Tomorrow I will be retaking my CNA test and I haven't been nervous but I'm ready to get it over with. This process has been long and stressful, but I learned a valuable just it seems good doesn't mean it's good for you. I went into this situation trying to save a few dollars and went through an awful experience. I jumped on what sounded good went and against my better judgement and now I am paying the price. No matter the outcome I know God has my back.
:) Peace
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thoughts
I slept six hours last night but I didn't sleep them straight through. I had two nightmares back to back so I was up looking at tv, Twitter and Tumblr, so around four I passed back out. When I woke up for work, I was so tired I was already thinking of ways to get out of working today. Then I changed my mindset and thought there was a time when I didn't have a job and begged and pleaded with God to bless me with any job. So I did a self check of myself, it takes not time for me to start complaining about a situation and then I saw this on Twitter this morning :
"THIS RT @ralphmarston: It's easy to complain. It's better to quietly make it right." I thought to myself God is speaking to me again and what can I do to make it right, instead of complaining. I tend to live in the past or five years in the future, I can see what I want but I don't wanna do the hard work to get there. So I started praying for God to slow me and to start taking things day by day. I prayed confidence and peace. I'm an odd ball, I know that for sure but I gotta take time to enjoy the journey of life and stop feeling like since I hit thirty that I'm running out of time. I'm a work in progress so bare with me.
"THIS RT @ralphmarston: It's easy to complain. It's better to quietly make it right." I thought to myself God is speaking to me again and what can I do to make it right, instead of complaining. I tend to live in the past or five years in the future, I can see what I want but I don't wanna do the hard work to get there. So I started praying for God to slow me and to start taking things day by day. I prayed confidence and peace. I'm an odd ball, I know that for sure but I gotta take time to enjoy the journey of life and stop feeling like since I hit thirty that I'm running out of time. I'm a work in progress so bare with me.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Advice from Twitter
I'm creating a new series of post called Advice from Twitter, I follow some wonderful people who are way more interesting then any celebrity. So I will randomly post some of their tweets on here.
Point of View
Sorry I have been away, I had serious back pains last week but I am better now. To my followers tell me what is your point of view of yourself?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
9/11 Stories
The Children of 9/11 from peoplemag.com
Lauren McIntyre, 9
Lauren wears a picture of her father, Donald McIntyre, on a pendant around her neck every day. While picking up an extra shift to make money before Lauren's birth, 38-year-old McIntyre died on duty as a Port Authority Police officer in Tower 2. Lauren understands the weight of her father's actions, her mom Jeannine tells PEOPLE: "Lauren will always say, 'My daddy died a hero.'"
Alexa Smagala, 9
Alexa is saddened by the fact that she has no pictures with her father, firefighter Stanley Smagala Jr., who died on first response to Tower 2. She's happy they share the same blond hair and blue eyes, but she struggles to revisit 9/11. "When I see the people running from the building that day, I know my dad was telling them to get out," Alexa tells PEOPLE. "Now I think he makes the sun shine."
Rodney Wotton, 9
On Rodney's bed there is a stuffed dog that his father, 36-year-old IT manager Rodney Wotton, picked out for him before he was born. He loves the similarities he and his dad share (including a love of spaghetti), but feels the attack on Tower 2 that left him fatherless is unfair. "I think of my dad when I'm really mad," Rodney tells PEOPLE. "Probably because he would take my side."
Allison Lee, 9
For show-and-tell last year, Allison brought in a snow globe of New York City and told her classmates about her father, 34-year old stagehand Dan Lee. "I told them my dad's plane crashed into the Twin Towers," Allison told PEOPLE. "I was nervous but it made me feel better." Allison now lives in Henderson, Nev., and always sends a card to her dad on his birthday.
Parker Fyfe-Kiernan, 9
After his mom Haven remarried, Parker was given the option of choosing his last name. Usually shy, he spoke up before his older brother did, according to Parker's stepdad, Dan Kiernan. "He said, 'I wanna be Parker Fyfe-Kiernan.'" Parker finds it tough to understand the loss of his father, Karleton Fyfe (a 41-year-old passenger on Flight 11), but has embraced his new blended family.
Jamie Gartenberg Pila, 9
Jamie's mother, Jill, believes her younger daughter's friendly and open personality reflects that of her father, commercial real estate broker James Gartenberg. His death in Tower 1 at the age of 35 is still difficult for Jamie to process, but she has realized that her loss goes beyond her and her 12-year-old sister Nicole. "She knows she's a part of history, and she's OK with that," Jill told PEOPLE.
Gabriel "Gabi" Jacobs Dick, 9
Every year, Gabi sends balloons up in the sky filled with notes to his dad, sales executive Ariel Jacobs (who didn't survive the collapse of Tower 1), telling him what happened during the year. "Ten years since my first dad died on Sept. 11, I don't exactly know how to deal with it because I never really knew him," he tells PEOPLE.
Robyn Higley, 9
Robyn wears a special necklace with a picture of her father, insurance executive Robert Higley, who passed away at 29 from the attack on Tower 2. She and sister Amanda, 14, live with mom Vycki and stepdad Rick. "I would have loved to have known my daddy, Rob, but I've always felt that I have a dad," Robyn tells PEOPLE. "It's just more family for me to love."
Ronald Milam Jr., 9
Ronald Jr.'s mother, Jacqueline, sees in her son's brown eyes and bright smile the face of her late husband, 33-year-old Pentagon casualty Major Ronald Milam. She tells PEOPLE, "Ronald Jr. is a happy kid, though when we talk about his dad, you can tell that he wishes he would have known him."
Grace Danahy, 9
Grace used to keep her ultrasound picture in her room because it was the only photo her father, Patrick Danahy, had seen of her before his death at 35 in the collapse of Tower 2. Though she is close to stepdad Andy Sammel (whom she and sisters Katie and Allison call "dad"), she asks her mom Mary to tell stories about "Daddy Patrick," and sleeps every night with one of his bike jerseys.
Lauren McIntyre, 9
Lauren wears a picture of her father, Donald McIntyre, on a pendant around her neck every day. While picking up an extra shift to make money before Lauren's birth, 38-year-old McIntyre died on duty as a Port Authority Police officer in Tower 2. Lauren understands the weight of her father's actions, her mom Jeannine tells PEOPLE: "Lauren will always say, 'My daddy died a hero.'"
