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I Don’t Want to Be a Burden in My Old Age

Austin Tang — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:57:56 +0000

I am not afraid of growing old. Let the wrinkles come—I will wear them like medals, proof that I have laughed, cried, and lived deeply. Let my skin loosen and fold like pages in a well-loved book. Let my hair silver and shine, a crown earned by years of stories.

I do not fear the quiet. Solitude is no stranger; I have learned to make peace with my own company. I have sat in stillness and found strength there. I know how to rest in the silence without being swallowed by it.

But what unsettles me is something else—fate. That unpredictable force that sometimes tucks you in at night like a loving hand and other times leaves you standing in the rain, forgotten and cold.

I do not want to become a burden—a sigh of exhaustion behind closed doors. I do not want my presence to feel heavy in the room or my name to be whispered in tones of weariness. I do not want my dependence to become someone else’s silent sacrifice.

I want to be like the wind—restless, moving, always dancing forward. I want my old age to be a poem of resilience, a morning brewed with memories, a sunset painted with hope. I want to keep learning, keep loving, keep discovering—never stagnant, never finished.

I do not fear aging. I fear being boxed in by a life I didn’t choose—a life that shrinks instead of expands.

So I will keep walking forward, not clinging to what was, but embracing what still can be.

And if the day comes when my steps falter and I lean on others more than I would like, I will offer my gratitude freely, never forgetting that love is not a burden—it’s a gift.

To those who carry others with patience and tenderness—you are the quiet heroes of this world. Thank you

Holmes

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WOW!: CES 2017’s Next Technologies and Innovations Report with neXtpert’s Katlean de Monchy

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:29:30 +0000

FIFTY YEARS AGO THE BIG STORY AT THE FIRST-EVER CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW WAS—DRUM ROLL—COLOR TV. WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE AMAZING TECHNOLOGIES WE WOULD TAKE FOR GRANTED NOW, OR THE EQUALLY AMAZING FUTURE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US? NEXTPERT’S KATLEAN DE MONCHY IN LAS VEGAS HAS THE STORY.

Jim Barry, Media Spokesperson Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

Greg Topel, CEO Tanvas

Francesca Dubsky, Marketing Director HairMax

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NEW YORK FASHION WEEK: CARIBBEAN™

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:39:45 +0000

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-Joseph Mbeh” on Spreaker.
Joseph Mbeh – ASQUI Ventures/FOURFRONT (designer)

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-Jamaal Patterson” on Spreaker.
Jamaal Patterson, President & CEO JD Capital Partner Inc.

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-ELESIA CAREY, Stacey Siu” on Spreaker.
COUTURE BY ELESIA (#CBE): ELESIA CAREY PRESIDENT/CEO AND DESIGNER, FOUNDER and CEO NYFWCARIBBEAN
Stacey Siu/PR

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-DEWRY BRADFORD” on Spreaker.
DEWRY BRADFORD CEO/CHAIRMAN ASQUI Ventures/FOURFRONT

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-GUADALUPE VELAZQUEZ” on Spreaker.
GUADALUPE VELAZQUEZ DESIGNS: DESIGNER/PRESIDENT AND CEO GUADALUPE VELAZQUEZ

Listen to “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK CARIBBEAN-PATRICK WELLINGTON” on Spreaker.
WELLINGTON HAIR SPA: OWNER: PATRICK WELLINGTON

NATIONAL MAKE-UP ARTIST: MAKEUP BY NICOLE

GUADALUPE VELAZQUEZ DESIGNS: DESIGNER/PRESIDENT AND CEO
NYFWCARIBBEAN , will take place on Saturday February 13th, during New York Fashion Week (February 10-18, 2016 ). Bringing a piece of the Caribbean to the New York Fashion Week calendar is essential to us because it adds both diversity and authenticity to the global fashion economy. In addition, it integrates Caribbean’s designs and related brands with the global fashion calendar (which is essential for the Caribbean to complete globally). As important, creating this one day activation under the scope of New York’s biggest and most globally recognized fashion expose, allows guests to explore Caribbean’s modern fashion, hair and make-up designs, and related brands.

Overall, New York Fashion Week Caribbean becomes a bridge where people behind Caribbean’s brands can leave their imprint in America and meet consumers, partners, investors, and industry movers and shakers in the diaspora.

