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msquebanh, 1 month ago to nature

#Purple #Camas
#Yellow #Rocketcress
#Balsamroot
#Hawthorn

#Spring #blooms at #SwanLakeNatureSanctuary.

#nature #victoriabc #estuary #marshes #wetlands #VancouverIsland #Saanich #PNW #Environmental #ecosystem #ecological #bloomscrolling #florespondence #flowers #NativePlants #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #botanical #PlantIdentification

Yellow rocketcress flowers
Yellow balsamroot flowers
White hawthorn flowers

nadinestorying, 1 year ago to random

How it started How it's going

#Melon
#BackyardGardening
#GrowWhatYouEat
#Jamaica
#Gardening

The same leafy melon patch is spreading like good news!
Green baby melons with a pale yellow bulb at their tips along a leafy stalk.

nadinestorying, 1 year ago to random

In his brilliant presentation on "Living in the Time Loop: Afrofuturism and Paranormal Activity", A.D. Boynton, II made an interesting connection between enslavers affixing iron objects to enslaved Black people during colonial periods and up to recently with Emmett Till, and how iron was traditionally used to banish ghosts and other paranormal beings.

nadinestorying, 8 months ago to Korean

Not me balking at watching the Chinese drama 'The Untamed' because it has 50 episodes, only to find out that it's the same with 'Live Your Own Life', the K-drama I want to watch. 🤡

#KDrama

nadinestorying, 8 months ago to random

earthquake!!!

nadinestorying, 8 months ago to Plants

Isn't this magical? A Crested Senecio Vitalis succulent that resembles a mermaid's tail! 🧜🏾‍♀️ 😍

(Photo credit: plantgroovy on Instagram)

#Plants
#Succulents
#HousePlants
#Mermaid

nadinestorying, 1 year ago to folklore

Jamaican Easter Traditions:

In the past, it was traditional to set egg white in a glass cup on Holy Thursday evening. On Good Friday morning, predictions would be made based on the pattern or shape of the egg white. For example, a ship meant travel.

#Jamaica
#JamaicanFolklore
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanFolklore
#Folklore
#FolkloreThursday
#Easter

@folklore
@folklorethursday

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nadinestorying, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to folklore

For the start of both Caribbean Folklore Month and Black Speculative Fiction Month, I highly recommend the anthology Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, edited by the inimitable Nalo Hopkinson, for lovers of fantasy, Caribbean stories, and folklore. Go on and treat your shelf!

#Caribbean
#Folklore
#CaribbeanFolklore
#CaribbeanFolkloreMonth
#CaribbeanLiterature
#BlackSpeculativeFiction
#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth
#SpeculativeFiction
#Books
#Bookstodon

@folklore

nadinestorying, 1 year ago to random

On this day in 1494, the mass murderer and colonizer Christopher Columbus (may he wander the wastelands forever) landed in Jamaica. The Spanish changed the Taíno name Xaymaca to Jamaica.

A historical inaccuracy is that he exterminated the Taíno. Their descendants are alive and well in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean and Americas.

#Jamaica
#JamaicanHistory
#Caribbean
#OnThisDay

nadinestorying, 7 months ago to fantasy

It means so much that my speculative poem "Sonnet for Birds" was accepted, and is now published in Strange Horizons. I'm in wonderful company for this Caribbean SFF Special Issue.

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/sonnet-for-birds/

#SFF
#Fantasy
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#Poetry
#SpeculativePoetry

nadinestorying, 10 months ago to food

Johnny cakes (fried dumplings) were originally called 'Journey cakes' because they were packed as lunches or snacks to sustain enslaved Africans in Jamaica on their long journeys. Now, they're a traditional Jamaican breakfast side dish.

#Food
#Jamaica
#JamaicanHistory
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory

nadinestorying, 1 month ago to kpop

“Knock, knock!” It’s MAMAMOO rocking suits in their live performance of Décalcomanie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFp1zmytR6U

#KpopMonday theme: #SuitDance
#Kpop

nadinestorying, 7 months ago to random

“Oh rascal children of Gaza. You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window. You who filled every morning with rush and chaos. You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony. Come back, and scream as you want and break all the vases. Steal all the flowers. Come back..Just come back..”
— Khaled Juma, a Palestinian poet from Rafah, Gaza, penned this poem in 2014

nadinestorying, 7 months ago to random

Bendito Día de los Muertos!

