THE LIST 2025 :: BEST music*video

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LOVER GIRL by Megan Thee Stallion 

HALLELUJAH (I Don't Think About You) by Kevin Olusola, and the same song performed at Howard University with the Showtime Marching Band and Concert Chorale 

SATISFIED by Micah McLaurin 

bonus: Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl Show (WATCH)

extra: the 2024 list 

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With Gratitude to God for a Life well Spent

Notes: 

1.  

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

2. 

Jesus: Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering. 

3. 

Why do you seek the living among the dead? 

From the Holy Bible: Hebrews 11,  Mark 5,  Luke 24

Flags at half-mast for my mother.

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On studying the Classics

Would it not be nice to know the classics?  

Then you consider The Bible, and you remember Shakespeare, and you smile and shake your head because you've been classicking all along.  It does not get more classical than those.  

And so when a child learns at Koranic school, or an auntie tells a folk Yoruba story maybe with its own song and drums ... the beautifulness of life in that moment is complete and connected to the past so far back as to be valued as classic.  

How old is language?  All human speech, the older languages, the newest language? 

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the #unga

The 80th session of the United Nations' General Assembly. 

The theme of session is ‘Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights’.

Ah, the speeches.  

You are welcome to view and listen to every single country's presentation...How big are your ears?  

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a brag about reading.

I savour the joy of travelling through other worlds while not leaving the current one.  I am currently reading about Tuvalu in this lush piece of journalistic literature.

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