MAKING THE DECISION TO HAVE A CHILD IS MOMENTOUS -IT'S DECIDING TO FOREVER HAVE YOUR HEART WALKING OUTSIDE YOUR BODY.
Elizabeth Stone
NEVER have i heard it put this way and NEVER has something revealed to me in an instant what i`ve been going through for 31 years.
Your core goes into spasms...U can`t figure out the feeling......Their pain is your pain no matter how old they are..........why ? It's because not only is your heart walking outside your chest, it is walking unprotected outside your chest and no matter how hard u try , u cannot protect it. You can guide and teach, beg and plead, advise and suggest but u have made a person and u have to realize that they have their own mind, and they will do exactly what they want to do........U just have to make sure the upbringing is on spot as after 12 your training good or bad is embedded forever in them.
I look around at the 30 year olds and we didn`t do such a bad job...... check the 15 year olds and cry .......BUT is it their fault?
What is happening now is no parenting....Are we too busy to parent? We no longer sit at the dinner table to discuss the day,no rules, no curfew,we give 'things' instead of love.....Have u noticed that most youngsters (in Jamaica) smoke weed as if it's legal? Drive and look around u,the spliffs are hanging from their lips, they stand on the corners with it,they drive their cars with it hanging outside between their fingers....it's as if somebody legalized it and forgot to tell me.
The lack of discipline is everywhere,from rich to poor black to white. We do our own thing and wonder why our children are dysfunctional.....Children learn what they see.....watch a baby parrot what u say,u think they are not also parroting your actions.....Most of us are so quarrelsome, negativity before anything else.....That's where our youngsters learn to be angry first. A school fight nowadays ends in death,in our day it was a war of words or 'not talking'. Every thing now is hostile. Listen to the music......It makes even me edgy listening to it....And i have a choice, i was taught to appreciate all kinds of music so i try. My nineteen year old tells me that there is only one kind of music and it's dancehall.....so i say 'but honey that's not even music'.
He has this thing playing in his ears 24/7 ......Another angry young man here we come and he has me badgering him,suppose he didn`t.I only allow MY music to be played when he`s around me....what happens to the other young people who are left to their own devices?
Then there are the young people(14,15,16) who are given big bucks to go to Negril for the Independence weekend parties That's not a cheap trip, it costs mega bucks as u have to pay to stay in a hotel for a 3 day weekend and go to pay parties all 3 days.... its alcohol, alcohol and more alcohol, with that comes sex,sex and more sex........
I wonder if those parents' hearts are walking outside their chest?
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
GIVE THIS THANKSGIVING
A farming couple after harvest this past week decided to give away their left overs instead of making it waste (rot in the fields) so they put up a sign saying they were giving away the food. They expected a few hundred people to come instead 40 thousand people came .....Scooping up the onions potatoes etc. putting them in bags provided by the farmers and giving thanks that Thanksgiving was going to be good this year.
Why can`t we do more of that ? In my industry they throw away left over food.Why? I keep asking, why not give it to children's homes and infirmaries. They say no it has to be thrown away. I`m sorry, IT DOES NOT!
I have heard all the reasons why a whole tray of stamp and go has to be thrown away, because guests MAY HAVE not just used the tongs to pick one up, they might have used their hands. Can i tell u something, if i am hungry i couldn`t care less about that and judging from how many people eating out of garbage containers, lots of people wouldn`t mind either.
The waste just needs to stop. People are starving, people are finding it hard to even find bus fare or feed their children come on.......In America they are trampling people to death to get to a sale....I gather they didn`t even realize they were trampling the person. People are going out of their minds ......I went to calm a fight last Saturday only to find out that the young man was fighting with himself. Why? He can`t afford to send his child to school, no raise of pay in four years when cost of living has gone up how much in four years ? He was already earning minimum wage......Now its less than minimum.
Those of us that can make ends meet and those of us that have excess had better realize that if we don`t start giving and stop this excess spending like the banker that bought a JA$19million Q7 Audi ......No grill in the world will keep us safe. And, as the man said when they bulldozed his house the day before a hurricane was scheduled to hit (he had built it on captured lands) "CRIME STOP? CRIME CAN`T STOP WHEN MY CHILDREN WATCH THIS ?"
Why can`t we do more of that ? In my industry they throw away left over food.Why? I keep asking, why not give it to children's homes and infirmaries. They say no it has to be thrown away. I`m sorry, IT DOES NOT!
I have heard all the reasons why a whole tray of stamp and go has to be thrown away, because guests MAY HAVE not just used the tongs to pick one up, they might have used their hands. Can i tell u something, if i am hungry i couldn`t care less about that and judging from how many people eating out of garbage containers, lots of people wouldn`t mind either.
The waste just needs to stop. People are starving, people are finding it hard to even find bus fare or feed their children come on.......In America they are trampling people to death to get to a sale....I gather they didn`t even realize they were trampling the person. People are going out of their minds ......I went to calm a fight last Saturday only to find out that the young man was fighting with himself. Why? He can`t afford to send his child to school, no raise of pay in four years when cost of living has gone up how much in four years ? He was already earning minimum wage......Now its less than minimum.
