Our names aren't made up rubbish - by Emily Imani

Emily Imani Rose Quartz 

 Maybe the wild Indians weren't chanting heh ya ya ya ya hey ya ya ya yaya - maybe they were rapping  ( hey ya) but what the colonist heard was a rhythmic steady chanting. It's also very possible they were reciting sutras- as deeper research reveals hindus religious origin as being the ancient Americas first. What I KNOW they weren't doing is just jumping around being savage heathens  saying nonsense words with no intelligence. Jump up jump up and around. It's been a long time I shouldn't have left u without a dope beat to step to- Is it possible that rap is an historic art form of the indigenous Americans, wild Indians? It dawns on me that rap isn't new, it didn't start with be-bop and jazz either. It started back with and before the mound builders in ole Mississippi. The Mayans. TYE Aztecs go further back..the Olmecz The earliest inhabitants of the Americas a span of land once known as India.   I feel terrible for all the years I taught that rap came from the griot tradition of West Africa. Our Ancestors have been so kind to us, even though we ignored them and every whisper of them even though we were told time and time again that we had Cherokee blood, and a bunch of other passed down rumors despite all dat- we stopped giving them credit and to make things worse we boldy gave credit to some other folks across the ocean who don't even look like us unless u believe that ninja look the same  seen one you seen em all.  I can't believe we believed that racist baloney.  Ancestors please forgive us we have been under deep spell but finally the new babies being born  and these babies are still rapping chanting creating slang the whole world wants to master jus for a chance of feeling like us just a little bit- the words black is sliding off our back -    We are quite beautiful copper mahogany ebony and brown with all kinds of gold and red earth tones. And our blood lines our lineage is different clans, tribes and regions. Our names aren't made up rubbish, it's the sounds of our language that keeps popping out of our mouths. 

A Writers Public vs Private life 🧬 A.I. Changes: Readers and Writers by Emily Imani

 Hi super quick blog today as I'm on a mission between clients today. Please look for the Emily Imani Podcast; Deeper Meaning of Desire. Hosted by ya girl the Sensual Celibate. By the way out of curiosity I asked Google how long I've ( Emily Imani) been celibate and it very confidently said I have been on a "celibacy journey" for six years. Well that's a lie. One it's not a journey - I don't call stuff like that a journey and it's been closer to ten years. I hate to talk about it at all but it's slightly relevant to my public life because I have some controversial books about to be published and this is a good time to share that I myself have not been in a relationship for a long time. At least not traditionally romantic. I don't advice the life of a celibate, I sure as hell am not married to it and I don't feel like it's beneficial to make hella content about that. The pros and cons are probably equal. My goal with the current books is finding different angles and routes to one destination which is to fulfill my mission; to promote healthy love and culture in a society where that is rare mainly because people have lost the mentality to deal with other people openly and honestly. There's a lot of shame based social programming. Its caused people to convulate and deviate because there's not a healthy space for people to talk about love and intimacy realistically within a spectrum of spiritual redemption so instead the dark web grabs them. Meanwhile we have very scary Pedophiles in politics and the entertainment industry. Who's buying all the child porn and children?🤬 Alot of married women are suffering in silence because of stuff they found on their husbands lap top and no one is talking about the Truth! Why the hell are adults finding children sexy!?! Something is wrong. My other goal is write stuff that is readable in today's world, meaning finding different less dense ways to tell a story because a lot of people have tons of racing thoughts - how do I produce books that the tiktok generation can read and really love reading? To me this means finding metaphysical ways to insert data, details and atmosphere. To awaken the brain and the senses quickly. Without dwelling.Because a super dense sentence isn't going to cut it. Cute and clever word play does not hold the same value as it did before A.I. explicitly exploited certain once unique poetic styles. So as a writer even I had to change my perspective. People read differently because everyone is used to reading A.I. content. It's in our job training materials. It's in all the marketing script: and it's reshaping what people expect and crave in absorbing text. Everyone is different, every author is different but for me this means you will be meeting deeper dimensions of my imagination. You will also be meeting a way more laid back writer with several pen names- I have an urgent need to publish certain concepts because as a society we are starving for material that forces us to ask our selves big questions and we are starved for material that challenges us enough that we are compelled to come up with OUR own answers- instead of asking a damn chat bot. Thank you for taking a moment to chat with me feel free to jump in the comments and keep up YOUR great work - the future needs us to be creating now. Peace babies -keep growing and flowin ! em Rose 🌹

