pitfalls and coercions; But the ‘conscious men’ - no, I don’t think they show the way.sybhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13064713367066186260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-58708137048013470972011-06-23T18:50:04.984+01:002011-06-23T18:50:04.984+01:00Keep dreaming the dream for us Zena, and turning i...Keep dreaming the dream for us Zena, and turning it into words, Lord knows if the world needs dreams, and poetry!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-82541464921661091992011-04-28T19:53:08.153+01:002011-04-28T19:53:08.153+01:00Lots of good reading here, many thanks! I had been...Lots of good reading here, many thanks! I had been browsing on yahoo when I observed your post, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to much more from you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-37428316686886430462011-03-05T11:42:56.722+00:002011-03-05T11:42:56.722+00:00Yes this definately resounds esp after just return...Yes this definately resounds esp after just returning from the Middle east and one is faced with breath taking paradox and hypocrisy in a very visual way!<br />We have learnt to choose i wonder even still at the first feeling i had when wearing a bra ( i hated it)!<br />Or like cofee the same thing, i have learnt to love many things because i spose im one of those love to love types!!<br />keep em coming x mamarcina arnoldhttp://www.myspace.com.marcinaarnoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-74574330749139416692011-03-05T11:36:21.516+00:002011-03-05T11:36:21.516+00:00hey Zena
im really loving this blog, its bringing ...hey Zena<br />im really loving this blog, its bringing my tired (travelling with too much} body to eye blink the water back from those big brownies, cos im on a train travelling again)!<br />Still want to read you that poem i wrote for you a long time back, the one that never got lifted off the rack of books with stories and rants or just plain old musings that i am shy to share,me this big voiced marci is very inspired that you care about whats on my mind and remembers how kind and gently you've listend when i needed a whine or a helping hand to help me make sense or understand!<br />xx love you loads hon<br />mamarcinahttp://www.myspace.com/marcinaarnoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-9316072361388035252011-03-04T13:24:47.325+00:002011-03-04T13:24:47.325+00:00Oh Z - thank you for posting this! I think I'm...Oh Z - thank you for posting this! I think I'm going to have to memorise it so I can recite it the few times each day when necessary ....Gaylenehttp://www.writetalklisten.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264457623132593922.post-38827906031872110442011-03-04T13:11:55.512+00:002011-03-04T13:11:55.512+00:00You've spoken for so many of us Zena. I do won...You've spoken for so many of us Zena. I do wonder where these unspoken imagined stories go. So many of us only have such musings and they never seem to go away no matter how old you grow. But the feelings change as you do - you've captured all that here. Thanks for vocalising...Gaylenehttp://www.writetalklisten.comnoreply@blogger.com