Alexa Smagala, 9
Alexa is saddened by the fact that she has no pictures with her father, firefighter Stanley Smagala Jr., who died on first response to Tower 2. She's happy they share the same blond hair and blue eyes, but she struggles to revisit 9/11. "When I see the people running from the building that day, I know my dad was telling them to get out," Alexa tells PEOPLE. "Now I think he makes the sun shine."
Rodney Wotton, 9
On Rodney's bed there is a stuffed dog that his father, 36-year-old IT manager Rodney Wotton, picked out for him before he was born. He loves the similarities he and his dad share (including a love of spaghetti), but feels the attack on Tower 2 that left him fatherless is unfair. "I think of my dad when I'm really mad," Rodney tells PEOPLE. "Probably because he would take my side."
Allison Lee, 9
For show-and-tell last year, Allison brought in a snow globe of New York City and told her classmates about her father, 34-year old stagehand Dan Lee. "I told them my dad's plane crashed into the Twin Towers," Allison told PEOPLE. "I was nervous but it made me feel better." Allison now lives in Henderson, Nev., and always sends a card to her dad on his birthday.
Parker Fyfe-Kiernan, 9
After his mom Haven remarried, Parker was given the option of choosing his last name. Usually shy, he spoke up before his older brother did, according to Parker's stepdad, Dan Kiernan. "He said, 'I wanna be Parker Fyfe-Kiernan.'" Parker finds it tough to understand the loss of his father, Karleton Fyfe (a 41-year-old passenger on Flight 11), but has embraced his new blended family.
Jamie Gartenberg Pila, 9
Jamie's mother, Jill, believes her younger daughter's friendly and open personality reflects that of her father, commercial real estate broker James Gartenberg. His death in Tower 1 at the age of 35 is still difficult for Jamie to process, but she has realized that her loss goes beyond her and her 12-year-old sister Nicole. "She knows she's a part of history, and she's OK with that," Jill told PEOPLE.
Gabriel "Gabi" Jacobs Dick, 9
Every year, Gabi sends balloons up in the sky filled with notes to his dad, sales executive Ariel Jacobs (who didn't survive the collapse of Tower 1), telling him what happened during the year. "Ten years since my first dad died on Sept. 11, I don't exactly know how to deal with it because I never really knew him," he tells PEOPLE.
Robyn Higley, 9
Robyn wears a special necklace with a picture of her father, insurance executive Robert Higley, who passed away at 29 from the attack on Tower 2. She and sister Amanda, 14, live with mom Vycki and stepdad Rick. "I would have loved to have known my daddy, Rob, but I've always felt that I have a dad," Robyn tells PEOPLE. "It's just more family for me to love."
Ronald Milam Jr., 9
Ronald Jr.'s mother, Jacqueline, sees in her son's brown eyes and bright smile the face of her late husband, 33-year-old Pentagon casualty Major Ronald Milam. She tells PEOPLE, "Ronald Jr. is a happy kid, though when we talk about his dad, you can tell that he wishes he would have known him."
Grace Danahy, 9
Grace used to keep her ultrasound picture in her room because it was the only photo her father, Patrick Danahy, had seen of her before his death at 35 in the collapse of Tower 2. Though she is close to stepdad Andy Sammel (whom she and sisters Katie and Allison call "dad"), she asks her mom Mary to tell stories about "Daddy Patrick," and sleeps every night with one of his bike jerseys.
9/11 Stories
As we get ready to mark the remembrance of September 11, 2001, I will be posing stories all weekend of life after that day.
On Sept. 8, 2001, Sekou Siby was playing soccer on a field in Queens with several of his co-workers. At that time, Siby was a line cook and chef who spoke four languages. Like everyone else in the game, he worked at Windows on the World -- an elite eatery atop the north tower of the World Trade Center, and the most profitable restaurant in America.
Among the players were Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians -- a highly international group, but one typical of the Windows staff, which included immigrants from every corner of the globe. By all accounts, it didn't matter that people hailed from dozens of different countries. The Windows workers formed a tight-knit community.
"It was the ideal," recalled Siby, himself an immigrant from the Ivory Coast. "So many different groups. We really got along."
Three days later, nearly everyone who'd been in that soccer game was dead -- victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed 2,977 people in New York, Virgina and Pennsylvania.
Siby, who would have been at Windows that morning had he not recently agreed to swap shifts with a co-worker, was stunned.
"It was five years before I was able to play soccer again," he said.
People who worked at Windows on the World speak about it today in the language of family. The workers prayed together in the building's stairwells, and shared meals on religious holidays in the Windows cafeteria.
But the destruction of Windows, and the tragic deaths of 73 of its employees, did not mark the end of that community. Siby and many of his co-workers would eventually become involved in a new restaurant, one that paid tribute to the people who died on 9/11 and that advanced the principles of fair treatment for service workers.
And even in the aftermath of the attacks, as New Yorkers and Americans struggled to understand what they had just experienced, the seeds were being planted for a new group -- the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York -- which would become a voice for powerless immigrants and restaurant workers across the country.
'TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT'
For Fekkak Mamdouh, 9/11 made one thing clear: a lot of people in New York's restaurant industry needed help.
Mamdouh, a Moroccan immigrant who held degrees in physics and chemistry, had been at Windows on the World since 1996, working as a waiter and union shop steward. He spent much of the week of Sept. 11 in various hospitals and the city morgue, trying to account for his missing co-workers.
When he wasn't searching for the lost Windows employees -- the 73 people he today calls his "brothers and sisters" -- Mamdouh was also helping to process emergency casework for immigrant members of his collective, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Union.
As he did so, he began to understand that restaurant workers and their families were some of the most vulnerable people in the city -- particularly if they were undocumented immigrants.
"Ninety-nine percent of people that work in restaurants don't have anybody to go to," Mamdouh recently told The Huffington Post. "People, when they get mad in restaurants, they just go next door or look for another job. And people are used to this. Like, this is the restaurant business and this is how it goes. Take it or leave it."
Many of the people whose cases Mamdouh handled were struggling with problems -- financial instability, a lack of health care, few or no workplace rights -- that predated 9/11, and that couldn't be resolved in a few hours at an emergency center.