Those of us that can make ends meet and those of us that have excess had better realize that if we don`t start giving and stop this excess spending like the banker that bought a JA$19million Q7 Audi ......No grill in the world will keep us safe. And, as the man said when they bulldozed his house the day before a hurricane was scheduled to hit (he had built it on captured lands) "CRIME STOP? CRIME CAN`T STOP WHEN MY CHILDREN WATCH THIS ?"
Saturday, November 22, 2008
A CHANGE WE ARE GOING TO FEEL
As this financial meltdown continues I turn inwards and ask why is this happening at this time and the answer comes through clearly that the world could not continue like this.
The poor getting poorer the rich getting richer...all these golden parachutes for fools at the top while poor people stand in unemployment lines.
People filing bankruptcy because a family member was sick and the cost of treatment devoured all their savings and they had to take out loans they could not afford. People losing their houses because banks advised them to buy homes without deposits etc.
It's not only this side of the world, look on Africa the leaders living in gold-embossed mansions while children have flies taking them up in the same country. Did u see the funeral for the queen of Thailand? It took 10 months to plan. Aren`t they having problems?
Someone has to pay for it .......So the world is going to, the thieves without conscience and us fools who follow blindly.
We follow doctors thinking they are Gods, we follow financial advisers thinking they know what's best for us. We turn over our pay cheques to pastors who rape our children (altar boys) and women in the choir under the guise they r doing it for God......We women allow our husbands who know no more than us, to constantly belittle us and because they thrill us in our beds we open our purses to them, oftentimes going without to make them happy.
It HAD TO STOP .......Those fools who were sent packing by Congress to go and get a plan didn`t have a plan because they have never needed one before, they would fly in with their Lear jets and fly out with billions.....Imagine coming to beg money all coiffed and manicured in a Lear jet , that when asked if any of them plan to sell*, not one hand went up.........disrespect ? Why didn`t we didn`t recognize it before? It's not the first time this has happened, but we notice it this time because A NEW SHERIFF is in town. A CHANGE WE CAN SEE.
In Jamaica one of our politicians said yesterday that the government of which he was a major part for 18 years did nothing for poor people..big of him why didn`t he say that while he was in power doing nothing for poor people.I can tell him that since the USA is the "free market" model-when the change comes there, developing countries like ours will be the better for it after all these years of patterning the same wasteful spending and environmental degradation.
TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING......All those people in the auto industry, u need to stop making Hummers and Escalades, we can`t afford that on the roads - in today's world u will be making fuel efficient cars or u will be working in the energy industry. I understand they will need 5 million people to build pipelines put up windmills etc.U are also going to work repairing roads and bridges. It will be rough at the beginning as all change is, but we need to eliminate waste and the sooner the better.
All those malls that are filing bankruptcy.......Where did that money go? They are filled with stores and the stores are filled with people.......Try finding somewhere to park any day of the week. Half of them need to close, this mad shopping without rhyme or reason needs to stop. A Starbucks on every corner selling coffee for $5 a cup.....ridiculous! That is for Wall Street bankers and news anchors that earn US$20,000 per month some earn that per week, they can afford that , here we go following them earning US$2000 per month. It can`t work, what message are we sending to our children? We wonder where our children got this freeness mentality from and we curse them for running up huge credit card debts...Come on people it all comes from us "THE BABY BOOMERS" - Some boom we caused.........
WE CANNOT LEAVE THIS MESS FOR OUR CHILDREN.
* It came on the news last night that GM has had a change of heart and has decided to sell 2 of their jets...I WONDER HOW MANY THEY HAVE ?
The poor getting poorer the rich getting richer...all these golden parachutes for fools at the top while poor people stand in unemployment lines.
People filing bankruptcy because a family member was sick and the cost of treatment devoured all their savings and they had to take out loans they could not afford. People losing their houses because banks advised them to buy homes without deposits etc.
It's not only this side of the world, look on Africa the leaders living in gold-embossed mansions while children have flies taking them up in the same country. Did u see the funeral for the queen of Thailand? It took 10 months to plan. Aren`t they having problems?
Someone has to pay for it .......So the world is going to, the thieves without conscience and us fools who follow blindly.
We follow doctors thinking they are Gods, we follow financial advisers thinking they know what's best for us. We turn over our pay cheques to pastors who rape our children (altar boys) and women in the choir under the guise they r doing it for God......We women allow our husbands who know no more than us, to constantly belittle us and because they thrill us in our beds we open our purses to them, oftentimes going without to make them happy.
It HAD TO STOP .......Those fools who were sent packing by Congress to go and get a plan didn`t have a plan because they have never needed one before, they would fly in with their Lear jets and fly out with billions.....Imagine coming to beg money all coiffed and manicured in a Lear jet , that when asked if any of them plan to sell*, not one hand went up.........disrespect ? Why didn`t we didn`t recognize it before? It's not the first time this has happened, but we notice it this time because A NEW SHERIFF is in town. A CHANGE WE CAN SEE.
In Jamaica one of our politicians said yesterday that the government of which he was a major part for 18 years did nothing for poor people..big of him why didn`t he say that while he was in power doing nothing for poor people.I can tell him that since the USA is the "free market" model-when the change comes there, developing countries like ours will be the better for it after all these years of patterning the same wasteful spending and environmental degradation.
TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING......All those people in the auto industry, u need to stop making Hummers and Escalades, we can`t afford that on the roads - in today's world u will be making fuel efficient cars or u will be working in the energy industry. I understand they will need 5 million people to build pipelines put up windmills etc.U are also going to work repairing roads and bridges. It will be rough at the beginning as all change is, but we need to eliminate waste and the sooner the better.
All those malls that are filing bankruptcy.......Where did that money go? They are filled with stores and the stores are filled with people.......Try finding somewhere to park any day of the week. Half of them need to close, this mad shopping without rhyme or reason needs to stop. A Starbucks on every corner selling coffee for $5 a cup.....ridiculous! That is for Wall Street bankers and news anchors that earn US$20,000 per month some earn that per week, they can afford that , here we go following them earning US$2000 per month. It can`t work, what message are we sending to our children? We wonder where our children got this freeness mentality from and we curse them for running up huge credit card debts...Come on people it all comes from us "THE BABY BOOMERS" - Some boom we caused.........
WE CANNOT LEAVE THIS MESS FOR OUR CHILDREN.
* It came on the news last night that GM has had a change of heart and has decided to sell 2 of their jets...I WONDER HOW MANY THEY HAVE ?
Thursday, November 20, 2008
RAW FOOD CAFE NEEDED
The doctor I mentioned in the previous blog got the same words from the doctors that I got . Eat anything u wish... I remember saying "even jerk pork?" Yes, even jerk pork came the answer. Would I still be here if I had done that ?
Just thinking as I go through my tests how complacent those that know better can become....since my last episode I`ve eaten jerk pork twice - the last time it made me so sick, it cured me along with the pig...........then taking my glycos...
I used to take them 4 times a day , now I think I`m 'cured' days pass and I take it once or twice ....sometimes I take it not at all (that's rare though)............I of all people know not to run those funny jokes....I behave as if I do not have a compromised immune system as if I`m not a three-peater with some of my lymph nodes blown. What is it a death wish ,tired of life , bored ? All of the above........
I don`t think so but it shows how hard it is and how disciplined with this disease we have to be. I also have a husband who tells me I have at least 28 more years so I choose to believe him and live in a fools paradise. I watch people who have cancer saying they cannot eat like this before they get the diagnosis then when they get the news they burst into tears instead of tackling their treatment....I am living proof that it works so I more than anyone else know i shouldn`t run jokes..stress at the workplace...when u are undergoing that, u cannot afford to eat badly . I tell people that, and although eating much better than most I will sit and lyme with my friends and have an occasional cookie....sugar, Pat sugar,CANCER FOLLOWS SUGAR. U MUST NOT HAVE IT!(talking to myself)
The other thing that does is make your taste buds that had gotten used to eating greens etc. want sugar.....
I feel so good when I`m eating right why would I want to backslide. Nothing really tempts me now except cheese so why ?
Idleness.... Or needing to be a part of the crowd when your body already tells u that u r not.
I went out in Kingston with my friend to a place that has smoothies etc. and on ordering found out that the smoothie was very sweet, it didn`t have sugar no, the waitress proudly told us it was filled with CONDENSED MILK.......and I`m going to order that thinking I`m eating healthy ?..........Thank God my taste buds are aware....So what's a girl to do ? Stay home or carry her juice and food with her?......I think not!
OPEN A RAW FOOD CAFE? YES. ONE IS NEEDED IN MOBAY AND ONE IN KINGSTON....INVESTORS .....ANYONE?
Just thinking as I go through my tests how complacent those that know better can become....since my last episode I`ve eaten jerk pork twice - the last time it made me so sick, it cured me along with the pig...........then taking my glycos...
I used to take them 4 times a day , now I think I`m 'cured' days pass and I take it once or twice ....sometimes I take it not at all (that's rare though)............I of all people know not to run those funny jokes....I behave as if I do not have a compromised immune system as if I`m not a three-peater with some of my lymph nodes blown. What is it a death wish ,tired of life , bored ? All of the above........
I don`t think so but it shows how hard it is and how disciplined with this disease we have to be. I also have a husband who tells me I have at least 28 more years so I choose to believe him and live in a fools paradise. I watch people who have cancer saying they cannot eat like this before they get the diagnosis then when they get the news they burst into tears instead of tackling their treatment....I am living proof that it works so I more than anyone else know i shouldn`t run jokes..stress at the workplace...when u are undergoing that, u cannot afford to eat badly . I tell people that, and although eating much better than most I will sit and lyme with my friends and have an occasional cookie....sugar, Pat sugar,CANCER FOLLOWS SUGAR. U MUST NOT HAVE IT!(talking to myself)
The other thing that does is make your taste buds that had gotten used to eating greens etc. want sugar.....
I feel so good when I`m eating right why would I want to backslide. Nothing really tempts me now except cheese so why ?
Idleness.... Or needing to be a part of the crowd when your body already tells u that u r not.
