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Victorine’s blog, SPICY, celebrates life through personal stories and reflections on family, art, culture, and various life topics.

  • My Gemstone

    My Gemstone

    For Karen Joy We began, Joy and I, structured as the formation of family Rocky at best Pressured and heated, But malleable. We were a metamorphosis, Joy and I,  into energy of             Patience             Trust and Generosity. Spirits tempered with time, Joy and I, Chiseled our intentions to create            Reciprocal Timeless Sister-love. Forever…

  • A Love Supreme

    A Love Supreme

    Coltrane’s music was transcendent; it flew beyond our expectations into the realms of spirituality. Even before I knew of such things, I knew my father’s music was enigmatic and that this piece, A Love Supreme, initiated some higher ground. The word “supreme.” So don’t blame me if I cannot find a place for the actions…

  • Kill Bill!

    Kill Bill!

    Once upon a time, there was a young mother activist whose Black child attended a charter school where he was one of two Black children in his sixth-grade class. The school invited the mother to do a Black History presentation, and she chose to tell the children about the Childrenโ€™s Crusade, which took place in…