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Henry Miller in the Rain
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
The rain came down upon the old man's smooth and hairless head like stinging needles of punishment. When he saw the yellow glow of the Western Union sign in the night sky he momentarily forgot about the storm and the wet clothing that clung to his wizened skin like death's wraith and became lost in thoughts about Henry Miller.
"Stop me if you've heard this before," the old man told Trace over the phone when he returned home. "Henry Miller worked at Western Union in New York for four ...
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Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
"What I don't understand is how the fire jumped all the way over here."
Trace poked with his cane at the charred remains of a stack of rackjobber paperback books. The covers of the books were singed but intact, lurid gay porn titles with even more lurid charcoal renderings of homoerotic art.
"The fire didn't jump over here," Trace said. "This was a separate fire."
Greg chewed on his thick lower lip for a beat. He didn't like Trace's answer.
"What does that do t...
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Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
"It's raining."
"I don't like going out in the rain. People here don't know how to drive when it's raining."
"Stay in then. Is my tie straight?"
"Yes. I don't want to stay in. It's too depressing."
"Go to a movie then."
"I already checked the paper. Nothing I want to see. Besides, that only kills two hours."
"Whatever. I've got a meeting in thirty minutes. Have you seen my briefcase?"
"Which one?"
"The brown leather one."<...
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Alan Ladd and the Coyote Solitario Cantina
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
She was a floater.
The woman's body had sank to the bottom of the old-fashioned clawfooted bathtub, remaining there under nineteen inches of water until it became bloated with gas and buoyant, floating back to the surface days later.
It had been an unusually warm October in L.A., so Trace figured it didn't take long for gas to form and rigor mortis to set in. The nails had already loosened from the fingers and toes. Her pupils were huge, dark, dilated orbs, gazing blankly at t...
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Skunks of the Hollywood Hills
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
"Did I ever tell you about the time I groped a girl in a pharmacy and she turned out to be a he?" Trace asked.
Pamela stared at him over the rim of her wine glass and simply blinked.
"The moral of that tale," Trace continued, grabbing the bottle by the neck and refilling his glass to the rim, "is that one needs to know the terrain before assuming a comfort level, or something to that effect."
Trace and Pamela were standing on the white marble patio of a luxurious faux ...
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Smoking in Beverly Hills
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
"Is there more?" she had asked. More to the story, she meant, more to the story about that night.
"Of course there's more," he had replied. "There's always more."
There is, for instance, the moment they emerge from the theater on South Dohney in Beverly Hills and he lights a cigarette. The first cigarette he has had in over ninety minutes, not that he was counting the passage of time except where being in her company was concerned. Ninety minutes. It would all be over in less ...
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Laurel Canyon
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2006
They take Laurel Canyon across to the Valley, her squat black car gripping the road like a panther and she is in the driver's seat, both hands on the wheel, eyes on the asphalt as if searching for meaning in the white lines that her headlights pick up but really, actually, she's just concentrating on the serpentine twists and turns in the canyon night.
The radio is off. It was on during the entire drive to Beverly Hills, first a classical station and then a classic rock station that ...
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Wilshire Boulevard
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Los Angeles, CA - 8/4/2006
He craned his neck into the windshield of the car and gazed upwards at the rows of palm trees jutting into the night sky on a residential street off Wilshire Boulevard.
"I have an obsession with palm trees," he confessed.
"No shit," she said, eyes prowling for a parking spot. "I read your short story."
"Speaking of which" he said while marveling at the way the palm fronds were etched against a charcoal sky bordered by sodium light, "in that last story I wrote, the one ...
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Monkeys on Sunset Boulevard
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/21/2006
"You cannot have an affair with this woman," she insisted.
Jason took his large coffee from the Starbucks barista and moved to the little counter where the sugar and cream was kept. Susan dogged his heels, refusing his offer of coffee or tea. She avoided all caffeinated beverages.
"It will ruin your career, what little of one you have," Susan continued. "I'm not berating you, Jason, I'm stating a fact."
Jason smiled demurely and stirred the cream and sugar into his co...
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Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 10/10/2005
The Santa Monica Pier was cluttered with the usual batch of late summer tourists, plump and pasty-skinned Midwest families ambling about in their Universal Studios T-shirts with mini camcorders strapped to their wrists. Trace hated tourists and always felt like one himself whenever he visited such L.A. landmarks, which inspired a jaded "I would rather be anywhere but here" persona just in case somebody actually did mistake him for a tourist.
Josephine suggested they walk along the sh...
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Story by dom and earl from los angeles, CA - 9/15/2005
Two Takes by Dom and Earl
Take One:
Dom and Earl went to a neighborhood diner to catch up on old times. They went way back and had run into each other at the museum a few weeks before. Earl had been spending his time in the desert breaking rocks with small pick axe and building balsa wood turbines to harness the wind so that he could power a transistor radio and a 40-watt light bulb. Dom was just being Dom, wasting time and talking about the junkie revolution.
Gimme ...
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The Convergence
Story by Lela Michael from Glendale, CA - 8/21/2005
The first time I saw you was at LAX. I had flown out from New Mexico to meet you, my favorite chat room chum, for a weekend out with the girls, or so we had both told our husbands.
This would have been the entire truth if not for your eyebrows. A more curious moment I have never experienced than when you first stood in front of me, for I was mesmerized instantly with how perfectly they stayed still the first time you smiled at me.
Certainly I became fond of the rest of you as...
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Darwin For Pigeons
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/14/2005
"Did you make that pigeon blow up?" the little boy called up to Trace.
Trace was standing on the balcony of his fifth floor residential hotel room. Moments before he was smoking a cigarette and observing the pigeons on the lawn below. There were two of the birds pecking and hunting for food. One was a slate-gray pigeon with ruffled feathers, a scruffy little fellow, and the other was a plump and stout bird. Every time the scruffy pigeon happened upon a scrap of something or other – p...
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Melville Blues
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 4/10/2005
"It's 'Moby Dick' with cops and robbers," Trace insisted.
Hovick leaned his bony elbows on the desk top and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. He was one of the youngest development executives in the movie business, rising from script analyst to administrative assistant to junior exec in less than a year and a half.
"Has there ever been a good movie made from 'Moby Dick'?" Hovick mused.
"The John Huston version wasn't bad." Trace tossed back a long swallow from the 20 ounce...
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The Jerk at the Black Angus
Story by Natalie Bettencourt from Modesto, CA - 3/28/2005
We left the Black Angus in Burbank at around midnight because I'd just poured a Tequila Sunrise down the back of the jeans of the jerk at the bar.
The ruby-red grenadine soaked a conspicuous stain down his backside. I was sober enough to realize we needed to get out before the guy fully unleashed. He was spitting ice shards at me, angrily studying my face while I feigned "accident", and you could just see his eyes light up with thoughts of punching me in the mouth while I played inn...
