Showing posts with label Memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memories. Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

"There's ten-thousand blessings in the hollow of his hands, and all I need is one".


Living down south I met many loving souls,
Ms. Moell Latham was one, she was 50 years my senior,
and one of my best friends.
Ms. Moell passed 7 years ago this week and today as I sat in quiet contemplation,
I heard her words ringing in my ear,
"There's ten-thousand blessings in the hollow of his hands, and all I need is one". She said these words to me time and time again, believing them to be scripture.
I could never bring myself to telling her any different, for I understood what she meant as she cried and prayed, “GOD all I need is one”.

R.I.P MS. MOELL Miller Latham Badley
You yet live, in my memories...
January 26, 1916 - Ocotber 17, 2003

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

My Favorite Photo...


This is my favorite photo...
It was taken after my second open heart surgery at age 5. It was the end of the school day. Momma and I were returning home, after my long stay in the hospital. But first she needed to stop by the school; I think to see what she needed for me to return to school. Momma learned the school was having picture day. The kindergarten teacher told Momma the photographer was packing up. She was sure he was done for the day. Momma asked when he would return, the teacher said next year. So with me in tow, Momma raced to find the photographer. Me, still dressed in my hospital clothes, Momma asked the photographer if he would take my picture. The photographer took one look at Momma, and then at me, and with a kind smile, he said yes. Momma asked if he would give her time to run home so I could change my clothes...and again the gentleman smiled and said yes.
At home, Momma snatched this brand-new dress down from the closet, price-tag, and plastic still on. With a quick wash-up and change, we were back at the school. The photographer was true to his word.
Three weeks later October 17, 1971, wearing the same dress, with Momma watching as I cross the street heading to school, a car jumped the curb hitting me, causing two broken ribs, a gash in my forehead, and temporary paralyzes. Needless to say I never saw this dress again for either, the doctors, attendants, or paramedics had cut me out of my beautiful new dress.

Monday, July 5, 2010

GOD WATCHES OUT FOR BABIES & FOOLS... (Facebook Post)

Stephanie Wallace:
One of the dumbest things i ever did that turned out ok.
GOD WATCHES OUT FOR BABIES AND FOOLS, RIGHT?
I let my thirteen year old cousin drive my car a short distance.
I was nineteen. Remember that Shaun. The white Ford Escort wagon.
That was just plain dumb. Got any dumb things that turned out okay?
C'mon....fess up. ... We will only laugh..we promise not to point and laugh.

SistaSistaSister:
Woooooooh, Just One Foolish Thing?!
Hummm, Let Me see…
The water drinking contest…
It started with just a simple jump rope contest,
and U know me, I had to up the Annie.
The goal was to drink a gallon of water,
while jumping rope, and there were two stipulations,
1. You could not throwing up. and
2. We had to hear the water swishing around in the belly.
Needless to say I refused to be the loser,
but after three gallons of water,
and jumping over and over again,
The human body develops a mind of it’s own,
and when I say “Loosey, Goosy”, well you get the point.
Let’s just say, it was not a pretty sight…
Nope, I did not thrown up,
but from the smell of it, I’m sure everyone there, wished I had… LOL!!!!
Little did I know at that time, all that water was detrimental, due to my congenital heart defect.
But as U quoted, and Momma always said, “God takes Care of Babies & Fools”….
I’m so glad, I’m God’s Babie…. LOL


Sunday, May 9, 2010

Dear Momma (Mother's Day 2010)