I went out in Kingston with my friend to a place that has smoothies etc. and on ordering found out that the smoothie was very sweet, it didn`t have sugar no, the waitress proudly told us it was filled with CONDENSED MILK.......and I`m going to order that thinking I`m eating healthy ?..........Thank God my taste buds are aware....So what's a girl to do ? Stay home or carry her juice and food with her?......I think not!
OPEN A RAW FOOD CAFE? YES. ONE IS NEEDED IN MOBAY AND ONE IN KINGSTON....INVESTORS .....ANYONE?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
5 WORST FOODS
Awrighty then confusion time. My favourite bwoy just sent me his '5 worst foods you can eat' and all i have to say is if i follow this i might as well stop eating as there will be no enjoyment of life......
Now he`s telling me no cayenne pepper , no spices ???? Please Lord...Can`t manage that. I know we not to eat seafood and cheese and that is hard enough to do, but no flavours now ? Come on!
Then not even a day later here comes a doctor who had a brain tumour and he says the opposite-where spices are concerned, Cancer food cures. All i`m trying to tell u is there are different schools of thought about this food thing , they agree in some things but some people are stricter than some......Do what is good for u....I think if u eat according to your blood type, and put more raw food into your daily food intake , NO PROCESSED FOODS PLEASE, u can`t go wrong.
My son has a little girlfriend who has asthma ,every night he was taking her to the hospital. I said to him "what does she eat?" surely enough, it was a diet of Pringles and Doritos and lollipops.......With Kentucky Fry as the dinner.......So i told him as a raw food chef that was looking bad on him . Well he put her on raw food and that was 4 mths ago and 'knock wood' no new attacks.
If u are sick the pie chart of raw food should go from 80% to 100%,(80% is maintainance) but what is becoming very very clear is...... FOOD IS THE HEALING DRUG OF THE FUTURE.
Now he`s telling me no cayenne pepper , no spices ???? Please Lord...Can`t manage that. I know we not to eat seafood and cheese and that is hard enough to do, but no flavours now ? Come on!
Then not even a day later here comes a doctor who had a brain tumour and he says the opposite-where spices are concerned, Cancer food cures. All i`m trying to tell u is there are different schools of thought about this food thing , they agree in some things but some people are stricter than some......Do what is good for u....I think if u eat according to your blood type, and put more raw food into your daily food intake , NO PROCESSED FOODS PLEASE, u can`t go wrong.
My son has a little girlfriend who has asthma ,every night he was taking her to the hospital. I said to him "what does she eat?" surely enough, it was a diet of Pringles and Doritos and lollipops.......With Kentucky Fry as the dinner.......So i told him as a raw food chef that was looking bad on him . Well he put her on raw food and that was 4 mths ago and 'knock wood' no new attacks.
If u are sick the pie chart of raw food should go from 80% to 100%,(80% is maintainance) but what is becoming very very clear is...... FOOD IS THE HEALING DRUG OF THE FUTURE.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
MS. TINA
TINA , WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE U.
68 and standing , sorry dancing..... in 3 1/2 inch Christian Laboutin heels......I LOVE IT!
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HER BACK UP DANCERS AND SINGERS AND HER ? DECADES....DID IT SHOW ? I DON`T THINK SO.
A show to remember, Jamaicans well represented as usual at the show in Miami. I notice how she spaced out her 2 hour show, 1 hour then 1/2 hour break then the last hour, her next show (in the same area)3 days later - well planned out for a 68 year old fireball...Eating right with lots of water and chanting also helps. Not to mention her nearly 2 decades younger man. Nothing like young people around to make u maintain your youth.
Lots to learn from u Ms. Tina.
No fuddy duddy show for Ms. Tina.........fireworks and all kinds of pyrotechnics and equipment trusting her out into the audience.....I also love how although she is still wearing mini skirts she doesn`t look inappropriate.
She also has wrinkles...Cher has none, in fact Cher's face is unmoveable u don`t know if she talking or smiling...... Tina's lifestyle works, why do we not try to emulate it? By 68 one should know how to dress, know what to eat, and know how to pace yourself.
No woman with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other looks and behaves like Tina Turner.
Then over to the death of Miami.....a highrise on every block, TALK ABOUT A CONCRETE JUNGLE, SORRY AN EMPTY CONCRETE JUNGLE.
What happened Miami? Did a little greed set in ? When did u lose your soul? I knew u were turning into a Spanish country but now it's not only the language,it's the fashion, the food, and the decor.
I couldn`t even recognize the place ..it all looked alike.....DEAD!
Once Miami Beach was a fabulous place to hang out ....Now ?
Lead me to the rock ....Sorry, LEAVE ME ON THE ROCK!
68 and standing , sorry dancing..... in 3 1/2 inch Christian Laboutin heels......I LOVE IT!
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HER BACK UP DANCERS AND SINGERS AND HER ? DECADES....DID IT SHOW ? I DON`T THINK SO.
A show to remember, Jamaicans well represented as usual at the show in Miami. I notice how she spaced out her 2 hour show, 1 hour then 1/2 hour break then the last hour, her next show (in the same area)3 days later - well planned out for a 68 year old fireball...Eating right with lots of water and chanting also helps. Not to mention her nearly 2 decades younger man. Nothing like young people around to make u maintain your youth.