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Assessing Heather Locklear for a Dollar
Story by Natalie Bettencourt from Modesto, CA - 3/26/2005
"Do you girls drink milk?" It was an innocent enough question. Still, I was leary of the woman who had approached my sister and I at the Glendale Galleria. The woman had a clipboard and wore glasses. She looked official.
"We'll pay you a dollar to answer a few questions. It will only take a few moments of your time." The woman was persistent. I wondered what she meant when she said "we" because there was no one else around.
I looked toward my sister, older and wiser, for ...
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Trace And The Munchkins
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 3/13/2005
Trace had a bad habit of tripping over little people. At six foot one, he simply didn't notice them at his feet until he was already stumbling all over them.
"L.A. is rotten with dwarves," Trace explained to Lisa as they lay in bed one night shortly after she moved into his hotel room. "It's because of the "Wizard of Oz'."
Lisa threw back her head and laughed long and hard. Trace impatiently waited for her laughter to subside before continuing.
"It's true!" he barked, l...
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Skunks of the Hollywood Hills
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 3/3/2005
"Did I ever tell you about the time I groped a girl in a pharmacy and she turned out to be a he?" Trace asked.
Pamela stared at him over the rim of her wine glass and simply blinked.
"The moral of that tale," Trace continued, grabbing the bottle by the neck and refilling his glass to the rim, "is that one needs to know the terrain before assuming a comfort level, or something to that effect."
Trace and Pamela were standing on the white marble patio of a luxurious faux ...
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Skunks of the Hollywood Hills
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 3/1/2005
"Did I ever tell you about the time I groped a girl in a pharmacy and she turned out to be a he?" Trace asked.
Pamela stared at him over the rim of her wine glass and simply blinked.
"The moral of that tale," Trace continued, grabbing the bottle by the neck and refilling his glass to the rim, "is that one needs to know the terrain before assuming a comfort level, or something to that effect."
Trace and Pamela were standing on the white marble patio of a luxurious faux ...
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Bogart Sleeps Here
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 2/28/2005
"But I don't write poetry!" Trace protested.
Marcel lit a cigarette and smiled at Trace through a curl of smoke.
"That's the theme of the next issue. If you want in, you have to contribute a poem."
The only reason Trace contributed anything at all to Kidnap was to expand his portfolio. Kidnap's detractors – and they were legion – dismissed the monthly arts and culture magazine as "a leftist rag." Marcel DuPont, the founder and editor, ran the publicatio...
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Poor Sonofabitch
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 2/25/2005
"You know that I have to write about this," Trace called out to Lisa from the bathroom. He finished brushing his teeth and, glancing to the mirror as he replaced the toothbrush, he saw a face he couldn't recognize. It was his own face but a much younger version, which made him think about the possible healing power of falling in love.
When Trace returned to the bedroom, Lisa was half-asleep. Her long, slender legs were entwined in the soft brown bed sheets like orphaned tree limbs li...
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The Last Fling
Story by Joe Romano from Clayton, CA - 2/6/2005
"The threats are not real," he wrote on a piece of hotel stationery. "If they were I'd have carried them out already. No, I'm just trying to teach you something. We may not all be pretty but we all have feelings."
He put the pen down bearing the Knickerbocker Hotel in gold lettering and reviewed his work. Direct yet delicate. He poured himself another shot of Dickel and wished for a cigarette as he looked out over Hollywood Boulevard and the faraway lights on the hills. Beautiful peo...
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Algebra in the Hollywood Hills
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 2/4/2005
Before speaking to Karl, the scruffy coyote scratched behind his ear and then casually sniffed at a fallen pinnate-leaved branch from a jacaranda tree.
"Somebody pissed on it already," the coyote complained. "I love the pure smell of jacaranda."
The animal was blocking Karl's path on the fire road that lead to the underground bunker two miles below the wandering bucolic splendor of Griffith Park. Every day, five days a week for the last thirty years, the old man had hiked this...
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Spider Palm
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 2/3/2005
"It's a spider palm."
"A spider palm," Joel repeated, nodding toward the potted plant to the right of the hotel's pneumatic glass doors. To Avery, the plant resembled his daughter's punked-out hair, all green and willowy and full of spikes.
"Did you know there're over twenty species of palm tree?"
"I had no goddamn idea." Avery frowned and fished a cigarette out of a crumpled pack of Marlboros. He hated buying cigarettes in the soft pack. There was alway...
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Bill's Bottle
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 10/20/2004
Some people who treat life like a dangerous and reckless adventure, it is said, have a bullet with their name written on it. Until the day I was summoned from the void and assigned my mission I always dismissed the bullet notion as a tired and over shopped metaphor because when you think about it in a larger sense everyone has something with their name written on it: cancer, a massive heart attack, the grill of a Mack truck bearing down on your bumper at eighty miles per hour on a rain-slic...
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Wrestling Mariel Hemingway
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 10/11/2004
I would like to say right out the gate and for the permanent record that I am not attracted to other women. I have been married with varying degrees of happiness for ten years. My husband is a wonderful man and a profoundly successful real estate developer who is gifted with astonishing precognitive capabilities that have always kept him one step ahead of the curve.
I love my husband dearly and he never fails to demonstrate his devotion to me. But the Mariel Hemingway issue is start...
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The Cowboy From La Mancha
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 10/9/2004
It took those geniuses at the LAPD a week to figure out that I was the one behind Pop's last ride but Dad always was a private man. There were no scrapbooks in his house with pictures of me and Mom or anything like that, no little note stuck to the fridge with a magnet that said, "In case of death, contact my son at such and such an address and phone number" so I can't really blame the cops for taking so long.
My lawyer wants me to plead temporary insanity, saying the grief got to m...
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Above Sunset Boulevard With Gojira
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/12/2004
Darkness falls fast in the Hollywood Hills. While the rest of Los Angeles enjoys the faltering rays of the summer sun as it makes its slow bleeding descent into the Pacific, the rugged canyons and passes that were once inhabited by Native American warriors are plunged into something akin to an eclipse as fingers of darkness slither through the rambling thicket and around misshapen boulders to embrace the million dollar habitats of the movie colony.
I parked my car in the gravel driv...
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Striking Johnny Depp's Dog With A Bible
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/10/2004
The Institute must have been setting her up for failure, Sharon thought, otherwise why would they have saddled her with the impossible Malibu door-to-door route? Getting someone to respond to a doorbell's summons at one of the posh houses that dot the Pacific Coast Highway, let alone a living and breathing person willing to listen to a spiel from a Bible-toting sales lady, was a task dreamed up by a gleeful sadist.
Sharon had no doubt that the Institute For Higher Consciousness Thro...
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Christopher Walken and the Tuna Fish Sandwich
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/9/2004
I was working the grill at the craft services wagon on this crappy movie starring Christopher Walken. I knew the movie was crappy because Angelo, my sister's kid, wrote the screenplay. Aside from that I won't say anything bad about Angelo because he got me the gig on the roach coach after I had been black balled from just about every craft service outfit in town. The problem is they want the people who prepare the food for the crew and the stars to be dumb, to hold no strong opinions, just ...
