A friend of emailed my this the other day... and it is very thought provoking.... 

The question also ask this: How do you respond when you're told you must wait for something? Are you waiting for anything now? What is it?

Upon being told that I must wait... it sometimes is disappointing, disappointing if I am in ego space, if I desire it to make me feel good, etc...
Yet If I await something that I know is truly for the abundance it will offer, I say "thank you universe" and do and be more of that which will bring about this gift...

I am waiting now for my Photography called forth into exhibits, gallery shows and openings. To offer the visual abundance to the eyes of the beholder as well as financal abundance for me to continue my passion of sharing this beauty with the world...

I am Love, Jeff

By Being Joyful, by Being Happy... One can not bring or give something they do not have or offer as part of them selves...

In Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray among the many thoughts and Ideas, suggested practices for one to place in their lives so that Harmony can be created he offers this...

"In our world, results are created through our physical form. The only way God can allow us to experience all the fullness of this lifetime is through us taking massive action and understanding that we are cocreators of our reality, of our own results. We are both cause and effect. We are the effect of the great Creative Source, yet we are the Cause of our own results. The intergrated master understands that he must study and master both divine poles to access truth and power. Cosmic illumination is achieved in the harmony and integration of the two pillars--that of the Creator on one hand and that of Creation on the other."

This quote and thoughts come on the tail of yesterdays question and response, as well as the joy of the massive joy of having elected Barack Obama President. Let us not wait, let us not wish... I heard a women in the libaray saying what every one always says after an election... "the officals seem to always say what they think we want to hear, lets see if he will live up to that... " (more or less what she said). Yet what the quote above says and our own Consitution is the We the People are the creators of our results, let us all stop waiting, and be the joy and happiness, let us Be the change we wish to see in the world...
Let our joy be brought forth in our lives of moving forward in the Choas of the world today...
and ask ourselves can we, we the people of the world move us to a Higer Vibration, giving purpose and meaning to the world around us and not live in the fear and the excuses that keep us trapped in the past...

I am Love, Jeff

If you have not seen this on the news please give it a look seen now...
Keith Oblbermann is so moved by this he sounds out of breath and about to cry... his plea for humanity to wake up and offer love, true authentic love, not just love of self and family and friends but for those who we don't know or don't even understand...

There is a big discussion going within the gay community and others, there is to be a rally in most major cities at city halls over this issue.
But please view this yourtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DhnHyy8gkNEE

No-on-8's white bias: The right to marry does nothing to address the problems faced by both black gays and black straights.

By Jasmyne A. Cannick

November 8, 2008

I am a perfect example of why the fight against Proposition 8, which amends the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, failed to win black support.

I am black. I am a political activist who cares deeply about social justice issues. I am a lesbian. This year, I canvassed the streets of South Los Angeles and Compton, knocking on doors, talking politics to passers-by and working as I never had before to ensure a large voter turnout among African Americans. But even I wasn't inspired to encourage black people to vote against the proposition.

Why? Because I don't see why the right to marry should be a priority for me or other black people. Gay marriage? Please. At a time when blacks are still more likely than whites to be pulled over for no reason, more likely to be unemployed than whites, more likely to live at or below the poverty line, I was too busy trying to get black people registered to vote, period; I wasn't about to focus my attention on what couldn't help but feel like a secondary issue.

The first problem with Proposition 8 was the issue of marriage itself. The white gay community never successfully communicated to blacks why it should matter to us above everything else -- not just to me as a lesbian but to blacks generally. The way I see it, the white gay community is banging its head against the glass ceiling of a room called equality, believing that a breakthrough on marriage will bestow on it parity with heterosexuals. But the right to marry does nothing to address the problems faced by both black gays and black straights. Does someone who is homeless or suffering from HIV but has no healthcare, or newly out of prison and unemployed, really benefit from the right to marry someone of the same sex?

Maybe white gays could afford to be singularly focused, raising millions of dollars to fight for the luxury of same-sex marriage. But blacks were walking the streets of the projects and reaching out to small businesses, gang members, convicted felons and the spectrum of an entire community to ensure that we all were able to vote.

Second is the issue of civil rights. White gays often wonder aloud why blacks, of all people, won't support their civil rights. There is a real misunderstanding by the white gay community about the term. Proponents of gay marriage fling it around as if it is a one-size-fits- all catchphrase for issues of fairness.

But the black civil rights movement was essentially born out of and driven by the black church; social justice and religion are inextricably intertwined in the black community. To many blacks, civil rights are grounded in Christianity -- not something separate and apart from religion but synonymous with it. To the extent that the issue of gay marriage seemed to be pitted against the church, it was going to be a losing battle in my community.

Then there was the poorly conceived campaign strategy. Opponents of Proposition 8 relied on an outdated civil rights model, engaging the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People to help win black support on the issue of gay marriage. This happened despite the warnings of black lesbians and gays that it wouldn't work. While the NAACP definitely should have been included in the strategy, it shouldn't have been the only group. Putting nearly a quarter of a million dollars into an outdated civil rights group that has very little influence on the black vote -- at least when it comes to gay issues -- will never work.

Likewise, holding the occasional town-hall meeting in Leimert Park -- the one part of the black community where they now feel safe thanks to gentrification -- to tell black people how to vote on something gay isn't effective outreach either.

There's nothing a white gay person can tell me when it comes to how I as a black lesbian should talk to my community about this issue. If and when I choose to, I know how to say what needs to be said. Many black gays just haven't been convinced that this movement for marriage is about anything more than the white gays who fund it (and who, we often find, are just as racist and clueless when it comes to blacks as they claim blacks are homophobic).

