Saturday 9: Diamonds

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Saturday 9: Diamonds (2012)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Rihanna sings that when she looks at her lover, she sees the light in his eyes. The internet is filled with makeup tips for making your eyes look brighter. Drugstores sell eye drops that promise to get the red out. Are you bright-eyed this morning?  Not really, I just couldn't sleep much last night.  Hopefully I can take a nap later on. 

 2) She likens him to a shooting star. Astronomers tell us that shooting stars aren't that rare at all. They occur when dust, asteroids or comets enter the earth's atmosphere, and are often visible on clear, pollution-free nights. Have you ever seen a shooting star? Yes, I've seen scads and scads of them.  We used to be out in the deserts in California for long rockhound trips, and as a kid my bro and I used to be out there in the desert helping the paternal unit build houses.  The stars were magnificent in those clear desert night skies. 

 

3) In ancient Rome, shooting stars were considered good luck, especially for those going into battle, while some tribes in East Africa believed shooting stars were a harbinger of doom. Are you superstitious? No.  I do believe in Karma but I'm not superstitious. In fact, I started walking on cracks and lines in the sidewalks at a young age. lol 

4) The singer of "Diamonds" hosted a lavish Diamond Ball to raise funds for education programs in Malawi, Senegal, and the country of her birth, Barbados. Rhianna named her charity initiative the Clara Lionel Foundation after her grandparents. If you were to name your foundation after your grandparents, what would it be called? What would you ideally like to do in their honor?  I really don't think I'd name a foundation or charity after my grandparents.  

I do honor them by remembering them, especially how good they were to my mother and I, and by praying for them.  They were all, except for one bad apple - my paternal grandfather - very good people. I know my other grandpa and my grandmothers prayed for their grandchildren. 

Here's a little Plug for my favorite charity called, "Women for Women". It has a mission of helping poor women in countries all over world who have been impacted by wars.  

It helps them in many ways, and one is by making loans to  start small businesses so that they feed their families.  Sometimes, because so many women are widowed or abandoned, it is the ONLY money that is coming in. 

 

5) Rhianna recently had her first baby, a boy. According to the Social Security Administration, the top names for baby boys in 2021 were Liam and Noah. Is there a Liam or Noah in your life?  There is a Noah.  He's a cool guy. 

 

6) When she was still in her teens, Rhianna entered a beauty pageant on a dare, and won! Can you recall a time you acted on a dare?  I can't recall one.  Normally I just don't take dares.  To be honest, you can find enough trouble for yourself without being prompted by hecklers. lol

Alex Honnold c/o The Atlantic Mag.

7) While on tour, she likes to sneak out into the audience, just to get the vibe from out there. To disguise herself, Rhianna slips on a black oversized hoodie. Are hoodies a staple of your wardrobe?  No. I do have one for camping, but that's it.

  

8) In 2012, the year this song topped the charts, London hosted the Olympic Games. If you won a trip to London, what would you like to see?  I would like to see Big Ben and the BBC building.  Then I'd high tail it to Scotland to meet some of my clan. I am a McCay.. or as the Americans spell it, McCoy.  I'd buy me some tartan fabric. I have a piece that my grandma gave me, or had.  Not sure where it is anymore.  But I'd take it along with me so as to match it. 

 

9) Random question: Did either or both your parents go to college?  Dad was a law student at USC before the war rent his plans in twain.  

Mother graduated from a Business School, near Pasadena, which is sort of college.  She was amazing.  I'll always be in Awe of my Mother.  God Love and Bless her..

Thank you kindly Sam, for this lovely meme each Saturday.  I love it. 

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