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Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
First off Galeras, happy new year.
I have an artist mindset. Most of me is cluttered. 😂 I guess I would start with my day bag. This thing is way to heavy.
It feels like my whole life is in the bag sometimes.
It’s a fun time.
What’s your favorite cartoon?
Finally a question that gets to the meat and bones of who I am. 😂 no really, I love cartoons more than people.
My favorite is Adventure Time. It’s this weird cartoon about a kid and his dog in a world of magic and monsters. I didn’t love the art style but it grew on me.
It just sparked this idea in my mind of keeping hold of using my imagination. I have made a few random friends from that show. BMO the little Gameboy person is my favorite because they are insane.
We fully support madness here officially.
The songs from this show are life changing.
There is always something going on in the backgrounds.
How do you manage screen time for yourself?
I see myself in the third person after being on my phone too long. Like the universe has given me a tv show about me, staring me and how I did nothing for an hour. 😂😂
Most of the time I’m reading articles and books on my phone or iPad and I still wish I was outside in a chair with a real physical book. It’s all just a balance in a lot of ways.
It’s like being on a boat and only seeing the ocean from a window. You watch the world from your phone while being in the world. I have the same problem with my camera. Being present can be difficult. All you can do is try to be present.
Sometimes it’s all that really matters to me.
What historical event fascinates you the most?
Hola galeras,
What a entertaining question. I’m so tempted too say something fictional but I’ll be on it. Hmmm… I always found age of the Mayan. They have this amazing story telling that is unmatched. The Mayan believed that the world was remade four times and we are living in the new world. The concept is very interesting to me.
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
My first cold living with a roommate hit me like a bullet. Not a soul really cared if I was ok. I had to pick myself up and drive to the store and buy medicine. This is twenty years before the pandemic but it felt like I was done for. I must of had a 103 fever and crawled out of bed into clothes. By the time I got out of the car I was covered in swet. To this day I think about that feeling.
I knew I was in full adult and I kind of hated it but knew I couldn’t go back.
It all worked out but a big wake up call.
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
What a question, I think I have to pick one thing?
I’m West Indian Afro Latino. I have a lot of curry and plantinos in my blood. I think that part of me is loud and funny. We dance and celebrate with colors and music constantly.
When I close my eyes I see my people dancing in costumes to loud music in the streets. It is one of my most vivid memories. I was 13 in Trinidad playing Mas. I was dressed as a Lagajo in black tights with white shoes and a large dog head dress.
I must of walked with a float 10 miles that day dancing . It was December in the Caribbean so it was 90 degrees easy and humid. The music was so loud you could feel it in my soul. So many bodies and smiles. I will never forget it.
I peak into my mind.
So I grew up in a very West Indian Afro-Latino kitchen. I ate so much food that was rich in flavor and spice. Tumeric, curry, anis, ginger and so many more spices are the starting point to the flavors. We eat Roti, Platanos, chillies and drink Ginger beers and Sorel. So I guess that would be my favorite type of food. OK, bye.
No, I ate mostly curries and Naan-type breads. They shaped my childhood. I can remember my long-dead family thinking about how wonderful their food smelled. It was a big thing that we shared together. In some cases, it was how they showed love and affection. My Dad used to take my all over town to pick up Roti skins for dinners with long lost relatives. I have such a big family I have only met some of them once ever. We all meetup and eat like royality, everyone shares stories of their lives.
The Caribbean has a lot of great tastes and cultures. Come see Carnival, it will change your life. The joy of strangers compelled to dance in the streets by a common music. Carnival is like a primal scream of beauty, food and dancing wrapped together. There are islands full of smilling faces.
Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.
So… I don’t know a lot of sports people. let’s start there. I know the big names 90% of the time. If I had to pick someone from all sports I would say my kiddo hero was Sunny Garcia. He was a pro Surfer.
Sunny was such a bad ass and as an Island person a huge deal. There were not a lot of brown people I could look up to in surfing for a long time. I loved to surf back then. I wanted to go pro. I loved the connection I felt to the oceans.
Life.
What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
I loved My so Called Life on MTV as a teen. It shaped my silly self view at that age. It led me on the path to Daria. Something about it let me know I could be a a moody teen girl 😂. I don’t know now why I loved it so much. I have rewatched it a few times and I’m can’t tell you why I started watching it. The show was about pretty white high schoolers with problems I couldn’t relate towards. And yet still I related to it fully. No one looked or talked like me. My school felt the same. A overly happy place that was secretly hell. My oasis became my art classes and that got me through all of it. And slowly I got past all of it and never came back after graduating.
I think I’m my mind I was living the second season in my head.
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
I hate hearing people use the term “devil’s advocate”. People who normally say it is use it to say something awful. Has a very Ricky Bobbie feeling.
I just can’t take you seriously.
The definition is simple.
The advocatus diaboli (Latin for Devil’s advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who “argued against the canonization (sainthood) of a candidate in order to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization”.[1]
In common language, the phrase ‘playing devil’s advocate‘ describes a situation where someone, given a certain point of view, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate or to explore the thought further using valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid. Despite being medieval in origin, this idiomatic expression is one of the most popular present-day English idioms used to express the concept of arguing against something without actually being committed to the contrary view.[2] Playing devil’s advocate is considered a form of the Socratic method.[3]
For me they never make good points, just argue none sense. I just don’t have time in my life to argue to past time.
Reminds me of Neil Degrass Tyson wet blanketing Star Wars movies.
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