PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Practice it, as trust me u will be saying it!
I promised u all i would say nothing about Barack Obama till he was President but u know i have to talk about his nomination.U know i have to tell u that although i expected him to be the nominee, what a moment!
I felt so glad to be alive to see it....It moved me to my core.....And then after watching all the speeches on the different nights, Michelle looking simply gorgeous and showing us why her husband looks neither right or left, Hilary saying everything except what she really should say....I hope u realized she told u that a democrat needs to win in November, not that Obama has all that it takes to be that democrat....And then came her husband Bill being Bill and hitting all the right notes which somehow to me came off as a performance and not genuine, and then came THE NIGHT and THE SPEECH....And from he came on until he left the stage with family in tow, I sat mesmerized, memories of our own Michael Manley who had that same kind of charisma came flooding back to me.
Then and there i decided that if this man pulled 84,000 people to his nomination acceptance speech and doesn`t win the election it's not because of McCain and Mrs. Palin,(The Huffington Post is all over her today with some funny columns - read Kimberly Brooks ), IT IS NOTHING BUT RACISM!!!!!!! People could not bring themselves to vote for the black man just like how we PNP talk a lot of things about our party but when the day comes cannot vote Labour. Same thing.
Whether or not Barack Obama wins in November he, and we (black people) have won big time, as never in our wildest dreams could we imagine a black man would ever be a candidate for President of the United States of America. To my husband and best friend I say "oh ye of little faith....." It HAS happened !
And didn`t THE TEAM, he and Joe Biden, look good on '60 minutes' this evening!
MLK is smiling!

'We are powerful beyond measure'

Samia Yusuf Omar from Somalia.... brings the story home of how much we need to do for what we would call the underprivileged of this world....She came to run in the Olympics and that she did in her baggy t-shirt and tights, she also had a compatriot in the 5000 metres....dead last also............ Two people were sent to the Olympics, 2 people who want to run but came last in their events because they have no where to train and no nutrition.
Jamaica could send contingents as large as the USA if we could tap into all those diving for spare change at RICK`S CAFE in NEGRIL, and running from police and gunmen in the inner cities. Are they our next generation of hurdlers ?
The ones we see performing at the Olympics are the ones that got lucky, they went through the school system. How many do we have that have never gone near a school that could be the next Asafa Powell or Usain Bolt?......How many countries are in a similar position ?
In our great moment of celebration and gold medals lets think of Somalia and all those there who if the country hadn`t been ravaged by war would have taken back even one bronze or would have been in the field and not arrived a minute after the race is finished...........
Then we have the Caribbean celebrating, our win is their win . In the market in Barbados a friend told me that they were talking about a Barbadian girl who came to train in Jamaica but left and went home because she said the training was too hard......everyone in the market was cussing and saying if she thought she went to party and not to train ?
We all want the gold but how many are prepared to sacrifice for it. If we heard Usain and Asafa`s training schedule a lot of us couldn`t take it, yet we want the money and the glory.
Can we realize that this dream can live on indefinitely ? We have several young people ready to go.......... And others being born as i write this. As said in that quote always credited to Nelson Mandela but really belongs to Marianne Williamson,
" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ".....We are!

REFLECTIONS ON THE OLYMPICS IN CHINA

Japan beats USA in Softball, Netherlands Antilles beats USA in Water Polo.....The USA 4x100 relay teams drop the baton ..... Jamaica women's 4x100 relay team doesn`t get the baton around...Chinese 110 metres hurdler out due to injury causing tears and anguish ....allegations that Chinese gymnasts are underage, but most of all, what is happening with the American sprinters?
Let me tell u the chickens have come home to roost........They have to come to Jamaica and eat up the yam and the cassava and start again.......
Balco didn`t help them Jamdown will.
What did I like about the Olympics?.....I loved the fact that the opening ceremony that we saw on TV is not what happened in the 'BIRD'S NEST' - China being China..remember this is the age of TECHNOLOGY ! Those in the stadium can buy the DVD.
I love the way Jamaican musicians can come up with tributes in 30 seconds flat like my favourite "We on the go" .......wonder if they have gold medals for that?
I love the fact that Usain is BOASY.....Jamaican word for show-off!
I love the fact that Michael Phelps is an unassuming young man..........(boring)
I love the fact that Dara Torres showed age is just a number
I loved how the mighty Americans weren`t so mighty after all (not only in sprint) without help (drugs)
I LOVED ASAFA IN WINNING STYLE IN THE 4X100 RELAY (nobody runs pretty like him )
I loved that Michael Frater couldn`t stop looking on his gold medal as it hung around his neck
I loved how the Chinese stood no matter whose anthem played
I loved the Jamaican men`s uniforms the shorts and tops nice, the jackets on the podium for both teams, nice, the opening ceremony uniforms for the women, nice.
I loved MA beating WANG in table tennis (the battle of the Chinese)
I loved the black, yellow and green,and hearing the Jamaican anthem daily in the last week, I`m sure I saw a Chinese woman singing it
I loved the flags always flying never drooping (what technological marvel is fixed in the pole?)
I loved the Chinese in the opening and closing showing us what precision is all about
I love the way the crime took a holiday in Jamaica as the olympics unified the country
I loved how Half-way-tree became BEIJIN'
I LOVE THE FACT THAT EVERYTHING THAT MOVES IN JAMAICA HAS A JAMAICAN FLAG, MY CAR HAS 3 ACTUALLY.

