Healing Through Sprituality

I just love Black art 🖼️

with the occasional

and then finally all those wrist curls and pull ups pay off and you bring her house fucking house down

and you just take a bow like a fucking champion even if no one is around!

your hand is still a little sore…

but was it worth it? *remembers her moaning, yelling, cumming, flopping around, turning into butter in your hand*

Too often "the world is literally burning" rhetoric tips over into "humans are the virus and will always screw up the world," ignoring the fact that other cultures have consistently managed to find ways to live in the natural world without destroying it.

It reduces the worst of western racist capitalism to "human nature" and not a specific system of exploitation that has clear beneficiaries and a very specific logic that ignores whole swaths of human history, biology, ethics, morality.

"Humans have always been this way" absolves many of even attempting to come up with solutions that would make the future moderately bearable.

Howdy, followers. Today, I’m going to show you these old pictures of African Americans in the American Old West, also featuring photos of famous and legendary Black figures that I considered them as legends of the American western history.

I’m going to be honest with you all as I’m going to give prosperous facts; African American were and still are cowboys and cowgirls. We already had these skills of saddling, cattle ranching, farming, agriculture, and riding horses, back in the ancient times in Northern/Western Africa before Christ, Islam, and colonization. It was an golden age back than.

Bill Pickett (1871-1932), rodeo performer.

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy and saddler.

Jesse Stahl (1879-1935), cowboy and rodeo star.

John Ware (1845?-1905), rancher, saddler, and cowboy.  

James Pierson Beckwourth (1805-1866), mountain man, fur trader, scout, and explorer. 

Isom Dart (Ned Huddleston) (1849-1900), cowboy, criminal, and outlaw.  

Bass Reeves (1838-1910), lawman and deputy U.S. marshal

George Fletcher (1890-1973), rodeo star and cowboy. 

George Glenn  (1850–1931), cowboy.   

Dangerfield Newby (1815-1859), freedom fighter and rebellion.    

Mary Fields (1832-1914), mail courier. 

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), freedom fighter, slave rebellion, scout, spy, nurse, and guerrilla soldier. 

John Horse (1812–1882), slave rebellion and freedom fighter. 

Now, here are old pictures of black people in the old American west. 

This is John Ware and his wife and kids. 

That’s Bass Reeves. 

Bill Pickett’s family members. 

This is Harriet Tubman in her previous age. 

 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and human right activist. 

Moon Palace Books is an independent bookstore located just behind Minneapolis police precinct 3 - the starting point of the riots last night.

When the police tried to set up barricades around the store, they said, “no thanks” and instead set up a station for protesters to get food, water, treatment, etc… They hung up an “Abolish the Police” banner in their window and are just generally badass.

Breath of Fire (Agni Pran)Breath of Fire is one of the foundational breath techniques used in the practice of Kundalini Yoga. It accompanies many postures, and has numerous beneficial effects. It is important to master this breath so that it is done accurately and becomes automatic.

Doing Breath of Fire: Breath of Fire is rapid, rhythmic, and continuous. It is equal on the inhale and the exhale, with no pause between them. (Approximately 2-3 cycles per second.) It is always practiced through the nostrils with mouth closed, unless stated otherwise.

Breath of Fire is powered from the navel point, solar plexus. To exhale, the air is expelled through the nose, by pressing the navel point and solar plexus back and up toward the spine. The upper abdominal muscles also pull in and up. This feels automatic if you contract the diaphragm rapidly.

To inhale, the upper abdominal muscles relax, the diaphragm extends down, flattening as the ribs expand and the breath seems to come in as part of relaxation rather than through effort. The chest stays relaxed and slightly lifted throughout the breathing cycle.

When done correctly, there should be no rigidity of hands, feet, face, lips, throat or abdomen.