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TNFro Is Reading Not My Family and About 4 other Books

Hi My Name is Felicia, And I Am a Weirdo
By TNFro, The Unpoet
So you think you're too weird to be successful?
So you think your ideas are too far out there?
But let me tell you, there's something else.
You can be successful right where you are.
Fear is restrictive, shake it off.
Inaction keeps you from winning.
Happiness is a state of being.
Excitement about a job well done is actually ok.
Because you will go crazy if you dismiss the good coming your way.
If you don't like where you, are you moving in the right direction? 
Are you moving at all?
If you don't like yourself, how are others supposed to like you?
How are  you living if you don't know that you're not growing?
How can you be happy if you don't know what happiness is?
Talking yourself out of your success is just insanity.

TNFro Is Reading Not My Family

Be Present
Be Kind
Just Don't Be Stupid...TNFro The Unpoet

TNFro Is Reading To Live

Your Light
By TNFro, The Unpoet
What lights your path
What guides your way
What makes your soul sing
What elevates your mind
What puts a sparkle in your eye
What puts a pep in your step
Sometimes the path forward is uneven
It's ok to be sad or mad
Just don't go to sleep like that
 

TNFro Is Reading, Unlearn and American Kingpin

Daily Affirmations
Reading interesting things and writing interesting things make me happy.
Stop comparing myself to others I can only be responsible for my choices. 
Wanting less makes me happier than getting more.
If it makes me feel shitty, why do it?
Fear can be a good thing, but it should not paralyze me.
Envision a better life and go for it. Good hard, it's ok.
By TNFro, The Unpoet

TNFro Is Reading American Kingpin and Unlearn

My Sunday’s Are a Beginning
By TNFro, The Unpoet
 
I start by looking forward to another day.
I watch the sunrise over Lookout Mountain.
The whir of the coffee grinder for the local roasters, Mean Mug (Shout out)
The Sunday NY Times in no particular order,
Front page literally yelling at a piece, someone taking credit for decisions and policies of the
Obama administration.
On to the Style, Travel, Arts, and Book Review.
The background music of life Duke Ellington, Aretha Blues cover from 1969, sprinkled with a little
   Frank Sinatra.
Off to brunch with friends.
Listen to family stories.
A hug from a non-hugger.
Just being present is an act of kindness.
I reaffirm Gayle’s comment on CBS, you can never go wrong with kindness.
Back home to dream, to write, to create.
Today I remember the fallen on the battlefield, the highways, the building on fire, and the beat cop,  
 those that protect us every day, thanks for your service.
Today, I will endeavor to stop taking stuff for granted.
I will have a full day to declutter my mind from a few ideas, that is golden.
Not everyone can go where I have to go.
Not everyone has to support every idea thread.
Encourage, discourage, silence; it’s all the same I will keep going.
Ride or die is not a requirement to roll with me.
I’m ok, it’s really all good.
I am honored to write all day for a cool employer.
I get to research what I don’t know and be taught by leaders in their specialties.
But there is so much more to do, say, see, and create.
I want to be an un-stranger.
When people see me
I want them to say, ”I know you, right?”
And I want to respond, “Maybe, let’s see from where.”
And that starts a trippy discussion of the possibilities.
Why not be the one?
So here is to the beginning.
Hi, I’m Felicia, don’t I know you?
 

TNFro Is Reading American King Pin and Unlearn

"We gain more from letting go. There's nothing mystical or secretive about this idea."
Humble The Poet, Unlearn.