Lots to learn from u Ms. Tina.
No fuddy duddy show for Ms. Tina.........fireworks and all kinds of pyrotechnics and equipment trusting her out into the audience.....I also love how although she is still wearing mini skirts she doesn`t look inappropriate.
She also has wrinkles...Cher has none, in fact Cher's face is unmoveable u don`t know if she talking or smiling...... Tina's lifestyle works, why do we not try to emulate it? By 68 one should know how to dress, know what to eat, and know how to pace yourself.
No woman with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other looks and behaves like Tina Turner.
Then over to the death of Miami.....a highrise on every block, TALK ABOUT A CONCRETE JUNGLE, SORRY AN EMPTY CONCRETE JUNGLE.
What happened Miami? Did a little greed set in ? When did u lose your soul? I knew u were turning into a Spanish country but now it's not only the language,it's the fashion, the food, and the decor.
I couldn`t even recognize the place ..it all looked alike.....DEAD!
Once Miami Beach was a fabulous place to hang out ....Now ?
Lead me to the rock ....Sorry, LEAVE ME ON THE ROCK!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
INAUGURAL.SENATE.GOV
THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE U R TO GET TICKETS FOR JAN 20TH.
Tickets are being sold on average for US$13,000 but they go as high as US$20,000 this is for something that should be free.
Then if u call to check out a hotel..... The average room night is $1000.
Everyone trying to make a buck and squeezing out the middle class and poor people as usual. This is HISTORY! People, can we stop trying to make big bucks on everything ?
Just like how i predicted a landslide i predict that hundreds of thousands will find themselves there and back at minimal cost, backpacks and all.....What that will do to the infrastructure God knows, but be there they will. I`m only reminding them how cold it normally is but this movement has such divine intervention maybe it will be a sunny day in the 70`s...NOT IMPOSSIBLE!
The thing that amuses, amazes, thrills me watching as the guard changes is how real these people are. Date night continues in the open no special room, children are dropped at school by dad.......I think Washington is in for a reality check.
DON`T EVER STOP MR. AND MRS. OBAMA........Its time we have real people to look up to. Aren`t we tired of these oil tycoons and blue-bloods. Bill and Hilary started off real, sex scandal and all but quickly got acclimatized.......Now they ARE WASHINGTON.
Let's hope these bright, black people stay the course.
It's so wonderful to hear the first family has arrived and see this colourful crew come into view........Do u realize from his suit and tie, to the children and the missus, their clothes were all colour coordinated on election night...Yep red and black it was. I think we are going to have a fun time watching.
Tickets are being sold on average for US$13,000 but they go as high as US$20,000 this is for something that should be free.
Then if u call to check out a hotel..... The average room night is $1000.
Everyone trying to make a buck and squeezing out the middle class and poor people as usual. This is HISTORY! People, can we stop trying to make big bucks on everything ?
Just like how i predicted a landslide i predict that hundreds of thousands will find themselves there and back at minimal cost, backpacks and all.....What that will do to the infrastructure God knows, but be there they will. I`m only reminding them how cold it normally is but this movement has such divine intervention maybe it will be a sunny day in the 70`s...NOT IMPOSSIBLE!
The thing that amuses, amazes, thrills me watching as the guard changes is how real these people are. Date night continues in the open no special room, children are dropped at school by dad.......I think Washington is in for a reality check.
DON`T EVER STOP MR. AND MRS. OBAMA........Its time we have real people to look up to. Aren`t we tired of these oil tycoons and blue-bloods. Bill and Hilary started off real, sex scandal and all but quickly got acclimatized.......Now they ARE WASHINGTON.
Let's hope these bright, black people stay the course.
It's so wonderful to hear the first family has arrived and see this colourful crew come into view........Do u realize from his suit and tie, to the children and the missus, their clothes were all colour coordinated on election night...Yep red and black it was. I think we are going to have a fun time watching.
Friday, November 7, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
There is nothing as wonderful as hearing your 2 year 8 mth old granddaughter sing happy birthday to you on your birthday. After her stirring rendition done once on phone and once on web-cam she turned to her father (on the web-cam) and said "Papa is that your mother?" '"yes Naiyah my mother your grandmother"......did we understand such things at that age ?
It must be the prenatal vitamins.......
So another year came and went with Obama as the birthday present and promise of lots of sacrifices to come....For me to have lived to see this has just been icing on the cake.
The no-drama Obama has already shifted mode with the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel as his chief of staff....he takes no prisoners, gets the job done. Should make for interesting watching.
I also like the fact today the President-elect reminded everybody that he`s not President yet...It's like they expect him to throw out Bush(who`s that?) before January and be responsible for everything immediately.
Come on guys CHANGE WE HAVE TO WAIT ON.........
This birthday also made me realize how lucky i have been being born in Jamaica ,always a first class citizen, never having to sit at the back of the bus ,the entire bus was mine...'MLK' with Soledad O'Brien is must see TV for those of us who need to know why black people in the USA are now preparing to walk, ride, drive or fly to the inauguration.
For a man who was beaten half to death(John Lewis) to sit and watch this is just mind boggling. Talk about a front row seat.
