“The Barefoot Sade : Soul Summer” and other links…
Michael A. Gonzales: “Unlike her other admirers, I know personally that there is no rushing Sade. Having turned fifty this past January, this golden lady has always taken her time. ‘I’m harder on myself than anyone else,’ Sade once told me. It was the fall of 1992, a few months before Love Deluxe was set to drop—with classics like ‘Cherish The Day’ and ‘No Ordinary Love’—and I had been hired to write her bio. ‘Sometimes it comes easily, other times it’s more difficult,’ she explained. ‘One of the reasons I take a long time cutting tracks is fear, because one can’t change anything once the record has been released.’”
“For Latinos and blacks, a call for unity, not hate”
Hector Tobar: “Listen up, raza. We're walking in the footsteps of giants. Black people have bled and been beaten in the name of equality, and without their sacrifice, we'd be 30 years behind where we are today. …The long African American struggle for civil rights has blossomed into an oak tree of justice whose large canopy protects all of us, no matter our color. And these days there are more of us Latinos huddled under its branches, seeking shelter from discrimination, than any other group.”
Wikipedia.org Moment: Preta
“Preta, प्रेत (Sanskrit) or Peta (Pāli), Tibetan yi.dvags, is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They are often translated into English as "hungry ghosts", from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in Mahayana Buddhism. In early sources such as the Petavatthu, they are much more varied. The descriptions below apply mainly in this narrower context.”