How Can I Help?

I find myself keeping that type of mindset when talking to people about different efforts/causes. Truth be told, however, is the fact that I haven't done a tenth of what I could do to really truly help out. As the adage goes, a man that stands for nothing falls for anything. Life has it that there are people unsatisfied with their existing conditions and are willing to speak and act out against those realities.

I have to shout out my man Phil for his thought-provoking commentary at his blog. While the subject matter is not always the most appropriate for every audience, his blog was probably one of the sites that really caught my attention. It goes to show me how you really can't just mesh in with EVERYbody else. You really have to be an individual. One of the first blogs I've read, though, was of a hip-hop heroine by the name of Miranda Jane: Pyramids 2 Projects. I pretty much enjoy whatever she writes about, even if some of it has no significance to me.

Based on what I've read from them, I'd be pretty much willing to assist them wherever I can, if they requested. Fact is, though, they don't know me from adam. I've found myself inspired by them, along with countless others who would have a mind to follow their mind.

The latest site that I've come across is the Black Coffee Channel. Now when I say that blacks young and old should AT LEAST view the home page, I b.s. you not. I've had my eyes opened more since visiting this place. And it's not all new information. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot that I've NEVER heard before, but a lot of it falls in line with similar notions that I've carried for some time.

Anybody viewing this blog, I put links in my "Get Ya Mind Right" section to share information that is important, be it for entertainment or for education. I've learned not to be entertained by too much foolishness, although God is still cleansing me of my lewd mentality. I speak on that because I think of how we black folk have always coped with hardships or significant events, sometimes by strengthening our efforts in certain endeavors, and sometimes by joking about the situation. I grew up looking and laughing at crackhead jokes, but that subject was NO laughing matter. So I say all that to say that "entertainment" will not simply be light matter.

Not sure how active I'll get with this blog, but thank ya'll for joining in. Don't take my words as law. I'm just sharing what's on my mind.

Living Broke

Having a broken spirit can be a very humbling experience. Gets you to thinking about what's really and truly important to you...or it can lead you into a very disturbing wave of what I'd like to call otha shyt. I am truly glad to know that God's got everything under control. I forget at times and it becomes a whirlwind. Know what I'm sayin?

I would wonder if that is some sort of mind control of some made up idealogy/formed theology, but it ain't really set up like that to me. You know how you live life and feel like you can truly say that you've seen it all? Then something else happens and slaps a new reality in front of you? Well fast forward a lil bit, if you can. Even that situation has been worked out. Why not KNOW then that the present will soon be known as PAST. I don't know. I'm rambling...right.

I had to learn this again; you know REMEMBER? Forgetting is an interesting action. We switch our thoughts to suit the environment that we are dealing with. Living in fear of something or another.

Katrina did it for me. My city is still strong, though nobody thought it'd be so. I have to make a trip to the Mississippi coast, though. When I get [10-20 miles from] there and see life bustling, I'll know that God must have ALREADY had things taken care of before the storm ever got there.

So as the storms of life keep on raging around us and in our life (there's a gospel song by Wintley Phipps that is straight gutta...but I digress), we should have comfort in knowing that what we see right now does not matter for the long haul.

Call me crazy if you must. What I truly am is comfortable.