"In Haitian Vodou culture, November 1-3 is when we celebrate the pantheon of the cemetery, which we call the Gede. Along with the Gede, we celebrate our ancestors, personal blood relatives who have passed. We give offerings of the food and drinks they like... It's a period of honoring and celebrating the connection between the living and the dead."
— Manbo Jessyka Winston of Haus of Hoodoo

#Haiti
#HaitianVodou
#Caribbean
#DayOfTheDead
#DíaDeMuertos

nadinestorying, 4 months ago to Palestine

Yesterday was the start of the global strike week (Jan. 21-28) for Palestine. Donating is one way we can take action during this week.

Join the donation drive for the Pious Projects to distribute feminine hygiene kits to women in Gaza:

https://piousprojects.org/campaign/2712

#GlobalStrikeWeek
#StrikeForGaza
#Palestine
#FreePalestine

nadinestorying, 11 months ago to sciencefiction

“I didn’t make up the problems. All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.“
— Octavia E. Butler, who would've been 76 today, on not being a prophet

#OctaviaButler
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceFiction
#OnThisDay
#Quote

nadinestorying, 1 year ago to blackmastodon

Hey, Black Authors!

If you're currently completing a book-length manuscript on Black women’s history, applications for the Black Women's History Series Incubator are open.

About the Black Women’s History Series Incubator: https://uncpressblog.com/2023/05/03/announcing-the-black-womens-history-series-incubator-program/

Apply here: https://uncpress.org/black-womens-history-series-incubator/

#BlackWriters
#BlackAuthors
#BlackWomen
#BlackHistory
#BlackFedi
#BlackFediverse
#BlackMastodon

@blackmastodon
@BlackMastodon

nadinestorying, 7 months ago to random

Happy Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) to Dominicans and St. Lucians everywhere! 🇩🇲 🇱🇨

Since 1984, Jounen Kwéyòl has been celebrated on the last Friday of October in Dominica, and the last Sunday of October in St. Lucia. Moreover, October is Creole Heritage Month in St. Lucia.

#JounenKwéyòl
#CreoleDay
#Dominica
#SaintLucia
#Caribbean
#Creole

nadinestorying, 1 month ago to poetry

The Early Caribbean Society will host Poetry for Liberation: From Haiti to Palestine on Friday, May 10, 2024 at 12 p.m. EST with readings from poets, students, and instructors. Donations to Care for Gaza.

Meeting registration:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcu2uqT0qGdxZPN8zvFxYbiodxc-2Y7QT#/registration

#Caribbean
#Poetry

nadinestorying, 1 month ago to random

What will it take for people to understand that the sea is the home of sharks and countless other predators? This is heartbreaking.

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/tha-condemns-slaughter-of-sharks-at-buccoo-6.2.1991321.0e8397b11f

nadinestorying, 1 month ago to 13thFloor

In one of the Nahua creation myths, “The giant earth monster Tlaltecuhtli (“Earth Lord”), a crocodile-like creature, swam in the sea searching for flesh to eat. The gods turned themselves into serpents, entered the sea, and tore Tlaltecuhtli in half. The upper part of her body became the land, and the lower part was thrown into the sky to become the stars and heavens.” (Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)

#MythologyMonday
#Mythology
#CincoDeMayo

nadinestorying, 1 month ago to climate

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

If you’re a Caribbean writer who resides in the Caribbean, submit your poetry, fiction, or non-fiction by June 7, 2024 to Writing for Our Lives, “an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities”.

Learn more:

https://thecropperfoundation.org/writingforourlives/

#Caribbean
#CaribbeanWriters
#ClimateJustice

nadinestorying, 27 days ago to random

For this week’s #MythologyMonday theme, Brews and Potions, an excerpt from Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women:

“Homer send her to the man lodging to rob a spoonful of gunpowder. Then Homer send Gorgon up to the hill with no tree and she come back with a cup of dirt from Massa Patrick Wilson grave. Homer mix the two in a glass and fill the glass with rum...

Homer prick Lilith thumb and she wince. Homer stick Lilith thumb in the glass until the potion start to turn red.”

#Jamaica

nadinestorying, 17 days ago to folklore

For tonight’s Full Moon:

In the late 1800s, Jamaican children would play Moonshine Baby on the night of a full moon. Claude McKay recalled his father telling them that “the making of these moonshine babies was an old African custom and that different villages used to compete in the making of them.” (“Boyhood in Jamaica”, Phylon (1940-1956), Vol. 14, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1953), pp. 134-145)

Olive Senior wrote about this game in her poem “Moonshine Dolly”.

#Jamaica
#Folklore
#Poetry

nadinestorying, 18 days ago to Writers

“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis?... Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— Erin Bow

#Writers
#Writing