This is what was trending in my “For You To View” videos this morning.
As a former track competitor, I cry every single time I watch Sha’Carri compete. I cannot adequately put into words what her race to the Olympics means to me.
I am overjoyed and ecstatic that she gets to experience Paris, France in this way; especially alongside her teammates, too.
And the embrace she received from her grandmother and love pouring out from her family toward the end really did me end, too! I felt every moment of that embrace deep in my bones.
I didn’t expect to cry happy tears this morning, but here we are.
1. Tuesday Night Dinner. Fried chicken drumsticks, Jasmine rice, & sweet corn. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
2. Oscar De La Hoya Quote.
1. Tuesday Night Dinner was a delectable treat. I hadn’t cooked fried chicken in an extremely long time.
I made a decent wet batter (two eggs, lactose-free milk, olive oil, and various spices). I used yellow cornmeal instead of flour and fried them in vegetable oil.
My Jasmine rice was simple: water, olive oil, and salt. The sweet corn was as well: white & yellow corn, salt, pepper, lactose-free milk, water, and light brown sugar.
I had leftovers for Wednesday, and it was even more delicious at that time!
2. Oscar De La Hoya Quote: I used to be a huge fan of this incomparable former boxer. His personality was always top-notch during interviews and he let his fists do the talking in the boxing ring all the time.
I don’t recall him ever being a massive trash-talker. He held his own. He may not have blown through all of his matches, but the guy was a LEGIT warrior in the ring.
And he was/is handsome, too.
The quote above struck me as instantly motivational. Judging from those few words, he didn’t allow anyone to limit what he could do. And well . . . isn’t that how we all should be?
Here’s a short YouTube video of a compilation of The Golden Boy’s “Greatest Hits”:
She has spent years researching the history facts she shares in this book, including traveling to several places to dig deeper into some of the things she discusses within it.
I’ve just carted my copy on Amazon, and I cannot wait until it’s in my hands.
Black History is America’s History! Sadly, much of it is being buried or lied about or banned, and this disgusts me, but the work must be done.
Breaking things down professionally and respectfully.
When we are money-hungry and crave power over humans’ actual existence and well-being, many countries suffer; many people suffer. Death knocks on multiple doors and takes its reward.
Google Sudan. Research the recent occurrences in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Look up the history of Haiti. Your mind will be blown away.
Greed breeds power. Power breeds evil. Evil breeds the death of many to get back to greed.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has imposed sanctions on 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other “Russian terror”.
Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that the armed forces shot down 29 of 38 drones in an overnight raid. More than 400 towns and villages in the south, south-east and north of the country were affected by the drone attacks, including an oil refinery that was hit in Odesa.
Ukrainian troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnipro River, the military has said, a day after Ukraine claimed to have secured multiple bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.
I’m extremely over the overlord of Russia and his expectancies and over-elitist actions and presence, and he needs to be taken down several pegs.
It’s been nearly two years. I’ve one thing to say to him and any minions at his disposal, “Ain’t y’all tired yet?!”
Where is peace when you need it? Where is justice when it’s overdue? And why must so many fight to obtain both?!Why–because they’re tired, too. Doing right really isn’t hard.
A Cornered Gurl 
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