Dude, check out the ripples on that chick!

It's been a few days since I have wrote. Partly because my daily schedule and routine looked quite different. I house sat for a good friend of mine and watched her two dogs. Dogs are work, at least hers. It was good though. It got me out of my studio and into a really nice home for a couple days. It's said dogs are good training for kids. Maybe??? I think dogs aren't even close to kids though because they don't respond to you. They don't learn from you. They don't converse back and forth with you. They may love you, but it's an annoying love, its a love where they want to lay on your chest as you sleep at night. I don't want anyone laying on my chest as I sleep at night. Ok, I take that back. A beautiful woman can lay on my chest as I sleep at night anytime! Anywho, I am seeing that I am a creature of habit. I like being organized. I like my studio. I like walking downtown to Barista on my morning's off or late work days and enjoying coffee and time. I am not a rushed person. I enjoy getting things done and doing things promptly and professionally, but in regards to non-task time, I enjoy slowing down as much as one can. I also attribute our Global realities as to part of why I haven't written. A lot has happened within our World the last few days and I don't know exactly how I feel about it yet. With that, I love the country that I live in and am happy that Peace and or Justice is being pursued. This however is not accomplished overnight. It is not accomplished by one man or the lack their of, one man. It is accomplished by You, Me, your Barista, your Spouse, your Children, your Mailman, your Broker, your Clerk, your Golf Pro, your Boss, your Friends, your Pastor, your CoWorker, your favorite Chef of your favorite Restraunt, your Taxi Driver, your Butcher, your Tenant, your Roomate, your Neighbor, your Accountant, your Housekeeper, your Bartender....I think you get the point. One man can't change the world and it's problems, and one man being removed from this world can't either! Thus, to steal a thought of a great man, may we all realize we have the power and PRIVILEGE to "be the change we want to see". This takes belief in you. Now if you're anything like me, their are days I believe in myself and am extremely confident in the things unfolded. But, sometimes doubt creeps in. Sometimes people's voices stir up our direction and make it cloudy. Sometimes rememberance of past failures (which is a word that doesn't even exist to me, because their is no such thing as failure in my opinion) add a weight to our ankles to slow us down from pursuing our goals. Whatever it may be, believe in yourself! Believe that if you choose to, you have the ability to breathe life into your surroundings. Everything one says and does has an echo, a rippling effect. The effect may take hours, days, months, years, or lifetimes, but effect always happens. Reverberations are constant. We remember what was said to us. We remember how people looked us in the eye during a conversation...or how they checked their twitter account on their phone as we shared with them a moment of our life, which ultimately says; Yea, Yea that's great, but I really care more about what Kim Kardashian and Lamar Odom ate for breakfast this morning than what you are taking the time and courage to share. Seriously, we all have encountered this. But it doesn't have to continue. It doesn't have to keep heading down this road. A new city is being developed called intentionality and it is going to need an off ramp. Somewhere, right now, someone is probably skipping a rock on a surface of water. They are watching it skip across and create ripples. After the rocks momentum stops and sinks, it's ripples don't. They continue! They expand, they grow, and they eventually collide with the other ripples. Sometimes change happens immediately, and sometimes in a lifetime beyond our own. But the constant are the ripples and we have the power to choose what kind of nipples, i mean ripples, we want to flash to the world!