Out of Many One People

Growing up in Jamaica exposed me to different types of people and taught me not to judge someone based on their appearance. I would go to the store and speak to a "Chinese looking" person who had the thickest Jamaican accent ever. While America, New York specifically, is prided as the melting pot, I was never conscious of discrimination until I moved here! Now I have a heightened sensitivity, maybe we can learn something from Jamaica where we are able to live together in unity despite the color of your skin. 

Brunch in Soho

Brunch at a cute restaurant Freeman's ~ tucked away in a little alley in the Lower East Side. We pretty much ordered everything on the menu; conversation was great and the food was good.

Energy ~ Physics 101 recap

Energy is neither lost or destroyed, its merely transferred from one party to another. In layman's terms, think about the following two scenarios:

~ You are having a discussion with someone who has a "chip on their shoulder" (grudge or feeling of inferiority).  In the beginning, you are cool and calm, eventually the argument escalates and you become upset. By the end of the conversation, the other person is smiling because they managed to "ruffle your feathers" but you are agitated. The positive energy you walked in with was not lost or destroyed, it was simply transferred from you to the other party. 

Emotion is simply energy in motion. That's why when we fear things it happens because thoughts are creative (congeal) so we attract what we fear. 

What if we could manipulate and control energy and matter? Wouldn't it be great if we could rearrange and redistribute energy? Maybe we can...

I can be, do and have whatever I imagine ~ I am a creative force. 

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” - Charles F. Kettering

Love Languages

If you only speak English and someone told you "I love you" in Afrikaans, you would not understand. You may even accuse the person that they don't love you. Eventually the person will also become frustrated because they are constantly reassuring you of their love, but you have not accepted it. The premise is that people communicate in one of the five love languages (in order of my most fluent languages):

1. Quality Time
2. Physical Touch
3. Words of Affirmation
4. Acts of Service
5. Receiving Gifts

If I love you, I want to spend as much time with you as possible ~ this has to be quality time though, if I spend an hour with you and you are on the phone for 40 minutes of that time, that is not exactly my idea of quality time. Maybe that's why I am not a big fan of social networks. I much rather the personal expression through a personalized email, card or time spent in each other's presence. 

My friend's know how important quality time is to me and try to keep my proverbial love tank filled. I was talking to Daniel and he said "your correspondence/emails are like car notes or mortgages; you have to keep updated to avoid repossession." "The point is" ~ fill me up

Something told me...

Call me crazy if you must, but I believe that God talks to me. He actually speaks to us all, the issue is who listens? Would it be easier to grasp if I said that God and I “communicate” – perhaps “talk” sounds too “human-like” whereas communicate is open to interpretation. Animals communicate, babies who are unable to speak communicate. Now that the issue is not the ability to hear “words” or “hear” with an “audible voice”; besides, if we limit conversation to words, how do you explain body language? Someone once said that coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. I do not believe in coincidences and in my life, these “coincidences” have God’s handprint all over it. Ever had something happen to you and you knew you should respond one way but didn’t? For example, someone invites you somewhere and you don’t think it’s a good idea to go, you can’t rationalize why, so you go anyways and regret the decision? Trust your peace. Later you say something like “”Something told me that I should have…” or “my instincts/intuition told me not to go” All these thoughts, images, recollections, feelings, signs are ways of God communicating with us! Now do you think that the God who created the universe communicates with you?


Over the next few weeks, I intend to be very sensitive to what we can call…uncommon dialogue. Join me on this journey and hopefully "something" will become more personal

Bike riding in Central Park with Tahisha

We left sunny Brooklyn and exited the train to a rainy Manhattan. It was a very light drizzle so it did not interfere with our plans to go bike riding. But as you can see, it got dark, pretty quickly!

Sent from Tahisha Salmon

La La Ladika

Apart of my mantra is to "do what you love and do it often" I love hanging out with Ladika, so I do it often. We had plans to go to the Empire State Building after work but the weather was not favorable and I was not feeling well- weather changes.