My friend Mari challenged me on a happiness shindiggity. its actually pretty cool. It goes like this: 1) Im almost 48 years old. I got 48 years worth of scars brutha, soul scars, flesh scars and spiritual scars. But the thing is, I know they are beautiful and each one gives me a pass to get to the next round. Some of my memories are difficult. But I know what I am because of them, and I like what I am, and I love that what I am is unique and that even in this cray cray world, people like me make a dent. So Im happy for the dent Im making. 2) I am happy I no longer allow the spiritual vision of others to inform my personal convictions and identity. Influences are great, mentors that stimulate thought are great, hanging out with people who are infinitely smarter than me is great. Those are wonderful starting points. But I believe we all have to work out our own relationships with God and walk the walk he gave us. Im thankful that I know the walk he gave me, and Im walking it. 3) Im thankful to have brown skin, a brown soul, and a brown heart. As Ive grown older it has shown me a deeper and deeper sense of satisfaction to understand what I come from in an ethnic sense, because of the incredible richness of the Latin heritage. Its not as easy to be a Mexican in Michigan, where I come from everyone is brown. But here its different. We are simple people, really hard working people, loud angry people, extremely colorful people, extremely spiritual people, with music built into us that we play with hard skin and fierce hearts. I am thankful.... SO - my nominations are: Ami Singh, JuJu Uniquestyle, Martin Plucinski, and Karen Robak Gates.... The rules are as follows: For the next 5 days, post 3 things you are happy about. They can be anything and are not date specific. At the end of each post, nominate 3 different people per post. Enjoy!! ** a nomination isnt a requirement to participate. This challenge is just asking you to focus on a few positive things for the day, instead of letting the every day BS weigh you down. For those not interested in doing it, you dont have to post them, but try for today to think of 3 things that just make you happy.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:22:32 +0000
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