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Lucky Strike
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/9/2004
What's amazing is that my deeds went without notice for so long. If I operated a bowling alley I certainly would be aware of such anomalies as someone walking off with all of my bowling balls.
Two weeks before the bowling balls began disappearing I had pitched to a producer, Sid Welch, a story about a pro bowler who enlists in the Army at the beginning of the Iraq War. During his first tour of duty his Humvee rolls over a land mine. The bowler-turned-soldier loses his right arm. Fro...
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Winona Ryder Suffers For Your Sins
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/8/2004
Only three days until Christmas and I hadn't accomplished a spot of shopping yet, not one spot other than the $40 coupon I bought my mom for one hour of Thai Massage Foot Reflexology therapy at this little clinic on Hollywood Boulevard in Thai Town. If you've never tried it, foot reflexology is a very beneficial holistic treatment. There are pressure points on your feet that correspond to your heart, lungs, liver, eyes, you name it. My mom has been a waitress her entire life and no one dese...
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The Man With Kevin Spacey's Face
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/8/2004
Things got really bad after that movie "The Usual Suspects". That's when people would stop me on the street and say, "Hey! Keyser Soze!" Of course, I had no idea what people were talking about until one of the night clerks at the hotel told me about the movie and about my resemblance to Kevin Spacey.
Of all the things that I derive pleasure from in life movies are right up there with smashing my face against the windshield of a car careening down the freeway at 80 miles per hour. I l...
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When the Daltons Rode
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/7/2004
Things do look a damn sight different around these parts today. Back in the '20s and '30s this was a boomtown the likes you've never seen with more boosters than you could shake a dirty stick at. Out north where the Valley is now and further out east near Pasadena there was orange groves as far as the crow flies.
Where the Chateau Marmont is on Sunset Boulevard, all of that land west to the sea was called No Man's Land, a tract of unincorporated county territory that didn't have to p...
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A Hard-Boiled Christmas
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 8/4/2004
L.A. is no place for someone as sensitive as a classics professor.
It was 6:15 PM on Christmas Day. My partner and I had drawn the holiday call-out duty. We were having dinner at the Cat and the Fiddle when my cell phone rang. I was glad for the intrusion because my partner, "Mac" McIlvaney, was carrying on with all of these boyhood Christmas memories that were so thick with sugar and sweetness that I wanted to heave up my bangers and mash right there on the bar.
It was Katz o...
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I Killed Sal Mineo
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/16/2004
Sal Mineo peered through my bedroom window last night. Well, actually, it was the ghost of Sal Mineo because as you know he's been six feet under since 1976 when I plunged a knife through his heart in the carport of his apartment building on Holloway Drive, not far from where I live.
Whether Sal was looking in my window because he knows I'm his killer or simply because West Hollywood is a small community and his spirit just kind of floats around here is a question that's been buggin...
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The Air Down There
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/12/2004
Earl pocketed the $9.10 and spit on a pile of scrap aluminum to show his displeasure.
"You saying that's all what the brass and copper in that thing is worth?" Earl scowled.
The recycling dealer never liked Earl. He had the hooked nose and beady-eyes of a predatory bird and his clothing always smelled of beer and Wonder Bread. But what he disliked even more than Earl was so-called "modern" or "abstract" art. Destroying those tangled heaps of twisted metal was a personal fetis...
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Shannen Doherty At The Formosa Cafe
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/11/2004
Paul was fifteen minutes into his conversation with the beautiful young stranger on the bar stool next to him when he suddenly knew why she looked so familiar. She was a television actress.
"What did the park rangers say?" Her voice was husky and flavored with amber and reminded Paul of the Wild Turkey on the rocks in front of him. If Shannen Doherty was a drink, Paul thought, she would be whiskey. Almost as soon as the thought entered his brain Paul mentally kicked himself for comin...
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Carla's Choice
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/10/2004
There was something wrong with Caleb from the first day Carla brought him home from Cedars-Sinai. As a baby he would lay on his back in the crib and stare fixedly at something only he could see in the north-west ceiling of his nursery. A psychic who worked as an advisor on a TV show that Carla was guest-starring in suspected a ghost and suggested that Carla burn white pillar candles and wild sage in the baby's room to scare off the spectral intruder. All she succeeded in doing was nearly bu...
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The EMT in Boyle Heights
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/9/2004
The problem with a city like L.A., Ray began, is that it's too far flung.
"Not only that," Ray explained to Ella as he poured another double shot of Stoli, "it's too fractured. Too many immigrants who don't want to … what's the word?"
"Assimilate?" She tucked one bare leg under her on the sofa, hoping he might notice the wax job she had done on her legs that morning. But those double shots of Stoli said something happened on the job and he needed to talk, to unburden.
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El Coyote del Rastro de Mulholland (The Coyote of Mulholland Trail)
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/8/2004
I'll tell you something that'll turn your head around. There are spirits of long-dead Chumash Indians all over the hills here. We see them quite often. They love to run and they're very playful. One of them even helped me catch a rabbit once, which is what I wanted to tell you, about chasing the rabbit and biting that pup.
It had been a long day and I hadn't had a thing to put in my stomach when I came across this rabbit. Plump and juicy, a lot of meat before you get to the bone. Jus...
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California Roll
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/7/2004
The Century Plaza Hotel in Century City was usually Ronald Reagan's preferred host when he was in Los Angeles for brief business during his two-term Presidency.
In the summer of 1982, during Reagan's first term in office, I was living at Casa De Vida apartments in the Palms district of L.A. Casa De Vida was a sprawling 365-unit building on Sawtelle Boulevard - at the time owned by Carol Burnett and her husband Joe Hamilton – nestled against the 405 Freeway. The nearest grocery store ...
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The Ether at 7264 Topanga Canyon Boulevard
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 6/2/2004
I can remember when going to Jack in the Box was a family experience, mom and dad piling us kids into the back seat of the Impala, driving the three blocks to Ventura Boulevard, then we would hang a left turn and there it was: that big, smiling jack-in-the-box looming atop the simple square façade. My dad would steer that big old Impala around the semi-circular driveway and up to the speaker to place our order – only us kids didn't know it was a speaker, we thought it was an actual talking ...
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Dennis Quaid and the Piano Man
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/31/2004
The air was thick and stifling with the stench of disinfectant and boiling potatoes. The walls of the rescue shelter had been painted a sickening mottled green and were bare of any adornment save for a large crucifix over the pulpit on the stage.
"You ever heard 'Sunset Eyes'?" the piano man asked. "Teddy Edwards used to play that one. Used to know Teddy back home in Jackson. Think I played wit' him in a church choir but 'at was a long time ago an' y'know how mem'ries can get fuzzy."...
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Sixteen Ounces
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/30/2004
Sometimes I'll read something written by a colleague – novel, screenplay, magazine piece, what have you – that will instantly expose all of my weaknesses as a writer just as sure and as painful as that jolt of electricity through the jaw that warns of an exposed nerve in a molar.