Mamdouh was realizing they had no safety net, and few opportunities to find one, due to the transitory nature of the restaurant industry. And that industry, like many other components of the city's economy, was having troubles of its own during the fall of 2001. More than 12,000 restaurant jobs in New York vanished after the attacks, and by December, almost two-thirds of them still hadn't come back.
In October 2001, as the surge of post-9/11 relief began winding down, HERE officials approached Mamdouh about setting up a sustainable organization for restaurant workers. Mamdouh began meeting regularly with Saru Jayaraman, an accomplished activist and organizer from Rochester, N.Y., and by the spring of 2002, they had a name for the new group they wanted to start: the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, or ROC-NY.
The group included a number of former Windows on the World employees. Mamdouh said he remembers that having everybody in one place again, at least initially, "was like some medicine for all of us."
The members of ROC pooled their knowledge about job openings in the city and began speaking out against restaurant owners who treated their employees unfairly. Not everyone involved with ROC had been at Windows on the World, but it was the group's ties to the Windows community that got ROC its first moment in the spotlight -- thanks to a well-publicized conflict with David Emil, Windows' former owner.
In June of 2002, Emil was opening a new restaurant in Times Square called Noche. He had rehired 16 former Windows workers -- a number that Mamdouh and Jayaraman considered unacceptably low, given that Emil had once pledged to do everything in his power to help the displaced Windows staff.
At the ROC's urging -- and after a protest in which some 50 former Windows employees picketed the new restaurant and Mamdouh led chants with a bullhorn -- Emil agreed to take on an additional 15 staff members from Windows, a victory Mamdouh said he had never expected.
Not long after, the cable news channel NY1 interviewed Jayaraman about ROC-NY's fight with Emil, and its mission to advocate for restaurant workers throughout New York.
"They put the phone number of the Center on the screen," Mamdouh remembered, "and said if you have a problem, call the Center."
The next day, he said, "the phone never stopped ringing."
'ALWAYS WE'RE TRYING'
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York has grown exponentially. These days, there's also a Restaurant Opportunities Center in Chicago, one in Miami and five others in five more locations.
One of the places where ROC has established a presence is New Orleans -- where, Mamdouh said, some restaurant employees make so little that they can't afford rent. At the end of their shift, he said, they leave work and sleep under a bridge at the end of Canal Street.
In the past nine years, ROC -- now ROC-United, the umbrella group comprising eight chapters and 8,000 members -- has campaigned for paid sick days and minimum wage increases, and has fought against misappropriated tips and workplace discrimination. It's published more than a dozen reports on the restaurant industry, and won more than $5 million in settlements for aggrieved workers.
It has also compiled a list of restaurants where the conscientious diner can enjoy a meal -- places where employers pay fair wages, allow paid time off and make options for health care available. And Mamdouh has become an outspoken advocate for immigration reform (a subject he and a co-author wrote about for The Huffington Post in 2009).
Shailesh Shrestha, a founding member and board member of ROC-NY, told The Huffington Post that his work with the organization has afforded him "full respect and dignity."
"That was my ultimate dream of my life," said Shrestha, who moved to New York from Nepal in 1997 to pursue acting, and worked as a server at Windows on the World for a year and a half before it was destroyed. "I did not chose to come this country for any comfort or luxury, but for self-respect, pride and dignity," he said in an email.
ROC has also opened a restaurant of its own -- though not before a divisive, three-year planning and fundraising process, an uphill campaign that included a trip to Italy to research cooperative models and a number of unsuccessful appeals to banks and post-9/11 revitalization groups.
"We thought, 'It's going to be so easy,'" Mamdouh said. But "nobody was going to give us money." The group's political activism made potential investors wary. In the end, it took contributions from 17 small lenders to get the new venture off the ground.
The restaurant, called Colors -- a name meant to evoke the diversity of the Windows on the World community and the New York restaurant industry at large -- opened in 2006, in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood.
Colors is run as a co-op, meaning that all the members are also part owners. Julio Anzures, the restaurant's sous chef, told The Huffington Post that the Colors staff meets frequently to discuss how the restaurant is being run, and said that all of the employees have a voice in the decision-making process.
The restaurant is scrupulous about paying overtime, Anzures said, and is much better about observing health standards than some other places where he has worked.
It also makes an effort to pay its employees a fair wage -- a practice that may be hurting its bottom line.
"This restaurant is not making a lot of profit," Anzures admitted. "Right now the business is a little slow, but we're trying. Always we're trying. Our first goal is to help the community."
Though Colors only serves food Wednesday through Saturday, it offers training classes for its junior workers seven days a week. Sekou Siby, the former Windows line cook who now serves as a co-director of ROC-NY and as the operations manager at Colors, estimated that Colors has moved more than 2,000 people through its training programs, which teach young restaurant workers the ins and outs of food preparation, serving and bartending.
"There are a lot of people who can't go to culinary school because they can't afford it," Siby said. "We provide training for free."
Both Siby and Mamdouh echoed Anzures's assertion that while business may not be booming, Colors doesn't measure its success solely in financial terms.
Mamdouh recalled running into a woman, not long ago, who had once worked at a foundation that declined to give funding to Colors in its infancy. She'd asked him if Colors was making money now.
"I told her -- you should ask me how many people changed their lives because of Colors," Mamdouh said. "How many people come who were busboys and dishwashers, and now they are waiters. How many families are profiting, and how many families are good just because of Colors."
That, he said, is the restaurant's real goal -- and it's one that Colors has met many times over. The organization's roots in tragedy have given it a set of priorities that go beyond simply making a profit.
"This is all happening because of 9/11," Mamdouh said. "The people that I lost on 9/11 want me to do this ... It's not just revenge, it's not just crying. It's going and helping our community. It's doing something good from bad."
Huffington Post
On Sept. 8, 2001, Sekou Siby was playing soccer on a field in Queens with several of his co-workers. At that time, Siby was a line cook and chef who spoke four languages. Like everyone else in the game, he worked at Windows on the World -- an elite eatery atop the north tower of the World Trade Center, and the most profitable restaurant in America.
Among the players were Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians -- a highly international group, but one typical of the Windows staff, which included immigrants from every corner of the globe. By all accounts, it didn't matter that people hailed from dozens of different countries. The Windows workers formed a tight-knit community.