              Author, Artist and Healer, Emily Imani 

Art without Artists: Artificial intelligence and Culture by Emily Imani

"What's Art and what's Not"- by Emily Imani. Uh yes. I agree.  I think it's worthwhile considering what the general public sees and perceives. As an artist or writer if it's a.i.  -its not really  art or writing because where is the human design, the artists vision? the work? But for the consumer who doesn't  tap into a capacity to need to know -where or how -the image or writing was formed none of that matters. The value is in the perception, the resonance, not the talent or blood sweat and tears of a traditional artist.  With a.i. art the precise founder of  a “vision” and the owner of its initial form is not center stage or even on the stage- the sources of the vision have been uncentralized. We now have art with no artists- in many cases a.i. art can be closer to something the viewer may have imagined or would have created themselves if they could. That is one of the differences.. traditional art and writing has always been a conception of the artists or authors vision and imagination. But..A.I. art is often a reflection of  a 1dimensional, 2d embodiment of the vision of the person viewing it. Art does evolve. It switched focal points. So if someone likes the a.i. art it's probably because it looks like a vision of their own mind or something they could imagine and enjoy seeing.  The art becomes the vision, of not who has created it, but of who is viewing it. This is a summary of art with no artist by me. Because I am a writer and an artist but I'm not dying on any hills over a.i. art. I've used it myself to create or shall we say generate  visions I don't have the skills, to get onto paper or screen myself in a more traditional sense. Some people  say that they use a.i. for ideas- whereas I already have way too many   ideas to function properly in society.  But I needed the ability to execute.. and as many will suggest I could or should just pay a real artist assuming I have the money to do so - but what if the artist creates their vision more so than mine? With a.i. wouldn't I have more ability actually to create/ generate what I really want!? And. I've argued vehemently against a.i. art and creative endeavors ( especially  the music!) but this is happening and I'm not going to get stuck one way or another and  For actual artists to remain showcased we should understand beyond our own perceptions what is going on ? As for Pinterest and all the other platforms obviously there are no humans anywhere to help when things like art get mislabeled ( real art getting labeled as a.i..) and this is scary because imagine the impact bots could have on the legal system or even say credit issues , you have no way to defend yourself against the accusations and labeling of machine that doesn't care one iota about anything and apparently answers to no one. 

Professional Pressure Personal Processing in 2026

Professionals Slowing Down to Process is a new series by Author, Artist and Blogger Emily Imani Rose Quartz.    Career wise I’ve stepped mostly away from social service even though I still maintain contact with employers in the field and if the right clients and hours showed up within walking distance of my house- I might slide back over to the softer side of life. Because what happened is I had an opportunity to bring my skills and passion into the corporate world (working for a good cause I hope 😏)- and I’ve noticed that outside of social services workplaces tend to be insane “lol”- in that even before the benefits kick in employees must become fully submerged & embedded into the fiber of their corporations mission. Companies are running lean; you may be expected to do what once was three peoples jobs. To accomplish this you should be capable of  becoming one with technology during your shift. At the same time you must have infinite access to your free mind.  If sales, contracts, a.i. or trackable metrics are involved- you better be prepared to go hard or go home.  Most of the staff have backgrounds in everything but psychology- unlike social service organizations; these people haven’t attended endless soft skills training, conflict resolution courses, they aren't forced to renew annual certifications in de-escalation techniques, or understand ethics violations.  In the corporate world listening skills are mostly  just a technique for extracting useful data from clients. Now I'm not saying employees in corporate environments don’t get some training in these areas and I'm definitely not saying they don’t study these topics in their own time- I'm really just saying that it’s a very different work culture and ultimately regardless of what field you work-  many of us are laced up on caffeine & creatine, acting as if we are under too much pressure to open our hearts and lounge wantonly  in the emotionally healing presence of ourselves - the hint of deadlines swirls around in our personal time as the count down to Monday ( even if you love your job) can feel like a noose around the neck or at least like an uncomfortable scratchy wool sweater. And it may not be the work place causing this presence of tension - it may be the mortgage rates, it may be a high risk tenant asking for another rent extension- it could be that our drinking water  may be poisoning us- whatever it is- it has the effect of us spending more time staring at screens and looking over our shoulder- wondering what’s next- than we spend looking within. Whether you’re spending time in social media or working under a point system- we’ve become cornered and trapped within endless loops of validation vs. no validation- whether we seek it or not. What does this mean? It means we are not taking the much needed time to float, to look within, to feel the relentless backlog and to process our emotions. So I decided to begin this blog series for myself as much as for anyone else.   - Emily Imani Rose Quartz is an Author,Book publisher and Artist , A spiritual teacher of dance and movement who also has maintained a career through contract positions, grant based projects and regular employment because “there’s parts of me I only meet in the workplace - and because every job is a priceless education in something,  the best part ? You get paid  to learn”- Rose Quartz 🪷🙌 

Aging Parents: Fears and Realities, A Blogstar by Rose Quartz

Have you ever visited with a parent to suddenly notice, and I mean really notice that they no longer look the way they used too ?  More often than not we look at family members seeking out the familiar.. such as the smile or mannerisms we remember from childhood. 