On a recent Saturday evening I avoided a looming deadline on an Op-Ed piece by settling in with a couple of chapters from Michael Scott Moore's novel Too Much Of Nothing, a coming of age novel set in mid-80s...
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Penny For Your Thoughts, Sailor
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/27/2004
I reached out for a memory the other day and pulled the wrong one off the shelf.
We were living in a Quonset hut at the naval base in Long Beach. The pre-fab shelters had been
set up as permanent housing for sailors and their dependents. It was set on a foundation of bolted
steel trusses and built of a semicircular arching roof of corrugated metal insulated with wood
Every afternoon I sat cross-legged on the hard floor with threadbare carpeting and wa...
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Seaching For 'The Poet' At Brand Bookshop
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/22/2004
Some people get compulsive about the series finale of "Friends" or "Frasier". I get compulsive
about books. It's all relative.
The latest object of my literary obsession was Michael Connelly's 1996 novel "The Poet", to date
the only stand alone novel the former Los Angeles Times crime reporter has penned after a series
of best-selling thrillers starring fictional LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch.
There's a decent Borders Books and Music on Brand Boulev...
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The Virgin Mary on Griffith Park Boulevard
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/19/2004
"It's a violin case," Artie insisted.
"What's wrong with your damn eyes?" Romolo scowled. "That's a cello case."
The two men stood beside their overstuffed shopping carts in the alley. The instrument case had been carefully propped against a recycling dumpster that Romolo and Artie were preparing to
raid. In the dim light of dawn Romolo could see that the outside of the case was of a slightly
faded chocolate brown and was obviously well cared for.
Romolo k...
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Ballad of the Blind Gunman
Story by Rodger Jacobs from , CA - 5/17/2004
"What did the blind gunman do before he became a blind gunman?" the producer asked.
"Well, it's not like a blind gunman is an occupation in and of itself," I said with a thin smile.
"Of course not. Who'd want to hire a blind gunman?"
"But if it was this blind gunman you'd want to hire him because he's the best."
It was too early into the pitch meeting to gauge how well things were going but at least I had sold him on the blind assassin pitch. The producer was at...
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A Real Woman
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/13/2004
"Have you ever noticed that you write your best stuff when you're separated from your wife?" Wesley asked as I handed him the two completed porno screenplays.
The two scripts were titled "The Sex Lives of Clowns" and "Lonelyhearts" and they represented the latest in a long string of erotic film collaborations between Wesley and I. Wesley was the director and producer and I was the writer.
"I swear to God, it would be in my best interest to keep ...
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10 Inches of Hail in Watts
Story by Rodger Jacobs from Glendale, CA - 5/13/2004
On November 12, 2003, a freak storm pummeled parts of Los Angeles with 10 inches of rain and hail, forcing motorists to abandon cars at the height of rush hour and leaving thousands of residents without power .....
10 inches of hail in watts
dateline : los angeles, california : 12 november 03
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"So, how did a producer get attached to the project?"
"He's not a real producer," I explained to Jack, pouring two pac...
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Preempting Oscar
Story by Daniel Flores Guadiana from Hesperia, CA - 4/19/2003
Preempting Oscar
Daniel Flores Guadiana
"Anti-war protests held in Los Angeles today have completely shut down Downtown," the anchor informed his audience. Just then a clip of a woman with gothic white make-up and painted on black tears was handed a microphone.
"We don't feel the conservative system is taking us seriously!"
"And in other related news," another anchor continued, "celebrities from film, television and music are joining together in a silent protest of o...
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Preempting Oscar
Story by Daniel Flores Guadiana from Hesperia, CA - 4/6/2003
Oscar Vasquez flopped down into his custom-made leather easy chair and clicked on his plasma television. These were the last two relics left from a silicon boom long passed.
"And now, presenting last years Pop Idol, Karri Clarkson!"
An exhausted twenty something walked across his screen, jaded and professional. Her distant eyes stared straight into the camera. She rambled on throwing plugs left and right like an electrician. The audience was on its feet for someone who looked no more...
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Hi everyone, I am so sorry it took so long to finish writing this post. I broke down a couple of times while writing it, remembering bad times I thought I was numb to, but although I am over them (and I am) they are real memories, and I am indeed human. The crying spells are a given I suppose with topics like this. I have began this journey and I was not born a quitter and even though this post was hard, I managed to finish amid tears, please enjoy…. feel free to cry along with me lol – Obara Meji
Today is a new day and as we rise from our sleep we rise not knowing what lies ahead. What will we encounter today? Today I received a phone call from a woman I have never met but she reads my blog daily. In our conversation she told me about certain disappointments which she has had in her life, and that she was tired of all these things which she faced daily. In one of her dreams she saw something which I interpreted to her as disappointment coming, and while we spoke she lamented about this to me. She wondered why her?
She was tired of disappointments and problems, tired of difficulties. While she spoke I heard the line from the movie The Color Purple which Oprah made famous as Sophia.. "All my life I had to fight"…. This sentiment is shared by many people, maybe not in those words, nor even in the thoughts or minds, but still evident and present within their psyche. Within their awareness, they know that life is not an easy road, and some people respond to life accordingly. Some become robbers, and fraudsters, prostitutes, kidnappers, and other things, being trained by what they have seen or experienced in life, and they believe this is how they will have to live in order to survive.
Others learn how to cope and deal with obstacles, disappointments, and difficulties. They realize it to be natural occurrences which comes with life and they know that this too shall pass, once you can come through it without devastation. Then there are the others who cry and lament over what they face or the circumstances in which they were born, and they try to do everything to run away from life's obstacles. Some even go the route of suicide, or some go crazy, using their minds to shield them from the world and its problems, not knowing that they will have to come and live the same life over again. There is no escaping it!, None. Life is filled with obstacles, disappointments and difficulties from birth to death, there is no escaping it! Should we hug and welcome or embrace it or even the thought of it? The answer is no, but ought we to know that it is a fact of life and be prepared to deal with it as it comes? The answer is Yes. Does everything we experience in life, good or bad teach something? The answer is Yes. So, Obara Meji what you are saying is that we should learn to accept the bad as well as the good? the answer is No. No? The answer is No! While we expect the bad in life, because it is a must that they come, we should not accept it. When one door closes another one will surely open, but how will you know this to be so if you sit in front of the closed door and believe that's it, there's no other way. Disappointment came and there is no option, no way to right the wrong done, no way to solve the problem, if you think this way then it surely will be that way for you. You cannot accept these difficulties which may come or threaten to come without fight. Once you have Life, there is Hope. How will you know how to defend yourself if you have never had a fight or even seen one?
