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Monday, November 11, 2013

Reason for this Blog





This is the story of the psychological, physical, sexual, mental and manipulative abuse that I have survived since birth. I was snuffed by a man in the basement of my mother's home. I was left for dead, I stood over my lifeless body in shock and full of fear. I am so tired of keeping family secrets and never talking about what is on my mind. My sister told me in the most recent of years, "I should take a gun and blow your head off it would be the best thing for the family." I live in a fear that is difficult to explain to anyone. To have people wish for your death after suffering such is disconcerting to any life you may be brave enough to try to live.

I am searching for the truth from my childhood. I am the scapegoat daughter or some call it the blame child of the family. I am just tired of the lies that my family tells to cover whatever it is they seem to be hiding today.

I have been diagnosed with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I suffer from flashbacks that go-live on occasion. I never knew this could even happen until one day it did. Therefore, I work everyday to be at peace with myself to ease the pain that such repetition or reeling of the scenes in my mind insists on replaying. I believe that all of what is happening, happens for very important reasons. I know that in the end, Mother Nature is just putting me back together so that I may know the things that I am told I have missed, I.E. Love.

Just keep in mind, you really have no idea what you have missed, even when someone tells you, because you missed it. So if I missed it completely, it means I am unaware of the impact thereof upon your life or subsequently, my life. It doesn't mean, that I don't know what I missed, and albeit curious about that which passed me by. Hence the reason for my patience with myself with flashbacks in particularly. I believe that should we allow what is natural to correct what has most tragically happened in the past, than we can then live more peacefully each and everyday. Giving back what we may have never received. Learning as we go so to speak. At least this my own personal hope for myself.

This is a testimony to the miracle of life itself. I exist, I 'm alive, I'm a Human Being, I try, and therefore I am!

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Parts Off The Guard It's a Martingale For The Crupper Sleeved



The Chest of the Necklace an arena with tack from basic to condition with the Nylons on soar,
grip with the clamp as this tile of glee At breast is the borrow in the knee it's akin,
set with the growing A Number notch belt James Blunt did cast the pearls ask Rocks,
in dime coming quarters the singer beeped seat Won in the trailer to Up the go Night.


To bank on the leather as that inserting of shore Tunnel in the cave is just now a waist store,
ages will canter to the future in doors A Head on the savor locked for the cat,
clause to the chamber ask the rooster of Coop atop the Whether is the Vain on the roof,
switch to the Barn as the stable is true, a listen to the Six of the breaking knots got suite!!


Dressers by the feather in the examination on the Top, 
better to be that Waiter oh but for the cock,
the shaft is a working gear Zen would even Tao, 
cork the shift truth expression What A Hell of a swift,
letting the attentive to push semen out to grip, 
holding for the Muscle train is reality of brain,
for as the used does work it out on bankers every knight, 
the elbow is in the came wait it gets better yet.

Holdings from the Hi boy held to understanding grip, Horns for the swaddle not the baby bits,
needed in the lust of Mind is surface of A Schooling, practice till the body clipped & boom the Hellion tipped,
that cast of crate to only sake has missed the noise of A.M., parking only with the pea O boy you missed the trip,
journey to the elder age of Men that dream A Truck, engines on The Mechanic owners of the page.


Flip this cause to Sexual for in the general Call,
 it is the did of patience that Wins the grands of Dau.

Architectural of music Sure it bounces this select, 
taken with the extra subs. the interjections dug,
deep in seat of Horse Complete that jump of Crossbars first,
a three stride bounce to steady fact is on this Mornings lane,
isles with the flower beauty to sand of rocks and Cliffs,
jogger on the Ages Reign tags the lip to kissed.

Aquatic style touch the Mile on the charters slack,
that Island of the of so bound musters only dialed,
in the arch of number that hand reserved to soap,
making more of whisper The Fates, The Sirens lope!!

Pony over to the Reality of holding don't let go,
increased are cycles to the powers that ride the waves of soak.


At the hards the first is tough but let me story out,
come once Come twice & in the thrice the World knows of rote,
to taller leans that swallow substance the chemical of stills,
should things not function twine in barb the fence must learn to slow,
bring no lather for the sweats as tempo is of virtue,
At best of curls simple.

The lease of information Rackets but does it speak of momentum,
answer question with this splice I'll scream for the discuss:

TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE, GET ME ......, YOU DO NOT......., WHERE IS THE .......!!


It sort of hits The Etcetera at that point but in troop Minds old stock.

The bigger thick is really sick and that just makes this marbles,
draw conclusions shell the bot create this more for sale,
a natural formula to bring to Thought the reason for the swirled.

Study the eyes of the mention steady the available girth,
Ask not anything the body language quirks,
a less of the quarter to increase the dot to aye What is that to bended should the saddle turk,
in burst of the speaker Narcissist stands to Reflective don't be locked at Mirror go purr,
increase the base of thunder to control the quick insert,
A Tale with a quarry is energy to work.

In seller of the Collar with Priest upon the clerk,
 is the Knot of carriage or grade in the footwork.

Back forward Reversal with quiet bodily rock,
 Slowing for the pressure will ease the Mind to Thought.


Treason is the cage A Key is in the Scene,

 foundered is a Horse.

Beds that tremble curtain The Measure is a muscle,
Thick to art of caliber like a fire in the cost.

Catch these simple stations Identify the spot,
Is the wiggle over or beginning with a Cot.

To thimble on the bait It is the Hook that stuck,
the jaw is in a tongue Tepee that campfire of a Cactus,
footing A Crate!!

 term look Up 'Cinch' the Thought,






Sunday, May 20, 2012

I Missed My Ride...With Death That Is!!



