anonymusings….

funny. tonight, i was writing a password protected post on my other blog about some feelings that i was processing regarding the mother of one of my students. she’s working her way through an abusive situation and while i was writing it took me back to my childhood and my own experiences. i couldn’t figure out what i wanted to call my post and so i just named it “faces of eve”…funny ‘cause about 30 minutes later i turned on the televison and saw the face of an old friend…. (more…)

“11 when i was a child, i talked like a child, i thought like a child, i reasoned like a child. when i became a man, i put childish ways behind me….”
~1 corinthians 13~

about a year ago, i came to grips with the realization that in relationships i have often played the role of the “enabler”:

MAIN ENTRY: en·abler
Pronunciation: i-’nA-b(&-)l&r
Function: noun

one that enables another to achieve an end; especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by helping that individual avoid the consequences of such behavior

yep…look up the word “enabler” in the dictionary and there’s a picture of me w/ a confused look on my face…trying to figure out how in the hell i ended up in that position playing that role.

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for those of you that tried to access my site this past weekend, y’all know that i had been having some technical difficulties. ok, that’s really an understatement. my blog, which began deleting the graphics from my lilo&stich-the update post, escalated to deleting my latest post and then my ENTIRE blog…my archives were gone!! every word that i had recorded since december…vanished right before my eyes!!! YIKES!!! and i panicked…i mean completely nutted up… (more…)

EDITED TO SAY: I don’t know what the HELL is going on w/ my blog.

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i don’t even know how to begin to articulate how i’m feeling, but have you ever felt like sometimes your blackness has you caught in the middle of certain situations? like, you have to have to pick and choose your battles with your own people? especially if you work in the same place and your job is “professional” and theirs is not? this is the deal…

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“I think we attract what we are used to…”

“I think you just inspired my next post.”

Comment by Cynthia — July 19, 2006 @ 12:50 pm

~from yesterday’s post about ordinary people~

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there is just one moon
and one golden sun
and a smile means
friendship to ev’ryone
though the mountains divide
and the oceans are wide
it’s a small world after all….

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~me…for the past week…~
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you ever have people in your life that always cross your path at different points throughout your lifetime…not in any major way, but so much that you know that there’s some kind of reason that they’re there?

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….you feel the need to do this…
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