Wow, I am blown away by your ability to take a topic and touch such a vulnerable space, within really elegant writing. Your work is important and needed.
I can glimpse this within the cultures, and understand, and it's hard to keep the lens on and evaluate things through it. I'll keep reading : )
Thank you for this article. I appreciate your honesty and what you have learned from listening, being taught, thinking and examining what is in front of you. I would like to see more men be able to do this! Much appreciated!
Wow. I remember somehow picking up Quiet Storm on the radio ages ago and liking the music, realizing it was from far away (I grew up in Chicago). I had no clue. You've really made me think today, X -- as you do so often. Thanks. Amazing insight and writing.
Oh my. I wasn’t ready for this. Got me crying. Full disclosure, I’m not Black, I just love. Everyone. And I became an adult listening to WHUR, (later KYS and PFW) and Quiet Storm living in DC, in Adams Morgan before gentrification, when my white friends wouldn’t come visit. I adored Melvin Lindsey and am delighted to finally see his lovely face. I was devastated when he passed. I still mourn him. To say I was a faithful listener every night at around 7 is an understatement. If I caught the theme song, I was in heaven, often riding through Rock Creek Park with the windows open, singing along. Those first few notes…My first husband was a DC native, and when we engraved my second wedding ring (first one broke, a sign I ignored I suppose), we engraved it with our date and the words Quiet Storm. I still remember the intake of breath the jeweler took when we told him what to write there. Ooh, that’s serious, he said. Uh huh. And Teddy. I paint to Teddy, both with Harold Melvin and after. I see what you mean about the tension there between permission and possession. It is our main struggle, all of us.
I admire and agree with your parsing out what patriarchy does, especially to Black people. Who I adore. I miss DC. I wish every stupid white person could live there and see how it is when people are not a minority. How it is when they are themselves, unapologetically. I learned so much and I am so grateful I came of age there. Your assessment is so incredibly insightful. I think you got it exactly right. Thank you. How I want to change it all so everyone is safe and loved. How I want the masculine and feminine principles to be valued in each of us, so that power is shared and nurtured appropriately. I believe our lives depend on raising our men and women to understand what each principle brings to the equation, to what is truly a quiet storm in all its glory and complexity, and how that admixture holds us all together. Again, thank you for bringing up such tender memories that I will always cherish, despite the heartache mixed in.
I remember hearing the velvet sounds of Quiet Storm at night on my public radio station. This post is such a gift to me, an old white woman trying to work through, and get past, over a half century of personal ignorance, racism and patriarchy. It's a treatise on an element of intersectionality which fills a giant void in my understanding and perspective-taking. I'm tempted to use the term "barenaked" to describe the writing - heart-located, frank, emotional, vulnerable, coming from an interior space of strength, and infused with such evident Truth-Telling that I am unable to look or navigate away before conveying my gratitude. Thank you.
I still have you in my email!!!! And this one made me so happy. You do know how to write it, X. And for that alone--as I contemplate the Substack landscape watching it change before my eyes--I am grateful. And you keep getting better! Who needs a fucking podcast when your words become the voices, orrhestration, lights/camera/action that my imagination is quite capable of conjurting with each phrase? I actually think your work would lose something if a glitzy studio got involved. I'm taking a break from re-stacking or re-posting, but I hope everyone who reads this retired cop/visual mind stimulator does it for him!
Xplisset, it is so important that we have trustworthy people on each side of Congress, people who care about everybody, people who are honest and wise, and are not prejudiced against anybody, people who care about the world, the Earth, and vote with wisdom, integrity, and what is best for all of us. That is why I think we should know about open seats coming in Congress. It is also why I am sharing what I am based on what I received. Didn’t a message today. The Republic conceit will be opening in Nevada., in the native American alliance of Nevada has great concerns. Here is what I am sharing:
POSSIBLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP?
NEVADA WILL HAVE AN OPEN
CONGRESSIONAL SEAT!
Now that another Republican is leaving Congress, as I have read in a message made available by Native Voters Alliance Nevada, or NVA or NVAV, there is an opportunity to help them do what they can to avoid having a replacement of the same mindset as the person who is leaving Congress and of the person currently proud of his undeclared, unofficial war while still being against minorities within our national population.
I understand that NATIVE VOTERS ALLIANCE NEVADA is online in various places.
What we do to help one state when any congressional seat opens, is help for our legislature over all because the types of votes they make affect much of our country. Watching who will run for election in Nevada is important even though many of us do not live there and do not know anybody there, so I suggest paying attention.