Disconnect with what is unnatural.
Stay in the sight of that which will guide you to health,
not destroy, condemn, withhold what is natural, cause pain to you,
all for their own personal gain, just to watch your agony in first person.

Remain in the isolation.
 This is what I was meant to have been left in when I was so young.
Uncertainty will not be mine,
I will remain with what kept me safe: Always.

The other-side did not abandon me,
 nor harm me with that which is unknown to me.
However, what is not known to me,
 will kill your spirit to try should you see it.
I saw that in their eyes, that was clarity of another kind of reality,
not of this World, but, of the next.

The difference in between these two places of existence was undeniable.

Sanity is found in the reality that does not bite,
but, relates to peaceful desires.
I cannot miss that which I never knew
and I do not know anyone from this Earthly plain.

Forward, Onward, Solidarity of One!
I stretched it out over many years to learn how to be what I was told was natural.
At Forty Years Old it became time for Mother Nature
 to put back together that which had been torn asunder by Man himself.

To find after so many years of silence
that the excuses are the same and that the embarrassment for others is so great
they not only keep me at bay, but, cut me off entirely out of their lives
all at the earliest possible convenience that makes them look admirable, not guilty.
Thus, their thinking is that no guilt will befall upon their Life.

Forever and A Day!

The words of those that do not know how long eternity can last.
These ignorant beings that have found my life to much to bare,
 turn in shame from me.
They have said that they will never see,
 nor speak to me again in my life or theirs.

I cannot retreat into what most might be tempted to; A shell.
I must only accept that this is a guise,
 used for those that still breath with uninterrupted life
 on this beautiful planet.

As for myself,
 I went all the way through to the other side,
 to experience what happens when death approaches,
this leaves you with a personal affect upon your Mind.

 At this time in my life, being today, in the present so to speak,
I don't want there to be any misunderstanding
 with any of you that judge
 that which you cannot even comprehend but did.

I realize it was what I had done when I was young that was a missed-take.

Younger than the age of Four Years Old when first taken out by that "Snuff",
I now know that what I did by....
 leaping back into my listless body:

Now, that was an unnatural thing to do.

To have stayed where I was,
which is what I did not do,
would have been the natural thing to have done..... then. 

So, the final question for me to all of You is "why" bother to dissociate,
when in the end it is You that cannot associate at all with anyone like me.

Trauma is real and so am I.

Friday, June 24, 2011

I'm dead, I'm alive, I'm dead, I'm alive. Who knows, I barely survived.



The days that are wondering in my mind from a time that I was just a child.  I am stuck in the mystery of why?  To be so cruel to a child is torture as an adult.  I suffered from neglect.  I was left without supervision most of the time.  I spent many hours looking under rocks at the rolly-polly bugs.  I lived at 815 Balboa Street in San Francisco until I was nine years old.  I would ride my bike around the block and pretend that I was running away.  I was able to go to the playground in Golden Gate Park alone.  I used to be able to go to the corner market on Anza too.  I would by a candy bar for a nickel.  I felt such injustice when the price jumped to ten cents. I used to get fifty cents for an allowance and off to the store I would go to promptly spend it all.

I used to play in the basement of the house when everyone was yelling and it was best to get out of the way.  I was down there once and from the dark a man came putting a bag over my head.  I struggled to get free but he held tight around my neck. I began to suck the air in and out as hard as I could. There was no air, just the bag coming up against my mouth cutting off all the oxygen. It became wet almost and then it went black.  I was standing away from myself, staring. I couldn't figure out why I was looking at myself and then it occurred to me that I couldn't breath and I started to get very upset again. I was huffing, puffing and it seemed like I was sweating, I was freaking out because I couldn't breath.  I just stared, I didn't know what to do, I was scared of what I was looking at, but what I was looking was me. The next you know this thing went flying really fast behind my head.  I was so angry at the time.  I really felt and still do, that I had missed my ride out of here.  This may sound weird to you but I don't believe that I wanted to live, so the anger for missing my ride is or should be understandable.  I remember jumping back into myself, I very much knew that the entire time I was in the basement of the house.  You could hear them upstairs, the chairs being drug around, people walking, the yelling and the screaming made everything very real for me.  When I managed to get this thing off my head, I sat up looking at where I was just standing, trying to understand what had happened.  It has taken a lot of patience with myself and many years to be able to reflect more accurately with an adult verbiage to explain to the average reader what really went on that night.

The best way to describe it, is to say that when I woke I went to stand up and realized I had been missing myself.  I was quiet frightened at the time and I hid from everyone.  Looking back I understand that I had an out of body experience and that I was so angry that I wasn't dead.  I think that over the years that I am more angry that I missed my ride out of this place, than I am angry that it happened.  I just started to put some thought into this strange time in my life and I find it sad that I wanted to be dead instead of being alive, outside playing with friends.  It must have been a really tough life up to this point, to make you feel so convicted about not wanting to be around.  I know that I am still angry about it.  I wish that whatever had happened had been successful.  My life has been nothing but disaster after disaster since that time.  More importantly my family has never wanted me around, so the idea that this actually happened and coming to terms with it, is getting easier to do.  I used to wonder what I did wrong to miss my opportunity to exit life.  I used to think that if it happens again I will be more patient before I jump out of my body in a panic. 