So back to the real world and me being another year older and looking good but not feeling good..Is it the return of the dragon ? That question always first on your mind especially as i`ve been so complacent of late. Glyco down to one time per day.....Greens when i get around to it....Eating tomatoes and coconut when i know that it's not for my blood type.....Stress, stress and too much stress at work......What can i say? Easier said than done. U fight to stay alive, but what is life without quality? And i was telling a friend recently i need somewhere to go with a friend where there is food i can eat ,not sit and eat lettuce and drink cranberry juice and lime.
I look at the picture of me in NYAM JAMAICA with my big plate of stew peas with the fattiest pigs tail in the world, and i look a picture of health, 2 weeks later i was in hospital. So i don`t take everybody telling me how fabulous i am looking as a barometer on my health.
It means the tests start again next week.
It means that those of us with the genes prone to this thing need not ease up for a minute, not even a second. THE FIGHT NEVER ENDS.
It must be the prenatal vitamins.......
So another year came and went with Obama as the birthday present and promise of lots of sacrifices to come....For me to have lived to see this has just been icing on the cake.
The no-drama Obama has already shifted mode with the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel as his chief of staff....he takes no prisoners, gets the job done. Should make for interesting watching.
I also like the fact today the President-elect reminded everybody that he`s not President yet...It's like they expect him to throw out Bush(who`s that?) before January and be responsible for everything immediately.
Come on guys CHANGE WE HAVE TO WAIT ON.........
This birthday also made me realize how lucky i have been being born in Jamaica ,always a first class citizen, never having to sit at the back of the bus ,the entire bus was mine...'MLK' with Soledad O'Brien is must see TV for those of us who need to know why black people in the USA are now preparing to walk, ride, drive or fly to the inauguration.
For a man who was beaten half to death(John Lewis) to sit and watch this is just mind boggling. Talk about a front row seat.
So back to the real world and me being another year older and looking good but not feeling good..Is it the return of the dragon ? That question always first on your mind especially as i`ve been so complacent of late. Glyco down to one time per day.....Greens when i get around to it....Eating tomatoes and coconut when i know that it's not for my blood type.....Stress, stress and too much stress at work......What can i say? Easier said than done. U fight to stay alive, but what is life without quality? And i was telling a friend recently i need somewhere to go with a friend where there is food i can eat ,not sit and eat lettuce and drink cranberry juice and lime.
I look at the picture of me in NYAM JAMAICA with my big plate of stew peas with the fattiest pigs tail in the world, and i look a picture of health, 2 weeks later i was in hospital. So i don`t take everybody telling me how fabulous i am looking as a barometer on my health.
It means the tests start again next week.
It means that those of us with the genes prone to this thing need not ease up for a minute, not even a second. THE FIGHT NEVER ENDS.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN DECLARED THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN DECLARED THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .....HEARING THOSE WORDS COMING OVER MY TELEVISION ALTHOUGH I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN I BENT OVER HOLDING MY HEAD AND BURST INTO TEARS.
My stomach still has not settled, i don`t know if it's my lack of intestines or what, but the bathroom has been my friend since last night and my face looks like that of a woman who cried all night because her husband didn`t come home.......
Did u see how calm he was last night ? I understand he wanted no fireworks , it was a sobering moment not a 'la la' party time.
As i looked on , at the man with the weight of the WORLD on his shoulders, it dawned on me that young black men now have a role model, no longer do they have to aspire to be a DRUG DON or a RAPPER with their pants around their knees and their wealth hanging around their necks or in their mouths...They too can be President one day. I understand in Atlanta the young men who days ago were the hooligans terrorising people on the streets turned into model young men , pushing wheelchairs and holding places in line for old people...Proves to me they are the way they are because they don`t know any better.
U know Bill Maher once said on his show that he can`t find anything to joke about with Obama . He even sleeps with only his wife so he`s boring , not funny........
If all u can find to laugh about is his big ears it's not worth it...there are too many things that are so right. I swear even McCain is a fan if truth be told.
How many of us realize that people of my age have gone from seeing people of our colour hosed for being on the wrong side of the road, being lynched for being born in the wrong state, to seeing the first true African American (African father/American mother)becoming the Leader of the Free World.
I understand people in Atlanta were eating chili last night while they were watching as that's his favourite meal, or they think it is, as they see him eat it during the campaign. They don`t think maybe it's the easiest thing for a man who doesn`t eat junk food to eat while he is on the road..........I love it, they are going to be many more things they do to emulate him and it won`t hurt, it will only help.
Was Jessie Jackson`s tears last night due to thinking back on his ill timed words ? We know why Oprah was emotional , she was there at the start of the train ride in fact she identified the passenger of the train as a winner and put her money where her mouth was....To see it come to fruition must be almost too much to take...People from states like Mississippi must be unable to even wrap their heads around it.
The fun now starts.... the long uphill climb to bring back a country to its rightful standing in the world with people representing all the way.
My guess is that if u can run a campaign like that where no stone was left unturned, u must be able to harness the energies of the people WHO DID THAT FOR THEIR COUNTRY. Plus people - what a first lady Americans are going to have......Harvard educated ! Can`t go too wrong with that.
IT CAN WORK AND IT WILL!
