While on the light rail coming home from a Sounders game, I found myself tearing up. It just hit me all of a sudden that I was incredibly happy.

I am the most content with myself and my life right now than I have ever been. I am finally learning to know myself for who I am and not who people think I should be and I genuinely like and love the person I see in the mirror. I've spent so much of my life looking at myself through other peoples eyes and expectations and always finding myself lacking… Continue

ANTHONY HAMILTON - "I TRIED"


[Chorus]
Tried for so long
For you to hold on

But you won't be long
To anyone

Any thang, any love
At all

[Verse I]
I thought we had it all
Until things started to receed

Giving me no love at all
Not caring enough about my needs

Gave you my heart and all my soul
But not once did I let go

And I tried
To stick by you
And I tried to call
To let you know

That I'm here for you
And I'm give my all

[Chorus]
Tried for so long
For you to hold on

But you w… Continue

The past few weeks have been very ...... hmmm whats the word ...... enlighting would be the best way to describe it. I have been on a personal quest of spiritual awarness, much needed. Its so easy to get lost in other people's world and forget your own. Something I tend to do often since I usually put others needs before my own.

Unfortunately, I am apart of the unemployment statistic that has recently reached an all time high of 10% and I am simply losing my mind. I've been doing a lot more rea… Continue

On Saturday, the African Diasporas film that I truly enjoyed was Rain, an amazing film by Maria Govan about a young teen-aged girl who goes to live with her estranged mother in the city of Nassau, after the death of her grandmother. The film follows her through her trails and tribulations as she goes from a warm protected home that she shared with her grandmother, to the streets of the city where her mother unfortunately lives. It was a truly moving film.

Later that afternoon, I attended a disc… Continue