It is sometimes so difficult to allow someone, to just... be! Obama has been compared to many greats. Let us allow him to make his own way. He is a unique individual with his own style and attributes. When we hold someone to the standard of another, I believe it is has the potential for setting someone up to disappoint us. We are thirsty for a healing in this country and Obama represents that cool, clean, glass of water. He has the ability to speak to a very deep place of truth within each of us, we recognize the language and we respond.
Obama is all the wonderful adjectives we can muster but remember... he is just a man and he is only as strong as the weakest link; Like those who are at threat of losing their homes, those who are presently homeless, those who are sick and unable to afford health insurance, those who make 6.15 per hour, those who are educated and can't find work, those who are strained in the sandwich generation, those who have been unfairly judged, those who are children. We are all in the same boat. We are the human food chain.
There is an African proverb that says: "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." There is allot of work to do. We have an election to win. Let's stay focused and consistent."Yes WE Can!" For the naysayers I ask, When was a time all you had... was hope ?
My Appreciation
Thank You,
for taking this moment, to visit Healing Season. I am sure that you will find it to be an introspective, provocative and motivating experience. My intention is to use the power of the written and spoken word, to tap a potential, sow a seed, free a mind and that is why I write. My greatest desire, is that each time you visit, you find another piece for a Healing Season.
Ajuba Hampden Joy
"The pen is mightier than the sword"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1839
for taking this moment, to visit Healing Season. I am sure that you will find it to be an introspective, provocative and motivating experience. My intention is to use the power of the written and spoken word, to tap a potential, sow a seed, free a mind and that is why I write. My greatest desire, is that each time you visit, you find another piece for a Healing Season.
Ajuba Hampden Joy
"The pen is mightier than the sword"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1839
Kwanzaa's Seven Principles
I will continue to display the principles, because it's a good idea to keep them present. Do you agree?
I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of Kwanzaa,
Dr. Maulana Karenga, when I was a student at Shaw
University, in Raleigh North Carolina.
From December 26th. through January 1st we observe and celebrate the traditions of Kwanzaa. It is not a holiday although we give a greater credence to Kwanzaa at that time of the year. The Nguzo Saba (N goo-zoh) The Seven Principles are a lifestyle. Just imagine how much greater this world will be, as we continue to instill these principles into our lifestyle and become them.
1.umoja (unity) (oo-mo-ja)>
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. You are a unit in the community.
2.Kujichagulia (coo-gee-cha'-goo-lee-ah) (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
This is why many of us change our names and have changed the sound of our children's names, wear Afrikan attire and have taken to reading and writing our own account of our plight) There is nothing more powerful than a made up mind. Initiate and be great in, 2008.
3. Ujima oo-jee-mah (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
If your neighbor is not able to roll their trash bin to the curb, won't that eventually effect you? Roll it for them.
4. Ujamaa oo-jam-mah (Cooperative Economics)To
build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
On the average, the dollars in the African community leave one Black business, are received by another Black business and then those dollars leave the community. There was a time when we traded almost exclusively with Black businesses. Never mind the motivation. The practice worked for us. Our dollars did flips, bounced, rolled turned cartwheels and remained in the community. (That system "won't" broke; we didn't need to fix it- we need to resurrect it.) Thus the principle, Ujamaa. Our business are a part of the economic food chain. Let's alter our economic diet. It's not too late to initiate.
5. Nia knee-ah (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. What is your vision for greatness?
6. (Creativity) Koo-oom-bah
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
7. Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Initiate and be great in this year 2008. Happy New Year to You!
I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of Kwanzaa,
Dr. Maulana Karenga, when I was a student at Shaw
University, in Raleigh North Carolina.
From December 26th. through January 1st we observe and celebrate the traditions of Kwanzaa. It is not a holiday although we give a greater credence to Kwanzaa at that time of the year. The Nguzo Saba (N goo-zoh) The Seven Principles are a lifestyle. Just imagine how much greater this world will be, as we continue to instill these principles into our lifestyle and become them.
1.umoja (unity) (oo-mo-ja)>
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. You are a unit in the community.
2.Kujichagulia (coo-gee-cha'-goo-lee-ah) (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
This is why many of us change our names and have changed the sound of our children's names, wear Afrikan attire and have taken to reading and writing our own account of our plight) There is nothing more powerful than a made up mind. Initiate and be great in, 2008.
3. Ujima oo-jee-mah (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
If your neighbor is not able to roll their trash bin to the curb, won't that eventually effect you? Roll it for them.
4. Ujamaa oo-jam-mah (Cooperative Economics)To
build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
On the average, the dollars in the African community leave one Black business, are received by another Black business and then those dollars leave the community. There was a time when we traded almost exclusively with Black businesses. Never mind the motivation. The practice worked for us. Our dollars did flips, bounced, rolled turned cartwheels and remained in the community. (That system "won't" broke; we didn't need to fix it- we need to resurrect it.) Thus the principle, Ujamaa. Our business are a part of the economic food chain. Let's alter our economic diet. It's not too late to initiate.
5. Nia knee-ah (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. What is your vision for greatness?
6. (Creativity) Koo-oom-bah
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
7. Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Initiate and be great in this year 2008. Happy New Year to You!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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