A note I received on Facebook.  I think it's a great idea and there's one planned in DC later this month....

Friends:

The ENOUGH! Campaign™, an initiative developed by Wildseed Productions,
is a collective of independent artists, activist, and organizations
dedicated to the eradication of social injustice through artistic
expression.

We create radical media of consequence that challenges each of us to
take a stand for the transformation and liberation of the human spirit.

WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION TO HELP MAKE OUR FIRST PROJECT A SUCCESS:

I AM SEAN BELL!

The ENOUGH! Campaign is proud to announce the production of a short
form documentary / Public Service Announcement in honor of our slain
brother, SEAN BELL. This project will feature 50 African American males
(ages 1 – adult) armed with the message, "I AM SEAN BELL".

DATE: Saturday, May 17, 2008

TIME: 2:00 – 7:00 PM

WHERE: Brooklyn , NY / Ft. Greene Area / Playground, Adelphi St. We
will be sending additional information with exact location.

Who: Black Males Ages 1 – adult. Yes, we want the little ones,
toddlers, elementary school aged, teenagers as well as adults to
participate in this very important project.

Compensation: Catered Food, Face Painting, Games and activities for
children, gift bags, credit for participation in film and copy of the
film will be provided upon completion.

Help is needed in the following area:

Participants:

For those of you who have children, please consider bringing them out to participate in this project.

Although the focus of the project is African American boys, all
children are encouraged to participate. There will be playground shots
taken that will include children of all ages and backgrounds. Families
are encouraged to come out with their children and enjoy the
festivities for the day.

*all participants will be required to sign a release form, these forms
must also be signed by a parent or guardian for those participants
under the age of 18)

(contact us at 917-701-1042 or contact@enoughmovement.com

I took this from GoodEgg's blog:

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song [try not to use the chorus].
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

1.   Loving you came easily/Yet it made me blind to all there was to see/Now my heart is filled with pain/
You understand I never will/How did it come to be that you don´t love me still?/Now it´s getting to be plain.

2.  
Can I kick it? To all the people who can Quest like A Tribe does/Before this, did you really know what live was?/Comprehend to the track, for it's why cuz/Gettin measures on the tip of the vibers (Can I Kick It? by A Tribe Called Quest - StoneColdBrown)

3.  
Looking at the ladies, all of them fly/I don't know which one I want dawg/I can't make up my mind, girl/So won't you make it easy on me?/
Take this drink, then hit this weed/Two step wit me, let's slip to the dance floor/On and on and on and on we go

4.  
We got the afternoon/You got this room for two/One thing I've left to do/Discover me, Discovering you/
One mile to every inch of/Your skin like porcelain/One pair of candy lips and Your bubblegum tongue

5.   It's not very often that we feel this way/No it's not everyday so where ever you are/Tell me what does it take if I call on you now/Saying I need you tonight, this very minute in time/How long will it take you from where you are to rush to my place?

6.  
Mo'fucker move back, I pursue rap at the pace of a New Jack/Miscellaneous numbers and shoes stack grooves/Rap I deliver for the hungry and underprivileged/Something different from these hollow and grunting niggas/This is business strictly, step to my business is risky

7.  
I thought I was ok/Realizing I made a mistake/I been doing some thinking/Ever since I saw you today maybe/I said some things that I didn't mean/Trying to change your ways/But my days ain't the same maybe you should've stayed

8.  
They say "they never really miss you til you dead or you gone"/So on that note i'm leaving after the song/So you ain't gotta feel no way about Jay so long/At least let me tell you why i'm this way, Hold on

9.  
If you should feel thirsty, I'll be sure to bring you water/Yes, girl I got candles that will slow burn longer/And I know your favorite love song/and how you like it on repeat/Me, I was born a patient lover/so I'll start with your feet

10.  
Baby Tomorrow I'ma hafta fight/Leaving at first light/And all I can think of is you/Baby I can hear you tryin not to cry/I'm afraid and I ain't gonna lie

I gotta do what I've been trained to do

11.  
I can't say it's easy/Feeling the way I do/I can't say it's simple/Being so into you (no no)/Some may say I'm crazy/I may say that's true/I can't think of nothing better than loving you

12.   You always messin' with those girls who go for your cash/'cuz you don't wanna learn/when you mess with those girls who go for your cash/you always get burned (Loose My Money Honey by Prince Raheim and Crazy Leggs - StoneColdBrown)

13.  
She's a Miss Beautiful Supreme/A girl that other wish that they could be/If there's seven wonders of the world/Then I know she's gotta be number one She's a girl that can't be beat/Born and raised on ghetto streets