As time marched on it happened again, this time with my brother.  He had been fucking me at night in my room which I shared with my older sister.  He would come in and sneak over to where I was and she would just roll back over and go to sleep.  He would do his dirty act and I would fight like hell, I never won but it doesn't mean I didn't try to take him out.  I even tried to tell my mother and she proceeded to tell me how filthy I was and what a dirty mind I had.  She consoled him and that was pretty much end of any idea that I might get some help at night.  The way he ended up trying to do me in was a bit different.   I would come bouncing down to the basement where he was and he would see me, turn, chase me, grab me, throw onto my back jumping on top of me.  His eyes would change, like nobody was home.  I began to see the changing of his eyes before he managed to grab me and throw to the ground. Sometimes I got away and most times I didn't. 

He would straddle the top of me, holding one hand over my mouth and with the other hand he would pinch my nose shut.  He sat on me with great force, the same force he used in the night, no matter what I tried I could not get away once he had me pinned.  I remember the sweat, or maybe it was just my spit as I flung my head back and forth, from side to side trying to fight him. Eventually he would get his knees up on either side of my head and pin me between them.  I could no longer toss my head back and forth, that is when I became screwed.  It's amazing because all of this takes longer than you would think and as the psychotic one is trying to relieve you of your life, they are also running out of the adrenaline rush that caused the psychosis to originally take place. At least that was what I had observed for myself.

I learned to breath very shallow and then to look like I was not breathing at all by doing this.  He would go through this scene with me like it was an action shot in a movie.  All of sudden it would stop, he would stare off into the distance, then look back at me.  I would pretend to be dead, which is odd that I even knew how to do such a dreadful thing but I did and it ended up saving my life.  After he completed what he thought was my death, he would get up and walk across the basement towards the basement door. It seemed that he would sometimes stall for a moment, almost like he was making sure I was dead and then he would leave.  I made extra sure that I never moved during this time, it was probably the scariest time in my life other than when I faced him in the upstairs hall and was not dead.  That was intimidation on another level. 

I never bothered to try to tell my mother about these things. I mean she did not believe me about the nightly visits, which I can still feel inside myself today, which I don't think is so cool.  Nobody ever helped me with much of anything, but when it came to my brother the entire family would flip upside down to declare his innocence in any sort of thing that he may have been accused of.  He was the golden boy for my mother and father,  he could do no wrong, much like them and much like my older sister.  I was the one who did all the wrongs, which is rather curious since I was the baby of the family at the time.

I cannot give you a good count on how many times this happened to me.  But for a reference it would go right along with him fucking me at night.  You could count on the next day or the day after being your potential "death day."  That was pretty much clockwork.  To bad nobody ever helped me, I was very alone, just like I am today, all by myself.  I guess family secrets for the golden children are held at the expense of the one that has been paying the price of this abuse the entire time.  I am tired of it being on my head, now it can sit on yours for a while.  Thanks for listening and thanks for reading, maybe I will meet someone who cares that this happened to me someday, until then I march on in life. I hope someday I meet you and I need a hug so bad, it's sad.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Do you Journey



"Emanuel Swedenborg, he is different than most!"

Expressing the anger, showing the Rage,
the things that I've held from such a small age.
I thought when I spoke of the Ill's of my family,
that people would react with cause and affect.

The way that it's taken is as if you should be done.
Like nothing had happened, no one fired the gun.
A phase that has happened, bad things, oh well.
It's the callous behavior and the lonely hotels.

Can you imagine that your hearts are so cold,
that all you imagine is time is your well.
Well on 9/11,  the day the Twins Fell,
the death of so many is remembered so well.

I have heard who is left repeat without sort,
time does not heal, it just creates remorse.
I am sorry it happened, but glad that the lives,
now can confess that time does not heal,
it only gets worse.

No answers can question,
what I don't understand,
I'm looking at my dead body,
I am no more than then.

I was so much younger,
my memory is good.
But to sort out what I am stuck staring out,
just simply can't be good.

The years in between don't help, they do hinder.
What did I do to cause such a sinner,
to do such a thing as to take my life clear.
I stood and I'm stuck on the outside of myself.
I tried jumping in, but it seems I was late.
This thing streaming by was so quick, that I missed.

The more that it happened,
in fright or dismay.
I abandoned myself, for I just couldn't stay.
Confusion was blurry, I caught up with myself at night in my bed, the safety of head.
I woke in the morning, I was back inside too, I was right with myself,
I left what was wrong with absolutely all you.

The more frequent the danger,
the more bold I became,
the worse my escapes from myself, like a game.
Upon this one day, I never returned, 
I left what I knew for what was not you.
I felt that my turn to the left would be best.
I fright it did cause the trouble, a pause.

I may have been gone, it's called journey's that are long.
Most men take them in life at ages when old.
Mine began when I was so very young,
 I cannot remember a day without this kind of adventure, dismay?

To me it is natural, a state of affairs,
I kept it all private it seemed wise and not fair.
In the end it was prudent for me and for you.
Now, there are Men that speak of such things,
but they were born January 29, 1688,
lived 'till 1772, wrote lots of books
and journeyed some too.

It would have been cool to talk to him now
but as time can tell,
we missed one another it's the way that it goes,
I think I got hosed.

I write to warn you of what will come for you too,
you will not listen, it bothers me some.
A Sin Board is something that we all do possess,
it's how they keep track of your record; Infest.

I'm not very old to speak on such things,
I don't trust you, 'cause you lie with your minds,
speak truth with your words and direct all this mess,
inside of your head and say that its best.

It is what you do that makes me write more,
You want to blame others instead of yourself.
A singular creature, I am that I swear,
possessed with no spirits, that would cause me a scare.

