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Singapore, United Kingdom, South Korea . . .HELLO to those of you, my readers, who are followers of Notesong Carpenoctum2 and thank you to those of you who are new readers.                                                  Delores Fisher at the piano I've been working on a couple of music sound-scape score revisions for poet and instruments. I have the performers picked out and the musicians, although I may add a violinist to the mix once I'm done. I'd be further along with these projects and my new books if I had not gotten a summer virus that pushed me flat on my back, unable to hold down food for several days. Please be cautious ya'll. Virus and bacterial illnesses are still around even if COVID 19 is no longer at pandemic levels. You are not being rude if you move away from people who are coughing and sneezing and NOT keeping their mucous or saliva droplets out...

                                           Delores Fisher blogger/poet/educator APRIL  . . . It's National Poetry Month! Here's one of my original poems pre-COVID 19 from 2020. VISION WALKERS              by delores fisher  The dream has not been deferred, It exists, playing out on an eternal time table we cannot control. Many Vision walkers are long dead, Brother Martin and the elders . . . Slain by the insane who scream Vile obscenities cloaked in shape shifter Media molded palliative atrocities. Generation Z AND Alpha! New generation of Vision walkers ---their legacy pierced with cloven fire They hover above the valley of dry bones, They hear the wind signaling a new anointing, They dream walking visions of a generational ancient call. Knowing like the elders:   “To rise in victory, is to bow on humble knee ...

Hello to all my North American followers and followers overseas. This is just a quick February 2024 post to say thank you for reading and sharing my blog thoughts for all these years!                          Delores Fisher blogger, at a Park and Market Concert event It has been an unexpectedly busy 2024, however, here are a few photos and comments just to chat and share.  Music R. Nathaniel Dett  is one of my favorite composers. A few years ago, I started playing Nathaniel Dett because of  several of his very avante-garde sounding piano pieces. This summer I hope to add a few more of his solo piano pieces to my performance repertoire.  This is his "Desert Interlude" from his  Eight Bible Vignettes. . . Yes . . .I am playing again.                                                 ...

We all think about those negative influences that we would all like to forget; yet we often neglect to acknowledge those positive warriors who quietly and compassionately help us shoulder dark toxic angst, while nurturing us back to the light of healthy joy.  This 2024 January post is to celebrate one of the positive life warrior-healers that I cherish. If you have one of these people in your life, did you stop and give God thanks for them? (If you don't have one, prayerfully your life will soon be blessed. If you do and you didn't offer thanks yet---how about doing it now?) In the traditional Black American community, we have a custom known as "Give them their flowers (while they yet live)." Selfless fabulous people have invested quality time and positivity into my life. This first post is a huge thank you/shout out and a huge Kuumba bouquet of red fragrant roses to my community minded sistah-- professor Starla Lewis! Professor Starla Lewis at the 2024 San Diego S...

 She now has housing!!!!! Abstract Afrofuturist painter: Picassa   Picassa: Summer 2014 Photo by Delores Fisher one of my favorite photos of her Ten years ago, early morning strolls along San Diego pier exposed an often shadow-population of the un-housed who slept while others sat awake to watch over them and to chase away predatory night dwellers who slept during the day so they could prey on the weak after midnight while seeming to casually wander the pier and San Diego's downtown city streets. For the vulnerable on side streets nights were and still are very long all year.                  Sidewalk tent community Photo by Delores Fisher, blogger 2023 Picassa and I met one early fairly sunny San Diego California morning while I was taking a stroll to clear my mind about a recent 2014 blog post. I felt as if something was shifting. I felt unsettled as I walked near the now defunct Anthony's Fish Grotto. A chestnut brown face was l...

Maggie is a photographer with an extraordinary eye for details, colors, shadows, and wonder. She is approximately thirty years old and optimistic about America, its future, its healing, its complex cultural contradictions, and its often ignored people-unifying characteristics as a nation.  Maggie is also homeless in San Diego, has been for the several years I've known her. Although she does create surrealistic phantasms, her photographer's gaze is often realistic, with a dash of humor, irony, and impressions that reflect a phrase I recently coined in 2023 for her work and similar works by homeless artists:  " the satirical homeless gaze."                      Image reproduced with Maggie's permission:   She also uses her creative eye to design patterned hats out of yarn. She is looking for a possible concession spot in a small boutique, once she has a collection of hats to sells.She sells a few on the daily in the win...

 Yes, I used the term homeless in the title as opposed to other more PC terms.  After reading various articles and blogs, including an enlightening reminder by Joe Omundson at  https://medium.com/ecofrugality/stop-confusing-homeless-and-houseless-39b055d29ea3  , the terms homeless and living on the streets seem to be labels these musicians and artists I will write about this summer prefer.                   Glen Pops Freeman photo by Delores Fisher They have shared their stories about COVID 19, feeling invisible, how they spend their daily lives, the precious flow time spent on the streets, maintaining hope while facing pandemic dynamics, a humbling experience they are allowing me to share with you.                                                     I've written about gen ...

Delores Fisher at San Diego Who Con 2021 (Photo permission by photographer) Convention season is starting here in San Diego California. Downtown stores, restaurants, art galleries, and conference rooms will serve thousands of in-person conventioneers this summer! Add to that the ZOOM workshops, breakout sessions, podcasts and webinars, and it almost seems ai if business is back to pre-COVID heights. ALMOST....but-we'll talk about that at a later date. One of the smaller conventions that has returned to in-person attendance and continues to expand is the San Diego Dr. Who Convention.   San Diego Who Con is really fun and informative for fans of hard science presentations as well as the soft and speculative. Anything that has to do with dimensional explorations, robots, and time travel for an Afrofuturist like me, has got to be fun. San Diego Who Con 2022 photo by delores fisher Of course, I still have Dalek issues and wow, this display really sent me thinking about future ...

Hey everybody! Catching up on posting. Thinking about adding an appearance update page. I am working on several projects and scheduled in-person guest appearances. So, perhaps the update page will keep you more in the know about various upcoming or already occurred bookings and events.                                       Delores Fisher Blogger/Poet San Diego State University has many award winning student organizations in a lot of majors! These student organizations are not only becoming more well known locally, regionally, and nationally in their specific fields for research and innovations, but also for their global humanitarian commitment to nurture positive change. SDSU's Black Student Sciences Organization is one of these groups, young scholars dedicated to increase knowledge as they link to humanity. Thank you to Dr. Estralita Martin and previous BSSO presidents for inviting me to...

                                             Delores Fisher blogger/poet at poetry reading Hello to fans across the globe. 2023 is here! Not really making any new year resolutions. Taking life one day at a time as the title of that old Country and Western Christian song says by Marijohn Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson. See Donna Leagh Mathews' brief but informative coverage of the song's origin https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/one-day-at-a-time/ So many changes for all of us as we learn to live with the global reality of COVID as an endemic illness.  It seems we are still divided here in the United States--but a little more respectful--of our choices to mask or not as mandates lift and actual cases lessen. It's nice to take a stroll around our San Diego California pier ...