Summer Thoughts

I just finished eating Chinese food and drinking a glass of Lipton's peach flavored tea. I did this while sitting on my balcony, watching the sky turn dark blue... 


On the way back from the Chinese carry-out I noticed lightening bugs. When I was a kid I loved those little creatures! As I walked through the maze that the lightening bugs had created for me, I thought, "They are beautiful." I wish that I could have had a friend there to help me catch some. Maybe we could have watched them in a mason jar only to let them go right before their lights started to flicker out... 


I can't get Beyonce's "Party" featuring Andre 3000 out of my head. It's so 90's and funky. Every time I hear it, I imagine a skate party or riding on the highway with the windows down and the breeze blowing through my 'fro...


Looking out from my balcony I can see several trees. I've wondered on occasion what it would be like to sit atop one and just observe. Maybe lay back and stare up at the sky... 


The second verse of Beyonce's "Rather Die Young" reminds me of the most intense part of Laura Esquivel's classic novel "Like Water For Chocolate". Beyonce sings, 

You know I've been in love before 

You're the first one I ever seen 

That burns like gasoline 

So light a match,

 turn off the lights I'm holding on to you 

'cause this might be a last night, oh

In "Like Water For Chocolate" the main character, Tita, has finally gotten to be with the love of her life, Pedro, on their own terms. There is no controlling mother to torment her. Her sister, who ended up marrying Pedro, has finally died. When Pedro and Tita get together it's magic! After their love making pushes Pedro to literally see the light at the end of the tunnel, Tita finds small candles and eats them in hopes of reaching the light that Pedro has found. When Tita sees that light, Pedro is waiting for her. Together their light causes a great fire! It's as if one were the gasoline and the other was the match. 

(I know that was corny but you have to read the book and listen to the entire song! For real!) 

Just some summer thoughts... 

The Window Sex Project

Hello All!


As you may or may not know, my sister Sydnie L. Mosley is a dancer living in Harlem, New York. She is presently working on a fabulous, inspiring project entitled The Window Sex Project! What is it!? I'll let her tell you below!

"Dear Friends,

I have launched an ambitious community arts project here in Harlem called The Window Sex Project. In short, I have created this project for women in Harlem to come together and respond to street harassment by using our bodies - the object of harassment, and our voices - what is often silenced, as tools to fight back and ebb away at a culture that allows us to be reduced to the sum of our parts the minute we walk out the door every day.

While the planning and registration for the community workshops is well underway with monetary and in-kind donations from Barnard College's Dance Department and Center for Research on Women, the YMCA, The Body Shop in Harlem, RINY Media, Hollaback! NYC, The Citizens Committee of NYC, INSPIRIT Dance Co. and more to come, I need to raise funds from individuals for the actual performance which I would like to take place in October or November of this year.

The Window Sex Project is a community based initiative, so I am reaching out to you, my community for your support. I need you to help me raise $6000 in the next 76 days. Ambitious I know, but more than possible! If you have the means to do so, please donate whatever you can. (It would be super cool if you could donate at least $50.)

I am using the crowd funding site RocketHub. Here's the link: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/1736-the-window-sex-project

It's just like KickStarter but cooler, especially because its headquarters are in Harlem. :) (I'm so committed to my local community.) Basically it operates on a TRADE not AID philosophy, that is, you buy into the project and receive cool rewards based on how much you donate. It's completely safe for your online transactions and it will give me the opportunity to produce this meaningful dance work."

I do hope that you donate to her dreams!

If you have any further questions about The Window Sex project please contact Sydnie at sydnie.mosley@gmail.com! She would love to hear from you!!