Appreciation week 24-7 / 365

So there are usually all these appreciation days in the year...sister appreciation day pastor appreciation day etc etc and I think it should be appreciation day Monday to Monday Sunday through Sunday...why wait for my birthday to appreciate our friendship why wait for christmas to share Christs love.Maybe thats the reason am not so goo goo gaga over birthdays...the reason I am saying this is the other day as I was walkign up the stairs from work i pass this old guy and I mean old like full head of white hair old he must be in his seventies.So anyhu he is the volunteer who cleans the bathrooms every Monday morning can you imagine - I passed him on his hands on knees cleaning the floor and then the bath.I have for the longest time always wanted to tell him how much his work is appreciated.So I dashed in my room I have a whoel stack of cards - from baby shower to happy wedding day to good luck cards - yeah am a card junkie like that...and I picked out a thank you much appreciated card...so as I was writing the card it hit me I did not even know his name but was like what the heck I told him thanks for all your hard work and humor -he really does have a wild humor...so I gave him the card and he was like thank you he must have thought its a harambee invite or something lol..later I was told how he was in tears to the care taker describing how the card had absolutely lifted his spirits...and it got me thinking well this may seem like am goign off on a tangent as usual but I was discussing with some lady how the world is in such unrest right now - from riots in London to Libya I ws at western union and am like wow the dollar is buying at ninety.I look at refugees in Daadab but anyway back to the main shpill.So I think people in the world have so much anger and hurt its like the world is bleeding.Its like people have lost meaning to life.I was asking someone the other day how we give nani a reason to live again - how do we relight their flame , their passion for life???People are not satisfied with their jobs - oh yeah I was at a Panera Bread the other day and the Verizon workers next door were chanting going round in circles about how there rights are being violated at work.So my point is you may not be able to stop the riots in Libya or feed the five thousand in Daadab but you can reach out to your hurting neighbour / brother.Appreciate their life - try give them that reason to face tommorro.Who knows maybe my little old volunteer guy keeps the card on his mantle and looks at it every morning to give him a reason to get up and get going - knowing there is someone out there who sees me and what I do...so in this hurting broken world reach out, appreciate ....ok i have major major cramps am cranky as Flavor Flave would say you know what time it is lol lol I crack myself up... he he he
Oh oh I just saw this line from one of my emails I wrote when I had just "come to America."


"You cant achieve the impossible without attemping the absurd.."

Poetry - one language one passion one cause

Wow so first things first Happy Birthday to me Happy birthday to me!!I am officially quarter a century - the big 25 wow I was talking to Joan on my birthday and she goes like girl you need to start celebrating your five away from thirty and I go like wo when did I get here???so anyhu this week has been one of discovery well actualy thee past two weeks well let me not say discovery but more indulging in things that are near and dear to my heart - my passion projects...Friday I went to a glass blowing exhibit with a friend in Boston I just need to post the piccs you will be amazed at the beauty...Then this week the city of Cambridge has been priviledged to host the annual National Poetry Slam.Soem of the best and the greatest poets from around the nation meet annual to compete for the title its like the NBA title or the Superbowl in the wrodl of poetry.So my dear Ethiopian friend Fishstix is competing from Cali - apparently he is that good lol no but seriously he is good. and his coach is none other than Shihan - gosh I have been like a Shihan guru ever since I discovered def jam poetry and am hooked....so anyway Wednesday I was at All Asia - I signed up as a volunteer for the slam and boy was I blown away.I went alone and trust me the whole four hours can you imagine 4 hours I did not feel alone even for a minute.There was such an excitement and a warmth - as soon as a poet got off stage total strangers just hugged them and when a poet was on stage the silence was deafening.Someone asked me after the show when I was tellign them about it - were there mainly blacks?? and I was like heck no there were Japs, african americans, caucasians, latinos africans you name it - the lounge was a little U.N. And thats what I found to be the beauty of poetry.Once in the poetry lounge like I said I was alone but felt as though I knew everyone in the room.Poetry is like a unifying language it brings different passions different causes different ideas and condenses it in a simple and yet complex form - am I making sense??Gosh the depth of the poetry I heard on Wednesday just blew me away - from the earthquake in Japan to eating disorders, to sexuality to death - real issues happenign in real time.anyway am going for the semis so will let you know how that goes.Here is me with my main poet Shihan.

If someone else can be paid less to do the job your doing then its not worth doing -

Seth Godin