Now I want to be clear, when faced with problems, accepting responsibility for the actions leading to or creating the problem is important, accepting the problem with no chance of redemption should not be an option. When I faced problems in my life, the first major one was becoming a teenage mom, I was afraid. I was embarrassed that my family, especially my parents, would know that I did "THAT", to become pregnant, and that at first was my biggest shame. I tried everything to get rid of the pregnancy, I went to the first clinic and told them I needed an abortion. They scheduled me and as I waited for them to call my name, scared, I silently cried of the mess I thought (back then) I had made out of my life. When they called my name, I ran out of the clinic. I was determined to rid myself of the belly (the pregnancy), and so again I went to another hospital and while I waited, to be called I heard a young lady on the phone crying about the procedure and telling someone she referred to as mom that she was afraid. I left. My mother had found out and had given me five hundred dollars to go to somewhere else and get rid of it, and so I went. I was scanned to know how far along I was, then when that was established I had to wait for them to call me in. I sat there with the money in my pocket, a baby in my belly and scared out of my wits. By now my belly was showing just a small bit, and I felt guilty about what I was about to do. I was alone and I had to make a decision, for the third time here I was trying to do away with a problem I had created. I had a thought, so I went along with the thought. I looked down at my belly and whispered, "Little baby, I know that what I am about to do now is not fair to you, but please forgive me, I am afraid, but if you are to be born, if you have to come into the world, please give me a sign." Immediately, I felt flutters in my stomach which felt like butterfly wings fluttering around, she moved, my baby moved. I left! I took the money which was to pay for the abortion, found a small restaurant and bought something called "Beef Stroganoff" which I and my baby enjoyed that day. I returned the money to my mother and held my head down as I handed it to her. I lied and told her that they said the abortion could not be done, I was too far gone. My mother sighed, and my hell began. But when my baby was born, and although times were rough, I am proud to tell you that she is the best thing that has ever happened to me, The best present God and Osun has ever given to me, her and her siblings who soon came behind her. What I thought was sorrow turned out to be my biggest Joy. While growing up, I believed nobody loved or cared for me. When this girl was born, I was showered with love by her, I cannot even explain it. She wanted to be with no one but me, when ever I had to go anywhere and leave her with anyone, she would stand at the door and wait until I came back and when I did she made sure to hang on to me for fear of me leaving again, I mist up as I type this, for never have I been loved like this, never. She has not changed, she is still the same, and even so much more to her siblings. When I am in Africa, it is her who runs the household, I have never had any problems with her, never! I thank God for the decision I made that day, though I was faced with what I believed was a problem, I persevered and was given such a blessing, my child.
I went on to have three more children after her and while I will not go into the stories individually, these three were for The Wicked Baby father , the last child and how she arrived is also a story I have to share. I began to hate this wicked man, he had turned me into something I was not, because I was always a loving person, but the treatment was so bad that I cried daily. I wanted a way out but I was afraid to move, I did not know what the world had for me out there. I begged my mother to let me stay with her until I could find a way out but she said no. I asked the evil sister, (read Jealousy) if I could stay with her, she had lived with me for years, but she said no, she didn't want to get involved, so I ran away, I ran to California. I closed my shop, placed a sign there that I would be gone for three weeks, and left with my children. I had to get away from the situation for my health and well being and for my children caught in the mix. I had a friend there who I along with my children stayed with, when I left the baby father did not know, he had not been home for a week so it was easy for me to leave. While I was there, I made the mistake to call someone, I think it was my mother and he got hold of the number and called me everyday begging me to come back, crying and pleading and begging my friend to send me home. I had only bought one way tickets, and so he bought the return tickets after he had gotten everyone to call and beg me to come back home with a promise to change. I went home and immediately became pregnant, I was a "breeder" as we say in Jamaica, and could get pregnant if someone stared at me too hard. But I did not know that I was pregnant because I saw the "Lady" every month for five months. However, I still had other signs of pregnancy: nausea, sleepiness, dizziness, and all but when ever I took a pregnancy test it was always negative but my belly swelled though not by much. After being tired of the bad feelings I went to the doctor, had a blood test and realized that I was pregnant. OMG! No! For Mr. Wicked? how worthless was I? When he found out, he and his devil mother were angry and upset and he demanded that I get an abortion, but I was five months. I would have gotten the abortion if it were possible, but I was too far gone, and I made up my mind again to forge ahead, alone again. I realized that this baby was to come, so the spirits hid her for five months and fooled me by letting the "Lady" come on time as usual. My baby came and it was her who gave me my freedom. She gave me the bravado to get away from him and his wicked women and his evil family, and like the older girl she gave me so much love and Joy, as young as she is, she is so wise and I am in awe of her in every way. God had blessed me with four people who came in through all kinds of chaos and adversities, I had no easy time to bring forth these people who came to help me and to love me, bonded to me by blood. When faced with them and their arrival, I went through hell. I experienced doubts and fears and I cried and did not see them as a source of joy, I saw only problems and difficulties, but I still pushed forward, and it worked out, it worked out for good for me!
We all are presented at times with situations which we believe we cannot handle or we may not be able to overcome, but overcome we shall. Every problem has a solution, this I learned when I became a part of the Ifa/Orisha tradition. I also have my own saying "what can be seen can be changed", and I have also heard it said that No condition is permanent. Always remember "This too shall pass", if and when you are faced with difficulties, always know that This too Shall Pass. St. Augustine said "I cried for boots, until I saw a man with no legs". Know that whatever you are facing in life someone some where out there is facing something worse. For whatever reason it is a consolation to know that you are not alone. I cannot stress embracing your spirituality enough! Why? Because it makes the journey so much easier, so much easier. You will see life and its short comings with the clarity you will need to understand and therefore overcome them. You will know quickly as something abnormal arrives that this too shall pass, there is always solution. You will pray constantly because you will know that prayer can move mountains and that there is a God who has not forgotten you and as the Yoruba people love to say when faced with problems, "This means that God will now be reminded of me, because of this problem, God will remember me". Look at problems and difficulties as life's lessons. When they come at you, even when you panic and cannot help but cry out, which is normal, breathe slowly in and out and know that.. This too shall pass, This too shall pass, This too shall pass! Teach your children this mantra, teach them as they grow. Strengthen their minds for them to know what is to come, you cannot shield them nor fight their battles, you cannot even choose for them, but you can prepare them, as I am preparing you or as you have been prepared, teach them. I cannot stress meditation, it helps you to deal with the "woes" of life the best possible way. God have given us tools, use them.
We should all expect and even welcome some challenges and difficulties in life, knowing that eventually you will get over it. Remember this: A person who is always happy in life will never live long. But a person who encounters challenges should know that while these challenges occur, they must pray that they shall never to see devastation and again, this too shall pass.
This blog does not give me a penny. I make no money from doing this, yet I sit every morning and write these posts, errors and all, putting out all my business out here in cyber world, where it can never be erased. Caring not of the criticisms, abuse, chastisements that I may face. Often times I wonder why, what's the point? There is nothing for me to gain here. My life is filled with things to do, why must I put myself out here like this? Coupled with the fact that I am always, every single day at odds as to what to write, but I press on. I write and I share in hope that maybe you will enjoy my story and something from my ramblings will connect with you one day. If that happens, then I have done my service to humanity, which I believe will please God, and if God is pleased with me, then that means to me, that my children, the only family I have in this world, my only possession, for I have nothing,… my children will be okay.