14.  
You're telling me were cool but that just aint enough/'Cause everything that you do makes me want you more/Feeling that I have for you cant be replace easily/But you seem to think that you have the best of me

15.  
Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin/Imagine going to court with no trial/Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters/No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters (If I Ruled the World by Nas ft. Lauryn Hill - StoneColdBrown)

16.  
Crafted and molded/Sculpted and folded/Designed to praise in everyway/Gifted with music/Anointed with lyric

17.  
It feels like the world is closin' on me/It feels like my dreams will never come to me/I keep on slippin' deeper into myself/And I'm scared, so scared

18.  
I know that you've been waiting for it/I'm waiting too/In my imagination I'd be all up on you/I know you got that fever for me/Hundred and two/And boy I know I feel the same/My temperature's through the roof

19.  
My man he don't love me he treats me oh so mean/My man he don't love me he treats me oh so mean/He's the meanest man that I've ever see

My baby wears high peg pants stripes are really yellow/Baby wears high peg pants stripes area really yellow

20.  
If I wasn't married to the streets, it would be you/Your lips, what make you so cute/Love when you poke yo mouth when u mad too/Save yo number in my phone under lil boo (Bust It Baby Remix by Plies ft. Ne-yo - StoneColdBrown)

21.  
I am known to stay awake/A beautiful world im trying to find/Ive been in search of myself/a beautiful world

Its just too hard for me to find/Said its just too hard for me to find

22.  
Mother, mother/There's too many of you crying/Brother, brother, brother/There's far too many of you dying (What's Going On by Marvin Gaye - StoneColdBrown)

23.   I believe any dream that I want to/That aint the only way of keeping hope alive/And if by chance I give birth to my visions/Life is so fantastic it will come as no surprise

24.  
First of all before it starts/Suave thicker than the Million-Man March/Khakis starched as I flow through the cut like Noah's Ark/Who's that slippin' in the dark



25.   Yesterday I woke up/With your head on my arm/My hand was numb/Circulation gone/But I dared not move the pretty sleeping one

So I get home today to find a letter from a law firm in Tampa.  The name rings a bell, but I can't quite remember how I know it. 

Then I remember.....Dannie and Char's case is coming up for trial next month.

Please God, don't let this be what I think it is......

"Dear Ms Hadder,
We represent the estates of Danielle and Charmane in the above referenced matters.  We are writing to inform you that you have been listed as a witness who may be called to testify in the trial on the above referenced matters."

I'm CERTAINLY not ready for that.......shoot, I can't even talk about that whole day in one sitting.  I've tried on here, twice, but it's just too much.

I hope I can get out of this..........but am I hurting Char and Dannie if I don't testify?  Ugghhhh...this KICKS ROCKS!

So, of course, my mind starts thinking about that day and that weekend and the following week.....and of course the tears start coming again.

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Here's a DDG pic, just to keep me smiling.

  
Rai, Char, C-lah, and I
December 2004

Clearly, my body is telling me things are changing.  I don't know if it's because of the changing seasons (I abhor the fact that it's still cold in MAY) or because I averaged about 2.46 hours of sleep per night last week.  All(s) I know (I snicker every time I hear someone put the 's' on the end) is this sh!t ain't cool,  yo.

This is the week I was cleared by my podiatrist to start wearing a flat, hard bottom dress shoe.  I finally got to wear the other silver metallic flat I bought pre-surgery.  My foot, rather the right side of my foot, is still a bit swollen and all of the feeling hasn't returned so I expected some stiffness still and whatnot.  What I did not expect was to see the right side of my foot spilling over my shoe.  

I had muffin top on my foot.

Not a good look.  I need to be back into my fabulous shoe collection by JUNE!!!! Ugghhhhh.....

**edit**

And I have twin coldsores sprouting.  I think I'll name them MaryKate and Ashley for obvious reasons.....

Even though he sent me grocery shopping at midnight (knowing full well that's my bedtime) while I am sick and then had me up until 2 am looking at houses on-line and ate my lunch for his dinner.....I Love Me Some Him.

Let me vent for a moment......

SCOTUS decided yesterday in Crawford v. Marion County Board of Election that the state of Indiana can legally put the overwhelming burden of proof on voting citizens when they cast their ballot in the Indiana primary.  The case was decided as a proactive measure to reduce voter fraud at the polls and without proof of any incidents of such fraud.

Problem.

Big Problem.

This opens the door to many many issues that have been repeatedly ignored or swept under the rug.

