I'm such a huge basketball fan and love when March Madness rolls around cause its just an exciting time. This years tournament has been nothing short of exciting. There have been some big name schools going down early and last night my team, the one i picked to win it all, got kicked out of the tournament. I'm a big Syracuse fan and when they got kicked out last night i felt some type of way. My bracket is all messed up now lol. Maybe next year. Now I'm really wondering who is going to win this years tournament. All I know is that it is gonna be some more good games.
Peace
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Life/Death
This past weekend I went home to attend a celebration of life. Every time I go home its always love and it sort of rejuvenates me until the next time I come. Its just so much energy and when I am there I take some of that energy with me. The celebration was great and everybody enjoyed themselves.
So while I was there I had a chance to see one of my neighbors. She always speaks and always ask my fam how I'm doing so I wanted to go say hi. WHile we are talking she mentions to me that she is going to be 90 next month and in my mind I'm like damn thats the ill blessing right there. She could only speak with me at her front door cause she has had numerous surgeries and couldnt walk down her front steps. It was such a beautiful day and I felt sorry that she couldnt get out and feel what was out there. Anyways we were just talking about how much she has seen and she started goin way back like 50 yrs ago when she first moved on the block. The way she spoke it was with so much pride and appreciation. She kept saying that things were so different and neighbors actually knew each other by name and watched over everybodies kids on the block as if they were their own. Its funny cause when we were growing up she would be the one to tell on me and my siblings if we skipped school, had people over, were makin noise, whatever and we would get in trouble for it. She was so meticulous about her lawn and she would watch to see if people walked on it or not. Looking back I can appreciate what she did for us. There were lessons taught.
The real sad part of the conversation is when she said that she "hopes" that she makes it to see her next birthday. The way she said it sort of made everything around me just stop. I'm no stranger to death but its all in how she said it and even thinking about it now I feel like everything is moving in slow motion around me. Other times I would see her and say hi and keep it movin but the energy just pulled me in her direction and we had a nice conversation.
I barely saw any family check for her so I wonder if she has any family or anybody in her life that cares enough to just say hi. I wonder if she is gonna make it to her 90th birthday. Im rootin for her but the way she said she "hopes" almost sounds as if she has given up or if she is just tired. 90 thats real. At the end of the day I appreciated that conversation. It meant a lot and touched me lol. Why I dont know but it did. Maybe in a way I needed to hear what she had to say cause nobody else is listening........
Peace
So while I was there I had a chance to see one of my neighbors. She always speaks and always ask my fam how I'm doing so I wanted to go say hi. WHile we are talking she mentions to me that she is going to be 90 next month and in my mind I'm like damn thats the ill blessing right there. She could only speak with me at her front door cause she has had numerous surgeries and couldnt walk down her front steps. It was such a beautiful day and I felt sorry that she couldnt get out and feel what was out there. Anyways we were just talking about how much she has seen and she started goin way back like 50 yrs ago when she first moved on the block. The way she spoke it was with so much pride and appreciation. She kept saying that things were so different and neighbors actually knew each other by name and watched over everybodies kids on the block as if they were their own. Its funny cause when we were growing up she would be the one to tell on me and my siblings if we skipped school, had people over, were makin noise, whatever and we would get in trouble for it. She was so meticulous about her lawn and she would watch to see if people walked on it or not. Looking back I can appreciate what she did for us. There were lessons taught.
The real sad part of the conversation is when she said that she "hopes" that she makes it to see her next birthday. The way she said it sort of made everything around me just stop. I'm no stranger to death but its all in how she said it and even thinking about it now I feel like everything is moving in slow motion around me. Other times I would see her and say hi and keep it movin but the energy just pulled me in her direction and we had a nice conversation.
I barely saw any family check for her so I wonder if she has any family or anybody in her life that cares enough to just say hi. I wonder if she is gonna make it to her 90th birthday. Im rootin for her but the way she said she "hopes" almost sounds as if she has given up or if she is just tired. 90 thats real. At the end of the day I appreciated that conversation. It meant a lot and touched me lol. Why I dont know but it did. Maybe in a way I needed to hear what she had to say cause nobody else is listening........
Peace
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