Káa tó dé ibi tí a ńlọ, a má ńkọ́kọ́ dé ibi táà ò fẹ́ /
Before getting to one's destination, one may end up where one would rather not be.,,,Yoruba Proverb!
[Endurance and persistent focus are crucial]
All religions are valid as long as it teaches peace and love…Obara Meji
"And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine."
― Anonymous, The Quran
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
― Charles de Gaulle
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go."
― Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Written by
Obara Meji
Metaphysics Teacher
Obara Meji is a spiritualist, Ifa-Orisa practitioner, and teacher of metaphysics. Since 2011 she has used her online platform to share her personal experiences to those seeking answers about spirituality. Her teachings will expand into short stories, novels, and public speaking to continue her mission of bringing enlightenment to the world.
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I admire you. Blessings for what u do.
Reblogged this on Embracing Spirituality.
[…] post relates very well with the recent post which I did titled Difficulties InLife. I have been doing topics based on inspirations recently, not purposely, but this is what comes out […]
…Here is the point, individuals like myself become better persons by reading and learning from you. You do gain from that; I hope. You help us to become better human beings and for that we all collectively benefit. That which is given by you cannot be attained by means of money–there is just not enough money.
We are eternally grateful to you for all that which you've afford us–much appreciated!
Thank You
Where have you been
I had to read this story over again. My gosh, I love the way, you love you your children. The way they love you back is so much more than gold. I love this story!
They are all I have Toy
Big up Lady T…we love you always…
And here we go again, I did not even read this post before I commented on the last one which reiterates n directly relates to my comment. Blessed Obara funny that you write about not being paid cause as I was writing the last blog I was thinking May u be ever blessed n rich in life because o boy is all I can say surely u are blessed in Spirit which is the greatest gift n to know your children n generations to come will be blessed n covered because of your charity to humanity and performing gods work. Spiritual people have often told my mom that she should have died many times n it is the love (whatever love this is) that keeps her alive n it is my philosophy that I live by that LOVE CONQUERS ALL. Thank you so much for sharing that personal story and all your personal stories with us here without shame and disdain as I believe nothing is a secret anyway as god sees n knows all things and what is done in darkness shall come to light and although there are things we may not be proud of they are part of us and make us who we are n so in the spirit of love one just has to go forth with an attitude of loving one self unconditionally with the good the bad and the ugly and know seh a ONLY god u hafifi answa to ( hypothetically speaking)so I salute u for being that example in my life that no matter what let love live. Ur story touched me n blew me away bc after having a child myself I relate to the fact that our children are our saviours and change our lives in such positive ways that our limitations could not allow us to imagine. They take us places spiritually that ideally speaking perhaps we couldn't get there without theses elders that have returned to the cycle of life. When I first met you one of your first comments to me was every problem was a solution which is ever encouraging to me to this day filing me with the spirit of hope and assuredness . Truly your a physical living spirit that affects my life daily cause ur words stay in my mind front n centre like a power tool drilling through the concrete nuttin too big nuttin too hard. Hear mi nah mi lickle bit but mi tallawah n my spirit big. Everything is side me is grateful to wat u do here on this blog ur time ur effort ur energy ur love ur guidance ur consistency ur inspiration, ur wisdom n knowledge, ur patience, ur experiences. Plain n simple YOU!!!!! Thank you soooo much Obara bc words cannot describe the grounding n confidence in self that you have given me from the time I first entered this site. I was compelled to call u mama from the first time a spoke to you becaus that is the very essence you carry like a Jamaican grandma who u never forget how much they loved you and took care of you and you always feel them around you all when dem dead an gone so rightfully so you a mi mama yes. Yes indeed. The quote muahhh… Love it hits home for me. When I first tried to contact u and wasn't hearing from you I was deeply saddened and disappointed but the spirits have brought you back n appointed a special place for a special person in my life. Ok I'm tired now looking forward to a new day a new post new experiences new growth. You always say your sexy but if I may boldly state ur spirit that you exhibit on here indeed is very sexy so I can jus imagine the physical. Stay sweet ur blessings done layout already blessed up ur children n ur future generations!!!!!!!!!
cami gimme a topic for tomorrow
Ty and yw in
Hi,everyone been busy all day. I am going to go back and finish reading.
Wow Shawnyrob!!!
I just love how you break it down. Easy to understand. I look forward to reading your comments –
Hello everyone! I am back, trying to play catch up
Shawnyrib Is that you, here with us! I am such a fan of your comments!
Obara mi love when shawnyrob run een an drop some wisdom pon wi and den cut..
Ok thanks Nunu
Ur welcome T
Obara ,thank you for sharing some of the intimate details of your journey and being so candid in doing so. The account of events that you shared should serve as source of strength,courage and intestinal fortitude for all eyes that are privy to behold this blog.Difficulties in life are unfortunately a necessary evil,I agree that we should not embrace them,but I also believe that out of struggle comes strength and progress. In reading your story several themes emerged, one of them being the conflict of opposites which teaches us that if we do not encounter difficulties and hard times we will not be able to appreciate the pleasant and sweet times in life. Difficulties in life can serve as teachable moments that challenge us to look inside of ourselves, and to explore external sources to find solutions to our problems or what we perceive to be problems. These challenging times, or periods of time in our lives, compel us to be resourceful and creative at times ,and they force us to take a stance at other times by presenting us with what might seem to be no way out.
The aforementioned leads me to another point relevant to our lives, and how we choose to live our lives in times of adversity. In life it is never a matter of "if" we are going to encounter difficulties, problems, or issues, it is the inevitability of "when" we will run into these roadblocks, and "how" we will handle them. Will we improvise ,adapt, and overcome , or will surrender,quit and succumb? Keep in mind people that we always have choices, and we learn from both the good and not so good choices we make. Obara`s story clearly illustrates how the decisions we make or do not make effect the ending of our stories.
Difficulties in our lives are the building blocks for life experiences, conflict resolution and decision making.We must understand that nothing lasts forever even though it may seem like an eternity when we are going through tough times.The key to overcoming difficulty is to be proactive,take the bull by the horns. We all know that life happens and life is going to happen. Does your life control you? or Do you control your life? Without experiencing bitter ,how can we identify sweet/? Things that make you go hmmm or mmmmm..you choose!
Thank you professor Shawny, that was a great assessment if the post
"Does your life control you? or Do you control your life? Without experiencing bitter ,how can we identify sweet?" Very well said. Though most times a lot of this is easier said than done. It takes a lot of perseverance to stay strong during difficult times and believe that this obstacle is very much necessary to our growth.