Many Conservative pundits will have you believe that there is a plethora of voter fraud incidents occurring at the polls.  Ask them to show you proof.  They will tell you that many criminals, dead people, and crooks are casting fake ballots to stuff the ballot box.  HELLO?  Most 'criminals,' or at least the ones they are referring to, don't really care about the electoral process.....there are other things they are worried about - like staying on the run.  **Funny, but not really**  There is no overwhelming proof that incidents of voter fraud are rampant at the polls. 

The forms of ID that are necessary really exclude certain sectors of the population from voting, mainly the elderly, students, and the homeless.  Many make the argument that you have to have a picture ID on you no matter what.  While this is true, many of the elderly who no longer drive or have a need for ID do not have one, this includes those who are in nursing homes. 

The suggestion of using 'free' ID is false.  Most of the documents required to fulfill the ID requirement cost money.  Birth certificates and State ID's, and driver's licenses all have fees attached to them.  While the fee seems nominal, tell that to a college student or senior citizen who is just barely making ends meet. 

While I do understand the premise that you need ID for everything else, this argument is not about requiring ID, it's about the hoops voters have to jump through to cast a ballot.  Other states who have Voter ID laws do not have as strict requirements as the requirements of the Indiana law.  For instance, Georgia allows voters to apply for a free Voter ID form and other states allow household bills with the correct name and address to compare to the voter rolls.

The case also relies heavily on the use of provisional ballots for those who do not have sufficient ID.  It has been proven time and again that provisional ballots are not effective.  A provisional ballot allows a person to vote at the poll if they do not have proper ID.  They have to sign an affidavit at the polling location affirming they are the voter listed and their vote is not counted until they return to their county Board of Elections office (or other designated office) within 10 days (usually) to show valid proof of ID.  In one county (Philly, I think), of 33 provisional ballots administered at the polls, only 2 people returned in the time frame with the proper documentation.   For those without transportation (hence, no driver's license), this can be a problem, not to mention those who have a job that requires them to work 9-5 or hours in conflict with government office hours.

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WAKE UP PEOPLE.........Courts Matter

I love the way our arms intertwine when he snuggles up behind me.  His Hershey chocolate skin underneath my butter pecan arm as I wrap it under his forearm to intertwine my fingers through his.  My arm on top of his, but his hand on top of mine......side by side in the background; he at the head in the foreground.

....I leave on Sunday for work, returning home late Saturday night.  Once conference begins Tuesday that my organization is organizing.  Why is it only 65% along in the planning stage?  Today is Friday.

You know what?  I'm not EVEN stressing about this one.  I'll do what I do best - FIX IT.

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I wish I could embed a video of a mash up of Jay-Z's "Dirt Off Ya Shoulder" and Barack Obama.....I LOVE IT!  Anyhoo, here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yel8IjOAdSc

Soooooo.....when I had the surgery on my foot and stayed with MSP for the first month or so, he gave me his key so I could come and go as I needed when he was at work or where ever. 

I haven't given it back. 

He keeps asking for it, but I've told him I'm not giving it back.  LOL.  He says I've jacked him.  I know he really doesn't want it back....he likes it when I come over or when I'm already asleep in bed when he comes home.  I know he does. 

He says "I do want it back - you don't pay rent.  Duh."

I'm not giving it back....not yet at least. 

"If I could get over that Hump/then maybe I wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilll feeeeelll beeeeeeeeettteeer"

It's Wednesday.  Middle of the week.  Ugghh, and Aunt Flo (as used by Jane, Vik, and Rita) is visiting....I just want to get in the bed and go back to sleep.  I guess I could look at it from the brighter side....if she weren't visiting I would definitely panic.

Or would I?

I would.  I absolutely do not want to have a child without having a husband beside me.  Certaintively.  I imagine I would really freak out and tell MSP we have to get married TODAY!!!  I'm sure he would say "What's the hurry?  I'm not going anywhere."   But you don't understand......I just can't have a child out of wedlock.  That's not how it's supposed to be.  And besides, I'm not ready to have a child.  I'm still enjoying ME.  US.  WE.  *Sigh*

I know we'll get married one day.  I know he is the one who will be my husband....the one I will get up to cook breakfast for....the one I will call first whenever I have good or bad news....my Person....the one I will do taxes with....the one who will drive me crazier but make me have fun along the ride.  We are both progressing down our marriage paths and know that it will take a lot of work and compromise from each of us to merge our paths into one.

It seems that everyone I have talked to lately has asked  "When are you getting married?"  I'm in no rush but on the move.  One day I may just post "I's married now!" and that will be that.