My stomach still has not settled, i don`t know if it's my lack of intestines or what, but the bathroom has been my friend since last night and my face looks like that of a woman who cried all night because her husband didn`t come home.......
Did u see how calm he was last night ? I understand he wanted no fireworks , it was a sobering moment not a 'la la' party time.
As i looked on , at the man with the weight of the WORLD on his shoulders, it dawned on me that young black men now have a role model, no longer do they have to aspire to be a DRUG DON or a RAPPER with their pants around their knees and their wealth hanging around their necks or in their mouths...They too can be President one day. I understand in Atlanta the young men who days ago were the hooligans terrorising people on the streets turned into model young men , pushing wheelchairs and holding places in line for old people...Proves to me they are the way they are because they don`t know any better.
U know Bill Maher once said on his show that he can`t find anything to joke about with Obama . He even sleeps with only his wife so he`s boring , not funny........
If all u can find to laugh about is his big ears it's not worth it...there are too many things that are so right. I swear even McCain is a fan if truth be told.
How many of us realize that people of my age have gone from seeing people of our colour hosed for being on the wrong side of the road, being lynched for being born in the wrong state, to seeing the first true African American (African father/American mother)becoming the Leader of the Free World.
I understand people in Atlanta were eating chili last night while they were watching as that's his favourite meal, or they think it is, as they see him eat it during the campaign. They don`t think maybe it's the easiest thing for a man who doesn`t eat junk food to eat while he is on the road..........I love it, they are going to be many more things they do to emulate him and it won`t hurt, it will only help.
Was Jessie Jackson`s tears last night due to thinking back on his ill timed words ? We know why Oprah was emotional , she was there at the start of the train ride in fact she identified the passenger of the train as a winner and put her money where her mouth was....To see it come to fruition must be almost too much to take...People from states like Mississippi must be unable to even wrap their heads around it.
The fun now starts.... the long uphill climb to bring back a country to its rightful standing in the world with people representing all the way.
My guess is that if u can run a campaign like that where no stone was left unturned, u must be able to harness the energies of the people WHO DID THAT FOR THEIR COUNTRY. Plus people - what a first lady Americans are going to have......Harvard educated ! Can`t go too wrong with that.
IT CAN WORK AND IT WILL!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A CHANGE WE BELIEVED IN
TODAY IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD.
How many of us ever thought we would live to see this ? Can u imagine black people in the south, can u feel their tears ? Look at people react to this man.
What a day !! what an 18 months really !!!
I am just overwhelmed.......Who would have thunk it? Once i heard Pennsylvania went to Barack i knew it was all over.........
They just said that out of the white people that said race was a problem with them voting for Obama , 30% of them still voted for him....can u imagine ? They are that upset with the Republicans.
I JUST CALLED THE ELECTION AT 9:30pm .......Once we have Pennsylvania and Ohio its all over!
All the small states McCain can have....He has lost!
Didn`t i tell u months ago it would be a landslide?
I have a friend drinking wine from Pennsylvania was called. I am looking on the TV at the streets of New York and Chicago....A CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN...Yes we believed him , every time he spoke we believed him and i think he is going to unite the World not only America....I think we are going to stop the excess. This meltdown is showing us we don`t need half of what we have.....As he said we need to share the wealth we cannot have 2 houses and 3 cars and a closet full of clothes that still have the price tag on them, while people sleep under bridges...Just can`t work. I heard an announcer saying Warren Buffet is ONLY worth 48 BILLION now...Wow how sad......He is one billionaire who shows that u don`t need it as he lives a simple life and gives away a lot of it but he is still worth 48 Billion........
We need more like him and not the so called 'stars' like Kimora Simmons who shows her closet with hundreds of Louis Vuitton bags. She is the # 1 purchaser of Louis Vuitton luggage/bags in the world.
What a claim to fame !!
Things like that have to change. Little girls need to aspire to give back and to help not to being the # 1 customer of Louis...How many bags can u carry at once ?
I hope the people who voted for change can deal with it when it comes as trust me it's coming......
I want to tell u once Toot died Jamaicans said it was all over as some said 'IM HAVE GOOD DUPPY PON IM" that means he has a spirit watching out for him so he must win.......
Major shock speaking of duppies .......Louisiana voted for McCain after what happened to them in New Orleans under Bush's watch!!
Unbelievable isn`t it?
How many of us ever thought we would live to see this ? Can u imagine black people in the south, can u feel their tears ? Look at people react to this man.
What a day !! what an 18 months really !!!
I am just overwhelmed.......Who would have thunk it? Once i heard Pennsylvania went to Barack i knew it was all over.........
They just said that out of the white people that said race was a problem with them voting for Obama , 30% of them still voted for him....can u imagine ? They are that upset with the Republicans.
I JUST CALLED THE ELECTION AT 9:30pm .......Once we have Pennsylvania and Ohio its all over!
All the small states McCain can have....He has lost!
Didn`t i tell u months ago it would be a landslide?
