Posted in Woman in the Mirror, tagged life lessons, listen and learn, maya angelou, maya angelou quotes, quotes, words of wisdom on April 27, 2013 | 14 Comments »
Color Sheet of Maya Angelou by Totsymae. Copyright 2013
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Posted in Woman in the Mirror, tagged humor, life, list, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, theodore roosevelt, thoughts on June 21, 2012 | 19 Comments »
“The Greenroom” Watercolor & Ink on paper. Copyright 2012 Totsymae
Having to cook for myself on a daily basis. (Just yesterday, I made hummus that tastes like a bowl of cement.)
That my house won’t be spic and span when I expire. (And that I’m naked.)
Feeling like shit and not knowing why. (Having a general idea makes me feel a little better.)
Going for walks and having a dog chase after me.
Pretentiousness.
Racism. (Overt or covert, it’s all the same.)
Some random dude yelling “Hey, Shawty” at me with a bad set of teeth. (I wouldn’t mind so much if he was Denzel-like. Know what I’m saying? With good teeth, I mean.)
Having gas. (Shit happens, don’t it?)
Posted in Everyday Shit, tagged facebook, facebook statuses, posting, quotes, social media on May 13, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Posted in Flash Fiction Fridays, tagged 100 word story, 100 words, art, backbiters, bad spirits, death, fiction, flash fiction, frogs in life, grave stone, hate, hatefulness, human energy, life, life and death, life lesson, misery, misery loves company, mortality, negaive energy, people, personality, quotes, southern writing, spirits, thomas fowell buxton, totsy, totsymae, ugliness, writing on February 7, 2012 | 37 Comments »
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Watercolor on paper. Copyright 2012 Totsymae
She hated herself. To prove it was to study Edith grind a task south with perfected vexation or bite chunks of happy from folk. No thought to anchoring herself like a rotten tooth in their mouths.
A woman of ill-gotten means nearing fifty, it looked, Edith entertained her own wretchedness through her life’s course, which nature, unknown to her, would shorten in five days coming. Folk brawled inside themselves and turned their backs on sight of her to duck the onslaught of flinging shit.
The gray stone spoke her life and death: Lying in Heavenly Turmoil, gifted by adoring backbiters.
(c) 2012 Totsymae
Posted in Word for the Day, tagged flowers, mixed media art, occupy blogosphere, optimism, painting, peace, positive affirmations, positive message, quotes, rambling, sir winston churchill, the good word on February 1, 2012 | 26 Comments »
One of my resolutions was to use the month of February to spread positive affirmations through this blog. Yes, I forgot I’d listed that ’til I visited Lorna’s blog and later found my New Year resolutions under a stack a papers while I was looking for something else. Ain’t that ’bout nothing?
Tomorrow, I’ll join up with Occupy Blogospehere, which is a virtual movement to spread positive light throughout the blogging community and it takes place every Thursday. This, my dear friends, is not one of those far-reaching resolutions. And how hard is it to pass on a good word?
On another note, I’m still a bit challenged in using WordPress. How in the world do I change the size and colors of type on this here blog? Over these 7 months I’ve been blogging, I ain’t figured that out to this day. As I sit here writing this to you, a voice says, “Go to the Help section,” and I’m sitting here talking back to the voice and asking, “Well, why didn’t you tell me that in the first place?” Anyhow, I think it would look better if my quotes stood out a tad larger, don’t you?
Now, on to what I’m here for, which ain’t to keep rambling on and on like usual. I really hadn’t meant to say all of what I’ve said already. Stuff just kept popping up in my head…Where was I at?…(Scratching my head) Oh, here’s your positive message for today, brought to you by Sir Winston Churchill:
For myself, I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
"Happenstance No. 1" Mixed Media on paper. Copyright 2012 Totsymae