Cruising along and singing this song,
is not the crime but you want me gone.
I threaten your Soul, your Heart is not there,
what I see that is left is money and dare. 

It is why I trust a man I don't know from this land,
his country is honorable and they are not bland.
To question my motives is to upset the flow,
for I'm not a singer, I riddle from below.

Monday, November 14, 2011

The Destruction of my C.D. Plan


I was left in the National Park,
my family drove away,
laughter from the car tore myself apart.
"Some one love me, some one won't leave Me."
The car banked the turn and I fell where I stood.

I watched through the trees,
the station wagon would lean,
as it curved out of each turn.
The voices so merry,
and I was so forlorn, to death did I grasp.

I was left in the dark,
I was left to go check
to see if anything had been left behind
on this picnic of mine.

I did not know that the thing was me.
They all piled in and screeching I heard.
I ran so fast,I thought I got back,
but all I did see were the tail lights,
no brakes lights lite up,
no doors opened to say,
"Run little sister they mean to kill you today."

I scream in myself, it's been years since this day,
and today I can't breath, for the memory is me.
I was not even Three, they left me to see.
when I fell to my knees, I thought of the time,
that I lived through this bind.

One year or forty, fifty or sixty years, the years could pass,
the pain it does last, for once you've left, you never look back.
Your blinded by pain, if you ever run back, there is emptiness always; You stare.
Until this moment you will not know what its like,
so don't ask the questions, of God or fuck christ,
I stood alone and I had already fallen twice in this zone.

TIMES DOES NOT HEAL THESE KINDS OF WOUNDS!

Human Beings are the cruelest of creatures I know,
they leave not scars but they burn in and char,
whatever they are.
I'll never forget, you Rebecca Mae Dyas, I live in the present,
who would live in this past.
You forget it so fast, you fall for it again and again and again.
It's people like you that lead me down there,
I never suspect, it happens so fast.
You bring on the monsters that haunt me from then
I don't live inside places that scare me so much that the terror becomes my nightmares,
and day mares are back.

You assume with your pompous regime of degree,
and one day you'll know that you never knew me.
Your description of sickness, its sterile from you,
"I will not change," you said this, with what part of your mind,
could even imagine I'd live where I died? 
Is this your presume? Your preference to me?
I try everyday to never remind, let alone remember to any degree,
that I was left behind, In the night with no cars,
there were no people, the park was closed and we were the last to exit that night.

Who would live in a time to remind themselves of,
the family who never loved them,
from birth to this day,
they curse me and say,
"She is possessed and the Beast 666, she is, we know, 'cause we are the best."
they do not protest, they know this for certain and repeat it for zest.
My Family that is, just in case you're confused by all of this news.

Why would I remind myself of this pain,
I ran and I ran, I run till I can,
find peace in my mind,
and kindness from some.
All you have done Rebecca Mae,
is drag up in my mind, pulled me back into time,
that screaming inside can't be heard from beyond,
'cause god forbid it still hurt to be left in the dirt,
face down where it hurts.

Screaming in silence with tears that don't come,
but today they did pour,
after suffering a bag that suffocated the fact,
that air is not needed, you just have to stand back.
Understand what has happened,
 and be mad that you missed,
what seem to have hissed at such a fast pace,
I jumped and I missed.
And Rebecca you're great, you and your emails of hatred and more,
made me recount what happened from birth till Ed was a boy.
Destroyed what was healed,
for the sake or the need to say, "Please stop I can feel."

I hope it was worth it for you to do and leave me in side of a place,
in my mind, that is so very unkind,
you don't know it exists this place in my brain.
Why would I tell you of such lifetime pain.
I would have ruined you before you turned Nine.

You never spent years with me, helping me with anything,
You went off to College, got drunk and did drugs,
fucked boys, went to my Mother's on Holidays and Summers.
Went out with Sarah your Aunt,
before you were legal to drink in a Bar.

Last time I saw you, I told you my truth,
diagnosed as a kid, I thought it would heal.
Make you laugh, it was stupid and not such a big deal.
A genius I said, I joked so you'd feel at ease with the fact,
that I was so young when it happened like that.
You screamed at me saying, "It doesn't count if Dennis said that!"
What a strange response from an eldest daughter: I prompt!

But thanks to you, you caused an erupt,
left you did, just like it was then,
a National Park I was in: KNOT!
This time I sat on a couch without even one friend.
I was all alone, yet it happened again.
I opened your note, excited to see,
it had been so long since you had been near or written to me.
The pain was the same,
 the memory had not hit,
I forgot all the things that happened from then,
I could not even remember the when.
But today is the day and early it starts,
it takes it all day to even begin.
So, as the Bell Tolls,
 as that ball begins to roll,
down memory lane we take that stroll,
I live not in those yesterdays,
for if I did, I would be dead today.

The pain is so deep and it rips when I see,
the car pull away or the note and your say.
"So live in the present," you said, it was mean.
It is what you wrote,
but know that your words, if that's what you mean,
took yet one more life and I'm tired of it always being mine.
Related you are to the ones that did leave,
the small girl that was left, sadly, was me.

No possible way could you ever be mine,
 to say that you're my daughter,
would be a mistake,
and obvious change has caused us to break our relate.
You will know that your name I did give,
Rebecca Mae has caused an alliance,
the death of her mother in mind and in spirit, in heart and in Soul,
thank goodness for that, for I doth not own the last two destroyed from out of this home,
my body does shriek.

I dumped long ago.
One Soul it was sold to my mother in blood,
the Heart I gave away, not to long after, I knew it was not needed,
in a place that found laughter at the cost of a life in obvious strife. 

