Hoodoo & Blues Music Many Americans will recognize Blues music as a mother genre of most modern American music today, giving way to rock, jazz, and popular music with its unique rhythms and musical lines. The Delta Blues, as it was known, was also commonly known as Hoodoo Music, Hoodoo being the African-based folk religion in early America during the time of slavery. As Blues music developed, African American conjurers of Hoodoo in the South utilized music to help them mask their workings and to motivate their followers to keep their strength and have faith in their spiritual practices during…
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Midsummer, which is also known as the summer solstice or Litha, is the longest day and the shortest night of the year here in the northern hemisphere. This year it is going to take place on June 20th. Now, of course, depending on where you are in the northern hemisphere and your climate, it may not exactly be the middle of summer for you as far as climate goes, but it does mark the energetic climax of the year when the sun is at its full power. It is after Litha that we come into the waning season where the…
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My Closet Clothes that I have worn, Tattered. Torn. Ripped apart by others. Their pride, pain, and traumas. I try to stitch them back. Each time, threads wither… Unraveling, unveiling further Parts of me— Precious, Naked, Fragile, Parts of me I desperately tried to cover up. Yet the clothes cannot hide The bruises inflicted upon me. As vivid as the clothes once were. Ashamed of myself, I can no longer stitch these pieces together. Fabric worn thin, Threads not strong enough. However, I now realize I can purchase my own fabric. My own choices, I clothe my soul. My choice…
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