Native American Voters Alliance Nevada does take non-tax deductible donations; however, I am only sharing this information only to let readers know that there is going to be an additional seat opening which will be on their state ballot. Any decision for support through a donation is an individual one, of course. There are ways to help even without making a donation.
How can a person help yet not donate?
It seems that by being aware, by reading of their needs and sharing news of a candidate they believe will support them and their rights, especially their voting and land rights, without a prejudiced attitude, and with no intention of intruding on their land to denude it of minerals or whatever wealth they perceive is there and covet away from Native Americans, we can share the name of the good candidate. If it is posted in places where people who vote there will see it, Nebraskan voters will be more aware, and in doing so,we could help both Native American Voters and anyone anywhere whose welfare would be involved in legislation.
Native Voters Alliance Nevada should be easy to find in a search for anyone who cares to read and to know more. I do not feel it would be right to copy and paste their letter here. Although it has an excellent description, the letter does ask for donations To Help Them Avoid More of the Current Republican Mindset in Congress. We should be aware of congressional seats opening everywhere!
This is a brilliant piece as is, but the history lesson "side dish" is absolutely and utterly fascinating. I've heard and really enjoyed that kind of radio, but had no idea of its history. Thank you!
Terry Callier wasn't chopped liver either. He had to trek from his home in No. Chicago nearly all the way around Europe, Finland & Scandinavia to get recognized and his delicately sturdy compositions to be played with a proper folk-soul-jazz ensemble: Lazarus Man was no afterthought, although perhaps after-birth of muses a'plenty....
Nicole Willis had similar Arctic Trek from her NYC subway strap hangin' roots to find a warm embrace for her soulfully steely sounds and combos: Straighten up, you don't wanna get sucker punched by their powerful One...
Wow, I am blown away by your ability to take a topic and touch such a vulnerable space, within really elegant writing. Your work is important and needed.
I can glimpse this within the cultures, and understand, and it's hard to keep the lens on and evaluate things through it. I'll keep reading : )
Thank you for this article. I appreciate your honesty and what you have learned from listening, being taught, thinking and examining what is in front of you. I would like to see more men be able to do this! Much appreciated!
Wow. I remember somehow picking up Quiet Storm on the radio ages ago and liking the music, realizing it was from far away (I grew up in Chicago). I had no clue. You've really made me think today, X -- as you do so often. Thanks. Amazing insight and writing.
Oh my. I wasn’t ready for this. Got me crying. Full disclosure, I’m not Black, I just love. Everyone. And I became an adult listening to WHUR, (later KYS and PFW) and Quiet Storm living in DC, in Adams Morgan before gentrification, when my white friends wouldn’t come visit. I adored Melvin Lindsey and am delighted to finally see his lovely face. I was devastated when he passed. I still mourn him. To say I was a faithful listener every night at around 7 is an understatement. If I caught the theme song, I was in heaven, often riding through Rock Creek Park with the windows open, singing along. Those first few notes…My first husband was a DC native, and when we engraved my second wedding ring (first one broke, a sign I ignored I suppose), we engraved it with our date and the words Quiet Storm. I still remember the intake of breath the jeweler took when we told him what to write there. Ooh, that’s serious, he said. Uh huh. And Teddy. I paint to Teddy, both with Harold Melvin and after. I see what you mean about the tension there between permission and possession. It is our main struggle, all of us.
I admire and agree with your parsing out what patriarchy does, especially to Black people. Who I adore. I miss DC. I wish every stupid white person could live there and see how it is when people are not a minority. How it is when they are themselves, unapologetically. I learned so much and I am so grateful I came of age there. Your assessment is so incredibly insightful. I think you got it exactly right. Thank you. How I want to change it all so everyone is safe and loved. How I want the masculine and feminine principles to be valued in each of us, so that power is shared and nurtured appropriately. I believe our lives depend on raising our men and women to understand what each principle brings to the equation, to what is truly a quiet storm in all its glory and complexity, and how that admixture holds us all together. Again, thank you for bringing up such tender memories that I will always cherish, despite the heartache mixed in.
I remember hearing the velvet sounds of Quiet Storm at night on my public radio station. This post is such a gift to me, an old white woman trying to work through, and get past, over a half century of personal ignorance, racism and patriarchy. It's a treatise on an element of intersectionality which fills a giant void in my understanding and perspective-taking. I'm tempted to use the term "barenaked" to describe the writing - heart-located, frank, emotional, vulnerable, coming from an interior space of strength, and infused with such evident Truth-Telling that I am unable to look or navigate away before conveying my gratitude. Thank you.
