First Lady

Well, it has been waaaaay too long since my last post. Of course, I have been doing a number of things (to include reading other blogs that thankfully have more dedicated bloggers than myself - thanks Field, BrownSista, et al). I had to post this photo and a thought, as I wind down my CIAA Weekend here in the Queen City. Mrs. Obama is really giving folks pause (Right to Bare Arms???) but she is giving me a real sense of pride. I see myself, my sisters, my mother, my girl scout troop in her smile and I love the fact that her smiling face and beautiful brown image is being seen all over the world. I am going to have a poster of the First Lady reproduced for all of my OPAL members and my girls scouts, so they can hang it on their walls.

BTW, yes I am STILL writing the dissertation. Yes I am STILL graduating this year...just not in May (thank God for December Convocations!).

Mr. Obama Goes to Washington

A picture is worth a thousand words...

PS - I AM still working on my dissertation. This week, more so than last, as you can probably imagine!

Yes, We Will.

YES WE CAN. YES WE DID. Yes, we will.

We made history tonight and I am so grateful to have been a part of it. President-elect Obama, may God bless you, and keep you and your family. May we hold you and your administration accountable for making the positive changes that we need. May we keep this new sense of purpose, participation and power. May we all be kept from pride, and despair. May we always remember this time in our long history in this country.

NWOTW

Okay, so let's try a word of the week...not that I can't post everyday (a quick look at my "daily posting" history will dispell that rumor), but I am still stuck on love. Today, its love a la Fantasia's "I Believe" - love keeps lifting me higher. And it does, above disappointment and distractions and exhaustion, it keeps lifting me higher.

When you look out in the distance

You see it never was that far

Heaven knows your existance

and wants you to be everything you are

There's a time for every soul to fly

Its in the eyes of every child

Its the hope the love to save the world and oh we should never let it go...