The following is what to expect:

EVENT : New York Fashion Week Caribbean

DATE: Saturday, February 13th

TIME: 8:00pm

PLACE: 119 West 23rd Street (Between 6 and 7th Avenues) SUITE # 501

RSVP: Staceysiu39@gmail.com

SCHEDULE:

INTRODUCTION
LAUNCH:New York Fashion Week Caribbean
FEATURED BRANDS & MIXER (DJ, CARIBBEAN INSPIRED COCKTAILS AND HORS D’ OEUVRES)
SPEAKERS : TBA

FEATURED BRANDS:

WELLINGTON HAIR SPA: OWNER: PATRICK WELLINGTON & MESSAGE THERAPIST: SHINEKA

Website: www.wellingtonghairspa.com
Hashtags: #wellingtonhairspa
Social:
FB: wellingtonhairspa
Instagram:wellingtonhairspa
Twitter:@patwell
COMPANY/DESIGNER: COUTURE BY ELESIA (#CBE)

Hashtags: #CBEFEARLESS #CBEFLAWLESS #CBE #CBECAREYBAG #CAREYBAG #CAREY-ALL
Social:
FB: FACEBOOK.COM/COUTUREBYELESIA
Instagram: Couture_By_Elesia
Twitter: @COUTUREBYELESIA
NATIONAL CELEBRITY HAIR DESIGNER: DENNIS BAILEY

Social:
FB: Dennisbailey
Instagram: Dennisbailey
COMPANY: ASQUI Ventures: DEWRY BRADFORD CEO/CHAIRMAN

DESIGNER: Joseph Mbeh

BRAND NAME: FOURFRONT

Company Website: www.asqui.com
Brand Website: http://www.fourfront1602.com
Hashtags: #stylesqui #FourFront #intricate #getinspired #asquiventures #fashiongods #riseofthemachines #dewryduroi #CentralAmericaBranding #IBC #RTW
Instagram: @style.squi
FB: www.facebook.com/Fourfront1602
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourfront1602/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/FOURFRONT1602

NATIONAL MAKE-UP ARTIST: MAKEUP BY NICOL

Social:
Instagram: Darling_Nikki_mua

#america #authenticity #brands #caribbean #consumers #diversity #economy #fashion #global #hair #industry #investors #make #movers #new #nyfwcaribbean #partners #shakers #up #week #york

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Shakespeare in the Park

admin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:04:10 +0000

Founded by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation’s preeminent cultural institutions, The Public Theater is an American theater in which all the country’s voices, rhythms, and cultures converge. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public is dedicated to embracing the complexities of contemporary society and nurturing both artists and audiences, as it continues Joseph Papp’s legacy of creating a place of inclusion and a forum for ideas.

The Public Theater produces new plays, musicals, productions of Shakespeare, and other classics in its headquarters on Lafayette Street (the former Astor library, which opened as The Public Theater in 1967 with the world premiere of the musical Hair) and at the Delacorte Theater, its permanent summertime home of free Shakespeare in the Park each summer.

Celebrating its 51st Anniversary, the Delacorte Theater officially opened in Central Park on June 18, 1962 with The Merchant of Venice, directed by Joseph Papp and Gladys Vaughan and featuring George C. Scott as Shylock.The Merchant of Venice was followed that summer by a production of The Tempest, directed by Gerald Freedman and featuring Paul Stevens as Prospero and James Earl Jones as Caliban. The first Delacorte summer season concluded with King Lear, directed by Joseph Papp and Gladys Vaughan and featuring Frank Silvera as Lear. Since then more than 100 productions have been presented for free at the Delcorte Theater. Highlights of past Delacorte productions include Othello in 1964 with James Earl Jones; Hamlet in 1975 with Sam Waterston; The Taming of the Shrew in 1978 with Raul Julia and Meryl Streep; The Pirates of Penzance in 1980 with Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt; Henry V in 1984 with Kevin Kline; Much Ado About Nothing in 1988 with Kevin Kline and Blythe Danner;Richard III in 1990 with Denzel Washington; Othello in 1991 with Raul Julia and Christopher Walken; The Tempest in 1995 with Patrick Stewart; The Seagull in 2001 with Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Philip Seymour Hoffman; Mother Couragein 2006 with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline; Macbeth in 2006 with Liev Schreiber; HAIR in 2008 with Jonathan Groff and Will Swenson; Twelfth Night in 2009 with Anne Hathaway; The Merchant of Venice in 2010 with Al Pacino and Lily Rabe; and most recently last summer’s acclaimed productions of As You Like It and Into the Woods.

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