I am sorry James Blunt, I held high hopes for myself once, in fact many did joke,
that they have danced by your side, met you in person.
The very same crowd that I speak of on here, told me this so clear.
Now that it's over, Rebecca destroyed, five years of planning,
so I would not run and maybe find out what love was about.
And then I could possibly be brave enough to hold a mans hand,
not yours, I'm not stupid.
But as I have said before, my family, my sisters, my no more friends,
rammed down my throat they did,
apparently they thought I wanted just you,
no other would do for me they said.




I used to believe that dreams do come true,
I used to believe that if you do what you are meant to,
if you work really hard, you will deserve and earn a good heart.
That what you do sow, is what you will reap,
that if your dreams have some balance,
then magic may help,
if life's been to much and all you really, really need,
is a little bit of help.

In a dream that I had I knew I did not
want for one thing to happen again,
to be left alone, standing with out a hand or a friend.

The tears they do flow, from those times to these,
the ages of Two and of Three, I cannot take this, what have I done?
But to ruin a Man, I don't even know, I can't hear his music,
it's gone with the flow, of all the hard work to take me away,
in my mind from the pain, I would turn him up loud,
James Blunt sang away, deaf I became, to hurt and the pain.
His heart in the front and he was my plan,
so that I could stay in the moment of now.

I never wanted to lose myself again to the ages,
 of times or in memories that cause me so much fear.
Before I was Ten,
when beatings were fine,
rape was O.K.,
I was the trash can for all of them.
They'd say so casually,  "She don't belong to anyone, anyway."
Let her scream, she might, but who really cares,
she's dead in her mind and she's mine to do with as, as I please anyhow!

Don't worry your mind,
Rebecca Mae,
James Blunt will not care,
he is a Pop Star, a singer from England.

I thought he was cool and really kind of handsome too.
He is busy with his own life, he doesn't read these stupid things that I write.
Least of all care of the pains of a woman, even if I was a fan,
named Set_Zero, I'm gone..

Have a wonderful life,
my Becky Mae of Sunny Brook Farm,
with memories so clean,
"No Regrets" your address, just like my mother.
More importantly so, I loved my mother regardless,
I just did not understand her, it's impossible too.
But know this for now,
you have done and accomplished what it took Five Years to do.
I have not one friend, on a C.D. or in person, or you.
So thank you for destroying me yet once again,
it's been nice to know that I cannot breath from terror of whats been.
I'm older now, you would think I could deal,
but it just gets worse because it's so real.

Shake from the inside,
 I am having flashbacks that are kept in films that are wrapped,
in the back of my mind,
it was the design,
the first time that terror came and left from behind.
It is Nature that makes it so that you will,
never forget the pain and until,
the perfect situation, like this to recall,
in vivid reality what happened, it was raw.

Pink Floyd will rock me tonight I believe,
right out of my mind and into my need,
of peace and sanity, so that I can survive yet one more night.
Have you heard it, it's mine.
Titled,
"Wish You Were Here"

May you believe in what you never see,
but what has never haunted me; Stay. 
So I am never alone again,
I know that I'll never know sin.

I would rather be with what I know well,
then feel compelled to take a life,
with an email or two.

~

Thursday, March 3, 2016

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Paige Johnson (Equestrian)


Paige Johnson daughter of BET founders  Bob and
Sheila Johnson.  Paige has been a competitive equestrian rider since age 5.
From Town & Country Magazine (8/2012)

Paige Johnson

Age: 26.
Riding Since: 1992.
Primary Horse: Chiron S, a 14-year-old Holsteiner.
Stables: Salamander Farm, Wellington, FL (20 stalls, 10 acres), and the Plains, VA (30 stalls, 200 acres).
Parents: Her mother, Sheila, co-founded Black Entertainment Television with her husband, Robert L. Johnson, and is CEO of Salamander Hospitality; the divorced couple’s combined worth is close to a billion dollars.
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DeBoraha Akin-Townson (Barrel Racing)

DeBoraha Akin (Townson) became the first Black cowgirl to compete in the International Professional Rodeo Finals in 1990. Today she is the only African American Woman to compete with a professional card in the WPRA (Women’s Professional Rodeo Association) at PRCA rodeos throughout the United States.
Rodeo Accomplishments: 1st African-American Female to compete in a rodeo finals 1990 IPRA, Tulsa, OK. 1989 IPRA Western Region Champion, 5 time Bill Picket Invitational All-Around Cowgirl, 6 time Bill Picket Invitational Barrel Racing Champion, 2003 California State Fair Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 California Silver Lining Champion,
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Stagecoach Mary (Mail Carrier)

Stagecoach Mary (Mail Carrier – c1895)
Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary (c. 1832 – 5 December 1914),[1] was the first African-American woman employed as a mail carrier in the United States,[2] and just the second American woman to work for the United States Postal Service.[3]
MaryFieldsFields stood 6 feet (182 cm) tall and weighed about 200 lbs (90kg), liked to smoke cigars, and was once said to be as “black as a burnt-over prairie.” She usually had a pistol strapped under her apron and a jug of whiskey by her side.[2]