I DIDN`T LOVE ...couldn`t find much...
Sanya Richards complaining that her leg was hurting her.....then running the race of her life in the 4x400 relays
I didn`t love all the insinuations that Usain is on drugs....HE`S NOT!
I didn`t love the relay uniform for the Jamaican female relay team, The Athens one was far sexier
I didn`t love seeing my 4x400 boys come last.
I didn`t love Asafa coming 5th in the 100 metres
I didn`t love the way Rogge made himself look like a real fuddy duddy.
I didn`t like England trying to show us what they have to offer 4 years time (they should just read Shakespeare)
But most of all what is still bothering me this and every Olympics IS...........
I HATE THE FACT THAT THE POWERS THAT BE WILL NOT START THE INVESTIGATION INTO FLO-JO , HER TIMES AND HER DEATH AND ALL THOSE CONVULSIONS SHE HAD IN BETWEEN !
WHEN WILL MERLENE OTTEY GET HER GOLD MEDALS?

JAMAICA (YAM COUNTRY) CELEBRATES

Well as u must have noted i haven`t been blogging because i have been consumed with my every waking moment spent watching the olympics on tv........even in the nights i`m watching press conferences 2/3 in the morning wondering why i`m so tired and although i`m telling everybody it's because i`m running so hard actually its because i`m not sleeping.........
Well the first thing i`m upset about is Ato Boldon of all people - no lets not bother with him as he can`t talk about the behaviour of an Olympic gold medal winner as he has never been one, lets talk about the USA journalists that say Bolt did not behave with the respect and decorum of a gold medal athlete....No better yet lets talk about the head of the IOC Rogge saying Bolt should have gone and shook hands and patted backs.....funny i don`t see any winner doing that, not before these games, and not now. Usually it's the others that come and hug u and pat your back when u have won......Does Mr.Rogge realize that Usain has brought back track and field after the Americans killed it with drugs?.....no one even wanted to watch it anymore! He should be the one patting the young man's back and shaking his hand and saying a loud thank you. We all know controversy sells so Bolt is well on his way to being a superstar for years to come, as he is not lacking in the personality department.
Can i ask who would this 21 year old have learnt how to showboat from?..Isn`t it the USA drugged-up sprinters who took over the athletic world? By the way does anybody remember the USA team behaviour after they won the relay in 2000?
And where are they now?
What happen ? Because they are not around nobody must celebrate ?...well let me tell u BOY CELEBRATE HOW AND WHEN U WANT TO! !
TAKE OFF U SHOES IF U WANT TO, THEY LUCKY U NOT RUNNING THE RACE BAREFOOT AS THAT'S OUR CULTURE! U earned it, u worked for it, enjoy it! It's even better coming in front of the largest population in the world...let the Chinese come to Jamaica Usain, they need to see where u train and what u eat, i will do the tour!