Some people seem to think that homophobia trumps racism, and that winning the battle for gay marriage will symbolically bring about equality for everyone. That may seem true to white gays, but as a black lesbian, let me tell you: There are still too many inequalities that exist as it relates to my race for that to ever be the case. Ever heard of "driving while black"? Ever looked at the difference between the dropout rates for blacks and for whites? Or test scores? Or wages? Or rates of incarceration?

And in the end, black voters in California voted against gay marriage by more than 2 to 1.

Maybe next time around -- because we all know this isn't over -- the gay community can demonstrate the capacity and willingness to change that America demonstrated when it went to the polls on Nov. 4. Black gays are depending on their white counterparts to finally "get it."

Until then, don't expect to make any inroads any time soon in the black community on this issue -- including with this black lesbian.

Jasmyne A. Cannick is a writer in Los Angeles. jasmynecannick. com.
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I suppose writing about my Photography work, my journey which is continuing and expanding each day, even though it seems not to, will be a positive direction...

A few days ago one of the Members on Redbubble.com offered to Review my Photography Portfolio and from that review offer challenges/workshops I could do to bring my work to another level... I was thrilled to be accepted... I look forward to being part of that proccess... It should begin in about two weeks...

This week I had the opportunity to exhibit 10 pieces for the Salem County Arts League at Beans Coffee Shop in Woodstown NJ. This of course is an on going experience but to have ten Photos on display instead of three is a great big plus! The League is also having an exhibit during the Holiday House tour, and we will be In the old bank on the corner of town... so much of my work will be seen and bought!

The opportunity last weekend to photograph the Proposition 8 Rally was an honor and I have connected with some people who are putting together a Documentary project I hope to be part of.
Plus running into a friend I have not seen in years, who was also there to take photos and has his on website www.magickmichael.com and he has been photography for sometime. So we plan to get together for a photo shoot walk around the city, as well as re-energize our friendship.

In the next few days I will be adding Christmas cards, and Calenders to my Redbubble site... I will let you all know when that happens.

Opps before I had pasted and copied LB's answers ! I these are mine!



1) What are you thankful for today?

That I get to co-create my life!


2) What do you appreciate about the Earth?

That she shares her wondrous Oneness with each and everyone!


3) Who is the last person you said “thank you” to?


Lady Bear for sending/tagging me this messge… Oh yeah and “God”


4) When was the last time someone thanked you?
Not sure…


5) What is your favorite way to say thank you?

By saying thank you! and meaning it. and offering a hug and simle.

I see works of art everyday! In my dogs smile and wagging tails... It the little wood I walk in each day as well as take photographs of....
My first reaction to this question was I see my works of art, the photographs that I have been honored to shoot of nature, of people, of events, and have them displayed and exhibited so that others can view them...
I am usually awed by what it witness as art, and sometimes wonder what makes a thing art...
But in the long run nature is the most amazing piece of art ever, and to be able to experience the unfolding never ending beauty and mystery is so awesome! I am humble to be in connect with it...

Have you only just begun? Have you been journeying for years? Are you at an easy resting point or facing a rocky challenge?

Right now it feels like I have just begun or need to begin again? I think I am facing a rocky challenge? That challenge is "being responsible for the co-creation to the world I desire" and guess what, the world I desire looks nothing like the world I seem stuck in. The world I desire does not feel or taste or act like the world I have been observing and isolating in...

My spiritual path which begun years and years ago, before I was really ever conscious of it, yet many times I listened to my "feelings" or intuitions which felt "correct" and were...

Yet as I grew and changed, traveled the dark road of pleasure and self aggrandisment the voice of intuition and feelings where dampened by my egoic voice that had power over me...

I found the path once again almost 20 years later with my journey into AA, moving away from the life that I created around drinking, with bars, now known as clubs, disfunctional relationships, even my work was drink oriented, resturants and bars...

Yet the comfort came when I heard that I could let go of all of that if I surrender to my insanity... that I took a look at my life, and made amends wherever possible...
Yet the deeper I got the more disenchanted I became with the state of the world around me... I did not like people, who they where, how the acted in and out of the rooms of AA , in the guise of recovery... which is a spiritual path, with out acknowledging a Higher Power, and a state of Higher Being, one will stay with the obsessiveness of egoic behavior...

I studied book after book, learned medatition, journally, removed myself from the everyday world as much as I could...
I read and studied some really powerful ideals, beliefs, yet wondered how to place them in action, I am still wondering... The Conversations with God books where a revealation to me, Book One was and still is one of the most powerful scriptures I have ever read and sought to place into action.
Have I? Sometimes! The moments have been some of the most enlightened moments of my life... yet because I have not found a way to live in those moments, I still have to carry water, chop wood, so to speak...

I am getting ready to take responsible action of all areas of my life but my ego wants to fight and stay where it is... yet my journey to my BA in Psychology is a struggle and a challegne it was not before. Reiki as beautiful as it is to offer seems to be a background experience along with the Shamanic practice that finds no outlet here in Suburban NJ... Photography which seems to be the crown in this elaborate costume of purpose gives me the most fullfilling purpose and occupies most of my day...

So where am I on my spiritual path, ready to grow again, afaird to take the risk. spinning on the wheel of not enoughness, and lack, with the wrong mantra of "I don't have this, so I can't do this, and if I don't do this, this won't happen...

I wish this was more joyous and free! But it is where I am the past few days have been very sad and lonely, depression dogs my every breath, (almost)...