Current mood: determined
...to carry you through the last few hours of the work day & also, just to think about this weekend...you're all beautiful people! Have a fantastic weekend...
Paz,
Elle

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
NELSON MANDELA, inaugural speech, 1994

Currently listening : On the Jungle Floor
By Van Hunt Release date: By 04 April, 2006

Labor Day Weekend Fun :)

I'm road testin' Annie's new, red Fendi "stunnahs".















Maria & I pose for the camera at her "Welcome Back!" party ...she moved to Chicago this past June...I vow to visit her soon :)















That's Geraldine & me hangin' out at "Double Dutch" a new retro hip hop bar in the Mission. That place cracked me up b/c they put old boom boxes as wall decoration...what a crack-up!

Mary, Mary, Mary

Current mood: excited
Category: Music

So, last night after the long trek & bumper to bumper traffic on Ygnacio Valley Road (which reminds me why I HATE going to the Concord Pavilion) and parking in the gravel with a country mile walk up to the venue just to sit in the cold (good thing I had my trusty leather jacket on plus some knee high boots over thick jeans) I finally got to see my generation's reigning queen of R&B, Mary J. Blige last night & wow, all I can say is it was worth all the anticipation & road rage just to see her last night...
What an amazing, gifted, talented singer & I just would like to report to you all that she practically broke down bawling in the middle of the song, "My Life" because the ENTIRE audience was singing ALL of the words in unision back to her...she was AMAZED...she was like, "Can I sing now or what?"...she looked truly touched, she then added, "Now, I know all of you out there are TRUE, VERIFIABLE Mary J. fans, I am overwhelmed!" She started to sing & then couldn't go on & said she had to regroup in the back & then come back...that was LOVE right there...damn, I LOVE her, she's like a big sister & man, her tunes & albums are like practically therapy for me, well, for most of us women, huh? Most of the audience were women of course with a few good men, boyfriends, & husbands out there in support :)
It was truly a great night of concert going...she sang til nearly midnight, too...man, sooooooo, sooooo, worth it...
Long live Mary, Mary, Mary!
http://www.mjblige.com/

Currently listening : The Breakthrough By Mary J. Blige Release date: By 20 December, 2005