"It was the ideal," recalled Siby, himself an immigrant from the Ivory Coast. "So many different groups. We really got along."
Three days later, nearly everyone who'd been in that soccer game was dead -- victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed 2,977 people in New York, Virgina and Pennsylvania.
Siby, who would have been at Windows that morning had he not recently agreed to swap shifts with a co-worker, was stunned.
"It was five years before I was able to play soccer again," he said.
People who worked at Windows on the World speak about it today in the language of family. The workers prayed together in the building's stairwells, and shared meals on religious holidays in the Windows cafeteria.
But the destruction of Windows, and the tragic deaths of 73 of its employees, did not mark the end of that community. Siby and many of his co-workers would eventually become involved in a new restaurant, one that paid tribute to the people who died on 9/11 and that advanced the principles of fair treatment for service workers.
And even in the aftermath of the attacks, as New Yorkers and Americans struggled to understand what they had just experienced, the seeds were being planted for a new group -- the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York -- which would become a voice for powerless immigrants and restaurant workers across the country.
'TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT'
For Fekkak Mamdouh, 9/11 made one thing clear: a lot of people in New York's restaurant industry needed help.
Mamdouh, a Moroccan immigrant who held degrees in physics and chemistry, had been at Windows on the World since 1996, working as a waiter and union shop steward. He spent much of the week of Sept. 11 in various hospitals and the city morgue, trying to account for his missing co-workers.
When he wasn't searching for the lost Windows employees -- the 73 people he today calls his "brothers and sisters" -- Mamdouh was also helping to process emergency casework for immigrant members of his collective, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Union.
As he did so, he began to understand that restaurant workers and their families were some of the most vulnerable people in the city -- particularly if they were undocumented immigrants.
"Ninety-nine percent of people that work in restaurants don't have anybody to go to," Mamdouh recently told The Huffington Post. "People, when they get mad in restaurants, they just go next door or look for another job. And people are used to this. Like, this is the restaurant business and this is how it goes. Take it or leave it."
Many of the people whose cases Mamdouh handled were struggling with problems -- financial instability, a lack of health care, few or no workplace rights -- that predated 9/11, and that couldn't be resolved in a few hours at an emergency center.
Mamdouh was realizing they had no safety net, and few opportunities to find one, due to the transitory nature of the restaurant industry. And that industry, like many other components of the city's economy, was having troubles of its own during the fall of 2001. More than 12,000 restaurant jobs in New York vanished after the attacks, and by December, almost two-thirds of them still hadn't come back.
In October 2001, as the surge of post-9/11 relief began winding down, HERE officials approached Mamdouh about setting up a sustainable organization for restaurant workers. Mamdouh began meeting regularly with Saru Jayaraman, an accomplished activist and organizer from Rochester, N.Y., and by the spring of 2002, they had a name for the new group they wanted to start: the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, or ROC-NY.
The group included a number of former Windows on the World employees. Mamdouh said he remembers that having everybody in one place again, at least initially, "was like some medicine for all of us."
The members of ROC pooled their knowledge about job openings in the city and began speaking out against restaurant owners who treated their employees unfairly. Not everyone involved with ROC had been at Windows on the World, but it was the group's ties to the Windows community that got ROC its first moment in the spotlight -- thanks to a well-publicized conflict with David Emil, Windows' former owner.
In June of 2002, Emil was opening a new restaurant in Times Square called Noche. He had rehired 16 former Windows workers -- a number that Mamdouh and Jayaraman considered unacceptably low, given that Emil had once pledged to do everything in his power to help the displaced Windows staff.
At the ROC's urging -- and after a protest in which some 50 former Windows employees picketed the new restaurant and Mamdouh led chants with a bullhorn -- Emil agreed to take on an additional 15 staff members from Windows, a victory Mamdouh said he had never expected.
Not long after, the cable news channel NY1 interviewed Jayaraman about ROC-NY's fight with Emil, and its mission to advocate for restaurant workers throughout New York.
"They put the phone number of the Center on the screen," Mamdouh remembered, "and said if you have a problem, call the Center."
The next day, he said, "the phone never stopped ringing."
'ALWAYS WE'RE TRYING'
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York has grown exponentially. These days, there's also a Restaurant Opportunities Center in Chicago, one in Miami and five others in five more locations.
One of the places where ROC has established a presence is New Orleans -- where, Mamdouh said, some restaurant employees make so little that they can't afford rent. At the end of their shift, he said, they leave work and sleep under a bridge at the end of Canal Street.
In the past nine years, ROC -- now ROC-United, the umbrella group comprising eight chapters and 8,000 members -- has campaigned for paid sick days and minimum wage increases, and has fought against misappropriated tips and workplace discrimination. It's published more than a dozen reports on the restaurant industry, and won more than $5 million in settlements for aggrieved workers.
It has also compiled a list of restaurants where the conscientious diner can enjoy a meal -- places where employers pay fair wages, allow paid time off and make options for health care available. And Mamdouh has become an outspoken advocate for immigration reform (a subject he and a co-author wrote about for The Huffington Post in 2009).
Shailesh Shrestha, a founding member and board member of ROC-NY, told The Huffington Post that his work with the organization has afforded him "full respect and dignity."
"That was my ultimate dream of my life," said Shrestha, who moved to New York from Nepal in 1997 to pursue acting, and worked as a server at Windows on the World for a year and a half before it was destroyed. "I did not chose to come this country for any comfort or luxury, but for self-respect, pride and dignity," he said in an email.
ROC has also opened a restaurant of its own -- though not before a divisive, three-year planning and fundraising process, an uphill campaign that included a trip to Italy to research cooperative models and a number of unsuccessful appeals to banks and post-9/11 revitalization groups.
"We thought, 'It's going to be so easy,'" Mamdouh said. But "nobody was going to give us money." The group's political activism made potential investors wary. In the end, it took contributions from 17 small lenders to get the new venture off the ground.
The restaurant, called Colors -- a name meant to evoke the diversity of the Windows on the World community and the New York restaurant industry at large -- opened in 2006, in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood.
Colors is run as a co-op, meaning that all the members are also part owners. Julio Anzures, the restaurant's sous chef, told The Huffington Post that the Colors staff meets frequently to discuss how the restaurant is being run, and said that all of the employees have a voice in the decision-making process.
