It's My Day!

This is 44!

This past year has been completely amazing:

I started cycling racing, and I can not even began to tell you how cycling has expanded my life.... I have met so many people who I really like from cycling. I mean people who I want to be in my life forever. I have been places that I would have never traveled to all because of cycling. It is never too late to try something NEW!

This past summer, I traveled to Ghana, and I had been wanting to go to Ghana forever, and I decided that this year was the year. I put on my big girl pants, found a travel company, and traveled all over Ghana. The growth that I experienced from being in Ghana has been very good. I see so many things differently, and I do not take the opportunity to live out one of my many dreams lightly. Seize the Day; Today is the Day!

This year I celebrated twenty-five years since I graduated from high school and twenty year since I graduated from college. I am just sooooo happy to still be here among the living to celebrate two milestone moments in my life with people who shared those common experiences. Don't forget to celebrate EVERYTHING!

I have had experiences this year that taught me so much about my capacity to love and be loved....We can't stop growing and learning and falling in love EVER!

My people, this journey is a good one, and I wouldn't take nothing for it!

This is My Day, and I am grateful....

Zora's 123rd Birthday!!!!

Zora Neale Hurston

This morning I woke up super excited, because today marks the 123rd birthday of Zora Neale Hurston.

I received a text from my dear friend, Stephanie, at 7:12 this morning, and she wrote: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY Zora Neale Hurston (123rd)!"

My Dear Friend Stephanie

Later, I received a text from another dear friend, Rhonda, and she sent me her favorite Zora quote which happens to also be my favorite quote by Zora:

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."

I carefully thought about what I should wear on this special today, and I selected one of my Zora shirts:

I stopped by the grocery story to buy a treat for my students and me so that we could celebrate the birth of Zora. Sadly, many students asked "Who is Zora?" However, they asked the right questions, because I pulled out one of favorite books about Zora that also has a CD of Zora singing and talking, and oh, the fun that I had introducing my students to Zora.

As I have been reflecting on Zora today, I hope that we all are living lives that people will celebrate for years and years after we leave this place. I know that when Zora sat down to write Dust Tracks on a Road, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tell My Horse, Seraph on the Suwanee, Mules and Men, Spunk, she more than likely had no idea the legacy that she would be leaving. Zora answered the call to write, and a whole lot of people and I are soooo happy that she did! Zora's life mattered....

You know that I love where I live, and here is one of the many reasons why:

Tonight at the Dr. Martin Luther King library in DC, there is going to be a birthday celebration for Zora. Yes, we still celebrate Zora's birthday in Washington DC.

My people, join me in celebrating Zora by trying to live lives that matter and that will be celebrated for years to come.

Happy Birthday To My Girl, Zora Neale Hurston!!!

By the way, an image of Zora is on the homepage of google today...WOW! That's BIG TIME.

Seize the Day!

This is the day.......

Dr. King

Kim and Me!

That Dr. King and my niece, Kim, were born.

Let us rejoice and be glad.......

Happy January 15th everybody!!!!

Happy Birthday Zora Neale Hurston

Zora beating the hountar or mama drum!

Today is January 7th, and it's Zora Neale Hurston's birthday.  I am so thrilled that John Hurston and Lucy Ann Hurston created this wonderful person, Zora, who understood people and relationships and wrote about those topics in her "Zora" way.

Happy Birthday Zora!

I love you to pieces.