EGO

Beyonce's cd is just wow. N e way, this song is heaviest in rotation...makes me think of me and bay-B. Ok, so does like all the songs...but whatever. :)

Free (my love affair with words)

I'm a free bird

flying to and fro

through the wind

against the grain

up and down

wings strewn.

I'm a free bird

'needing to go my own way

always with the flock in sight

soaring above

yet close to home

protective

and I don't wanna be caged

I'm a free bird

you can't capture me

I wanna be close to the sun

near to the clouds

free, free, totally free

I'm a free bird

sometimes I hide

away from the world

within my nest

in the trees

free falling almost

never hitting the ground

I'm free like a bird

'can't even catch up with myself

I'd rather take it all in

the music

the beauty

the air breezing through my wings

I'm free like a bird

So free that the tears

simply disappear

I'm going up

dodging the heartaches

the headaches

lack

and want

my creator provides

I'm a free bird

soon as he thinks he got me

I'm gone, beyond reach

so free

just when she figures

she'll get in sync with me

I'm on my way

hiding in the sky

so fly, so free

free bird, free girl...Free me

CBW
11/08

Happy Thanksgiving

Hey blogland!!!
So, I'm working hard to get back to my regular blog swing...but it's hard. I am finishing my first semester of law school, and basically my time is not my own.But it's Thanksgiving, and as I have in previous years, I'd like to say what I'm thankful for this year.

Seton Hall Law School has been the biggest blessing of this year, and I am so grateful.As a result I have made some amazing friends, in a short amount of time. I find it pretty incredible because I'm at a stage in life that I feel like my friend roster is pretty complete, but I keep getting blessed with new friends and acquaintances and that is pretty hot.

I am so thankful for my wonderful family...my beautiful children. They are a gift to me, they believe in me and look up to me, and I just adore them. Even when I get fed up, I am enamored with them. They give me something to live for, they push me to show them that WE can be and achieve absolutely anything with the Lord on our side.

I am thankful for my precious nephews, and my darling goddaughters, it always amazes me how I can love children that I didn't carry so powerfully...but I do. I am grateful for my daddy and my brother, the two men who have exhibited the way a man should love a woman. For my beautiful and inspirational grandmothers and all of my other extended family and friends(especially Mohamed).

For my home, my car, my health, my church....I am grateful.
I really don't take much for granted, I mean all the way to my furniture...I am so thankful.

I am grateful for the man in my life. Bay-b, as I affectionately refer to him, is everything that I've imagined and hoped for. He is physically beautiful, his smile is amazing. His dimples, his teeth, his eyes, his physique...beautiful. And yet, all the aesthetics are a bonus. Because he is a man who loves God, he challenges me...he literally pushes me to be who I'm supposed to be, and who he sees me as. He is intelligent, and articulate. He reads extensively and writes creatively. He is a little gangsta too. I mean, he has that street credibility that used to be a real liability, but now seems to just round him out as a person. You know? We are physically apart for a season...and it is very difficult at times.But I'm just overwhelmingly grateful that God loves me enough to cross my path with his.

I am grateful for the Lord, and His love, kindness, mercy, and favor. I can't breathe without Him.

And of course, I'm thankful for a place to blog!!! :)

HAPPY THANXGIVING!!

Guess who's back...lmbo. Yeah it's me

Just a short blurb...
Oscar Wilde, an Irish playwright and poet from the 1800s, said, "Life imitates art, far more than art imitates life." That quote popped into my head a few minutes ago when I was in my kitchen making a cup of hot chocolate, but in the reverse. Where does art come from?? Where do romance movies and soap operas come from? Life. I mean, life often stretched to the extreme...but life nevertheless.
Life is a gift, everything about it. From the rainy days, to the walks on the beach and the dinners with the fam. From the baby mama drama, to baby's births and graduations...from the days of sorrow to the days of the greatest joys. It is a gift.
Just like everything else that's worth anything, we have a choice....to live it, love it, appreciate it...or take it for granted.
I choose to love what i've been blessed with, to aim to improve the things that are lacking, and to be grateful for the rest.