by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Black and White, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
“This is now our land.”a group has no land,is prevented from landingon lands not called their land,is given land by land holders.the group says this land is “ours”from way back before recorded time,gives this land a new nameand then populates itwith their own.folks...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
Please help me here.Will someone knowledgeable please help me here.Today a BBC news reporter saidHamas and Israel are closeto waging all out war.Hamas has rocks and rockets that don’t appear to killmany Israelis. Israelis have jet planes, helicopters,tanks, artillery,...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, COVID, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
An Interesting dream.Invent a pandemicCreate the antidoteIntroduce them bothSome will resist itOthers will take itYears have passed1/2 the world is deadWorld hunger ceasesLife continues as lifeWorkers still do work Controllers still controlSome leaders deceivedThey...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Spirit, Stories
Motherwe enter this realmthrough our Mothers,therefore we must bemale and female,part Mother.We know Mother Nature.If Mother is naturewe are also.Right?The question then arises,’Why are we natureskilling ourselves’?f
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, COVID, Fred Nicholson, Stories
They say,‘We use Social Security benefits, V.A. benefits, SNAP food benefits, UI (Unemployment Insurance), Medicaid benefits, State Lottery benefits, FHA Loans,CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits, The National Do Not Call...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Spirit, Stories
My Mind?What’s on your mindis stopping memore oftenlately.the FB question,What’s on your mind?has me thinking out loud.We are so possessive(us little man Gods)in the Garden of Eden.When did mind become mine?No union is found in mine.We love our...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 11, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Black and White, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Spirit =‘s God =‘s Loveand man-made lawsdon’t include us all.Know that resistance to equal rights for us all,is openly sitting on this land’s highest court.400+ years of oppression only pertains to transplantsfrom the African slave horror stories.The folks we...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 28, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Black and White, Fred Nicholson, Stories
the accepted ‘One Drop’ rule.At Urgent Care this morning,the front desk attendant asks,‘Are you hispanic?’No.’What is your heritage?’White, Black and Red, I say.The attendant looks puzzledI say,My mom is Austrian-Polish Jewish..My dad is African...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 5, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
THEM and USOur leaders talk about them and U.S.Who is the US included in their calculations?Is it the “US” that rolled a golden likeness of Donald Trump into a gathering today?Is it the “US” that are still getting murdered since the...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 7, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a Major realization.This pandemic is instrumental in moving me to share virtually with others on Zoom,with only a screen separating us.My usual way of communicating has been through characters on stage, my photographs and collage art, woodsculptures and writings. Just...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 23, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
the VisitorThere is comfortin knowingthat my TOD documentis now up to dateand signed.[What’s the hurry?]My very next visitormay be Covid-19.TOD, Transfer on Death.fJanuary 2, 2021
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
the Peacock and the Partridge.two birds with feathers,but not of a feather. one struts about squawking,displaying its brilliant plumage.the other is served on a platter,with its plumage plucked.one says ‘look at mebut do not touch’the other says ‘be nourishedby my...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Privilege! I also know privilegein a world of lightskin is best skinBUTnot light enough skin means I am still tailedby workers at Walmartand at Home Depot,regardless of the manyvisits and cash spent there.All that to sayprivilege is not onlyreserved for white...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
It takes 2 to Tango.Some dancers movein smooth syncopation.Some dancers moveas two, and not as one.Some dancers movein fear across the floor.Most dancers are ableto improve with guidance.Regrettably, we may preferto stay in safe havenswith others like...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Just listened to Orwell’s Animal Farm on Audible.It appears our human dilemma is constant.We have Napoleons, Squealers and Snowballs, and we all know a Boxer, the hard worker and Napoleon follower. When has this country ever been by and for ALL the people? Some say it...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Choosing Sides (out loud).Mitch has packed the courts with Conservative appointees, while disregarding the pandemic. Regrettably, I do not believe Biden has the will to play hardball with the Wrong Wing of this society. Obama tried compromise. What did that get him or...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Thinking out loudI formally decline any invitation to enjoy a happy gatheringwith your family during thenext Native Day feast.OK, OK, I know we are biting our nails (toes and fingers) downto the bloodied flesh,hoping we haven’tinhaled a Covid19 exhale.Plus,the burning...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
the COVID sprinkler.I find it kind of . . ., no,more than interestingthat our President gave a pep talk to flag wavingcolored folk wearing MAGA caps.Colored means black brown and otherfolk.The same homelessjobless prison bound COVID dying communities being shot jailed...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a Cancer, unnamed.You sayI hate your burninglooting and riotingin our inner cities.Let us talk moreI sayMLK talked and talkedand gave us a dreamwe all recite in part.It got us a day off.I saytalk has its time and place,but resistance to changehas festered since...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
“Wolf” boy.The boy cried “Wolf”every day.One day the boy cries,”I am dying.”Some say,“Let’s save the boy”.Some say,“Die already Wolf boy”.”Some say,“Change is the constant”.What do you say?Reflections on our current President.fOctober 2,...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
I DON’T WANTAdding fuel toI DON’T WANTcreatesI DON’T WANTwaves.When many of us fuelI DON’T WANT,what we getis what we see.I DON’T WANTtidal waves.fOctober 1, 2020
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Just watched’the social dilemma’ on Netflix,and realize how addicted I am,and manipulated by social media.The question is,now that I know this,will I delete it from my life?I think not.We can alwaysrationalize addictions.f9/28/20
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 22, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
I benefit from white privilege,not because I am white,but I am light, or was,as gravity and emotiondim my appearancedown to the roots. In NYC, folks thought I was Puerto Rican.In India, folks thoughtI was Indian.One doctor in this area told his dictaphoneI was white,...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 21, 2021 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Good FriendsWe left Vietnam,with our friendshanging from choppers.We’re leaving Syria,with our friendshanging from trees.Smokey the Bear says,’Always leave your friends,with a loving heart’,or something like that.’Trees are our friends...
