Time is winding down. Two months from today I should be returning from what I expect to be a life changing mission trip to Nairobi, Kenya. I wrote about what I plan on doing there and why I want to do it in this blog entry. I am still looking for support of the financial type and just support and prayers in general while I embark on this journey. I totally feel like something BIG is going to happen there. This year is totally about CHANGE.
Archive for August, 2008
It’s Time
I can’t wait for this cover to be a reality. Tonight was just amazing. One of the best statements wasn’t even from Obama but one of the speakers in the beginning… Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Isn’t it time for CHANGE ?
back to school
I spent a few minutes with my niece and nephews yesterday. They all started school this week and it was last of their birthdays (all three have August birthdays).
They really made me feel old and proud at the same time. My nephew, that made me an aunt, turns 14 today. I went over the house last night still imagining that little kid that used to call me “Aunt Kissy” was going to come down the stairs but he was at a neighbors and when he came in the front door reality hit… that 1. I’m extremely short and 2. He’s not that little kid anymore.
I seriously saw him two weeks ago and we were the same height (he might have had half an inch on me ) but now he’s defintely two or three inches taller then me and then my niece comes in, who turned 12 like 3 weeks ago, and we are the same height. The only one I’m still taller then is my baby and that’s simply because he’s six lol.
But they are just so mature and adjusting so well. I was reading an essay my niece wrote on what she wants to be and how she can accomplish that. In it she had to share her biography and it told who she lives with and how her mom passed away and all the people she has to support her. She also discussed she wants to be a lawyer or a journalist (the latter had me beaming inside). She even mentioned where she wants to go to school and how she plans on accomplishing all of that. Made me sooooo proud and I felt so old too because I thought about when she was a baby I was in high school and now shes almost there.
My little one he makes my heart melt. That smile with all the various sized teeth (with a few missing) gets me every time lol. Then when I walk up to the house I anticipate him running outside screaming “Aunt Chrissssssssayyyy” and sure enough when I get to the sidewalk he’s running down the stairs as I’m coming up arms open and ready for a kiss. For some reason I feel like he belongs to me more then the others. Probably because he didn’t have as much time as he should getting to know my sister so I try my best to fill in the gaps.
But looking at all three of them they make me smile. This year all entering major levels in their lives: elementary, middle school and high school. They are my babies and they make me so proud. I want so much for them. I want them to accomplish anything their hearts desire. I want them to soar and be excellent, not just to make dad and mom proud but so that they can be proud of themselves.
jaspects—redefining all aspects of jazz
I had the pleasure to hear these young brothers play last week at Bohemian.Caverns. They were absolutely fabulous. I’m a jazz head, in case you didn’t know, and in the last three weeks I’ve seen Return.to.Forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola and Lenny White), S.M.V. (Stanley Clark, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten) and now these outstanding young cats. They are really just excellent. I got the CD at the concert and I seriously listened to it all day on friday. The gem though is their first CD, I downloaded it off of itunes and its exceptional as well. They were also featured on the cnn special blackinamerica. This is honestly one of the best cd’s I’ve picked up in a minute. Listen here…
simply wonderful
I feel so rejuvinated and inspired. Last night I sat and I watched history. I watched the start of a Democratic convention where a BLACK man. A black man is nominated to be president. That is something to be inspired about.
Then I watched Jesse Jackson Jr come out and wow the crowd with such an amazing speech (that had me looking like wow your dad is who?!?). Then Ted Kennedy. It started with that montage and then he came out like cancer?!? F cancer I’m on a mission. I wanted him to stop yelling (I was on IM with my friend like oh gawd don’t let him pass out from it) but I could tell he was just so excited about what was happening.
The video from Michelle Obama’s mom. Amazing. Simply amazing. She captured the pride of parent and explained how no matter whata your circumstance you can still rise to be someone excellent and marry someone excellent (I know that’s coming for me too lol). I just started crying with that video. Then Michelle who looked GORGEOUS from head to toe came out and she just shined.. She talked about real life and her love for her husband and family and how they both came from backgrounds where they had no option but to rise to the top. She had some quotes that I had to write in my journal because they were simply the truth. She really had me sitting on my seat saying I can’t wait to tell my children that mommy and America “listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming.” She really just touched me because she was real. She is the example among many women of the mom I want to be one day and the wife I want to be. I definitely believe she can have her moments where she wants to curse a brother out. But they love and support each other and that made the reality that he is going to me MY president and actually care about ME all the more real. Then my girl Sasha came out and stole the show. It made me happy that America could see a real family and a BLACK family that is an example of the American dream. I really feel rejuvinated and simply inspired by it all.