Biography

Born a slave c. 1832 in Hickman County, Tennessee, Fields was freed when American slavery was outlawed in 1865.[3][4]
She then worked in the home of Judge Edmund Dunne. When Dunne’s wife Josephine died in 1883 in San Antonio, Florida,[5] Fields took the family’s five children to their aunt, Mother Mary Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio. In 1884, Mother Amadeus was sent to Montana Territory to establish a school for Native American girls at St. Peter’s Mission, west of Cascade. Learning that Amadeus was ill, Fields hurried to Montana to nurse her. Amadeus recovered and Fields stayed at St. Peter’s hauling freight, doing laundry, growing vegetables, tending chickens, repairing buildings and eventually becoming the forewoman.[2][3]
The Native Americans called Fields “White Crow” because “she acts like a white woman but has black skin.” Local whites did not know what to make of her. One schoolgirl wrote an essay saying: “she drinks whiskey, and she swears, and she is a republican, which makes her a low, foul creature.” In 1894, after several complaints and an incident with a disgruntled male subordinate that involved gunplay,[6] the bishop ordered her to leave the convent.[2]
Mother Amadeus helped her open a restaurant in nearby Cascade. Fields would serve food to anyone, whether they could pay or not, and the restaurant went broke in about ten months.[2]
In 1895, although approximately 60 years old, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses.[3] She drove the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname “Stagecoach.”[3][4] If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.[2]
Fields was a respected public figure in Cascade, and on her birthday each year the town closed its schools to celebrate.[3] When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption.[2]

Death and legacy

Mary Fields died of liver failure in 1914. In 1959, actor and Montana native Gary Cooperwrote an article for Ebony in which he said: “Born a slave somewhere in Tennessee, Mary lived to become one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath, or a .38.”[2]
In the 1996 TV movie The Cherokee Kid, Fields was played by Dawnn Lewis, and in the 2012 TV movie Hannah’s Law she was played by Kimberly Elise.[7][8]
Source: Wikipedia
EX-SLAVE MARY FIELDS FELT AT HOME IN MONTANA, WHETHER WORKING IN A CONVENT OR MANAGING A MAIL ROUTE.A Black gun-totin’ female in the American wild west. She was six feet tall; heavy; tough; short-tempered; two-fisted; powerful; and packed a pair of six-shooters and an eight or ten-gauge shotgun. A legend in her own time, she was also known as STAGECOACH MARY.Mary Fields was born as a slave in Tennessee during the administration of Andrew Jackson — a feisty sort with whom she shared driving ambition, audacity, and a penchant for physical altercation on a regular basis. She smoked rather bad homemade cigars.Well after the Civil War loosened things up, as a free woman in 1884, having made her way to Cascade County (west central Montana) in search of improved sustenance and adventure, she took a job with the Ursuline nuns at their mission in the city of Cascade — such as it was. (Cascade that is, not the job, although it was not much to speak of either.) Called St. Peter Mission, the nuns’ simple frontier facility was relatively well funded, if remote, and the nuns did a thriving business converting heathen savages, and other disgusting customers, to the true path of salvation — although not salvation from the white men.
Anyway, Mary was hired to do ‘heavy work’ and to haul freight and supplies to keep the nuns’ operation functional and well fed. She chopped wood, did stone work and rough carpentry, dug certain necessary holes, and when reserves were low she did one of her customary supply runs to the train stop, or even to Great Falls, or the city of Helena when special needs arose.
On such a night run (it wasn’t all that far, but it was cooler at night), Mary’s wagon was attacked by wolves (maybe they wanted some of the dried beans or nun suits on board). The terrified horses bolted uncontrollably and overturned the wagon, thereby unceremoniously dumping Mary and all her supplies onto the dark prairie.
The more doubtful part of the story further says that Mary kept the wolves at bay for the whole of the night with her revolvers and rifle. How she could see them in the pitch black night is not explained however, but she did survive and eventually, when dawn broke, got the freight delivered, to the great relief of the nuns who had spent more than $30 on the goods in question (which was their principle concern). At the same time, they had no hesitation to dock Mary’s pay for the molasses that leaked from a keg which was cracked on a rock in the overturn.
At least Mary was prepared for such inconveniences as wolves (or others — such as drunken cowboys), being heavily armed at all times, and ready for a fist-fight at the drop of a hat. “Pugnacious” is not really an adequate word to describe her demeanor.
Since she did not pay particular attention to her fashion statement, and otherwise failed to look and act the part of a woman in the Victorian age (albeit on the frontier), certain ruffian men would occasionally attempt to trample on her rights and hard won privileges. Woe to all of them.
She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana; so claims the Great Falls Examiner, the only newspaper available in Cascade at the time.
Once a ‘hired hand’ at the mission confronted her with the complaint that she was earning $2 a month more than he was ($9 vs. $7), and why did she think that she was worth so much money anyway, being only an uppity colored woman? (His name, phonetically, was Yu Lum Duck.) To make matters worse, he made this same complaint and general description in public at one of the local saloons (where Mary was a regular customer), and followed that up with a (more polite) version directly to Bishop Filbus N.E. Berwanger himself (to no avail).
This was more than enough to boil Mary’s blood, and at the very next opportunity the two of them were engaged in a shoot-out behind the nunnery, next to the sheep shed. (Actually it turned into a shoot-out, because when Mary went to simply shoot the man as he cleaned out the latrine — figuring to dump his body in there — she missed. He shot back and the fracas was on.)
Bullets flew in every direction until the six-guns were empty, and blood was spilt. Neither actually hit the other by direct fire, but one bullet shot by Mary bounced off the stone wall of the nunnery and hit the forlorn man in the left buttock, which completely ruined his new $1.85 trousers. Not only that, but other bullets Mary fired passed through the laundry of the bishop, which was hanging on the line, generously ventilating his drawers and the two white shirts he had had shipped from Boston only the week before. What his laundry was doing at the nunnery is not clear.
That was enough for the bishop; he fired Mary, and gave the injured man a raise.
Out of work and needing some, Mary took a stab at the restaurant business in Cascade. Unfortunately Mary’s cooking was rather basic, which means that nobody would eat it, and the restaurant closed in short order. She was looking for work yet again.
In 1895, she landed a job carrying the United States Mail. Since she had always been so independent and determined, this work was perfect for her, and quickly she developed a reputation for delivering letters and parcels no matter what the weather, nor how rugged the terrain. She and her mule, Moses, plunged through anything, from bitterly raw blizzards to wilting heat, reaching remote miner’s cabins and other outposts with important mail which helped to accommodate the land claim process, as well as other matters needing expeditious communication. These efforts on her part helped greatly to advance the development of a considerable portion of central Montana, a contribution for which she is given little credit.
Known by then as Stagecoach Mary (for her ability to deliver on a regular schedule), she continued in this capacity until she reached well into her sixties, but it wore her down. She retired from the mail delivery business, although she still needed a source of income. So, at the age of seventy, she opened a laundry service, also in Cascade.
Figuring that by now she deserved to relax just a bit, she didn’t do a lot of laundry, but rather spent a considerable portion of her time in the local saloon, drinking whiskey and smoking her foul cigars with the sundry assortment of sweating and dusty men who were attracted to the place. While she claimed to be a crack shot, actually her aim toward the cuspidor was rather general, to the occasional chagrin of any nearby fellow patrons — never mind, she did laundry.
One lout failed to pay his bill to her however (he had ordered extra starch in the cuffs and collar). Hearing him out in the street, she left the saloon and knocked him flat with one blow – at the age of 72. She told her wobbly drinking companions that the satisfaction she got from that act was worth more than the bill owed, so the score was settled. As luck would have it, the tooth of his that she knocked out was giving him trouble anyway, so there was no reprisal. Actually, he was grateful.
In 1914 she died of a failure of her liver. Neighbors buried her in the Hillside Cemetery in Cascade, marking the spot with a simple wooden cross which may still exist today.
In spite of her drinking, and cigar smoking, and occasional fisticuffs, townsfolk were hard pressed to believe that this mellow (!?) old woman of 80 was the hard shooting and short-tempered female character of earlier years they had heard so much about. But they were wrong, she was.
I am Mary Fields. 
People call me “Black Mary.”
 