So even as they age we may not notice  just how much time has passed, because we are still looking for  what we want to see. Maybe your parent was diagnosed with a diseases that is a result of many years of a certain diet or life style. All of a sudden you realize  that "life" is catching up to them. It's even worse when the doctors give a life or death warning..suggesting that if they do not change they will shorten their lifespan. And you are left with the uncomfortable word..Lifespan..it can hurt to think about a parent  having a lifespan, all of a sudden its real. This world willone day be without the only person or people that have always been there. Hmmm..

Or it could be a parent falls and never really regains their mobility. Or it could be the way they walk is slower or just to be honest, it could just be that suddenly they look way older than what you were ready for seeing. This brings up alot of issues, such as who will take care of them if they become sick or actually break a hip ?  What if they refuse to take the doctors warning seriously and keep on with an unhealthy lifestyle? What if they become depressed, stubborn and or suffer memory loss all at once?

This can happen at any age and stage for an adult child. It happens at to all of us at different times..but the bottom line is that it happens. We must now consider our parents needs instead of just living the adult life we had been waiting to enjoy. Often as soon as we are done raising our kids our parents begin an unexpected decline. 

One of the most difficult tasks is getting an older parent to actually listen . They continue to see you as the child, not as a fully functioning adult. When you try to give them advice for their health ,safety and financial matters they tend to blow off every word. In other words a lot of your time and energy is spent trying to figure out ..what to do about mom...(or dad). So when will you get to live your life ?

The most important thing to do, is be prepared to deal with this part of life. Having a stable home life of your own helps immensely. Having a loving partner to keep you stay grounded is important. Plan ahead to not give up your dreams, your sex life, or all your time. This has to be a value that is non-negotiable. Talk to parents before they get too old and let them know you would rather discuss this now than twenty years from now.

 Find out what their finances are and what options they might have if they need medical care. Make that call to siblings..and put the topic on the table. Be ready. Be aggressive about self care, travelling and pleasure because the time will come when your whole life may be upended painfully by the sadness and finality of an aging parent. 

Spend time with your parents, take those calls and make those calls. These will be the memories, that will get you thru grief. Knowing that you were there for them and that you never lashed out at them.

When one begins to feel the strains of aging parents one begins to feel older ..it's almost  a domino affect of aging and a way of dealing with an overload of responsibilities. 

This can be a hard time, but ideally you will go within and seek out your own rebirth. In as many ways as possible,  chose to become more alive.

This is not about how much you love a parent. This is about how to function, blossom and grow, even as a parent is aging and even after a parent must leave this earth.

Peace and Blessings From

Rose Quartz

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Greyhound Bus Blog: Seattle To Amarillo Texas During Tornadoe Season by Rose Quartz

It's pretty good combination of blissed out moments and nerve wracking hell. It's being somewhere in the middle of the night, and no way to check the time.  It's dark. It's dark outside of the bus and even darker in the bus. I lost track of where I am and where I might be..I just know im far enough from home I could make up a new identity and no one would ever know the difference. In other words I can start to be me. People on the bus don't ask your name but bond deeply over destinations,  and  the discomfort of hours  spent waiting in pure confusion stuck in bus stations where nothing is on time.  In Greyhound world, conversation isn't needed to bond. People buy you food and ask if you good, give you pieces of gum and some fall in love and lust if only for the trip. I wont go into details about the dangerous realities of traveling as woman alone dragging along a roller suitcase and backpack..that would be another type blog. 

 As I was saying it's dark..I'm from the West Coast and I've crossed thru mountains and thru Mountain Time into whatever the name of the time it  is when one is in the midwest and southeast..the internal lights on the bus are off and FINALLY the  air conditioning has been turned down a little. Heads are resting on plexi glass and seats reclined back. The driver announces we are going thru inclinement weather and expect  the bus to rock and sway, and actually as we fly down the freeways the bus does shake a whole lot, its body thrust and thrashed by winds, its metal parts rattling  the bolts holding it together,  thumping and snapping like crazy. My only comfort is that the wheels are on the ground . 

