¡HERE'S SOME HAPPINESS 4 U!

THIS BLOG ENTRY WAS INSPIRED BY AN ACQUINTANCE THAT I SAW THE
OTHER DAY & IT APPEARED THAT HE WAS DOING VERY WELL FOR HIMSELF & I
WANTED TO LET HIM & EVERYONE OUT THERE KNOW THAT I AM HAPPY FOR THE GOOD
THINGS GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

I try not to get
into things of this nature, but as I always seek balance in life I can’t ignore
saying something about the OCCUPY WALL
STREET MOVEMENT. As we go about our day, as we sleep peacefully in our warm
beds, how much longer will we ignore the battle
that has been raging centuries?

The battle
between the forces of darkness and the forces of light, between those who seek
chaos and those who cherish and defend order may never be resolved. However, I must
commend the MANY brave and good men AND women that have taken on this
eternal struggle. Do you have it in you
to risk your own soul so that the rest of us may safely live out our lives in
ignorant bliss?

They seek no
credit, or do they? They won’t get
any medals or parades for people such as these folks. They however WILL fights for us and then, weary and
bloodied, they return to a life of simple anonymity, working for the people
that will continue to screw them over EVERY
chance they get. 

YESTERDAY WE OBEYED KINGS & BENT OUR NECKS BEFORE EMPERORS. BUT TODAY WE KNEEL ONLY TO TRUTH, FOLLOW ONLY BEAUTY & OBEY ONLY LOVE.

YESTERDAY WE OBEYED KINGS & BENT OUR NECKS BEFORE EMPERORS.

BUT TODAY WE KNEEL
ONLY TO…

TRUTH,  

FOLLOW ONLY BEAUTY 

& OBEY ONLY LOVE.

THE 'WHITE' MAN IN ME FEARS THE 'BLACK' MAN OUT THERE

Yesterday I found
myself taking the public transportation to work and as I sat and watch persons
take their seats on the bus, I couldn’t help but realize that I was making snap
judgment about the folks that came on the bus. However, the man that sat next
to me REALLY stood out. To say he made
me feel uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Though he was ‘animated’ by the same energy we call ‘God’, I couldn’t help feel like a ‘white’ man sitting next to him.

For the first
time I got how a white person feel when he/she
sees a black man that looks a certain
way. Have I felt like that before? Perhaps!
I guess I never paid attention to it because for the past few years I’ve been
in my own bubble, using my car to go where ever I needed to go. This made me
feel so out of touch with how things really are because I don’t think about
folks that use the public transportation services to get to where they need to
go. But I digress…as the guy with his ''I just came out prison'' look sat next me
fishing for something in his pocket, I PRAYED
that he wasn’t pulling out a knife or gun. Can you say residual effect of the last time I used public transportation?

A few years
back, I sat @ the back of bus, about 5/6 young men that looked to be my age
came on the bus. One sat next to me, asked me for money I gave the usual, ‘I don’t
have any’ reply and thought that was that. Next he showed me a knife that he
took out of his pocket and then told me NOT
to make him use it on me. @ That point I was upset because I just got paid I wasn’t
about to give up my money. So @ that point I decided to move from the back of
the bus as we near a stop because I felt something was going to happen. I made
my way to the front of the bus and all of the guys but one stayed as we got to
the stop. I saw one of the guys pick up a huge rock waiting for me to get off
as they ‘assumed’ it was my stop. If it
wasn’t for the bus driver and an older lady on that bus, I am sure I would have
been attacked and/or killed by those
men. I wrote this blog entry to say, we shouldn’t judge ‘white’ folks when they see a ‘black’
man that looks a certain way, because maybe, just maybe he could be what he appears
to be. 

STUDY: INFREQUENT SEX CAN RAISE THE RISK OF HEART ATTACKS

People who
engage in physical activity only once in a while -- and that includes sex --
have a higher risk of suffering a heart attack or sudden cardiac death, at
least in the one or two hours right after they've exerted themselves, experts
say.

But in another
nod for exercise, the more physical activity you engage in, sexual or
otherwise, the more protected you are against such problems, according to a
study in the March 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association.