The restaurant is scrupulous about paying overtime, Anzures said, and is much better about observing health standards than some other places where he has worked.
It also makes an effort to pay its employees a fair wage -- a practice that may be hurting its bottom line.
"This restaurant is not making a lot of profit," Anzures admitted. "Right now the business is a little slow, but we're trying. Always we're trying. Our first goal is to help the community."
Though Colors only serves food Wednesday through Saturday, it offers training classes for its junior workers seven days a week. Sekou Siby, the former Windows line cook who now serves as a co-director of ROC-NY and as the operations manager at Colors, estimated that Colors has moved more than 2,000 people through its training programs, which teach young restaurant workers the ins and outs of food preparation, serving and bartending.
"There are a lot of people who can't go to culinary school because they can't afford it," Siby said. "We provide training for free."
Both Siby and Mamdouh echoed Anzures's assertion that while business may not be booming, Colors doesn't measure its success solely in financial terms.
Mamdouh recalled running into a woman, not long ago, who had once worked at a foundation that declined to give funding to Colors in its infancy. She'd asked him if Colors was making money now.
"I told her -- you should ask me how many people changed their lives because of Colors," Mamdouh said. "How many people come who were busboys and dishwashers, and now they are waiters. How many families are profiting, and how many families are good just because of Colors."
That, he said, is the restaurant's real goal -- and it's one that Colors has met many times over. The organization's roots in tragedy have given it a set of priorities that go beyond simply making a profit.
"This is all happening because of 9/11," Mamdouh said. "The people that I lost on 9/11 want me to do this ... It's not just revenge, it's not just crying. It's going and helping our community. It's doing something good from bad."
Huffington Post
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Getting Out Of My Own Way
I'm the type of person who gets real excited about a move I want to make as far as career wise and then I talk myself out of whatever it is I'm thinking. Now on a daily basis I tell myself to stay positive and open up to new experiences. I pray but not as much as I should and I think God speaks to me through music and the word. I've never really set goals in life, I kinda of just go with the flow.
I overthink things and try to figure out what would happen instead of letting things happen. I tend to jeopardize a good thing or situation by overthinking as I type this there are a million thoughts running thru my mind. I remind myself several times aday to calm down and take each second as it comes.
One thing I know for sure is that next year I will be back in school starting over and thoughts creep in daily saying, "How will you pay for this?", "Do you think you are smart enough to compete with the youngins today?" I'm a self doubter but I'm strong work in progress. "Change your thoughts, change your world," I know the saying but it's easier said than done but I know I'll achieve everything I put my mind to moving forward. I just gotta get out of my own way....
I overthink things and try to figure out what would happen instead of letting things happen. I tend to jeopardize a good thing or situation by overthinking as I type this there are a million thoughts running thru my mind. I remind myself several times aday to calm down and take each second as it comes.
One thing I know for sure is that next year I will be back in school starting over and thoughts creep in daily saying, "How will you pay for this?", "Do you think you are smart enough to compete with the youngins today?" I'm a self doubter but I'm strong work in progress. "Change your thoughts, change your world," I know the saying but it's easier said than done but I know I'll achieve everything I put my mind to moving forward. I just gotta get out of my own way....
Getting Healthy
Diet Tips from Weight-Loss Bloggers: Alisa of Eff This Diet
Thursday, 09/ 8/2011 5:10 PM
All this week, we're sharing weight-loss motivation from some of our favorite real-girl diet and fitness bloggers. Today's smart, get-fit tips come from Alisa at Eff This Diet—she's already lost more than 120 pounds!
You'll never believe that gorgeous 24-year-old Alisa from Southern California was ever nearly 400-pounds, but she's got the pics to prove it:
And take a look at her now, more than 100 pounds lighter:
That's quite the reason to turn your ear to Alisa's advice, now isn't it? We love Alisa's Fitblr because her positivity is infectious, and her totally-candid weigh-in posts help us remember that we're not alone in our own weight struggles. Here are some of the tips she shared with us:
Each Sunday, I put together a grocery list of the meals I want to make for the week ahead. Making sure that my kitchen is stocked at all times is the key to success. I am less likely to be tempted by junk food if I make sure and prepare myself for any given situation. The same goes for my office. I keep a drawer stocked with food just in case I'm running late for the day and can't pack my lunch, or I feel the need to snack...I can't even begin to explain how many times that snack drawer at work has saved me from munching on baked goods in the kitchen.
I have not eliminated pizza, pasta, or even donuts completely from my diet. Whole Foods is a goldmine for healthy finds that can satisfy you the same way junk food can. My absolute favorite pizza in the world is Full of Life organic pizza. I promise you—at 260 calories for the entire thing, this is not your traditional diet food. Substitutions always work great, too. Just making small changes like whole wheat pasta for regular pasta can make a huge difference in the long run.
Try to eat whole, unprocessed foods whenever possible. Have you ever tried to pick up one of those frozen diet entrees (and I use this term loosely—they are tiny!) and read the ingredients list? Near impossible. Why does a chicken and rice dish need anything more than chicken and rice? Check out your local farmer's markets and don't be afraid to experiment in the kitchen.
Don't let your size intimidate you. I've talked to a lot of people about the fitness concerns they have because of their size. I took my first yoga class at 300 pounds. Was I terrified of being the biggest girl in the room and not being able to keep up? Of course I was! But you know what? It really wasn't as big a deal as I imagined. Sure, there are certain poses I am unable to do because of my size, but I modify them, and I do the best I can. I would say that 95 percent of the time, I can do the poses just as well as the other smaller girls can do. I push myself and I love every minute of it. Because of this, yoga is now the key to my fitness routine. I am even planning on signing up for teacher training next year. I'd hate to think that I'd have missed out on this because of my fears.
Do not weigh in every day. Trust me, it will drive you insane (I vouch for this with personal experience). Water retention can play a huge role in your weight on a day to day basis (think of that time of the month). Why stress yourself out by a number that might not even be accurate? Weigh in on a weekly basis (or longer). While we're talking about the scale, don't ever walk out of a weigh-in session with a negative mentality. “God, I only lost one pound this week” is not acceptable. A loss is a loss. You are closer to your goal now, are you not? Progress, not perfection.
