Happy New Year/New Decade All!! ... Can't believe another year is down and another has already begun. It's true when they say time stops for no man! I enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home with the fam and a pretty eventful New Year in New York with my sister's family, my bro, best friend Keisa, and the homie Mikey! Love them dearly! So glad I was able to start it off surrounded by love!
So, tis the season for resolutions right? Instead of setting anything in stone, I decided to look at the blessings that are in store in the near future and work like hell towards them in the coming year. Let's go ...
1. NY √ 2. 1 more semester of class work a. National Boards Part I ... Then II ... Then III ... b. My first Founder's Day √ c. My first Regional Conference d. My first Marathon 3. Summer in Berkeley 4. Fall I in Sac 5. Fall II in Berkeley 6. Spring in Miami 7. May 2011 Dr. Sheryl Lynn Guillory 8. Endless Future ...
I spent a day with children with Cardio-Facio-Cutaneous and Noonan's Syndromes. We worked in conjunction with dentists and other medical care providers giving eye exams to collect data for these rare conditions. There's only 200-300 individuals with this condition WORLDWIDE! We saw about 75 of them ... Truly an amazing experience ...
Check it out ... http://www.cfcsyndrome.org/syndrome.shtml
The last few weeks have been surreal A legend, the invincible, the un-human ... Died ...
Reality has set in Death is real Someone who was so much a part of your childhood ...
Shoot
Your PARENT'S childhood ...
Is gone ...
But as so many have already said ... He will live on ... Through the AMAZING music and works of art he left behind ...
The memorial was in such good taste Such a graceful family Such a respectable ceremony Fitting for a King ...
We'll miss you Michael Joseph Jackson 1958 - 2009
We Had Him By Maya Angelo
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace Sing our songs among the stars and and walk our dances across the face of the moon In the instant we learn that Michael is gone we know nothing No clocks can tell our time and no oceans can rush our tides With the abrupt absence of our treasure Though we our many, each of us is achingly alone Piercingly alone Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him He came to us from the Creator, trailing creativity in abundance Despite the anguish of life he was sheathed in mother love and family love and survived and did not more than that He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style We had him Whether we knew who he was or did not know, he was our's and we were his We had him Beautiful, delighting our eyes He raked his hat slant over his brow and took a pose on his toes for all of us and we laughed and stomped our feet for him We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing He gave us all he had been given Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana's Blackstar Square, in Johannesburg, in Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama and Birmingham England, we are missing Michael Jackson But we do know that we had him And we are the world.
Fulltime working, breastfeeding, pumping, married, podcast and journaling enthusiast, mommy to Junior. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Miami, FL.