So true KayM, but these are facts of life, hard pills to swallow but we must! The bitter and the sweet may not be twins but are indeed sisters, no one knows the mind of God
We'll said and nicely poetic as well. wise way to relate to life.
Thanks Nuns.
Talk to nobody for the night Nuns? and what if I do? what will happen?
Mi guess it nah go work. Don't taste the tea yuh hear. Mek sure it's not a tea that use milk. Just tea bag and sugar
Trojan,Obara seh tell who yuh must tell goodnight before yuh make the tea and nuh answer ur phone after either. Make it when you're ready to guh sleep
Yes teacher, but what exactly is it?
C in as well
Trojan wi mek a cup a tea before bed, after making the tea nuh talk nobody, place the tea by yuh bedside on your night table or whatever, and you'll have a dream/ spiritual experience
Once again you hit spot on. Thank you so much for all your teaching you are a gift to us.
Thank you AMH!
tonight trojan,let me know if you are in
What is the traveling family?
Kia IN
Donna in
Nunu and mummy in
Thank the Lord we made it to the end of another fasting day!
I can relate to the prego n wating the abortion. It just did not would not work out. Mi affi bring my child n today i am blessed to have him. Inspite of growing pains him a give me now. Im actually happy i couldnt terminate the pregnancy. When i felt the butterfly flutters n learned i was having a boy baby. Mi bawl living eye water. Lol
This too shall pass a mi life motto…from mi av life me arite. Things will knock me down but mi affi keep back up. Thx to my ori, orishas, guides. This last year has been very hard pon me lawd gawd mi feel smh lower dan low. Den mi reflect pon pass problem how i survive n keep calling on Jah. Asking for strength cah i did weak n slowly slowly im gaining back strength n picking myself back up. JAH thx Obara n all ES family u are all helping me.
For all who are traveling in the comments slot write you names only with the word IN
Lawks de wings dem sound niceeeee
I love de two book ends analogy, de boys dem here enuh and I love dem, but mi two gal dem, they are my parents,my best friends, my champions, my everything, and nobody in de worlddd never love me more. And mek mi feel it!
I was bout to answer about you babies, saw the wing comment and bust out laughing…the sweet potato fries taste even better, they're baked.
I haven't any babies, so I cannot feel the full impact that you gushing parents (moms especially) speak on…me going to up de anti to see if me get there soon. I know it will exceed being auntie or godparent.
There is something about girl children a power that comes with them (still love the boys) in my opinion. I know the bible holds male children especially first born but I feel this passion for the first born girl. Such a special moment!
I just love you Cami…*hugs*
Obara Meji, Obara…ooo. Why yu ask questions on why you write? You write to satisfy those thirsty for companionship on the roads that you've traveled or have knowledge about. Gwan write and tell you stories because they land somewhere in regards to the individual reader(s).
So, you get 2 "bookends"…both girls. The big one placed you on the road of survival and the little one marked your path off the rough roads. Hugs.
Hey fellow bloggers, 27 minutes to my double cook, sauced up wings and sweet potato fries and plain, black coffee…lol.
Beg yuh some a dat Cam
lol…nearly went over board. It was good…one day we shall break bread together.
There was a time when I was pregnant with the last girl, I was around seven months pregnant by then, going through the hardship, the wicked man was hardly coming home, and due to the Obeah by his woman the shop had dried of customers, I wS barely doing well money wise, this particular morning I opened the shop, as I sat alone in there, I became hungry, I had not eaten since morning, no money, I sat I my styling chair looking out, worried because the baby in my belly was moving and I wondered about her, because I needed food, so must she I figure. Tears welled in my eyes and I begged them not to fall because if a customer should come I would be very embarrassed. I had locked the door even though it I was 12 noon, I heard someone shaking the door as in wanting to be let in, I looked and saw a man, he wore a hat, so I did not recognize who he was right away, I went to see who it was and saw that it was my spiritual mentor (one of ) Mr. Mitchell, I opened the door and he came in, he said he drove past the shop and turned around when he realized that I may be in, he was in the area because he had come to do spiritual work for some people, he went into his pocket and took out some money $40.00 and gave to me, I stared at first at him and then the money in his hand, and then I broke down in tears in his arms, he held and shush me while I wept, which was fir a while, when calmed down a little, he asked me what happened, I told him that I had not eaten from that morning and before he came I wAs hungry with no money and nobody to ask, and here he was, it was like a miracle, he took twenty more dollars out and gave me sixty dollars……
Mr. Mitchel,wherever you are living now in the realm of spirit, know that I love you and will never forget you, people know your name sir, I have told others about your goodness, may you be well sir and watch and guide over me as I sendup light to you, I love you very much
God bless yuh Mr. Mitchell
These things are very true just last week I was thinking how badly I want some orange juice and I'm on my last monies. Long story short a women need up giving me the orange juice and some fruits saying she doesn't know why she even bought any groceries that day cause it'd not the norm for her all I could think was wow my ancestors evea a keep me!
Yes Teach, 'pap story gi mi cause yu know mi a nuh lie-had.
Bloggers and peepers, remember to tell Obara if you are travelling tonight as she has to do her thing…Yes, mi naad badda a guh road wid mi 2 year old so I will come blog later…
Where are the others? MTH, Yazzy, Cami etc
Guess they are all watching the soccer game huh
I'm right here Trojan. Good evening.
Hey Ty, Nunu, Obara
Didn't comment for a few days but I am back and reading and learning as usual
No, but pull together all your faith and belief and you will see miracle there is no way out, when you are dead, when your life in this realm is over, there is hope while you are alive, let me tell you a story, it will tek time, because I am not a fast typist, hold , I am coming!
Big Sis, mark me for trip tonight.
My mate speaks the same-if I act like the world or my life is ending from a mishap, him ask me if me no still alive, lol. Right there I know to calm down, plan ahead and get moving pass the matter.
He travels with wisdom, Cami
Teach, this was an exactly written piece. It brought up memories of my life that I had somehow buried. I comfortmyself with this saying 'tough times do not last, only tough people do'. I am a firm believer that prayer cahnges thing. Sometimes, the human element within me wants to give up.
Teach, I know it is all good and well to have happy thoughts and look at some simillar hardships that other ppl have endured. However, sometimes when you are going through a difficult time and you can not see your way out, it is really hard to pull strength from anything. Do I use my last money and go back to school when the children need food, shoes, books etc.
Mi ah tell yuh Ty, and mi tell de truth, everything mi sey ah de truth, mi nah gi him basket fi carry water!
Obara, fi all di tears he gave you…he will one day realize what he did and be very sorry…
Me! Afta mi nuh drink mad puss piss!
Lawd de wicked one was de worse Ty, mi tell yuh sey anytime mi talk to him which is not often him deh Pon lookings?
Him lucky mi fasting today…and start meditating, so mi temper cool down real good…
Hey Obara…me shame fi seh but when a read the blog today, I wanted to give di dutty baby father a piece a beaten…God forgive me…
Hey, Ty!
