As I sit here and tell you all about moving back, I have to say that I am overwhelmed. I cannot believe that it has been over a year and beyond that, I cannot believe how much the Lord has blessed this journey.
This experience has been one that has taught me more and has shaped my life more than anything ever has. I never thought I would look back at this experience and be where I am today. Today I can honestly say that I am a better man then I was a year ago.
This journey has added characters to my life that would have never been there if it were not for stepping out in faith. This faith adventure has given me the ability to say that I am stronger and much more on my own two feet then ever before.
The blessings in my life are abundant. They come in form of new friends, a great new job, new experiences and I would say the experience of knowing that all my old friends have been amazing every step of the way. The support, prayers and visits have been beyond blessings. So for all new friends, old friends and family, thank you! Thank you for making this journey possible, unbelievable and beyond perfect.
Now for the details. I will be moving back on May 10Th, still working for CaseCentral and will be living in Costa Mesa. I still have renters in my Greenfield condo, so I will be moving back there once they are out. I am so excited to go home, but also sad to leave the people here in San Fran.
Well, there you go! Cant wait to share my experiences more in depth later.
Before being an Uncle I never thought in a million years that i could love a person so deeply as I do my nieces and nephews. The shocking part actually is how quickly you fall, and fall hard. I have not even met Sophia and already am mad about her.
She was born 7 pounds 12 oz. and so far is an easy and quiet baby. She looks exactly like Lani as a baby. By the way, Lani is doing great after the c section. I think it was easier the second time on her. The coolest part is that big brother,Noah loves his new baby sister.
Whenever you think of them feel free to send up a prayer.
So I believe that I have had the unique and amazing privilege to eat at some of the most exquisite restaurants in the world. Well, yesterday I got to eat the most amazing meal I think I have ever had. I know that I normally love hyperbole, but honestly this meal was amazing!!!!!!!!!
I started the meal with an amazing salad. The salad was made with a homemade creamy mozzarella cheese, tiny heirloom tomatoes, with avocado, and these tiny bread crumbs and then finished off with red onion and a light balsamic vinaigrette. The flavors were insane!
Next i had a their famous fillet Mignon on the bone, zucchini made with Japanese bread crumbs and a double baked potato with a marscapone cheese and just a little drizzle of sour cream. Just so you know when I asked for medium well on the steak, the waitress let me know that the chef would not do that. The chef knows exactly how it should be made. I was a bit nervous since I always need to have everything exactly how I like it. My friends, this was te most insane steak I have ever had! Honestly, IT WAS PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!
Lastly, for dessert we had a very simple chocolate mousse that was stuffed in tiny waffle cones. It was decadent, simple and had a perfect flavor!
Anyone who comes and visits me will go to this stellar and perfect restaurant. The atmosphere feels a little cheesy, but the food, the service and the experience is one that I have never had! This is my favorite meal ever! It was amazing! Go to their website and check it out.
Well, I just found out that my blog has been blocked for several weeks and in that time only one person has noticed! AWESOME! Its funny because I had a dream to have the next Mcfadden Place or even the next Kerr Cafe, but alas no one notices! I promise I will get more interesting and better posts! Here I go! Can't stop me! Hope everyone got today off and that everyone is having fun because, I get to work today! WOOHOO! Have an awesome day everyone and keep reading!
On this day I am reminded by how much Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has turned this world upside down. He embodies what I strive to be. So to celebrate him today here is the famous speech that turned the world upside down. Sit and read it. I guarantee you will read something that will forever change your life. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Okay so I sit in my tiny apartment and I am watching tv and to tell you the truth I am overwhelmed. I have a 65" screen and it is taking up most of my apartment. The picture above is of the TV I currently have.
So I need help. Can anyone let me know what kind of TV I should buy and also let me know whats the best price you think I could get for my current TV?
This is where I hope my blog is being read. Let me know what your thoughts are! HELP!