You're so inspiring, Alisa! Track Alisa's progress and get more of her tips over at Eff This Diet.
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Thursday, 09/ 8/2011 5:10 PM
All this week, we're sharing weight-loss motivation from some of our favorite real-girl diet and fitness bloggers. Today's smart, get-fit tips come from Alisa at Eff This Diet—she's already lost more than 120 pounds!
You'll never believe that gorgeous 24-year-old Alisa from Southern California was ever nearly 400-pounds, but she's got the pics to prove it:
And take a look at her now, more than 100 pounds lighter:
That's quite the reason to turn your ear to Alisa's advice, now isn't it? We love Alisa's Fitblr because her positivity is infectious, and her totally-candid weigh-in posts help us remember that we're not alone in our own weight struggles. Here are some of the tips she shared with us:
Each Sunday, I put together a grocery list of the meals I want to make for the week ahead. Making sure that my kitchen is stocked at all times is the key to success. I am less likely to be tempted by junk food if I make sure and prepare myself for any given situation. The same goes for my office. I keep a drawer stocked with food just in case I'm running late for the day and can't pack my lunch, or I feel the need to snack...I can't even begin to explain how many times that snack drawer at work has saved me from munching on baked goods in the kitchen.
I have not eliminated pizza, pasta, or even donuts completely from my diet. Whole Foods is a goldmine for healthy finds that can satisfy you the same way junk food can. My absolute favorite pizza in the world is Full of Life organic pizza. I promise you—at 260 calories for the entire thing, this is not your traditional diet food. Substitutions always work great, too. Just making small changes like whole wheat pasta for regular pasta can make a huge difference in the long run.
Try to eat whole, unprocessed foods whenever possible. Have you ever tried to pick up one of those frozen diet entrees (and I use this term loosely—they are tiny!) and read the ingredients list? Near impossible. Why does a chicken and rice dish need anything more than chicken and rice? Check out your local farmer's markets and don't be afraid to experiment in the kitchen.
Don't let your size intimidate you. I've talked to a lot of people about the fitness concerns they have because of their size. I took my first yoga class at 300 pounds. Was I terrified of being the biggest girl in the room and not being able to keep up? Of course I was! But you know what? It really wasn't as big a deal as I imagined. Sure, there are certain poses I am unable to do because of my size, but I modify them, and I do the best I can. I would say that 95 percent of the time, I can do the poses just as well as the other smaller girls can do. I push myself and I love every minute of it. Because of this, yoga is now the key to my fitness routine. I am even planning on signing up for teacher training next year. I'd hate to think that I'd have missed out on this because of my fears.
Do not weigh in every day. Trust me, it will drive you insane (I vouch for this with personal experience). Water retention can play a huge role in your weight on a day to day basis (think of that time of the month). Why stress yourself out by a number that might not even be accurate? Weigh in on a weekly basis (or longer). While we're talking about the scale, don't ever walk out of a weigh-in session with a negative mentality. “God, I only lost one pound this week” is not acceptable. A loss is a loss. You are closer to your goal now, are you not? Progress, not perfection.
You're so inspiring, Alisa! Track Alisa's progress and get more of her tips over at Eff This Diet.
Glamour mobile.com
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Free!!!
I should be playing Destiny Child as I type this post,I mentioned a little while ago that my hair started falling out last year, and I didn't know what to do. Earlier this year I started going back to my hairstylist and I tried weave and half wigs but I can't stand the glue and the itching so I was over that and bought a wig. I had been putting off for months doing my hair out of the fear that I would have to cut it all off. After my bf asked me a million times when I was gonna do my hair, we went together to a stylist by my home. My hair was so damaged that the middle section had fell out so bad so I said cut it. As she cut and shaved my hair I had to let go of some insecurities about how I look, I have blemishes and acne scars but I love myself and that's all that matters.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
5 things I know for sure by Blake Mycoskie
Blake is the founder of The Toms Shoes
1. A little imagination goes a long way.
"In 2006, while vacationing um Argentina, I noticed impoverished kids walking around with no shoes on which put them at risk for disease. When I got home to
L.A. I started brainstorming and came up with Toms, which donates one pair of shoes for each pair sold. We've given away more than a million pairs."
2. Stuff can't make you happy.
"When I started distributing shoes in Ethophia, South Africa, and South America, I saw that the people had so little, yet the seemed to worry so much less than my friends and family back home. Instead of stressing over gadgets, they were talking around the campfire."
3. Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line.
"Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll day a friend told them our story."
4.Your home should inspire you.
"A few years back, I downsized to a sailboat. Now I wake up when the sun finds it's way into my bedroom. I'm more in tune with nature, which has influenced my shoe designs. I'm reminded every day to keep things simple and comfortable."
5. Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.
"I've been blessed with a lot if things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance- which my past girlfriends always found hilarious. Recently I got onstage at a concert and started bouncing around and hitting a tambourine in front of thousands people. I was probably off the beat, but you have to do what you enjoy."
O Magazine
September 2012
1. A little imagination goes a long way.
"In 2006, while vacationing um Argentina, I noticed impoverished kids walking around with no shoes on which put them at risk for disease. When I got home to
L.A. I started brainstorming and came up with Toms, which donates one pair of shoes for each pair sold. We've given away more than a million pairs."
2. Stuff can't make you happy.
"When I started distributing shoes in Ethophia, South Africa, and South America, I saw that the people had so little, yet the seemed to worry so much less than my friends and family back home. Instead of stressing over gadgets, they were talking around the campfire."
3. Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line.
"Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll day a friend told them our story."
4.Your home should inspire you.
"A few years back, I downsized to a sailboat. Now I wake up when the sun finds it's way into my bedroom. I'm more in tune with nature, which has influenced my shoe designs. I'm reminded every day to keep things simple and comfortable."
5. Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.
"I've been blessed with a lot if things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance- which my past girlfriends always found hilarious. Recently I got onstage at a concert and started bouncing around and hitting a tambourine in front of thousands people. I was probably off the beat, but you have to do what you enjoy."
O Magazine
September 2012
Monday, September 5, 2011
Jay-Z's Six Point Best Life Diagnostic
1. Be your own biggest fan: "Believe in whatever it is you're doing. If you don't believe it, no one else will."
2. Take control, then let go: "Work really hard and apply yourself in a way that when the job is done, you can look in the mirror and say 'I've exhausted all the possibities, I've done to make this right' After that, let it go: it's out of your control."
