Pretty wings...

Talk about loving recklessly... Maxwell has a new track out that speaks to me on so many levels. I thought I'd share the lyrics because to me they are so beautiful, because they are so true.... enjoy..

Time will bring the real end of our trial
One day there'll be no remnants, No trace no residual feelings within ya
One day you won't remember me
Your face will be the reason I smile
But I will not see what I can not have forever
I'll always love ya, I hope u feel the same
Oh you played me dirty your game was so bad
You toyed with my affliction had to fill out my prescription
Found the remedy I had to set u free
Away from me, To see clearly the way that love can be
When you are not with me I had to leave,
I have to live I had to lead, I had to live

If I cant have you let love set you free
To fly your pretty wings around
pretty wings, your pretty wings, your pretty wings,your pretty wings around
I came wrong, You were right
Transformed your love into a lie
Baby believe me I'm sorry I told you lies
I turned day into night Sleepless,
I died a thousand times I should've chose you
Better nights Better times Better Days
I miss you more and more

Wings of Forgiveness

Is it harder to love someone or forgive them? Definitely forgive in my book, which is sometimes the hardest part of love. Color Purple is one of my, if not the top of my all time favorite movies. it has love, lost, great quotes (You told Harpo to beat me!) and the power of loving reckless . . . which often includes some serious forgiveness.

Anybody who knows about the Black church, especially down south, they are serious about their 'LIGION. That's not always about praise, but about the customs and bylaws of the church. And the biggest issue is often teenage pregnancy - when the babies of babies who were getting down, start getting down, and the parents are shocked and apalled. The girl is austracized and labeled for a moment of weakness. And if she's the preacher's daughter, well she's outta there. Shug Avery was sexy and sultry in Color Purple. But underneath the sequins she was still the brokenhearted girl trying to dull the pain of losing her father's love. Hearing her daughter sing what use to be her song sparks Shug to try once more to get back in his warm embrace and be forgiven. She bust in the church and they are rocking right along with the folks from her juke joint. Her dad puts his pride aside to welcome her with open arms. He not only freed her, but himself. It definitely isnt easy - especially for parents who place such high hopes on their children - but loving people as they are and forgiving them when they aren't the people we want them to be, is real love, for better or worse.

God was definitely trying to tell them something . . .

Loving Me

Tonight at the Grammys some disturbing news surfaced: Chris Brown and Rihanna had a domestic dispute. Very shocking. Very sad. Say a little prayer for them.

There are no gurantees in love. Does that mean you don't take the risk? Nah.

But before you can truly love someone else, you have to fall in love with yourself and accept you for your faults and frailties.

Rihanna loved herself recklessly, that in one of her dark moments, she chose life and pressed charges against her boyfriend. That's something never easy for anyone, and only magnified in the flashing lights of being one of the most famous people in the world.

Love yourself reckless and to wholeness. And send some love and positive energy to women who have been battered and abused.

Happy February!

This is loves official month, so get to loving:)

Love isn't always kumbaya singing, but pulling from deep inside to do more good than bad, biting your tongue for quick responses and allowing yourself to feel - the good and the bad. This is one my favorite poems, by one of my favorite poets, and the basis of one of my favorite books of the same title (a lot, I know)

If you come softly

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by: Audre Lorde

If you come as softly

As wind within the trees

You may hear what I hear

See what sorrow sees.

If you come as lightly

As threading dew

I will take you gladly

Nor ask more of you.

You may sit beside me

Silent as a breath

Only those who stay dead

Shall remember death.

And if you come I will be silent

Nor speak harsh words to you.

I will not ask you why, now.

Or how, or what you do.

We shall sit here, softly

Beneath two different years

And the rich earth between us

Shall drink our tears.

Getting Jilly With It

Jill Biden is as feisty is she as is beautiful. After letting the cat out of the bag on Biden having his choice of VP or Secretary of State on Oprah's couch, our new Second Lady was unapologetic and shrugged her shoulders at stating the fact. Her husband looked on with a sparkle in his eye and acceptance of this was the woman he had vowed to love forever, foot in her mouth et al.

She wasn't the first. As reported, Vice President Joe Biden lost his first wife and daughter in a tragic car accident weeks after winning a seat in the US Senate in 1972. Nine years younger than him, Jill helped him find the joy in living again and helped raise his two young sons and a daughter of their own, when the two met in three years later.

Oprah asked the million dollar question of how they keep there love strong, he smiled and waved his hands to her signaling her inner and outer beauty.

Loving reckless is having the faith to love again.

Go Joe and Jill.

And did you check her sexy boots on Inauguration day:)?

Inauguration Euphoria

The historic moment of President Barack Obama's Swearing In to Office was filled with one four letter word.

Love.

As all the past presidents and inaugural dignitaries took the stage, an energy continued to build.

Then out stepped the 44th President of the United States of America.

During his acceptance speech after taking the oath, he said the importance of healing this country and continuing to love one another.

Then inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander began her poem "Praise Song for the Day" and captured the true essence of the day and what makes the world go round . . .

"What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance."


That's loving reckless.

The ever clever and spry Rev. Joseph E. Lowery closed the momentous occasion, starting with verse three of the National Negro Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, a poignant move to begin his passionate remarks.

"Make choices on the side of love, not hate, on the side of inclusion not exclusion, tolerance not intolerance."

Here's to loving reckless with our new President in office! Have you hugged someone today;)?

The Courage of Coretta

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an extraordinary man in every sense of the word. And beside him every step of the way was a just as amazing and as strong woman named Coretta Scott.

With dreams of her own to share her musical talents with the world, she married the charming preacher. Together they made the ultimate sacrifice for their children and the world's. He gave up time to see his own children's first steps and special moments to tend to the masses of hurting and denied people. Her strength to carry on the family and keep their children safe and strong allowed him to walk boldly out of their house. Both knowing it could always be his last.

It's hard enough for a marriage with the normal bumps of merging two into one. Add wire taps, constant FBI surveillance and death threats, and we can only imagine. Edgar J. Hoover was undaunted by newspapers' decisions not to run news of King's infidelity, so the FBI leader decided to personally send tapes of the nonviolent leader's indisrections to his wife. It broke her heart.

Love healed it back and her public faithfulness and support to her husband never wavered. Loving a King definitely takes a Queen.