TNFro Is Reading The Tales of Genji and White Trash Still

I Say This from Love-Just F…In Stop
By TNFro the Unpoet
Why are married people against adjusted single people?
Or better yet why are married women against adjusted single women?
Why is it necessary to be hooked up with someone?
Why do married women become unwanted matchmakers?
Suppose I am living my best life with platonic friends and the occasional date.
I don't have it all in your opinion because I'm not in a relationship.
What if I don't need to subscribe to that typical social construct of a traditional relationship with the family, the home, the career?
That –ish is from the 1950s. Girl bye.
Prevailing perceptions, really so what and I truly don't give a F-in crap.
What's wrong with working and loving what I do and getting paid to do what I do?
 I make my own choices and don't have to clear it with anybody else. Ain't nobody got time for that.
No I don't think it's time for me to settle down with some guy.
My main reason for settling down because I want to travel for fun and not work.
And I'm tired of being strip-searched when I travel domestic.
I like my routine and I'm not confusing it for being in a rut.
Do you wish true happiness for me or do you want my life?
Do you want me to be just as miserable as you?
Dude, I am trying to understand your pain.
But I know you don't understand that  my lack of not being in a couple is why I am happy.
So do you want to take the Advil or do you want to wallow in the pain?
But as for me and mine, I'm not going to be free entertainment.
 You have to get out of your pain and find a positive outlet.
 I don't do free. I am not Captain save a Ho.
 I am not a therapist.
I will not be dumped on with a whole bunch of psychological BS.
Yes, you need help but I'm just not the one.
Just F-In stop and think.
Stop trying to pull me into your drama because I'm so not the one.
I am so aggressively single and dedicated to being a mentally and spiritually whole person that abstractions that compose your life are just not really for me and they’re actually annoying.
Stop complaining about your hate for your job or your life and your family.
Stop complaining that you hate where you are at the stage of your life because you are not doing anything about it.
If you want to go further stop being a dumb ass and learn the wonder of saying no to people and situations that are holding you back.
Why am I finally happy?
 I put my head down to the grindstone for almost 3 years and got really good at something.
I have hobbies and I don't get caught up in a whole bunch of nonsense.
 I avoid situations and people that harsh my natural mellow.
The ignore and do not disturb buttons on my iPhone are better than sliced bread.
 I don't need to be called for idle chitchat .
I don't need constant contact.
Just stop being negative.
Just stop being stupid.
Just F-in  stop talking me to death.
Wait…
Oh now I get it.
It is easier to deflect and fix others and you don't have to deal with your own BS.
I am not going to be your reason to procrastinate, you're going to have to fix whatever it is that ails you.
My life may not the typical ending to a 1994 ROMCOM but that doesn't mean I won't get my happily ever after my happy ending may still be in the cards I’m just not as focused on it like you.
So get out of my grill.
 Just F-in Stop.
Navigate to https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/792427-not-my-family to purchase my first novel.
 

NCFroIsReading A Mother of a stack of books...White Trash, The Warmth of Other Suns, Tales of Genji

I was leaving the South
To fling myself into the unknown...
I was taking a part of the South
To transplant in alien soil,
To see if if could grow differently,
If it could drink of new and cool rains,
Bend in Strange winds,
Respond to the warmth of other suns
And, perhaps, to bloom-Richard Wright
 
As African Americans, were escaping the pogroms of the South, so were poor whites at the same time with other marginalized populations all over the world escaping to the industrialized North in search of safety and the American dream, only to witness and be part of another nightmare.

Sip and Read with @NCFro, Tales of Genji, White Trash and The Warmth of Other Suns

I will never win the lottery, but I think my boredom and distaste for conventional forms of entertainment has pushed my intent to create content that uplifts and entertains me, but it should be shared with the world. The distractions of adult life, like my day job, prohibits my ability to create better content. It takes time to do all of this y'all, and time is money. The research and scripting, albeit loose scripting, will only improve with attention to the editing and then publication. So please become a patron if you want more for NC and TNFro go to https://patron.podbean.com/TheTalkingFro to become a patron today! Thanks!
And if you are 21 years or older, your purchase of Wine from Traveling Vineyard will support my dream of having a 200 bottle Eurocave to host my bookcase in the steps and at home book readings just sayin'
I will be sippin Activist a 2016 Syrah from my on line vineyard and giving my thoughts on Tales of Genji, White Trash and The Warmth of Other Suns
2 Words and Thought, Not So Random By TNFro, The Unpoet
How many licks to the center of a tootsie roll pop? 
3 according to the owl, 364 according to engineering students at Purdue.
How many words to release a soul?
2
What are they?
Accelerated Resignation.
You mean I can leave, right now? Yes.
Cool. Most freeing of words ever spoken.
I do.
What will you do and when?
Marry him?
Nope, I have never been asked.
Thank God.
You dodged a bullet.
Survivor Guilt.
Feeling bad secondary to living through a tragedy.
Realizing the tragedy is time lost never to be regained and the moment always being on autoplay making rest impossible.
Buyer's Remorse
Purchase of a home, car, plus sized onesie, that's not hot.
Can I take it back?
Pathetic Loser
Most of the guys I have dumped. I wonder if they thought the same about me.
What will you do for a...?
Fill in the blank. Klondike Bar, Louis Vuitton Purse, Hermes scarf?
Evidently work 100 hours per week for 20 years straight.
Purpose of all of this?
Random thoughts or precise observations.
You decide. 

NCFroIs Reading and Drinking Syrah...

In this episode I will be summarizing the 4 wines toasted in my last 4 online Traveling Vineyard events and discussing who made me want to give them the double 1/2 peace sign, why Elizabeth Warren is a bit of a Whack-a-doodle, and the Bookclub 2019 reboot. To celebrate that reboot and National Poetry Month, I will be reading from Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns with her introduction which included a poem from the great African American Writer and Poet Richard Wright
I was leaving the South
To fling myself into the unknown...
I was taking a part of the South
To transplant in alien soil,
To see if it could grow differently,
If it could drink of new and cool rains, 
Bend in strange winds, 
Respond to the warmth of other suns
And, perhaps, to bloom.
                       --Richard Wright