BOLT OF LIGHTNING

ADVERSITY IS THE TEST OF STRONG MEN - Seneca
Well now we will see if Asafa is really a mamma`s boy, a real baby Huey OR , a man. As, he is now facing the test of his young life.
He has to be happy for his fellow country man and we all know he must be dying inside.
As i drive around Jamaica I sense and see how although Jamaicans are so happy for Usain they are dying for Asafa, as one of my young spa valets said to me "Mrs. Wright i feel as if my heart has moved, God knows i feel it, if him even did come second or third but not to medal.....how can that happen?"
And that's the general feeling.............Happy for Usain who deep down even the Asafa fans must have sensed was going to win watching them go through the rounds, and once Asafa started with his little isms ......they taking too much blood from him,(i know even now Bolt has no blood left as they have pulled it all) and then yesterday when he said his stomach wasn`t so right i felt it for him as my stomach wasn`t so right either as every time i heard the announcer say the time of the finals i got sicker and sicker ...........so i sympathised with him but realized his head was what wasn`t so right......Bolt never faltered as the same young spa valet said "BOLT RUNS FOR FAME AND COUNTRY, ASAFA RUNS FOR MONEY."I hope his assessment is wrong. As if Asafa keeps choking there will be no money to run for.
NOW BACK TO USAIN.........SUPPOSE HE HADN`T PULLED UP AND START CELEBRATING 80 METERES OUT???
What would the record have been?
In his interview he said he wasn`t concentrating on the record he just wanted to be the first Jamaican to win gold for his country in the 100 metres,see.......He is a show boater but learnt the spiritual lesson early.
ONLY U CAN DO IT FOR U. ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, THERE IS NOTHING U CANNOT ACCOMPLISH IF U PUT YOUR MIND TO IT AND WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH.
GO DEY MI BWOY ....... THIS WAS JUST WHAT JAMAICA NEEDED.......WE HAVE ALL BEEN HIT BY A BOLT OF LIGHTNING!

photo : matt dunham /AP

EASTERN VS WESTERN MEDICINE

I see where 'Times Online' has an article saying that eating lots of fruits and vegetables does not boost chances of beating breast cancer . Who ever said that lots of fruit and vegetables heals cancer? Then I for one would have been healed long ago . Fruit and especially green vegetables helps prevent disease as it keeps your body alkaline so having more of that in your diet helps prevent these diseases from taking hold but lots of things are in play here, genes, fruits without pesticide, stress, and on and on.

I also came across another article asking that same question I ask all the time.....and he obviously thinks like i do so here is some of it.....

"How come we hear so little about the ill effects of these junk fast food ? Yeah I know, they told you to avoid fried food. But how come most people don't pay attention?
Here is why... the trillions of dollars worth food industry employs some of the most brilliant minds to study consumer psychology and what makes you buy. The advertisements, celebrity endorsements, discounts, movies that feature a particular product etc are all designed to make you do one thing: Buy their burgers/chicken/ whatever else. Believe me when I say this, these food companies and their marketing people know about hypnosis and compounding and neuro linguistic programming. They know how to show you the same advert over and over and over again to program it inside of your brain. So the next time you feel hungry in a shopping mall, you aren't going to go to the little shop selling fresh fruits and juices, you are going to go join the queue at McDonald's. It just makes "perfect sense" at the time doesn't it? Who wants a banana anyway?
Here is a little scarier side to this all...
The simplest rule of marketing is this: Find more buyers, sell them more products, make them buy more often.
Got that?
More buyers, more products, more often!
Good. Now lets play a game: pretend that you are a board member of a large pharmaceutical company. When it is time to allocate funds for research and development, following the rules of marketing, for which area would you allocate more funds? Drugs that you need to take once and it cures you forever? Or drugs that you need to regularly take to keep you healthy ? THINK!
Here is the answer: Over 80% of all medical research worldwide is done on maintenance drugs (drugs that treat the symptom of a disease rather than cure the disease itself).
Interesting isn't it?
Now any chance you are beginning to get a hunch about who else benefits from this massive bombardment of marketing messages of the food industry? I guess I'll leave it to you to figure out." - Shafin de Zane CHT,MH,MNLP.

Recently on the' Today show' they had east meets west on medicine and the western doctors were all saying the eastern herbs and acupuncture etc. have not been proven to help diseases, but there is a woman in SAN FRANCISCO who had ovarian cancer saying that after she cut her cancer out and had her chemotherapy she immediately started her eastern herbs, her meditation and her tai chi plus changed her way of eating etc. to heal mind body and soul. She said her doctors kept saying they were curing the cancer no one said they wanted to heal her body. 11 years later she is fine and fabulous. Isn`t she proving that something is working and east (alternative) can meet west (surgery and chemicals) successfully?
In other words focus on mind body and soul after surgery .......
Why do doctors knock things they don`t understand when they know they only deal with symptoms and not root cause ?
Is it going to change anytime soon ?
I think not ,as most people tell me IF A DOCTOR SAYS IT, I BELIEVE IT!
And the doctors not telling u to eat bananas they telling u to take the medication ....RIGHT?
As Shafin said .....THINK !