Xplisset and readers, this petition is important!
While there is still a bit of time, I am sharing this petition to prevent approval of D. T.’s unfit choice for Surgeon General.
🚩Here is a petition from Move On to stop Donald J. Trump’s choice of Casey Means from being approved as Surgeon General.
🚩To know more about Casey Means, here is a site: https://people.com/casey-means-everything-to-know-11914045
🚩https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/trumpwellness-influencer-casey-means-is-not-fit-to-be-america-s-top-doctor?source=web_share_api&utm_source=web_share_api&share=c29fe6be-b777-4ebd-aef9-4d9d8dc34766
Thank you. Just did.
Thank you, Deb!
Bravo X. Thank you for taking me to school again.
I still have you in my email!!!! And this one made me so happy. You do know how to write it, X. And for that alone--as I contemplate the Substack landscape watching it change before my eyes--I am grateful. And you keep getting better! Who needs a fucking podcast when your words become the voices, orrhestration, lights/camera/action that my imagination is quite capable of conjurting with each phrase? I actually think your work would lose something if a glitzy studio got involved. I'm taking a break from re-stacking or re-posting, but I hope everyone who reads this retired cop/visual mind stimulator does it for him!
Xplisset, it is so important that we have trustworthy people on each side of Congress, people who care about everybody, people who are honest and wise, and are not prejudiced against anybody, people who care about the world, the Earth, and vote with wisdom, integrity, and what is best for all of us. That is why I think we should know about open seats coming in Congress. It is also why I am sharing what I am based on what I received. Didn’t a message today. The Republic conceit will be opening in Nevada., in the native American alliance of Nevada has great concerns. Here is what I am sharing:
POSSIBLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP?
NEVADA WILL HAVE AN OPEN
CONGRESSIONAL SEAT!
Now that another Republican is leaving Congress, as I have read in a message made available by Native Voters Alliance Nevada, or NVA or NVAV, there is an opportunity to help them do what they can to avoid having a replacement of the same mindset as the person who is leaving Congress and of the person currently proud of his undeclared, unofficial war while still being against minorities within our national population.
I understand that NATIVE VOTERS ALLIANCE NEVADA is online in various places.
What we do to help one state when any congressional seat opens, is help for our legislature over all because the types of votes they make affect much of our country. Watching who will run for election in Nevada is important even though many of us do not live there and do not know anybody there, so I suggest paying attention.
Native American Voters Alliance Nevada does take non-tax deductible donations; however, I am only sharing this information only to let readers know that there is going to be an additional seat opening which will be on their state ballot. Any decision for support through a donation is an individual one, of course. There are ways to help even without making a donation.
How can a person help yet not donate?
It seems that by being aware, by reading of their needs and sharing news of a candidate they believe will support them and their rights, especially their voting and land rights, without a prejudiced attitude, and with no intention of intruding on their land to denude it of minerals or whatever wealth they perceive is there and covet away from Native Americans, we can share the name of the good candidate. If it is posted in places where people who vote there will see it, Nebraskan voters will be more aware, and in doing so,we could help both Native American Voters and anyone anywhere whose welfare would be involved in legislation.
Native Voters Alliance Nevada should be easy to find in a search for anyone who cares to read and to know more. I do not feel it would be right to copy and paste their letter here. Although it has an excellent description, the letter does ask for donations To Help Them Avoid More of the Current Republican Mindset in Congress. We should be aware of congressional seats opening everywhere!
This is a brilliant piece as is, but the history lesson "side dish" is absolutely and utterly fascinating. I've heard and really enjoyed that kind of radio, but had no idea of its history. Thank you!
Terry Callier wasn't chopped liver either. He had to trek from his home in No. Chicago nearly all the way around Europe, Finland & Scandinavia to get recognized and his delicately sturdy compositions to be played with a proper folk-soul-jazz ensemble: Lazarus Man was no afterthought, although perhaps after-birth of muses a'plenty....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWD-Hz5YuQ
Terry Callier - Lazarus Man
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Callier
Nicole Willis had similar Arctic Trek from her NYC subway strap hangin' roots to find a warm embrace for her soulfully steely sounds and combos: Straighten up, you don't wanna get sucker punched by their powerful One...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VqgObCWq-o
Nicole Willis & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra - Still Got a Way to Fall ("..Before We Are Forgiven...")
"...It's anyone's guess\Where we'll end up..." \ "And we still got a way to fall\Before we r forgiven"
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