Words of My Life

That mirror is reflecting back at me, and sometimes, I am unable to recognize myself from who I used to be. There are things, thoughts, really, that I used to have.

Opinions, for absolutely no reason that I can conclude, that formed over years and made me become somewhat Judgmental, yet … not. I am sure I will get some spit fire thrown at me from this post, but that’s okay. The evolution of myself is rather simple, in all honesty.

For a long time, even through high school, I was very “anti” make-up. I truly believed that a woman looks better without it to the point where I would catch an attitude if my girlfriend wore some. After her and I split up shortly after high school I realized how dumb that was and have appreciated the effects that make-up can really have on the natural beauty of a woman. It really can make someone just amazing looking, it’s neat.

I’ve noticed my artistic side taking a bit more appreciation to it as well. It’s been very interesting analyzing myself as I change over time.

Once, I found nose piercings, typically just a stud, to be terribly disgusting, a huge turn off, something I thought only trash would have ever gotten. That’s sounds horrible, but sadly, that is really how I felt. Then one day, sometime, years, ago, I saw someone that looked really good with one. From that day forward I have never seen one that I didn’t like. This comes up because a woman entered the store where I currently work and had one and I couldn’t help but admire it. It was a recognition in myself that I was wrong and proud to admit that I had come to truly appreciate the additional beauty that can be brought on with such a piercing.

The same goes for a belly button piercing.

I’ve always had this view that the natural way is the “only” way and should not be tampered with. This leads up to tattoos, which, has been an interesting part to my own evolution this year. I hadn’t put a lot of thought behind them for awhile until I found out randomly that my girlfriend went and got one on a whim (with her very own good reasons, but this was before I spoke with her) and I caught an attitude. I was really like, “What the hell?” (Actually I was a lot worse than that…)

After the situation relaxed I evaluated myself and had no valid reason to act like such an idiot about it. Nothing at all. In fact, I had to ask myself what the hell. It’s really strange to me because I don’t hold any of this against a person who does or has any of this, I really never have, but when it has come to my relationships I have always had issues. I really am not sure why either.

Anyway, I’ve basically taken that situation and turned my perspective to appreciate what tattoos bring, the meaning, the connection, the artistic flair and I have found myself, much like the piercings and make-up, to really appreciate them. So, I am glad, that though I have been and I am sure still will be ignorant in some really stupid stuff, I have been able to evolve from it and grow and gain some real appreciation.

With that said, I will, at some point, be getting myself a tattoo. I’m working on a rough design for what I will want. Once I have the rough idea outlined I will find an artist that can make it into something that I will want to stay with me.

The conclusion here is that I have realized that to see things as beautiful, I need to stop looking at them to not be beautiful.

So goes the Evolution of Myself…

It’s been awhile since I put something that related to the heart of the purpose of my blog. Writing. My personal writing to share with others. I have decided to start posting some writing a little more often just for those who are not looking into the political information I am posting. After all, the purpose was to introduce and entertain people with my words and writing, not just my political views and the causes I have decided to engage myself in.

Hopefully you will enjoy this poem.

Dreaming of Reality

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I’ve been called selfish, narcissistic and all that mumbo jumbo from time to time, but I assure you, I am not out here in the heat, striving to bring change to our great nation, actually, to this great world, for my own selfish pleasures. I am out here for you, for everyone I know and those I do not, to fight for a better tomorrow. I know some of you do not agree with whom I support for this current presidential election and that is fine, but I do not question that what I am doing right now is what I am supposed to be doing.

There is a great need for change in this world and whether you can see it right now or not, it is already happening. The winds are blowing and the tides are turning, people are standing up again, people are speaking, voices joining together to create song and it is absolutely beautiful.

I have witnessed people from all walks of life join together to strengthen communities, walk together proudly because they are able to recognize the values that they all do share and no longer reject each other. The negativity between parties, between people, between us is diminishing before our eyes. I urge you all to stand with each other and walk together to truly bring change to this nation.

Together, we really can do it, I have already witnessed it. Together, Yes. We. Can.

They reactivated my account for me and apologized for the inconvenience, so I am all good to go again. I thank them for their help and returning my account.

I have not gotten the 7,000 credits I lost back, but that’s okay, they could still return them, I just sent in an email request for those as well. If I don’t get them back, that’s okay too, I am just glad that all of the hard work I did with my account is no longer gone to waste.

Thanks Entrecard Team.

I was a very strong supportive of Entrecard for a long time. I thought that the system was great and that the company was trying their best to make it a smooth operation to get more people to come to your site. Perhaps, that is what they are still doing, but the company of Entrecard really put a sour taste in my mouth this time.

They have had their issues in the past, but… this time, they just up and deleted my account because the URL was invalid. Mind you, I had it listed through a forwarding address, as obviously, the blog itself is still here and active. I have been so busy I did not get a chance to change the URL to the direct URL yet.

I am thoroughly pissed off because they did not just delete the blog off their list, they completely deleted my account, so I lost over 7, 000 entre credits, along with my drop history, and the information about my blog. This also prevents me from fixing the simple problem of adjusting the URL to my CURRENT url. I cannot do anything, unless I resign up, which I obviously don’t want to do since they clearly don’t give a rats ass about the people who have been supporting them for months and months.

In all fairness, I did send them an email and I think I made it clear I was pretty mad. We’ll see if they fix the problem or not.

Either way, very, very, very poor form Entrecard. To anyone who does use it, don’t delay on changing your URL to a functioning URL because they told me specifically, they do not give ANY Notification before it will be deleted.

I had the pleasure of working with volunteers to make house meetings in this area and it was one of the best experiences I have had. Not only do we get to meet new people in our community, we saw first hand how we can start to change the community by working together. Here’s a short video on a house meeting that took place on Saturday June 28th, 2008. It really is an amazing experience, even if you’re unsure if you support Obama, I highly recommend going to one and just checking it out!

I thought this was a great television ad for Barack Obama, so I wanted to post it.

I don’t have much time lately to write on here, but I wanted to say that this Obama Fellowship is one of the most awesome experiences in my life thus far. I am working with some amazing people for a great cause and we are doing a great job so far. I cannot say enough about how happy I am that I took the step to try to get involved, so far it has been well worth it without question.

I managed to talk to some friends who live in the Detroit area (kinda) and I am currently at their house. I will be staying here for the next few days while I get the training in Detroit and then I will be heading back up north after we get to see Barack Obama speak on Monday. It should be fun, I am excited to get out and meet all sorts of new people. We’ll see how it goes!

I am currently in Ypsilanti, which is about 40 minutes away from where I Need to go for training. It will be a couple 12 hour days of training and then I will be going back home and looking to begin work up there.

Unfortunately for my friend, when I arrived, he apparently has food poison, so he is having to lay around and not do much right now. Hopefully he’ll get better by the end of tonight. I feel kind of bad because I am staying at their house and I will not likely see them a whole lot because I have 12 hour days and then will get back here like 10 pm and have to go back to bed shortly thereafter. We’ll see how it all goes, I am pretty excited.

Their son, Matthew is adorable too. He keeps crawling around and earlier he bit my foot. Yummy!  lol.  I am not used to having children around so I was putting some stuff on the floor while I used a laptop, which was not the best idea because guess who found it? Yep! He sure did, lol. Too cute though.