I have a friend drinking wine from Pennsylvania was called. I am looking on the TV at the streets of New York and Chicago....A CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN...Yes we believed him , every time he spoke we believed him and i think he is going to unite the World not only America....I think we are going to stop the excess. This meltdown is showing us we don`t need half of what we have.....As he said we need to share the wealth we cannot have 2 houses and 3 cars and a closet full of clothes that still have the price tag on them, while people sleep under bridges...Just can`t work. I heard an announcer saying Warren Buffet is ONLY worth 48 BILLION now...Wow how sad......He is one billionaire who shows that u don`t need it as he lives a simple life and gives away a lot of it but he is still worth 48 Billion........
We need more like him and not the so called 'stars' like Kimora Simmons who shows her closet with hundreds of Louis Vuitton bags. She is the # 1 purchaser of Louis Vuitton luggage/bags in the world.
What a claim to fame !!
Things like that have to change. Little girls need to aspire to give back and to help not to being the # 1 customer of Louis...How many bags can u carry at once ?
I hope the people who voted for change can deal with it when it comes as trust me it's coming......
I want to tell u once Toot died Jamaicans said it was all over as some said 'IM HAVE GOOD DUPPY PON IM" that means he has a spirit watching out for him so he must win.......
Major shock speaking of duppies .......Louisiana voted for McCain after what happened to them in New Orleans under Bush's watch!!
Unbelievable isn`t it?
Saturday, November 1, 2008
VOTE FOR A KINDER GENTLER NATION
What was that i just heard roaring by.........Was that a helicopter going to bomb Syria? Tell me - is that to give a war to McCain the warmonger or is it to make life hard for Obama.......
Did i just hear a drone bombing Pakistan? Mr. Bush after all this time u just realize u should have gone after the Taliban?
My Christian friends say they are not worried as they know the Lord is coming for his world and all this that is happening has been prophesied so they knew it would happen....well as i don`t believe that anybody coming for me in a chariot of fire to burn me up or send me to heaven or hell, i need this world to stay fine as i have to live in it till i make my transition to my next place of abode. So i need a quieter, gentler nation leading the free world as when America sneezes we catch cold.
They say the media is biased , I feel otherwise........journalists are normally sensible people so they must lean towards the person giving hope and talking sense.
I look at the news and know that if Obama loses on Tuesday, people are going to be so disheartened , but black people would have won anyway. Never could u believe that we would ever have reached this far, so let us give thanks .Yes it would be disappointing but America will get what they deserve , what they want, we will just hang on for the wild ride and hope we survive. Listening to Mrs. Palin being punked by a Canadian radio station proves to me that America would have lost their collective minds to vote for a team with her in it.......Sarkozy indeed!
But that doesn`t have to be our reality...........PEOPLE GO OUT AND VOTE, let nothing stop u. Not rain, not cold, not the long wait (10 HOURS IN GWINNETT COUNTY) come prepared....
The rest of the world is waiting, let us give them a leader. America needs to be loved and not hated.
America needs to be the country that does good as it used to and not thought of as the evil empire.
McCain has a lot to offer but not in the capacity of President, Palin needs to take her brood and go back to Alaska. Did u see when the photographers descended on Barack Obama when he took his daughters trick or treating and he said "guys I`m asking" DID U SEE THEM BACK OFF ? THEY DID.
The bad vibes need to end, LOVE is always the healing of a nation. Respect gets respect.
On Wednesday it will either be a new day or business as usual.......Americans,you make the choice, MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE YOU WILL EVER MAKE.
Did i just hear a drone bombing Pakistan? Mr. Bush after all this time u just realize u should have gone after the Taliban?
My Christian friends say they are not worried as they know the Lord is coming for his world and all this that is happening has been prophesied so they knew it would happen....well as i don`t believe that anybody coming for me in a chariot of fire to burn me up or send me to heaven or hell, i need this world to stay fine as i have to live in it till i make my transition to my next place of abode. So i need a quieter, gentler nation leading the free world as when America sneezes we catch cold.
They say the media is biased , I feel otherwise........journalists are normally sensible people so they must lean towards the person giving hope and talking sense.
I look at the news and know that if Obama loses on Tuesday, people are going to be so disheartened , but black people would have won anyway. Never could u believe that we would ever have reached this far, so let us give thanks .Yes it would be disappointing but America will get what they deserve , what they want, we will just hang on for the wild ride and hope we survive. Listening to Mrs. Palin being punked by a Canadian radio station proves to me that America would have lost their collective minds to vote for a team with her in it.......Sarkozy indeed!
But that doesn`t have to be our reality...........PEOPLE GO OUT AND VOTE, let nothing stop u. Not rain, not cold, not the long wait (10 HOURS IN GWINNETT COUNTY) come prepared....
The rest of the world is waiting, let us give them a leader. America needs to be loved and not hated.
America needs to be the country that does good as it used to and not thought of as the evil empire.
McCain has a lot to offer but not in the capacity of President, Palin needs to take her brood and go back to Alaska. Did u see when the photographers descended on Barack Obama when he took his daughters trick or treating and he said "guys I`m asking" DID U SEE THEM BACK OFF ? THEY DID.
The bad vibes need to end, LOVE is always the healing of a nation. Respect gets respect.
On Wednesday it will either be a new day or business as usual.......Americans,you make the choice, MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE YOU WILL EVER MAKE.
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