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I'm Back, Baby

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I'm Back, Baby - Bender Bending Rodriquez    The voices started in my head almost immediately.  You walk down the hall way, and the voice, that little voice in the back of your mind telling you that it wants you to be long in the water.  That you need to glide.  Your arms are suddenly up.  One stretched straight in front of you with your fingers pointing out straight.  The other hand is paralell with your ear and its cocked backed, locked in loaded to short forward.  You continue down the hall and the voice whispers as your shot your cocked hand forward and pull your other hand back "Remember to be long in the water and glide..."  If someon was watching you they'd think you were having a fit.  You aren't.  You are just excided because for the first time since Mid-February you are able to get into a pool.   You wondered when this day woule come again.  If anyone told you it would be more than a half year since you were able to swim again you would have said non-sen

Rest in Peace: Chadwick Boseman

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  Rest in Peace: Chadwick Boseman   I still get tears in my eyes when I think about it.   He isn’t supposed to be gone.   Not someone who is a year and 28 days younger than I am.   Not someone who meant so much to the world.   Not someone who was an Icon.   I loved watching his movies.   I loved hearing about what a great person he was.   I think five days later I am still in disbelief.   When my nephew sent me, a text saying that Blank Panther died.   I was thinking he must be watching End Game.     Never in a million years did I think Chadwick Boseman could be dead.   That he could die from cancer.   It had to be a death hoax, right?   I went searching the net.   I was happy it was on IMDb when I checked.   I only found one article on it.   I was sure it had to be a hoax, I wanted it to be a hoax.   Then the other news agencies started reporting it.   Slowly but surely the internet light up with news of his untimely passing.     As the news sank in my eyes filled with tea