Maya Angelou - The bird uncaged

http://www.biography.com/people/maya-angelou-9185388

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0

On May 28, 2014, the bright shining star of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, died. She was one of the most magical spirits in the world, who left too soon (if some of us had our way) after Madiba (Nelson Mandela) moved on to his long home before her.  So much has been said of Maya Angelou, some not beautiful at all, but deplorable by people who, because of their own insecurities, stereotype other people.  Maya's personality type was that of a strong, Spiritual, and fearless Humanistic aspect, which ran the gamut of what goodness and dignity are.  Her beginnings were very humble, as can be seen in her autobiographies.  

Maya Angelou's brilliant intelligence could not be hid because she had a mouth, with a voice that moved some people to fear and others to awe.  She was that powerful.  Her commanding presence was like the tallest mountain.  I suggest that Maya Angelou was of Humanistic Personality Type because of her many traits that fit the aspects of that type:

She of course believed in free will, simply because human beings have a will (unless they give it away to a foreign entity, such as drugs, for example).  Maya used her will to make things happen for the good of many. She mistakenly, as young children can misunderstand, thought that her voice had killed a man because at that age, she knew she had power for something.  Maya kept her voice caged for five and a half years before she spoke again.  That was a very early revelation of her willpower.  Then, she began to speak.

As triumphs and tragedies continued in her life, her indomitable will persevered through every one of the bad times and she basked in the good ones as her star rose higher and shone even brighter.  Maya became a boon to many and a bane to many others.  She believed in the solace of education and the gifts it brings.  She believed in brotherhood and tried to spread it all over the world through the way she lived in her world.

She was humble in her faith yet strong in her powers.  Maya Angelou's understanding of life helped her see through the dark veils of illusion to Still I Rise.  Maya has mentored the thoughts of countless world students whose lives she touched; they now carry the torch as humanitarians of all kinds.   Maya Angelou died, but her legacy lives on: in and with us.

Bowing the head of my heart

Bowing the head of my heart

I bow the head of my heart

While I consult my Muse.

I humbly receive any Wisdom

Bestowed upon me to use.

As Angels come down here,

Their presence fills me with sheer

Awe and a most Godly fear.

Angels always have a listening ear.

I tread softly as the celestial Muse

Makes peace be still in the ocean of my soul,
with more Wisdom words than I can ever use.

When I need to steal away to pray,

Those wisdom words are always at play.

Cycling, recycling, and recycling again,

Like a regurgitating machine deep within.

I bow the head of my heart

While I consult my Muse.

I humbly receive any Wisdom

Bestowed upon me to use.

As I allow the Spirit to overtake my pen,

I bow the head of my heart time and again.

(MHMoore 1-7-14)

Joy to the Spirit of Christos in the World in 2013

Amid the clamor 

And the clutter

Of noise and paper;

The smells of meats 

and other enticing vapors;

Amid the captures

By pictures & movies

Of the toils and capers

Of old and young and

In between alike: 

Remember the Centerpiece

Of every kind of

Christmas, festival, and holiday feast.

The Star of the Anointed One

Rose in the East;

It is the Christ Spirit born in 

A Babe, yonder in a manger; 

Greeted by parents and quite a few strangers.

Happy Holidays, then, 

In every dialect and language

Known and unknown to the human race

May you ever be nourished by

and bask in the healing of It's Grace.

Mary H. Moore (12-24-13)

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All things working together: Building and burning bridges

(Luke 14:28-30 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not

 sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish 

it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to

finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, 'This man began to

build and was not able to finish.')

When we build & cross bridges that are strong and stable,

We should not unwisely choose to tamper with the cables,

When we find all things, truths and lies, laid out on the table,

We find that to cross a broken bridge no one is able.

~~ Mary Handy Moore, 12-16-13

Jury, jurors, jury selections. All about race; still about race

Race Bias Persistent in Jury Selection

People who want to avoid the issue should stop saying, "Race has nothing to do with it."  Saying it does not make it true.  The truth is that problems don't solve themselves.  That's why God made people - to solve problems created by people.

When things get too heavy in the midst of insanity

• http://www.democracynow.org/live/bradley_manning_verdict
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This must be how Jeremiah felt when he had to seek out some staying power.  He was in the midst of  "a stiff-necked people" and he was feeling the weight of the day.  He called out to God:
  
  
  Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
  
  
  And God called back to him:
  
  
  Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hardfor me?  (Jer. 32: 17, 27).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As my daddy used to say, "It beez that way sometime."
  
  
  
  
  Well okay then!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  While I dwell on this travesty in a prayerful mood and a sadness in my heart as if Pfc Bradley Manning is my own child, I won't lament.  
  
  
  Instead:
  
  
  
  
  I will Trust in the Lord with all my heart, and I will not lean to my own understanding.  In all my ways I will acknowledge him, and he will direct my paths.  I will not be wise in my own eyes.  Instead I will fear the Lord and keep from evil. Therein is hidden health in my navel and the marrow of my bones.  So I will honor the Lord with all that I am and with all that I've got.  So be it.
  
  
  
  
  Now,

  
  
  "I feel better, so much better, since I laid my burdens down."
  
  
  
  
  
  

Deep thought reflection on profiling and things

In response to a fellow student:

Everybody that is nonwhite is a target for profiling (young or old), which is the state of things since 9/11.  Just as NSA is a reality (because of the abuses of the events) of 9/11, profiling, a result of the Patriot Act, is also.  However, those who suffer the most from racial profiling are blacks and any ethnic group that looks like an Arab.  For example, it is hard to tell some Latin Americans (unless they are Caucasian) from some of the various ethnicities of the Asian continent.  However, I think that even the Hispanics are not as much in jeopardy of profiling as is the Arab.  

Further, if religion could have a color or had a human frame, more people of any ethnic group would be harassed or profiled because of their religious affiliation above anything else.  I always say that black people, for example, have enough problems, and that being Muslim only compounds their dire straits for being human beings in an unjust world of other human beings.  Sometimes as it is in these times, religion can get you profiled to death with no apologies offered.  It is insane because we do allow laws that take away people's freedom.  People allowed these things to come about because after 9/11, the citizenry lost all good sense and reason, which allowed the people in power to become everybody's brain, including Bush's.  

People allowed this to happen and have not yet found the fortitude to stand together and change things, which only a mass can do.  Those with the power of money and machinery took the reins from the people with fear tactics and brought more fear upon us because they went out and made enemies of more people than we know of so far; they dared anybody in the world not to like it - for us or against us.  That was the beginning of our sorrows.  An emotionalist America gave over their good sense for a false sense of security that someone put forth to the people, giving policymakers public and private the license to do all the unlawful things that might not even be revealed yet.  For example, all of that lawlessness gave birth to the dreadful drone program and is continuing the lawlessness of GITMO.  

The only way these things can change is that people change them.  The power of the powerful though is that they know how to keep the people from agreeing among themselves that all is one and one is all, thereby keeping the focus of what they are really doing off of them by having the people continually fighting over "unformulated" reasons they are fighting one another rather than fighting the lawlessness of the lawmakers (special interest groups, PACS, and every other unjust powerhouse). (special interest groups, PACS, and every other unjust powerhouse).