Saturday, February 28, 2009

February and the results are in............

As of February 19th, for today, my body is cancer free and this is how I feel...be playful with your lives - Please! Be grateful for your World...



Keep checking back to see what happens next - many surprises!

Hugs and more hugs
Jen


Friday, February 27, 2009

Time to catch up with "What's Up"

Click on title see a bit of old school to the new school of "wassssup"

Along with billions of others around the whole world, on January 15th, I watched and held my breath with hope. 



I had desperately wanted to go to Washington DC and just be in the presence of one of the most historical moments in American.  I was raised in the generation that followed civil rights - an age still wading through the past and ideas of black and white.  How would it be for a culture with such American history and burden to see one of their own take the highest office of leadership?  As much as this election was unifying and beyond - still a black American was being inaugurated to be President of the United States.  The emotion was going to be palatable and run the gamut.  The weather was freezing and the anticipation warming - a melting away of pain.  

I watched the morning news starting at 4:00 AM and the determination of a country as it found its way to the National Mall.  I drove into New York City and up to Harlem wondering inside with my own emotion, my own history.  Over 3,000 NYC school kids, their teachers and families were descending upon the Harlem Armory for their own inauguration party. 


The breath of history was being let out, and a new mix of life without limitation because of color and culture took its place that day.   I felt we had as a world moved into a place were anything is now possible!  Youth brought this change to us...we should respect that and all we do with this experience and what we will leave for them with a new history.



Joy to the World,
Jen