martin luther king jr.

I have always loved this quote by Dr. King:

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

I had to stop myself today while I was running around at work (yeah, I still had to go in) to really sit and meditate on the meaning of this holiday. I try to do that every year and sometimes I succeed sometimes I don't. Today had a different spin. I think we focus on Dr. King's message about racial equality and rightly so. He also spoke a lot about poverty, however, and it's beyond relevant today in many ways. In light of the global recession, black men having the largest unemployment rate in the country and, of course, the devestation of Haiti's capital all make his words all the more imperative.

In my own life I have seen poverty affect people in horrible ways: women stay with abusive men, children cry themselves to sleep because they're hungry, homelessness, eating out of trash cans, prostitution for rent payments and so on. These were all witnessed just in my personal life in the United States. I've heard and seen in film similarly atrocious things around the world.

My meditation and prayer today, on this day honoring Dr. King, is that I and all who have the capacity to should take those words to heart and act.

#9 & #10

The hubs found out he got into Seattle University and Hamline University (St. Paul). The Seattle one was really a treat- it's close, familiar and has the country's no. 1 writing program which is what he's interested in.

The planning, however, continues to go circular because we still haven't heard from the local school.

In other news, I had a great interview for an on call position w/a hospital. I think I'd be great in an ER. When I'd watch that show, I'd covet the fast paced quick thinking work. I'm supposed to find out the middle of next week.

I wonder what my mind will focus on once this waiting phase is over.

pause

i am tired of typing i'm tired of waiting. i think it's wholly appropriate to take a break today and think about people facing real problems.

NYT coverage of Haiti 

Mercy Corps - Mercy Corps is a great Portland based outreach and relief organization

i can't even imagine.

another bummer today- teddy pendergrass died. Love T.K.O. is one of my top 10 songs of all time. the hubs and i bonded over that while dating. it was one of the songs we first slow danced to. these days are not happy ones for the world.

this and that

i was away for the weekend so i wasn't able to post anything. poor me. there was absolutely no MHIGTLS news last week which i personally found refreshing. we kept any moving/working talking to a minimum though i could see a certain anxious glint in our eyes whenever we checked the mail. that's another fun change in my life with this whole law school thing- the mail. it can never get here fast enough, you know? and the hubs calls to see if anything came and i call him to see if any email (or phone call, yes, they even call admitted students) came. this weekend was a good break from all of that. sometimes just changing your location for 24 hours can do so much good for one's mental health.

speaking of, i felt there was no way 2009 could be topped. it really was my "toys and travel" year. i had a lot of fun. this year, i will be challenged to have the same kind of year i have had before in my life though with less money and still maintain the joy. i'm positive about it.

let the running to the mailbox begin...

waiting

no MHIGTLS news.

personally, the day was so so. I had a training that no one showed up for which is the third in a row like that. I guess that means the people don't care about black people. like Bush.

and it's so hard

the words of big pun still ring true. today was one of those days that's an odd mixture of highs and lows.

started with me throwing a tantrum on the phone. i'm still trying to find a way to make amends for that one. then i had an awesome time with a friend- it'd been too long. then i learned my grandmother has some kind of strange syndrome that, honestly, i can't bear to learn much more about. however, i then met up with a group of women for dinner who are all in my same career field and we've decided to meet monthly and support one another. i like each of them a lot and that was a treat.

bad turn: during the dinner and earlier meeting w/a friend it struck me how much leaving here will suck. i don't mean to use that word "suck" in a juvenile sense. i mean that leaving my friends (again) will require a great amount of strength of self that i'm not calling up too quickly these days. i'll keep doing what i do but i'm glad to have friends who care. i hope they know i care as well.

no MHIGTLS news. waiting on willamette...

longest week ever

i am one all for long, leisurely days but for some reason this week has felt as if it has been dragging on to nowhere. strange.

MHIGTLS news: U of Arkansas emailed him. 40% scholarship. that means that it's now the cheapest law school we would have to pay for. i still don't really know what i consider worse: toledo or little rock. six of one ..seriously.

truth be told i'm at work right now and have absolutely nothing else to say. until later...

New dawn

First day of 2010. I've taken to saying 'twenty ten' in true 21st century verbal laziness.
I've done quite a bit for being only halfway through the first day of the year. Well, not a lot of important stuff but a good amount of business. I woke, read, cleaned, baked, cooked, cleaned and now my friend is  helping me import my old LJ blog into this one. Wish us luck!

WARNING: all entries from 2006-mid 2007 come with a warning because it was written during my relationship with the hubs. I should've been committed - seriously, why didn't my friends run an intervention. Falling in love is seriously a mental illness. You've been warned.