3. Focus on the process, not the result: "People get consumed by the trappings of success. They forget the reason they wanted to do what they do in the first place. Whether you have zero money or a million dollars, it doesn't change who you are. Keep yourself inspired."
4. Never act on your fears: "Card players have a saying: 'Play the cards, not the money. If your hand is good, it doesn't matter if there's $2 on the table or $2,000. You determine your outcome. Don't make decisions based on fear. People can be jealous of you and bait you, but you can be mature and handle the situation."
5. Use money the right way: "For some people, money can be a burden and lead to bad decisions. But money make you comfortable so that you don't have to compromise yourself or do anything just for money. It should give you freedom to do what you love."
6. Don't stop growing: "Growth doesn't stop when you've become successful. That's when it starts."
Men's Health April 2009
2. Take control, then let go: "Work really hard and apply yourself in a way that when the job is done, you can look in the mirror and say 'I've exhausted all the possibities, I've done to make this right' After that, let it go: it's out of your control."
3. Focus on the process, not the result: "People get consumed by the trappings of success. They forget the reason they wanted to do what they do in the first place. Whether you have zero money or a million dollars, it doesn't change who you are. Keep yourself inspired."
4. Never act on your fears: "Card players have a saying: 'Play the cards, not the money. If your hand is good, it doesn't matter if there's $2 on the table or $2,000. You determine your outcome. Don't make decisions based on fear. People can be jealous of you and bait you, but you can be mature and handle the situation."
5. Use money the right way: "For some people, money can be a burden and lead to bad decisions. But money make you comfortable so that you don't have to compromise yourself or do anything just for money. It should give you freedom to do what you love."
6. Don't stop growing: "Growth doesn't stop when you've become successful. That's when it starts."
Men's Health April 2009
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Think Positive
Whew! I've been feeling ill since Thursday due to my lack of sleep, I need to my diet and start back walking this week.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Grateful
As I type this I'm watching NBC Nightly News and there is a segment about the zero amount of jobs added this month by the government. 5,000 people turned out for a job fair that only had 400 jobs, more than 6 million Americans have been unemployed for 6 months or more.
The day I failed my CNA test I immediately was offered a job that same day being a healthcare provider and it pays mininumin wage but after seeing the father who can't explain to his daughter why he can't get a job, I'm grateful. The man said he started at the bottom and worked his way up to the top and he'll do it again all he needs is a job.
The day I failed my CNA test I immediately was offered a job that same day being a healthcare provider and it pays mininumin wage but after seeing the father who can't explain to his daughter why he can't get a job, I'm grateful. The man said he started at the bottom and worked his way up to the top and he'll do it again all he needs is a job.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
My Voice.....
I have been wondering for months what to do with my blog, and today it has come to me, I want to inspire positivity, change and growth. I will daily post of positive things, there is so much negativity in the world.
He's speaking
I have always believed that God speaks to us in strange ways, right after I finished my post this morning this came across my Twitter timeline:
You’ve been designed by God to enjoy life, to experience His peace and His presence every day . . . not just a couple of times each week. ~ via Joel Osteen
You’ve been designed by God to enjoy life, to experience His peace and His presence every day . . . not just a couple of times each week. ~ via Joel Osteen
Inspiring words from Tumblr
Frank Ocean's page
belief in yourself,
is belief in God.
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belief in yourself,
is belief in God.
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Notes from Oprah's last show
Oprah last show notes
The lessons she learned from the show
2. She realized that people were making bad choices and blaming everyone but themselves. You are responsible for your OWN life....I doesn't matter what your mom or dad did......what is life? Energy. We are responsible for the energy we bring to others and to ourselves. "Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space." all life is energy and we transfer it daily for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Do unto others as you want them to do unto you
All the energy you spend trying to hurt someone else comes back to you. And when you get that you are responsible for your own life everything changes. Don't wait for nobody to save you or complete you. When you are responsible for your own life and when you get that you get free.
1. Figure out your destiny and calling is in life. We all are called we must find our calling and get about the business of doing it. A calling lights you up and give you purpose. We all have a platform. The power is to forgive, heal, and change someone's life. Figure out your calling is and use it to serve the world. The purpose is in the heart of your life.
3. People sometimes don't feel worthy. There is a different between thinking you deserve to happy and knowing that you are worthy to be happy. (Iyana Vanzant's return to the show) what she learned was that we block our blessing because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough. Jackie S. Whose face was melted off by a fire or a mother with young daughters who lost both of her arms and legs. Taught Oprah that you are worthy because you were born and because you are here. My being alive makes worthiness my birth right. You alone are enough. 30,000 guest has all wanted Validation everyone wants that. Everybody wants to be heard and want to know do u see me? Do u hear me? Validate the people in your life, tell them you see them u hear them. Try with the people in your life let them know what you say matters to me.
4. Oprah says her team and Jesus helped the show last 25 years. She talks about the same God we talk about the alpha and omega. From Mississippi to Chicago she a miracle and God has been there. The still voice of God. She listens before every decision and the only time something didn't work was when she did not listen to God. God is love and God is life. It could be a whisper very quiet at first and then it grows louder and louder but pay attention to it. What are the whispers in your life right now & what is it saying to you?
6. She has no regrets about her show but she wished she coulda brought more attention to sex abuse. She was set free when she realized it wasn't her fault that a predator prayed on her. Abuse is never the victim's fault.
7. Connect, embrace and liberate and love somebody at least one person make them feel that they mattered. She believes in divine order and the manifestation of God. The viewers and her show has been the great love if her life. She prayed everyday before the show. She thanked all her viewers
her final words were " To God be the glory" Amen ~tears~
Oprah@Oprah.com new email address
The lessons she learned from the show
2. She realized that people were making bad choices and blaming everyone but themselves. You are responsible for your OWN life....I doesn't matter what your mom or dad did......what is life? Energy. We are responsible for the energy we bring to others and to ourselves. "Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space." all life is energy and we transfer it daily for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Do unto others as you want them to do unto you
All the energy you spend trying to hurt someone else comes back to you. And when you get that you are responsible for your own life everything changes. Don't wait for nobody to save you or complete you. When you are responsible for your own life and when you get that you get free.
