"Accepting the vulnerabilities of life...moving with the ebb and flow of mother nature...Cause sometimes growing wildly can be a beautiful reality..." Osage Dior                      ©NEEMA

Island Colors and Infancy Dreams…
By: Osage Dior

Born to Pamela Jean Lewis and Clarence Benjamin Shields in San Franciso, Brandy would grow to lead an extraordinary life were her creation of art would keep her centered amongst the struggles of the world. Her parents met in Kansas City, Missouri and went to the University of Berkeley California; both were active in the Black Panthers Movement and National Black United Front. Also, they equally became educators. The black conscious child was raised to have a great sense of oneself. During a time were racial oppression and poverty were high in the States, her mother and father decided they couldn’t risk raising a child in America. Selling all they had, leaving everyone they knew behind-they moved to St. Thomas in the Caribbean.

By: Osage Dior

I am addicted to midnight photo clicks…
I don’t  now where they will go…
Don’t know how to work the video phone…
But when I do…
Boy, will I be in trouble.

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