CHINA`S BIG 8-8-08

THE YELLOW PERIL is not coming THE YELLOW PERIL is here , and everyone in the west needs to KNOW this.
I have always felt when Communism meets Capitalism there is no stopping them well now we all see what discipline from birth can do....SIMPLY AMAZING!
Congratulations China on a simply jaw dropping opening to the Olympics
That most enlightened energy therapist CarolTuttle says that the number 8 energetically represents abundance , prosperity and connects heaven and earth with who we truly are.
Do u think the Chinese didn`t know this when 8 -8-08 was chosen as the opening date for the Olympics ?
It's a time of magical change and opportunity and on the 8-8-08 at 8 pm (Chinese time) we saw the world power change - yes it did .
We all saw who was large and in-charge and Bush must have been even more relieved he was leaving office, BUT BEFORE HE LEAVES..... OF THE 80 WORLD LEADERS THERE, DID HE REALLY HAVE TO LOOK SO BORED AND HOT AS HE SAT SPREAD-EAGLED WITH HIS SHIRT OPENED , LOOKING SO CRUSHED DURING THE OPENING CEREMONY? IF THE OTHER LEADERS COULD HAVE KEPT IT TOGETHER IN THE HEAT SO COULD HE......
My mail box has been full of crap from early this year of Chinese using foetuses in their food and all kinds of evils and ills of China, the undermining didn`t work and even with the killing and wounding of the coach's relatives, i realize I`m so cynical nowadays I asked myself how come it had to be an American's relatives ? I ask u to remember an American tried to bomb the games in Atlanta....So it's not that strange for these things to be happening during the Olympics and the worst one to date is the Munich Olympics!
Americans going over there to protest in Tiananmen Square is just not on......Let them have their games..All countries have their issues and they will have more than most as there are more of them.
Remember the phrase do not awake the sleeping giant?
Well he`s awake, let him not get angry. As billions of people technologically trained we don`t need coming at us in anger,(did u see how Putin sat there so calmly while he knew he was about to invade GEORGIA)..... they need to be our friends!

EATING FOR THE DRUG COMPANIES

I realize i`m upset about this topic. The last blog was so long and i`m writing on FOOD again..........Every week someone comes to me with some song and dance, in tears,can`t function . Why? cancer!
If it's not cancer, it's high blood pressure, if it's not diabetes, it's our thyroid out of whack or it's lupus. Every day one or another member of my staff has migraines or stomach pain or fainting or just plain feeling sick,while they stuff their mouth with cheese balls and cheese trix and cream crackers.
As u look around, a lot of us are obese and if we are not we have too many chins our bras are lost in the rolls of fat around our backs, everything is just sad, simply sad, we look sad and we behave sad. Food has so much to do with how we behave ,u do know that right?
Watch someone who is diabetic and u will see the personality change when they are having an episode, look at the faces of the people around u.......Bloat.....Pure unadulterated bloat.
I was talking to my new spa administrator and she looks great , she is 25 and told me she wants something healthy to snack on because every evening she goes home and eats bun and cheese.
I will be making sure she has something healthy to snack on as she is in deep trouble down the road. All that plastic cheese not going anywhere . It will be in her intestines for years to come.
Those men u see walking around with those HUGE hard guts....What do u think makes it look that way? Correct they are full of s...! No other way to say it.
Then look at someone who has lots of energy, not blowing when they go up a flight of stairs, look at their skin, they glow, and i bet u they are not the one in the buffet line with the mountain in the plate with the gravy making the river running through the hillside.
Then read here about a medical doctor that recently sued KFC he claimed that he didn’t realize that fast food might not be the healthiest option for his diet. And this, of course, was KFC’s fault.
We have to take ourselves in hand. I am not saying that it is easy but we need to start trying and remember that the big guns are out there planning for u , look at the MSG 'accent' being poured into the food. Do u think that that's being done by accident ? No, it's to get u addicted to the fantastic flavour of the food that's not good for you. The worse things are the most delicious, after u eat them, its off to the doctor's office and then the medication and the tests and u r locked into a disease, so that u will spend your life on the 'big guns' drugs.
IT'S A PLAN DON`T FALL FOR IT!

