Janet Jackson shows us how NutriSystem worked for her. I’m tempted to say pass the plate! While I’m happy she seems to finally be happy with her size, she needs to know there hasn’t ever been a moment when she wasn’t beautiful. I love you Jan.
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Take Care of You
You can’t empower anyone or anything until you empower yourself.
Eye for an Eye
When will they learn that an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind?
Collision Course w/Disaster
Anytime an actor, actress, singer, or entertainer is in trouble, every interviewer wants to throw them in front of a camera and wait for the unraveling to begin. People delight in the misfortune, pain, and misery of others. Charlie Sheen is in trouble. His loved ones are in agony wanting to help him, but don’t know how. Meanwhile, people are making jokes, exploiting his sickness and society is eating it up. Celebrities aren’t some bigger than life entity. They hurt just as we do. They stumble the same as the rest of us. Their shortcomings are merely emphasized, because there’s always some poor excuse of a human being standing by hoping to catch everything on tape. I don’t know when or how it happened, but somewhere along the way, human decency and compassion were obliterated. You don’t watch a train wreck; you either figure out how to stop the train or how to get the passengers off before the crash.
My heart and prayers are with anyone struggling with addiction and their loved ones.
Janet Jackson ~ What I Can Give
I’ve been watching my cursor blink continuously as if it were counting down to some divine moment when the precise words to mend a heart would be bestowed upon me. Realizing such moment isn’t coming, I’ll reluctantly proceed. I look at you and I see a strong, resilient, beautiful woman with her head held gracefully high walking through life the best way she can. But underneath, there’s a shattered sister’s heart by the loss of her bother, a grieving daughter wanting desperately to take the pain from her mother’s eyes, and an aunt trying to help her nieces and nephews cope with a tragedy not even she fully understands. I see a woman giving everything she has to keep moving forward, because she knows if she were to hesitant for a second, she would be paralyzed by sorrow. I see a woman struggling with unanswered questions, doubts, and regrets. You think about the (whys and hows) you’ll never have answers for. You mull over every choice you’ve ever made searching for that one missed opportunity where you could have changed everything. And no matter how hard you try, you never completely accept that some changes were never within your grasp.
Oh no, I’ve come full circle, back to the same unforgiving blinking cursor. It flashes its disappointment at my failure to find the right words to make just a moment of your day better. After all of my pleading, divine inspiration has overlooked me. I wanted to give you the ability of acceptance; accepting what you couldn’t foresee, accepting what you couldn’t have changed and the peace of knowing you did everything within your power to do. I wanted to hand you the eraser of pain, doubt, and unanswered questions. I wanted you to have the ability to smile freely again. Words are often tricky; they can heal wounds or crumble mountains. Ordinarily, during a time like this, I’d sit with you for as long as it took for the sun to shine again. When words aren’t a friend as clearly as they aren’t today, I’d hug you and let my heart speak for me. I’d comfort you and give you every ounce of strength and support you could bear. I know giving you a hug and the gift of healing are both impossible, but I can give you my love. My love for you is unconditional, encompassing, and endless. Take care of yourself, Janet. Inner peace is a luxury in life we generally aren’t afforded, nevertheless, I’ll always hope for a little to be granted to you.
A Twitter Trending Topic
#2010disappointments:
1.) President Obama not repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell #dadt with an executive order. Update: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed on 12/18/10
2.) #LGBT community rights being stripped away.
3.) Bullying of our kids and the devastating consequences of it.
4.) The failure of the justice system to protect children from sexual predators and parental abuse.
5.) The government allowing manufactures to poison our food, water, and environment, because it’s cheaper to do so in the short-term. They turn a blind eye to the impact companies’ greed will have on our health, resulting in the unprecedented cost it will take to heal the human body from ingesting enormous amounts of toxins in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.
6.) The abandonment of the poor.
7.) Corruption in every branch of the government.
8.) Wars.
9.) Racism, prejudice, ignorance, intolerance, and hatred.
10.) The lack of compassion for our neighbors across the hall, down the street, across the country and around the world.
Love
The gift of love is knowing how it feels to love someone else.
