NoLa Divine: The Feel Good Inktress: Trick or Treat

"You can say that again!"

"Pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. All other tangible rewards will come as a result."

*Dr. Maya Angelou "we're so frustrated with the way we're represented as black folk in the mainstream, blah blah...is soljah boy louis armstrong? is zane toni morrison? nah, but thank god for all of them...our energy is better spent doing our work than complaining about how much crap there is out there. crap will always be with us... [but] so will really well done, beautifully crafted art. lets do our work." *Chantal James

"Show me a person not full of herself, and I'll show you a hungry person." *Nikki Giovanni

"I can't believe impossible things." said Alice. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." *Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"

TREAT!!!

One of my earliest childhood memories of Halloween is dressing up as a "tennis player".....Digging in my mother's closet, putting on her tennis skirt, t-shirt, sweatband, and toting her adult-sized tennis racket door-to-door all night. I remember always being disappointed in the candy I'd accumulated when I got home; it was never anything that I was truly interested in eating. But I always enjoyed getting dressed up for the occasion.

I'm not sure what grade I stopped having an interest in Trick or Treating, but I was a Senior at Xavier before I dressed up again for a night of rounding up candy with a few of my closest friends. We walked from our dorm all through the streets of New Orleans that night - like we really had any business begging for candy. Lol! But it was fun.

This year, I was invited for the first time, to a Halloween costume party, and I was thrilled to accept the invitation because I'd never been to one before. Unfortunately, the party turned out to be a bust - but my costume was cute!! In honor of The Secret Life of Bees, I thought I'd dress up like one! Ha!