Tanya from Montreal: Gifted and talented Artist 

More beautiful gorgeous and wonderful Watercolors from Tanya from Montreal.

WATERCOLORS

 

Today’s Forgiving Fridays: Loving My Inner 12-Year Old

Supporting and Uplifting Tanya from Montreal

My Artist buddy who displays her artwork at 14th street Union Square Subway station.

Tanya is seeking to rent a room in an area safe for young Ladies. If you have a reasonable price room close to Manhattan please email me at deborah.palmer280@gmail.com and I will contact Tanya. Thanks.

Working as a museum security guard I don’t have much to give but I always make sure that Tanya has a few dollars.  Tanya has a spirit of Gratitude and Thankfulness. We now share emails about once a week.

Though I was never able to have children of my own I find that God often sends me young women of all races and faiths who need encouragement. Those of us who have passed that half century mark have the benefit of maturity, perspective and experience. Young Ladies don’t always have that and need guidance from older women. I do my best to help. Sometimes young women just need a listening ear. They have pressures and stresses unique to this Digital Age.

As an Elder of the Global Community I’m here to uplift young women. I let them know that they can confide in me about anything. No shame. No guilt. No judgement. Sometimes young women fault themselves and feel like they are stupid I let them no that they are not stupid you just did not know. You did not have the information and now you do. It takes time to get to the level of courage, strength and self confidence and everyone arrives at a different time.

 

Isaiah 54:1

New International Version (NIV)

The Future Glory of Zion

54 “Sing, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband,”
says the Lord.

 

 

New York ~~ City of Dreams. May All of Tanya Dreams come true. 

 

 

 

 

Tanya from Montreal ~~ Canada

 

Today’s Forgiving Fridays: What is Really Important? 🙂


 

Here is more artwork from my 14th Street Union Square buddy Tanya from Montreal, Canada. One of the great things about working the evening/late shift is meeting subway artists who are displaying and selling their artworks on or around the subway station. Tanya is a lovely French Canadian young lady from Montreal. I’m always happy to see and talk with her. I try to give her a couple of dollars because I know how difficult life is for young people. She is a Blessing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R&B Soul Singer at 14th Street Union Square Subway Station

R&B Soul Singer at 14th Street Union Square Subway Station

Preach Brother!! Tell it!!

His Music was Food for My Soul!

 

 

 

 

Repurpose | The Talking Drums

 

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/repurpose/#like-252092

Repurpose

Show us something that you’ve recycled or repurposed, or an object for which you’ve discovered a clever new use.

 

Listen as these talented and gifted subway musicians use containers repurposed as Talking Drums and hear the audience commuters Whoops of Joy and Exaltation!! Adults and children were left smiling in awe of their outstanding performance!!

 

 

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 52

 

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/12/30/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-52/#like-21455

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 52

One Man Band at 14th Street Union Square Subway Station

 

 

 

 

 

Travel theme: Paper

 

 

Travel theme: Paper

Travel theme: Paper

 

 

 

 

14th St Union Square Subway Station Wall Stories 

Greetings Photography family. I have temporarily lost my home Internet connection however I will continue to post as often as possible. 

Right now I’m at the corner laundromat posting so please excuse the poor quality. I shall do my best and hope to get home Web Access soon. 

Here’s more 14th St Union Square Subway Station Wall Stories. 

Please excuse any duplicate photos. 

The Wall at 14th Street Union Square

 

I don’t expect this blog post to get many Likes or even views but as a Black Woman Living in a racist sexist ageist country about to be taken over by the devil and his cohorts I cannot ignore what goes on around me and make believe Life is all sugar coated candy canes.

On 9/11 2001 we pulled together as one country, one people. We had a sense of nation and unity. On 11/9 2016 that was all shattered. Hopes for the future died. The rift, divide, chasm caused by the hateful words of one man, one male is who now preparing to be the “leader of the not so free world” has shattered all illusions of unity. He has dug from the filth swampy wastelands to stir up hatreds and vendettas that should have remained buried. Our county has now been thrown into an uncertain chaos which will affect everyone whether they care to admit it or not.

But then as my Dad Edward G. Palmer used to say when I was a girl, “I’m Free, Black and 21!”  So I express my opinion beholden to No One and never needing validation.

Let’s face it, when many white people look at me it’s like they just tasted something nasty and kept trying to spit it out of their mouths. Bring out your spittoons!!

Brutally Honest! No Apologies!!

The Wall @ 14th Street Union Square

The Wall at 14th Street Union Square Subway Station. I did not add my sentiments I only recorded the feelings and emotions of my fellow New Yorkers. As a photographer I’m also in the position of being a social activist. I do not live in an isolated bubble. I must record what goes on around me as did many other photographers who preceded me during the Harlem Renaissance, during the 1940s, 50s & 60s Civil Rights Movements, Disability Rights Movement, Women’s Rights plus the protests, marches and demonstrations of our Native American Sisters and brothers.

https://goo.gl/photos/oJzTvev9b9XeUN8a8

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https://goo.gl/photos/J9TKje2ioTLxeS6f9

 

 

Given what is going on in this country no traveling for Thanksgiving this year. We are just target practice for gun wielding racists.

 

Gentrification = Colonization ~~ Take Back the Hood

https://goo.gl/photos/XrrfqZa71zBvphTs8

 

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