People call me “Stagecoach Mary.”
 
I live in Cascade, Tennessee.
 
I am six feet tall.
 
I weigh over two hundred pounds.
 
A woman of the 19th Century,
 
I do bold and exciting things.
 
I wear pants.
 
I smoke a big black cigar.
 
I drink whiskey.
 
I carry a pistol.
 
I love adventure.
 
I travel the country,
 
driving a stagecoach,
 
delivering the mail to distant towns.
 
Strong, I fight through rainstorms.
 
Tough, I fight through snowstorms.
 
I risk hurricanes and tornadoes.
 
I am independent.
 
No body tells me what to do.
 
No body tells me where to go.
 
When I’m not delivering mail,
 
I like to build buildings.
 
I like to smoke and drink in bars with the men.
 
I like to be rough.
I like to be rowdy.
 
I also like to be loving.
 
I like to be caring.
 
I like to baby sit.
 
I like to plant flowers and tend my garden.
 
I like to give away corsages and bouquets.
 
I like being me, Mary Fields
Source: http://www.blackcowboys.com/maryfields.htm
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Donna Cheek (Equestrian)

In 1981, Donna Marie Cheek became the first black member of the U.S. Equestrian Team.


Hunter/Jumper trainer Donna Cheek has been riding and competing for 42 years and has worked with top trainers from the United States and Europe.  She most recently closed her private training facility in Paso Robles, California after a successful eight year run to start EquineTrainersNewsletter.com, an innovative online marketing system designed for equine trainers.  Currently she is a contributing host on KCBX public radio, Animal Issue and Ideas.
Donna represented Adolph Coors as a member of the Outstanding Talent Family, which toured the United States performing as an exhibition rider and lecturing at inner city schools.  In addition, she represented Nabisco Brands Inc. as a motivational speaker to youth groups and women’s organizations.  In 1994 NBC Television aired “One More Hurdle,” the Donna Cheek story in which Ms. Cheek starred.
The after school special earned an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award and also a Bronze Halo Award.  Ms. Cheek represented the United States in Mexico City for the American Junior Show Jumping Championships, which was the first time a Black rider (male or female) had ever ridden for the U.S. Internationally in Show Jumping history.
She has won many awards within and outside of the horse industry and was the first equestrian to be inducted into the Women’s Sports Hall of Distinction in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
*Host of KCBX public radio Animal Issues and Ideas
*Created EquinetrainersNewsletter.com
*Owned & operated Equine Consign, a successful horse consignment and training facility
*Exhibition Rider and Role Model for RJR Nabisco Brands Inc.
*Exhibition Rider and motivational speaker for Adolph Coors Outstanding Talent Family
*Selected to represent the United States at the 1992 American Show Jumping Championships
*California Exposition Champion and winner of the F.B. Hart Perpetual Trophy
*American Horses Shows Association Medal Champion
*Starred in “One More Hurdle” the Donna Cheek story for NBC television
*Won the Southern California Motion Picture Council, Bronze Halo Award for “One More Hurdle”
*Inducted in 1997 into the Women’s Sports Hall of distinction
*Spokesperson for “Going for the Gold-The Story of Black Women in Sports”  Publication and film by Carnation Co.
*Spokesperson for Involvement for Young Achievers, Inc.
*Listed in “Who’s Who among Black Americans” publication
*Listed in “Outstanding Young Women of America” publication
*Appeared in NBC television commercial “Profiles in Pride”
Source: Donna Cheek

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Eight year old equestrian jumps to new heights

Eight year old equestrian jumps to new heights

When some think of images of success for our young daughters, we often see the Beyonces’, Rhiannas’ or the Nikki Minajs’ of the future. We might never consider the Donna Cheeks’ of the future. She was the first Black female equestrian to compete and win a medal in the Olympics.