RAW FOOD CLEANSE

I have 2 members of my staff and a close friend on a cleanse.
ONLY RAW FOOD CAN BE EATEN,THAT MEANS ONLY FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, LOTS OF SMOOTHIES AND SOUPS, NO NUTS, NO OIL. SO THAT MEANS NOTHING LIKE AVOCADO, BUT ALL THE MANGO IN THE WORLD....And it's just confirming how hard this food thing is and how much it's killing us.
My friend eats relatively well, my staff eat abominably and because of that struggle to use the bathroom.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES IS MAYBE A BANANA with SOME MELON and A PIECE OF PINEAPPLE, first thing u notice is melon is always in the mix, and we should know by now, that melon must be eaten by itself....we do so many things that we have no idea is not good for us and if u sit with these food scientists and u hear them talking about mixing sweet fruit and sour fruit etc. it would just blow your mind.
I think if we stick to moderation in all things we will not overdo anything. We all KNOW that the way to stay healthy is to keep our body alkaline,so once we find out what makes us alkaline we just put more of them in your diet.
I keep hearing that fruits are acidic....Please do your homework all fruits on entering the body are alkaline...
My staff also love to eat less by eating cream crackers when they are hungry.....What are the crackers made of ? Read the labels and freak, BUT what u really need to do without ASAP is THE WHITE FLOUR .
Also we Jamaicans cannot have tea or coffee without condensed milk! why? Isn`t that killing the flavour of what u are drinking?
Do not say you can`t bother to give up these things and then start bawling when u hear your maker has pressed the recall button on you.
If u are trying try, don`t say you can`t bother. Also don`t keep asking me to pray for u but as the results come in and they are alright u celebrate with a barbeque....You got the warning ....Take heed.
In our world surely enough, one of those tests will be coming back wrong if not today, then tomorrow.
Nowadays it seems as if we all know someone,if they are not a friend or a family member then it's us.
My raw food expert Fred Paternaud, says even he sometimes slips and slides, and sometimes just comes off the raw food wagon and I know if my son wasn`t whipping up here i don`t know what i would do......any day he doesn`t give me lunch the temptations in the hotel dining room with the fried chicken and the curry goat is great, as to the oatmeal raisin cookies which are sugar cookies and nothing but sugar cookies......Nobody is saying its easy ,but for quality of life,IT HAS TO BE DONE.
I don`t know how people eat bland ,vegetarian food, and some of my friends don`t realize that they are fat and unhealthy because they are not going to the Olympics this week, so why are they eating so much carbs ? When are they going to burn it off ? While sitting in front of the computer? I think not!
I`m listening to the moans and groans as they detox and the headaches and cravings start,also the rashes come up and the running to the bathroom lightens their load.
My 2 staff members are dying as they have to give up dumplings for 10 days.......These are women that shouldn`t eat dumplings ever again in life......one weighs 273 down from 287 because i have her eating fruit all day......Her solution to trying to lose weight is to stop eating ...... So wrong........Every other day they call in sick.
I`m not calling in sick , i get tired yes but sick , no!
They are sick weekly. Isn`t that enough to tell them something is wrong?
I give thanks the day i found 'raw/live' food as this week i had yam chips and sweet potato chips and onion bread, trust me they are delicious. I was fine snacking on them till a friend said to me (the one on the cleanse) " can u imagine this with a piece of brie on top?"
Yes i can .....And i`ve just got over my cheese addiction......... Or have i?

IN ALL THINGS GIVE THANKS

Woke up this morning and it hit me how lucky i am to be alive....I usually give thanks every morning as my eyes pop open but this morning it was extra special.
The trees outside my window were so green and shiny, the sky was so blue and it felt so good to be alive........By midday the Ocho Rios area and most of Jamaica, especially Montego Bay i understand, was in the middle of a torrential downpour.
So i started to think...How many of us start the day with all good intentions and as the day passes, we get caught up in the rain,(doom and gloom) forgetting we are to give thanks even more?
Only those of us who love the rain can see through this, most of us hate the rain so we would have said "what an awful day, it started so beautiful this morning".....Well i think we were just experiencing beauty in another way..........But how many of us can see it?
In life, we start with the best of intentions and as time passes and the challenges come at us , we can no longer see the bright shiny leaves and the blue sky, we become morose, and can`t see our way out, we get into the 'sorry for ourselves' mode, the 'life is falling apart' attitude, therefore we can`t enjoy the now, the rain, knowing that this too will pass and behind every cloud is a blue sky. There is nothing more beautiful than the rain and if it was raining this morning it would have been just as great a day except my personal preference is bright and rain makes it dark. Some people's personal preference is dark so they don`t like when the sun with all its glory penetrates the room so therein we see how we have two sides of the coin but its the same penny.
In all things give thanks