Pie

I’m getting better with my close-ups

Still playing around…

Somebody stop me…

Where the Magic Happens…

As I mentioned in my first blog, there’s a photographer hiding inside of me that I’m dying to release. Thanks to some inspiration, I am taking a photography class where I’m learning how to take better pictures…turns out my camera has features I never knew where there!

So I’m not only learning about digital photography, but I’ve also had to dust off the operating manual…lol…

This was a product of my assignment where I had to experiment with learning the features of the camera, angles, and lighting…ok, so the lighting isn’t all that great, but all in all, i think it’s a pretty good 1st try shot… *grinnin*

Go Colts!

first grade teacher explains to her class that she is an Chicago
Bears fan. She asks her students to raise their hands if they are Bears
fans, too. Not really knowing what a Bears fan was, but wanting to be
liked by their teacher, their hands flew into the air.

There is however, one exception. Susie has not gone along with the
crowd.
The teacher asks her why she decided to be different. “Because I’m not a
Bears fan,” she reports. “Then,” asks the teacher, “what are you?”
“I’m a Indianapolis Colts fan,” boasts the little girl. The teacher asks Susie
why she is a Colts fan. “Well, my Dad and Mom are Colts fans, so I’m a Colts
fan, too,” she responds. “That’s no reason,” the teacher says. “What if
your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot. What would you be then?”
Susie smiles and says, “Then I’d be an Chicago Bears fan!”

GO Colts!!!!

New Ivy on My Life’s Vine: Misunderstood…

Ok, so this may not exactly be a new leaf. It’s happened so many times before. I have the best of intentions…use my talents to what I think/feel is for the greater good…and whamo! It backfires in my face….such was the case today.

Student teacher in the classroom on my opposing wall was speaking extremely harsh to two students who need extra help in learning as if the tone of her voice becoming more and more abrasive would somehow provide the missing piece towards understanding that they needed to solve the math problems.

So I step over there and tell her that they are in need of some one on one or small group time with her…not fussing at…we exchange more words…where she asks if its my job to “tell her what to do”…smh…so enters my constant bedfellow…misunderstood…

She was so focused on whether or not I had the “power” to speak to her about how she was demeaning the students that she couldn’t hear what I was saying to her…she left me in the room with the children and ran up the hallway crying…caused a huge unnecessary scene…

But I had to intervene…all i could think of is what if it were my child who didn’t understand…who I really want the teacher to yell at her about what she was doing so wrong or take her by the hand and try to help her through what she didn’t understand…

Today’s Rambling Thoughts…

This weekend, I received a very touching keepsake from a family member who is getting married this weekend. To welcome her husband-to-be into our family, she and her mother put together a beautiful calendar full of birthdates and photgraphs of all of our family members. We’re a HUGE family…my grandmother and grandfather had 12 children…10 who lived to see adulthood and go forth and be fruitful themselves. So all in all there are about 10 kids, who collectively had about 13 grandchildren who collectively produced 18 great-grandkids…yep…we’re a modern day klan…

Receiving the calendar should have made me happy, but it really put me in a funk…you see, my parents departed this earth in 2003. They died 4 months apart. It has taken me all this time to even begin to grieve them. Some days I miss them so much I can’t put one foot before the other. Other days I miss them so much I don’t know if I’m coming or going. Then there are the days where I miss them so much I’m just not a nice person to be around…i”m moody…and i just want to cry all the time….such was the state of my emotions this weekend…

I look at how my parents and their siblings were able to find happiness in love with someone, have children, and lead seemingly happy lives…i want that…i want someone in my life that I can grow old with…someone who thinks about me and what’s best for me…someone I can share anything with…someone who will miss me and can’t wait to return to me…*sighs*…do dreams come true?

Wondering…

Did Aaron McGruder go too far?

“When the Levees Broke”

Ok, I know I am WAY behind the news here, but while surfing the web this morning with my morning cup of coffee warming my insides, I checked out Blackamericaweb.com. This is a site that I’m training myself to check out daily. I’ve known about it for years…even had a membership for years, but life keeps me from reading it for some reason…anyhoo…while surfing I checked out the Tom Joyner Morning Show link and learned that Spike Lee’s HBO documentary, “When the Levees Broke” is now available on DVD. The DVD is a 3 disc/6hr set with footage that wasn’t seen when it aired on HBO. Spike was interviewed by Tom and his crew.

The proceeds from DVD sales are suppose to go to charities that are helping Katrina victims…sad to think of such a vast number of American citizens as “victims”… I plan to buy a DVD today…

Angel of Death…

We all live with the oxymoronic realization that death is a part of life…is it just me…am I being to “caught up” in things or does it really seem like we’re hearing more and more about people dying than we normally have?

I’ve been around the cyberworld for a few years now…since 2001 to be exact and this year I have known of more people that I’ve never met, but either chatted with or read their expressions in blogs to pass away than when I first started venturing online in 2001.

I just logged on to the net and the homepage of Yahoo has a newsarticle that former president Gerald Ford has passed. More and more key figures we’ve seen in the public’s eye are leaving us: James Brown, the guy who played Lionel on the Jeffersons, Ed Bradley, Gerald Levert…sadly, the list goes on and on…

For me, it just puts it in perspective that life is truly short…we need to take full advantage of EVERY minute…

Last Night I Dreamed…

I was sent to the board of education by the principal of my school to get something for her. While I was there, the superintendent wanted to interview me for a position…now what position, I’m not sure…considering in the dream, it didn’t seem like I had knowledge of applying for anything…but I had to wait for him to finish talking with someone before he could interview me. I walked outside to wait and it was no longer day, but night. I saw the sun, blazing in the sky not like we see it daily but in the way that it is seen from space. The sun literally bubbled and gurgled as I saw it rise in a straight, vertical line over the version of the sun that I was familiar with…then it disappeared…all the while, I was thinking, “Damn, where is my camera?!”