Our daughter Sumayyah has been riding for about a year and a half. She won first place and champion in her first competition after only riding for about four months; the judge called her a natural. Since riding, she wants to be a veterinarian or horse trainer and has aspirations of competing in the Olympics.
Riding gives Sumayyah a confidence and sense of accomplishment. Years ago, she was afraid to even pet a horse let alone ride although she seemed to love the beauty of horses.
She started off on leadline and post and trot now she has advanced to hunter jumper and jumps foot and half cross rails. As she advances to canter, she will soon be jumping higher hurdles.
Riding takes discipline, confidence and focus as well as determination. Sumayyah has developed greatly in her confidence just from riding in such a short time.
She has demonstrated love and determination even after her first fall performing a jump. She got right back up on the horse and continued to ride and jump again.

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*8 year old Sumayyah Muhammad controls her horse as they perform a jump.
As with any other sport, bumps and bruises are a part of the business, but if you have focus and determination to be great, you can’t let that deter you. Young Sumayyah has proven she will not be easily deterred. This little 45–pound young lady shows she is the one in control of the 1,000–pound horse. She displays control when the horse wants to do its own thing by quickly and confidently showing the horse who is boss.
There are other young, Black female equestrians, but not many, still slowly but surely more are on the rise. It is a wonderful thing to see our young girls competing and doing things outside of dancing and singing.
We are now looking for land in Virginia to start an equestrian center—which Sumayyah decided to name “Olympian Equestrian Center”—for young Black riders, male and female to further introduce the sport to our youth.

Source: Final Call
By Eric Muhammad | Last updated: Aug 23, 2013 – 5:37:34 PM
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Selika Lazevski (Dressage)

Studio portrait of black female equestrian rider from the late 1800s.
Image
Black Style | 1891
Selika Lazevski, Ecuyère
Selika Lazevski, a 19th century equestrian was photographed here by Felix Nadar in 1891 in Paris, France. She was an écuyère who performed haute école – which means she was an equestrian who rode high school dressage in French circuses in the 19th century.
“Selika Lazevski was an écuyère (horsewoman) who performed high level dressage. The écuyères rode side saddle in circuses and hippodromes, and were widely respected for their skills as horsewomen.”
SusannaForrest.wordpress.com sheds more light on the possible origins of her name.
“Sélika is the name of the heroine of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s 1865 opera, L’Africaine, and was adopted as a stage name by the first black woman to sing at the White House, the coloratura soprano Madame Marie Selika Williams. The opera was hugely popular among African Americans, and Selika became a fashionable name. Popular among horse owners too: a filly called Selika won the Kentucky Oaks in 1894.”
About the photograph
A young woman in a period riding habit ~ Photographed by Félix Nadar, the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820 – 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist.
The photograph, Paris, c.1891, is included in a book called ‘La France Noire’, which is filled with images representing three centuries of black presence in France.
“This photo speaks to the soul of every strong, proud woman of African descent. It embodies our timeless spirit, and everything we are, and can be…in one glorious portrait. I loved it when it was nameless; it stirred my curiosity to no end. I am so pleased that Selika Lazevski’s name, and accomplishments weren’t lost to us.” – Sarah Jackson Brownehttps://www.facebook.com/SarahAnnetta 7.3.12
Some more Nadar photos of Selika on the French Ministry of Culture’s archive database:
Selika Lazevski 2
Selika Lazevski 3
Selika Lazevski 4
Selika Lazevski, écuyère de haute école
1891 Félix Nadar
Photo courtesy of the Ministère de la Culture, France
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Shayla Wilson (Equestrian)

African American Equestrians Jump Racial Hurdles

June 3, 2009


African-American equestrians are the minority within a minority as equestrianism remains an interest among a few people, primarily white. Few women make it to the top of equine sports.
Shayla Wilson is determined to be one of those few. An honors graduate (2008) of Virginia Intermont College, the nation’s top equine university, Shayla was the first African-American on the school’s equestrian team.
“At Florida University I was already an anomaly because I was the only black person on the team. I only started being outcast by certain members once I made it to Nationals, as if they’d realized ‘She’s serious’ or felt entitled, like ‘I was supposed to get that spot!’ I ignored it and mostly dealt with my friends. People like that ruin themselves. The biased coach was eventually fired. I like it here at Intermont and have a great world-class trainer.”
Source: Urban Views Weekly, https://bfequestrian.wordpress.com/page/4/
Update:
Hello all,
This is Shayla Wilson, and I wanted to say that I appreciate the time and attention Cheryl Williams put into making this article. However, I wanted to clarify that although I did experience racial bias, the coach of the University of Florida Equestrian Team was not biased in any way which is why I was chosen to go to Nationals my freshman year. The coach who recently passed is dear to my heart, because that person always supported my dream of becoming an equine professional.
To Valerie: Actually yes, I am an instructor and horse trainer now. I am the head coach of the Compton Jr. Posse, a not-for-profit group aimed at keeping kids off the streets and on horses. My dream of making it to the Olympics is still very much alive, as I have a great team supporting me here in LA. Thank you for your interest. :)
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