Awwwwwwww, thank you KayM, *tears*, I broke down while I wrote this post! bawling! but the message had to come through! you are so precious! Nuff love and light!
Beautiful! I love this. So very inspiring. Your writing always manages to elicit such a rollercoaster of emotions in me. I cry with you and I smile with you. It is very easy for us to accept life's difficulties as "the end" as if there is no way out of the hole we've found ourself buried in. We are easily pessimistic than we are optimistic. My Sociology professor would speak of things like this and he said: "People tend to look for permanent solutions to a temporary problem." Which is the truth as you spoke of suicidal people and such. Difficulties can be so damaging but reading this inspires such hope in me. It is a very difficult thing to accomplish, believing that obstacles won't last forever and that through them must come a brighter day and lesson that we'll eventually be thankful for. I could just applaud you for these words! 🙂
Hey Trojan
Howdy Trojan and Day dream
Hello everyone
Wat a gwaan Trojan…
Welcome dream…
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You… for sharing your hardships and trauma.Like yours, my road has been filled with difficulties. My only solace is the strength I've developed as a result. You give me the courage to share my own trauma in hopes that it will encourage another. May God always remember and bless you 🙂
Thank you Day, thanks for your comment! God bless!
Thank you Nunu
Thanks Obara, reading this makes me feel so bad for complaining and whining about my difficulties. Sometimes when I see or read others life struggles I wonder with amazement " how is it possible one survived this?" Mi salute yuh yah ma'am cause I couldn't even imagine…
Thank you Nunu well said! Trojan Mek hot tea and put ah de side ah yuh bed but you cannot speak to anyone before you sleep not even Khem! You will have a great spiritual experience if you follow the directions well
Such a beautiful story…she was meant to be here and meant to do great things…I am not sure if I could have had your strength as a teenager…your story is inspiring…
I feel that when you are going through tough times it is hard to keep a level head…on reflection it is an easier feat…
I must say that meditation centers me and that this post is a reminder to keep at it…
Obara, we love and treasure you…you have done so much for us without thought of self preserverance…thank you…
May God and Osun continue to bless you and your family…
Nuh true Ty


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Last year I got a bit of a break in June and had a week off work! The payback was we had 2 in September! They were the Introductory camps for kids from year 7 and 8. This year there are two again. The first was last week at Scotch Oakburn in Launceston! I went north, to Launceston, for the Wednesday and Thursday of the camp.
I don't "do" mornings! 5am alarm - on the road at 6am. Humm - 2 kilometers up the road I did a u-turn and went home again! I thought "bugger - left my watch at home - oh well, the mobile phone will do! Oh bugger - mobile phone is at home too!" I left home again at 6.15am.
Oh my goodness! I live in Hobart and here I am in Launceston! 9.45 in the morning and this is the view from the Middle School at Scotch Oakburn! Cold but very pretty really. (please don't tell!).
This was the view when the kids arrived. The camp started at 10am. The Crime scene tape really does set the scene for children and parents!
This is the chromatography Lab and the hair and fibre lab!
CSI - our enviroment is so much better!
Lots of busy fingers!
They learnt how to take their own prints (inked) and how to lift prints. Some of the prints they lifted were very clear.
Blood splatter was part of the story, but that was upstairs - I don't "do" blood! The kids had fun though.
If you look really closely at this photo you can see the blood on the door!
This is James in the fingerprinting lab! Please ignore the football black eye!
Soil testing and "What is that Drug?" is behind him!
On Tuesday we have "The Big" Camp starting at Hutchins. This one is a 5 day camp and is for year 8 and 9, gifted and talented kids.
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The man whose second album beat off competition from the likes of Calvin Harris and Emeli Sande to win the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year prize is live in Rothesay tonight (Saturday).
RM Hubbert, whose award-winning Thirteen Lost & Found was produced by Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos, plays at Craigmore Bowling Club with Transclyde Music on March 12 - giving his first Bute audience a sneak preview of his new release, Telling The Trees, which is out on April 29.
Also on this Saturday's bill is 'Pistol' Pete Wearn, renowned for his raucous interpretations of traditional blues tunes as well as for his slide guitar and harmonica playing and songwriting.
The last few tickets for Saturday night's gig can be purchased via Musicker cafe in Rothesay's High Street (01700 502287) and Macqueen's butchers in Bishop Street (01700 502067). Doors open at 7.15pm and the gig starts at 7.45pm.
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The London Region COT Shop Stewards' Forum brings together COT shop stewards from across the region to discuss the issues arising in the workplaces and to arrange training for occupational therapy shop stewards as well as sending regional representatives to the National COT/Unison Panel to feedback local issues to national officers of COT and Unison.
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Join Justin Yost for an in-depth discussion in this video Create a new record, part of Ember.js Essential Training.
- [Teacher] To create a new record, we first need a model for our component to have access to. So to begin, we'll add a model hook for our bookmark's new route. We can open up our route file for the bookmark's new route at app, routes, bookmarks, new. In our Route.extend code block, we need to add a model hook, and in this case, because we're creating a new instance of the bookmark, we're going to call the stores method createRecord.
So this will look like return this.get('store').createRecord and pass the string of the model name that we are creating. For here, obviously it's going to be bookmark. Now what we need at this point is we need our component to then save the bookmark record. We don't need access to the store in our component, as the bookmark object itself has access to its own save method to persist the data to the server.
Let's open up the component now and start building in the ability for us to save our new bookmark record. We'll open up app, components, bookmarks, edit-form. We've already built some of the basics here, where we have our actions hook and we have a save hook already set up. To continue with this, we need first our component to have access to a bookmark property. So we'll add bookmark and set it equal to null. What we want to do after our save is successful, is we want to redirect to the index page.
Now normally to solve this problem, you need to either inject the router or use a controller action to respond to the save occuring and then transition there in the controller. In both of these cases, it's a fair bit of work to set up both of those abilities. The Ember guide has much more detailed information on performing both of those actions. In our case, we're going to do this the quick and dirty way: by injecting the private routing service. To do so, we'll add a new property, router, and we'll call the Ember.inject.service and the private routing service, which is behind a dash, routing.
Remember, this isn't the best solution to this particular problem, but it's gonna be much faster for us to see this all working. Remember our save action, that we're calling in our component? It gets past the current bookmark that we pass into our component. That bookmark is an Ember data record. That bookmark has access to its own save method, so we'll add a few lines in here and we can call directly bookmark.save.
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In this case, we want to call Ember.Logger.info(value) and then we also wanna transition to our bookmark's index route. To do so, it is this.get, so we'll get the router property, and then we can call the transitionTo method and pass in the string for the route that we want to transition to.
In our case, bookmarks. So all together, this says when the promise resolves, we capture the return value, log it, and then transition to the bookmark's index route. So we'll save, log our save result, and immediately transition back to the index page. Next, we can add a catch method that will deal with what happens when the promise is rejected. To do so, after our then method, we'll add .catch.
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