25 Wednesday Nov 2015
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -Pablo Picasso | #codeofthestreets: #insight is a beautiful sight… “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
–@StevieStreets | Insight is a Beautiful Sight
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
There are very few men – and they are the exceptions – who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment. -Carl von Clausewitz | #codeofthestreets: #foresight is the best sight… the entrance of success lies in the end; think – plan – foresee it to the end.
The ability to see around corners is developed in the discipline of calculating completely. On the road to success; shortcomings run parallel with shortsightedness, while forethought brings forth the power to endure the end-running of failure.
22 Sunday Nov 2015
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of the suffering. -Henri-Frederic Amiel | #codeofthestreets: #pain is a prerequisite – the trumpets of triumph are blown for those that alchemize adversity.
The Treasure Troves of Success are buried within the conscious endurance of one’s suffering; pain is the penance paid by those who prevail.
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Inspired by Cristian Mihai’s Life is pain
22 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in 5 Minute Ice Breakers, Writing Prompts
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He peaked at the windows, hoping to see traces of life. He saw inches of gloom neath the blinds; it looked as if it was raining outside.
It was a wonderful Wednesday, if only in his mind. He had been confined to that room for quite some time. Five minutes felt like a fifty year bid, as he searched for a sentence.
–@StevieStreets #NaNoWriMo #WriteIn | Writer’s Block
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Ice Breaker: 5 minute writing exercise
Writing Prompt: Write about your current surroundings.
Muse(s):
1. The library meeting room
2. Blank papers & blank stares: the writers with no words written and the stare decisis that stared them in the face like a blinding light
3. The one wall with windows
4. The inch between the bottom of the blinds and the window sill
5. The smell of fear: the 5 minute writing restraint echoed like an unfavorable verdict; at that moment the convocation transformed to confinement as the only thing written in the write-in appeared to be the fear of writer’s block – and it was written all over the face of the writers
Soliloquy: The irony of succumbing to writer’s block in a write-in is like developing an appreciation for the beauty in life while within the confines of a cellblock.
21 Saturday Nov 2015
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Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. -Charles Addams | #codeofthestreets: #perception is precarious – #JudgeNot
15 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in Insights
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -Confucius | #codeofthestreets: persistence pays, a little discipline goes a long way.
Think BIG yet implement the little things; the rewards of success are gathered from routine.
The little things count; the day belongs to the man that has mastered his minutes.
Make Every Second Count, learn the power of habit; the magnitude of a man’s daily dedication determines his faculty to surmount the alps of success.
–@StevieStreets #endurance | Persistence Pays
15 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in DIASPORA DECODED, Poems
Words are powerful… they taught you to pray, while they learned to prey.
Words are powerful… I refuse to allow those that have preyed on me to pray on me.
Words are powerful… they taught you to rally for world peace, while the world rallied for a piece…
Words are powerful…
they say charity starts at home; yet these Negropeans have lost their way home.
–@StevieStreets | Nosce Te Ipsum: #knowthyself
14 Saturday Nov 2015
Posted in Haiku, Poems, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
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Peril in Paris:
the hash tag Pray for Paris,
solidarity.
–@StevieStreets #thefrenchconnection | #PrayForParis
14 Saturday Nov 2015
Posted in Haiku, Poems, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
The Eiffel Tower
Peace Sign by Jean Jullien,
symbol of support.
–@StevieStreets #thefrenchconnection | Peace For Paris
06 Friday Nov 2015
Oh, how I adore a beautiful #bookface…
Oh my, “how superficial am I?”
I know you can’t judge a book by its cover;
she’s far more than an adorable spine label and a pretty bookface…
but she was turnt at the book place,
Voguin’ with that pretty bookface.
She told me she was ’bout #datlibrarylife…
as we took a #shelfie neath the #BookfaceFriday sign on the bookcase.
Oh, how I adore a beautiful bookface…
Oh my, “how shallow am I?”
Reading is the New Sexy…
you other book lovers can’t deny.
There’s nothing like a bookface beauty…
I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie 😉
–@StevieStreets | Bookface Beauty
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