"The
triggering effect appeared to be sharpest for people unaccustomed to physical
activity," said study senior author Jessica K. Paulus, an assistant
professor of medicine at Harvard School of Public Health and an adjunct
assistant professor of epidemiology at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston.
"The recommendation from our paper is consistent with current guidelines,
that those looking to initiate an exercise program, especially those at higher
risk, do so very gradually and under the care of a clinician or
physician."

Certainly
previous studies have looked at this issue, but most of those had been unable
to pinpoint issues of timing, said study author Dr. Issa J. Dahabreh, a
research associate with the Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute
for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts.

This
meta-analysis took the weighted average of 14 other studies to determine that
people who engaged in "episodic" sexual activity had a 2.7 times
higher risk for a heart attack while sporadic physical activity raised the risk
3.5-fold.

Occasional
physical activity raised the risk of sudden cardiac death fivefold, but overall
risk was low largely because people engaged in these activities so infrequently
and the risk went away so quickly.

"The actual
incidence is extremely small. You're talking two-to-three events per 10,000
patient-years. That's very, very small," said Dr. Christopher Cove, an
associate professor of medicine and assistant director of the cardiac
catheterization lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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¡HAPPY 4TH BABY!

In & Out
of Time by Maya Angelou

The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance...
our long way home.
I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time.
When the first stone looked up at the blazing sun
and the first tree struggled up from the forest floor
I had always loved you more.
You freed your braids...
gave your hair to the breeze.
It hummed like a hive of honey bees.
I reached in the mass for the sweet honey comb there....
Mmmm...God how I love your hair.
You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...
The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance our long way home.
I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out
in and out
in and out
of time.

WE CONFUSE...

THE FOLLOWING MSN CHAT SESSION SPARKED THIS BLOG ENTRY:

HIM says: I so flippin' horny

ME says: sending a man yr way...

ME says: lol

HIM says: Who

U laffin I so serious

ME says: Terrance

HIM says: I bin molesting myself for too fuckin' long

He een here

ME says: that's all u should be trying to get

Terrance

HIM says: Ummm he een here n I need to fuck

ME says: i c

HIM says: Throwing that righteous shit out da window right
now

ME says: I hear ya

HIM says: I'm not as fortunate as u to live with my
lover

ME says: even if noel didn't live with me

HIM says: N get sex when I horny

ME says: I wouldn't be trying to get sex elsewhere

HIM says: Hmmm

Well I'm not going to deprive myself of sex coz he
don't want have sex

ME says: then u should leave

b free and get sex whenever u want

If u have to hide it from him

U know it isn't right

But get yrs

Make sure use condoms

HIM says: I always do

Even with him

ME says: OK

Now before you take the position that MANY other gays take (you have
a LOVING relationship, so you don’t understand) don’t you ever wonder why we  as human beings confuse naming a thing with
knowing it? For instance, how does a gay man REALLY know love? Is
it the word? Is it two people (in this
case Noel and I) that just
happen to respect each other @ the highest level? Or is it action that can ONLY exist when we get horny?

It couldn’t be
that element whose survival is dependent upon a fragile ecological balance, a
perfect blend of minerals, sunlight, weather, and, ultimately, sub-atomic
particles that have been zipping around since the birth of the universe, right? I TOTALLY get where he is coming from and
it is my hope that one day he can STOP carving his idea of love it into small pieces,
that were sent to a love factory, shaped it into a love and shipped to a store. One
day he can see love for it REALLY is…something
that should NOT be purchase OR beg for.

I will not judge him, I just hope that he knows that one day
as he ventures into the jungle to begin his hunt, donning a mask to confuse his
prey. Not a mask meant to frighten, a mask that is pleasant to eyes that makes
him think what he is doing is harmless so he can get close and strike a lethal blow
that is hiding his selfish façade will crack. For the mask that camouflages a predator
can camouflage his ‘prey’ as well and
he can find himself being devoured and torn apart with NO one to hear his screams but Noel and I. We all know that the jungle
is accustomed to the sounds of agony that just bodies love leaving it barely
alive, with just a little strength where it can crawl back to its village
where, to its horror, it discovers that its ‘prey’
has taken possession of its hut. Now helpless and homeless, love will be forced
to live the rest of its days in the wild, feeding what the scum beneath the
scum feeds on…