If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn’t count on a thing, and all that was certain for most of us was a black death. In my mind, a black death was a slow death, the accumulation of insults, injuries, neglect, second-rate health care, high bloodContinue reading “March Notes”
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October 2023 Notes
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Luchadoras – the masked female wrestlers who use the sport for empowerment and are cultural icons in Mexico Solopreneurship is a distinctive approach to entrepreneurship where an individual operates and manages a business single-handedly. According to aContinue reading “October 2023 Notes”
August Notes
Tessellation – tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include regular tilings with regularContinue reading “August Notes”
July Notes
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” – Franz Kafka Box Breathing: Box breathing is a technique that helps to control and regulate breathing, which calms the mind and reduces stress. It involves inhaling for four counts, holding for four counts,Continue reading “July Notes”
June Notes
Society defines and confines each of us in a multitude of ways, and to varying degrees, based solely on the facets of our most readily perceived characteristics—race, gender, age, class, sexuality, ability, occupation.We, too, often define and confine ourselves in accordance with this pigeonholing. Throughout most of my adult life—as a black, fat, queer, working-class,Continue reading “June Notes”
May Notes
Aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting ‘delimitation’, ‘distinction’, and ‘definition’) is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation. The concept is generally distinct from those of an adage, brocard, chiasmus, epigram, maxim (legal or philosophical), principle, proverb, andContinue reading “May Notes”
February Notes
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman Anteambulo – forerunner; one who proceeds another to clear the way Atavism – recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity. Derives viaContinue reading “February Notes”
Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2
As part of my personal growth in 2023, I am taking a filmmaking class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Sophie Lane. Filmmaking is about communicating ideas through audio-visual means. In this class I will practice visual storytelling that is personal and compelling and learn to connect with myContinue reading “Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2”
January Notes
Success can be learned. Change requires measurement and longitudinal tracking. Darren Hardy writes, “Winners are trackers” in The Compound Effect. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results. Systems are almost the antithesis of goals, in that they’re entirely about creating a repeatable setContinue reading “January Notes”
December Notes
Extremum, plural Extrema, in calculus, any point at which the value of a function is largest (a maximum) or smallest (a minimum). There are both absolute and relative (or local) maxima and minima. proof of the intent – to knowingly and willfully violate the law. – intent is defined as a determination to perform aContinue reading “December Notes”
Relentless Robin 