Friday, August 21, 2009

I was talking to miss ayley about silent heroes in our lives that rarely receive recognition and that makes them even more powerful. (Ayley is one of them) But I have decided that I am going to dedicate my blog to all the silent heroes that surround me. I am going to start with a lady a met yesterday.

I knew she was unique within the first 30 seconds of talking to her. I saw her pull up into her driveway and I decided to approach her in hopes of selling a security system. What I got was much greater. Her name is Maria. She is in her mid 40's. She has two kids, and she has cancer. She is a strength to the universe. She has incredible physical and mental strength. She has this incredible excitement about everything she talks about that fills your soul as you sit an listen to her. She is instant sunshine. She kept me insanely laughing the entire time. She could probably pummel my butt to the ground with her muscles of iron, but she would never do such a thing. She lifts everyone around her. I ended up talking to her for about a half hour and it was a gift. She has a whole plan to lift and encourage those people who are in similar situations as her. She is going to help them shed a positive and personal light on their own situation. She is a freakin babe and rocks at life. She said, "It's amazing what life gives you, Its about what you do with it." She was the greatest bubbly spit-fire person i have met. She went on to tell me that she is optimistic and that is what helps her day by day, hour to hour. I told her that she is incredible and going to change so many lives. She got so excited and shook her fists ion the air and got the biggest , most beautiful, smile on and said, "Oh, I hope so! I am SO excited!" Her heart is so full and she loves the fact that she has been blessed with cancer because it has allowed her to find a way to help others. When she told me that she loved to dance, i had to do everything possible to fight back tears. I have this crazy-cool thing that I feel i have been given a dancers soul and at that very second my soul connected to hers and it was as if I was looking into a mirror, and the person I was looking at, was the potential of who I strive to become. Maria changes the world everyday she wakes. I have been so blessed to see her soul today. She will be remembered by many. She is an angel.

Monday, August 17, 2009

This is a Story about a flower… (If you wanna listen to the song “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry, as you read this story, I would not even be mad.)


Once there were some birds, and some bees. They were playing with some sunflowers one day, when a seed dropped from their grasps and planted itself right into the ground. Given a short amount of time the seed took on independence and was able to sprout. Now, this small sprout saw many storms. There were many times when the wind began to blow and the rains beat down upon this little sprout. The sprout would droop its leaves and almost completely topple over, but refused to give up. This little sprout decided at an early age that it was going to learn to dance in the rain. The storms would come and the little sprout would droop but was always pulled up by some brilliant light that encouraged it to keep on keeping on. Well this little sprout developed a bud and it became very heavy, but it pushed through. Somehow, it pushed through. The little bud began to develop into a beautiful sunflower. The inexplicable part about the whole thing was the flower had no idea of the beauty it held. It held power, faith, and… miraculous happiness. Even through the storms. Why was it, that the flower was not able to realize this? What would it take for the flower to see?…. Slowly but surely the flower began to discover the beauty. This whole time, it had not been able to see the big picture. When the flower turned to the gardener, she understood. The Gardener understood the beauty the whole time, but the flower would not have understood it well enough if she had not struggled through the mud and figured it out on her own. That in itself made her see the beauty the gardener blessed her with.

Today is a new book. You know how they say that there are new chapters that you start and finish as things come and go in your life? I would be blind completely if I didn’t say that today was not only a new chapter in my book. It is a BRAND NEW BOOK. I am currently chillin, takin a tub, drinking some tea, eating some grapes and blogging. I have a chocolate face mask on that turns my skin to the color I wish it was (but I can’t complain) and truly smells like chocolate. I am trying to decide how to explain today and this is what I have come up with…

It is impossible.

No words could explain today well enough. Today is a Gift. The universe was well aware of me today. I ate at the most incredible place in DC called Chop’t (an insanely brilliant salad shop) and everything about the store was…. Fresh. It connected to my soul. Like picking up an unread book and adding your own wear and tear to it as you explore its pages. Today is beautiful. My soul sees it. I am not even close to stating that today is strictly easy. It is not. That is the beauty of it. There are very humbling emotions creating inside my soul today. They are fresh and the preface of my new book. This is Joy. This is life. I am so blessed. Angels danced with me today probably. My soul feels open and free to create, explore, love, live…dance and FLY. I have a dance inside of me that my soul is ready to express. This new book is a story about that brilliant dance.



“That in itself made her see the beauty the gardener blessed her with.”