 I'm headed into the part of the country that's flooding along the Arkansas river. 

 Hours later we arrive in El Reno Oklahoma the morning after the fatal tornado. Our bus stop, strangely enough, is in a gas station parking lot, in the midst of  the worst damage. Signs and billboards are  dangling.. rubbish and roofs are strewn on the ground. This is just a pick up stop,  the bus driver warns us, meaning we cant get off the bus to buy food. One lone passenger boards in El Reno, and we head  to Oklahoma City then finally Tulsa where I will have a great time as a presenter at a national conference. I'm thrilled to be sharing what I have learned as a cultural artist in regards to preserving democracy in America 😊. 

 Seriously I loved it, my destination, but before long ( several days actually) I was being dropped off at the downtown Tulsa Bustation. A  place that has no rules, buses slide in and depart whenever, outbursts are common, and the staff randomly abandon the front counter ( and the backroom, and the entire building, it turned out) for hours. 

 On my way home somewhere in Missouri a toranadoe is spotted in the darkness. The busdriver alerts us we all need to wake up as we may have to take action. What kind of action I wonder? I have had a great trip and a successful presentation at a Conference in Tulsa. I spent my time there sleeping in a five star hotel and in the homey comfort of a friends place.  After waiting hours in the Tulsa bus station for a late coming bus heading North, I'm so tired that  the news that we will be driving thru, nearby or hopefully around a Toranadoe doesnt faze me.  By now I have total faith in the Greyhound driver to get us to our next stop in Kansas City safely..that said I put my earbuds back in, tuck my blanket around my shoulders and rock out to my music falling alseep, ready for whatever happens when a bus meets a toranadoe .  

Twelve hours later the sun is glaring on cornfields.  I am  baking like cornbread in another bus with another driver. The air conditioner is broke and the windows just barely crack open a few inches. We drive for hours thru the flat plains states, in a humid, sweaty, airless stupor. Packed like sardines, in an almost airtight canon ball tin can called a greyhound bus.  Race ceases to exist. Black, Mexican,White, whatever. The heat causes every body in the bus to lose consciousness and the driver is saved from our angry cursing and complaints.

 And before I say anything else, I need to say very loud and clear that Greyhound Buses are some kind of chariots from God. America would not be the same without this affordable and safe way for people of varying incomes and lifestyles to get from sea to shining sea unlike air travel, bus travel leaves it up to each rider to get lost or drift off along the way.  You will be thrown days off scheudele with no remorse unexpected changes with bus routes are the madness and mystique of riding greyhound great distances.. along with  fleeting but momentarily deep bonds, smirking with disgust at the news of another late bus. But you will bond in ways you cant imagine,  sleeping on a hard metal bench with a stranger dozing at the other end of the bench,  shufflin on and off a bus for snacks and smokes blazing a trail of funky body, no need to explain shit to anyone type travel  

Yes it is slower than flying..  your left in privacy to get lost, to buy a ticket without governement ID. Adventurers, free spirits, lower income families with small children, immigrants, pleasure seekers, solo artists, explorers and most definateley, a few catfished fools going to meet their fb lover for the first time? All aboard!

 And please be on that bus at the time you are told or you will only have your self to blame for promptly being left behinddamn near any where without your luggage  or carry on bag...no one but your self to blame, and no one but yourself to be proud of,  when your sore butt finally feels the victory of  getting where you wanted to go!  It's a great feeling like your team winning the superbowl,  trust me.

What kind of people take greyhound across the country? People who can afford a ticket and people who don't care about trying to beat  time at it's own game,  people who aren't tied to jobs that rush you back to work with threats of being fired-  basically people who don't have those kind of worries that tie a person down to a place ...renegades of the modern world.. people who aren't afraid to spend two, three, four days getting somewhere. It's all about freedom if you ask me. Do you have time ?

Peace and Blessings 

From 

Emily Imani Rose Quartz

What to bring on 24-72 hr bus trips :

Food, especially of you are vegan, vegatarian or hate bread and gluten. Greyhound carries your big luggage up to 56 inches for free so you can fill your carry on with food, bottled water and snacks. This is going to save you alot of money. 

Baby wipes, wash clothe , toiletries ..do not be the funk that ruined someones elses trip

Phone chargers, USB cords, music, small blanket and pillows

Seriously a warm jacket, sweat shirt, beenie cap and /or wool scarf. No matter how hot it is outside greyhound air conditioning is brutal

And most important.. Make sure you have.. somewhere special to go 

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