1. Figure out your destiny and calling is in life. We all are called we must find our calling and get about the business of doing it. A calling lights you up and give you purpose. We all have a platform. The power is to forgive, heal, and change someone's life. Figure out your calling is and use it to serve the world. The purpose is in the heart of your life.
3. People sometimes don't feel worthy. There is a different between thinking you deserve to happy and knowing that you are worthy to be happy. (Iyana Vanzant's return to the show) what she learned was that we block our blessing because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough. Jackie S. Whose face was melted off by a fire or a mother with young daughters who lost both of her arms and legs. Taught Oprah that you are worthy because you were born and because you are here. My being alive makes worthiness my birth right. You alone are enough. 30,000 guest has all wanted Validation everyone wants that. Everybody wants to be heard and want to know do u see me? Do u hear me? Validate the people in your life, tell them you see them u hear them. Try with the people in your life let them know what you say matters to me.
4. Oprah says her team and Jesus helped the show last 25 years. She talks about the same God we talk about the alpha and omega. From Mississippi to Chicago she a miracle and God has been there. The still voice of God. She listens before every decision and the only time something didn't work was when she did not listen to God. God is love and God is life. It could be a whisper very quiet at first and then it grows louder and louder but pay attention to it. What are the whispers in your life right now & what is it saying to you?
6. She has no regrets about her show but she wished she coulda brought more attention to sex abuse. She was set free when she realized it wasn't her fault that a predator prayed on her. Abuse is never the victim's fault.
7. Connect, embrace and liberate and love somebody at least one person make them feel that they mattered. She believes in divine order and the manifestation of God. The viewers and her show has been the great love if her life. She prayed everyday before the show. She thanked all her viewers
her final words were " To God be the glory" Amen ~tears~
Oprah@Oprah.com new email address
Getting rid of Pollution
Elimination of elements of pollution:
What is pollution? Pollution is a condition in which cells, organs, glands, feelings, and thoughts lose the purpose of their existence and become abnormal and self-defeating. All vices are pollutants. Inertia and depression lead to pollution.
Every kind of hallucinogenic drug, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol, STDs are major pollutants of the physical body. Hatred, fear, anger, jealousy and revenge are pollutants of the emotional body. Greed, vanity, ego, separatism, and fanaticism are sources of pollution of the mental
body.
What is pollution? Pollution is a condition in which cells, organs, glands, feelings, and thoughts lose the purpose of their existence and become abnormal and self-defeating. All vices are pollutants. Inertia and depression lead to pollution.
Every kind of hallucinogenic drug, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol, STDs are major pollutants of the physical body. Hatred, fear, anger, jealousy and revenge are pollutants of the emotional body. Greed, vanity, ego, separatism, and fanaticism are sources of pollution of the mental
body.
It's what you make it
Lately I haven't been able to sleep
and I'm determine not to become addicted to sleeping pills. Last night I had a little praise session before I feel asleep for a few reasons. I almost made a huge mistake that made realize something quick, you can't take people for granted.
I have a dream and I have had it all my life and when I woke up around 5 the first thing I normally do is read my Twitter account to see how many hours I slept lol and to see what I miss. I follow a blogger name LowKey and lately he has gotten into hosting at events, he almost made me cry he always speaks about his mom & dad and I think it's a wonderful example that all young men should read. He wears his heart on his sleeve and it's rare to see a guy express his feelings to openly. He also said "Ya'll asses can feel this. Folllow ur heart. Yeah its gone be rough. Yep u gone fall on ur face but fuck it. Do it. Why not?" this got me to thinking about my dream if you came across any of my high school papers, you would see the question "Where will you be in ten years?" my answer was always something entertainment wise. When my friends have a question regarding something in entertainment they call me and nine times out of ten they say "I know you know about such and such." Writing as always been a passion of mine from songs, poems and even starting books that have never been completed. I am starting to pick up inspiration of those around me and its amazing what you learn from other people lives.
When Oprah ended her show this year I watched the entire season but what stuck with me the most was her very last show, I cried and took down some notes. People say Oprah is this or that but you can't deny her story.
I like when people live out their dreams it takes faith, patience, hard work and courage to say you know what I am going to do this. I can honestly say a lot of things came easy to me in life jobs and etc but now I am in a place where it is solely on me. I regret not finishing college and I am going back next year as a freshman it will be exciting and scary but I am up for the change. I will also write in some form everyday and expand my circle and hopefully it wil open doors for me. I truly believe that God wants to live the life we want and I know mine is suppose to be far from regular.
Peace :)
and I'm determine not to become addicted to sleeping pills. Last night I had a little praise session before I feel asleep for a few reasons. I almost made a huge mistake that made realize something quick, you can't take people for granted.
I have a dream and I have had it all my life and when I woke up around 5 the first thing I normally do is read my Twitter account to see how many hours I slept lol and to see what I miss. I follow a blogger name LowKey and lately he has gotten into hosting at events, he almost made me cry he always speaks about his mom & dad and I think it's a wonderful example that all young men should read. He wears his heart on his sleeve and it's rare to see a guy express his feelings to openly. He also said "Ya'll asses can feel this. Folllow ur heart. Yeah its gone be rough. Yep u gone fall on ur face but fuck it. Do it. Why not?" this got me to thinking about my dream if you came across any of my high school papers, you would see the question "Where will you be in ten years?" my answer was always something entertainment wise. When my friends have a question regarding something in entertainment they call me and nine times out of ten they say "I know you know about such and such." Writing as always been a passion of mine from songs, poems and even starting books that have never been completed. I am starting to pick up inspiration of those around me and its amazing what you learn from other people lives.
When Oprah ended her show this year I watched the entire season but what stuck with me the most was her very last show, I cried and took down some notes. People say Oprah is this or that but you can't deny her story.
I like when people live out their dreams it takes faith, patience, hard work and courage to say you know what I am going to do this. I can honestly say a lot of things came easy to me in life jobs and etc but now I am in a place where it is solely on me. I regret not finishing college and I am going back next year as a freshman it will be exciting and scary but I am up for the change. I will also write in some form everyday and expand my circle and hopefully it wil open doors for me. I truly believe that God wants to live the life we want and I know mine is suppose to be far from regular.
Peace :)
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