Friday, January 23, 2009

Does a Paycheck cover a Dream?



This week my company laid-off a lot of people, I was one of the "casualties". My first reaction was relief! I hadn't enjoyed my job for years but I enjoyed my fellow employees and the security of a steady paycheck with benefits. I had talked about moving and pursuing my dream career for sometime now but had not made one step toward that goal. I had become complacent just like the "Lifers", the "lifers" were the folks who had been at my job for years but their eyes shone with their boredom. They didn't love the job anymore they just loved a steady paycheck! Unknowingly, I had become a lifer! So on the eve of my release I could be angry and sulk over the choices the company made or I could see my release as the blessing it is and walk through the door of opportunity that had just been opened. Willy Jolly a world renowned speaker says "a Setback is a Set-up for a comeback". My friend Karen always says that things happen in "Divine Order". By all accounts this was a Divine event. At the beginning of the year I said I would stop "Holding the purse". I have. Hello Opportunity!!!

~d-the-VIP

Saturday, January 17, 2009

The Audacity of Hope!!!



I don't know if Obama is Superman but I do know that he has given me a reason to believe that change is possible and hope is the equivalent of the proverbial "belief of a mustard seed". In him I see a brighter future and a better tomorrow. On Tuesday it will be my honor and privilege to stand with thousands of my fellow Americans and witness history being made as the first African-American takes the Presidential oath of office. I will be thinking of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech as that speech signifies the birth of a new nation. One that elects a President based on the "content of his character not the color of his skin!

Martin Luther King "I have a Dream Speech"

~d-the-VIP

Thursday, January 8, 2009

"It was all a dream I used to read Word Up Magazine!


Notorious Trailer

The lives of most rappers are a complex dichotomy that juxtaposes who they are personally with who they are lyrically. Rapper extraordinaire Biggie Smalls alias the Notorious B-I-G was no different. The long awaited movie NOTORIOUS, based on the late rappers life chronicles his rise and untimely death but it doesn't portray him as a martyr to be mourned or a deity to be praised but rather showcases the witty, fun-loving, gritty, sometimes unsettling truth that was his life. Poet Langston Hughes once asked the question "What happens to a dream deferred" Christopher Wallace answered the question of what happens to a dream achieved! Notorious opens this Friday.

Juicy

Biggie Freestyle


~d-the-VIP