Hey Momma, it’s just Kim here…. Clicked into Facebook, to find your face at top of the page…
Something went through me, like the belly grip that comes when riding a rollercoaster… I read the comments left by Jo and Stephanie, then saw that Danny had posted the photo yesterday, the anniversary of that last day. Don’t know why I hadn’t seen this then… yesterday I mean… but perhaps it’s more fitting for me to see today… Mother’s Day… I miss you momma… I keep your photo on my desk… I look to you whenever I’m stuck… when I’m searching for the right words to write, or speak, or just wonder what would momma say, if found in this place, in this situation.. on this day… at this time.
Life?... It’s alright… I’m missing everyone… You, Jo & the girls, Danny & his family… I see Cheryl from time to time, but I see Spanky & Michael most. Their well… You know they’er the hard working ones, always working to achieve something are another… you would be proud of them, holding down school, jobs, and full time parenthood… always being responsible and reliable... Terrenc & LaShanda are well. Terrenc is out the Navy now, and LaShanda is in. LaShanda is nursing now… Their stationed in Virginia now… they pickedup my mini-me the first of the month, and took her back with them to Virginia… I hope they take the opportunity to get with Lisa…well we’ll see.
I miss you Momma, sometimes I hear your voice in my sleep… I see your face in mine… I see myself gesturing and annunciating my words just like you… I never realized we are so much alike, but let me tell ya’… Cheryl is looking more your twin these days than I…. I finally started getting grey hair… It looks good thou, seeing it’s centered to the back of my head… It’s not grey though, it’s silver… and it’s grown so long, I’ve contemplated cutting it…
Daddy’s good… He finally put down that 25 year old Mac, and purchased a new one two months ago…
Well Momma, I guess I’ll be going for now…seeing I’m just rambling… I just wanted to say I love you and I miss you.
Oh… Tell Uncle Al his microwave died two days ago…. The one you gave me in 95…. Ya’ll know I needed that microwave… but I guess it was time, seeing Uncle Al bought it new in 1980, and it’s now 2010….
I miss you Momma… Love always Kim…

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Life is an Odyssey of Experiences...


Life is an odyssey of experiences, highs and lows, joys and pains, satisfactions and regrets. It’s amazing how time changes our perception of good and bad, right and wrong. The things we once counted cool or in, are now obsolete and intolerable, and as well there are those things, time has confirmed, and established. I am amazed how we change and grow…. In our thirties we look in wonderment at our childhood, in our forties we laugh, bemoan, rejoice and recall our twenties. I wonder what our fifties, sixties and beyond bring, but I am sure, we continue to traverse the odyssey of life, and recollect the moments of our lives with awe, abandonment, acceptance, regret, reward, and renewal. Perhaps life is just that the continued retirement of one way of being and the birthing of another.

You ask, how all this came about… Today I crossed paths with someone I hadn’t seen in 29 years and I realized as nice as it was to see them, and to know they are well, it was even more satisfying once the moment had passed, and they were no longer in my presence… Memories are a tricky thing… as much as one desires to recall the good times, there are something’s… time can never erase.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

My Friends Now Distant Strangers




An early morning journey lead me down a winding road,
of memories and laughs thirty years old.
I spent the hours meandering amusingly through posted photos,
of folks and faces,
of classmates, friends and strangers,
formally of Gateway Christian, Ashland, Turner Middle, and Beaumont High School.
Each face presents me with a challenge,
drunk with curiosity, I ask,
“Where Are They Now?”
Has life treated my friends, now distant strangers, with kind and gentle hands?
Have they managed to stand firm with faith, while enduring the winds of time?
How did they meet, those friends and foes of life?
Are they just as genuine now, as then?
What wisdom’s has life bestowed?
What lessons contributed to their inner mans growth?
What roads have they traveled, and what roads are they yet on?
My curiosity challenges me to forge on.
Perhaps they’re just as curious to know what has become of me.
In time, perhaps I’ll see.
Copyright © 2010 KRD aka SistaSistaSister



My Thought for the Day Copyright © 2010


Sometimes we stumble;
Sometimes faith is betrayed;
Sometimes the mistakes we make
are the stones it takes, to build a pathway to the person we will be. Remember we are ever becoming.
(January 08, 2010)

Wisdom is the prerequisite of perfecting love,
Truth is the prerequisite of revealed wisdom,
If there is no truth, there is no perfecting love.
Seek truth, wisdom and love will follow.
(January 10, 2010)

"When I fall, whether I be friend or foe, stretch forth, help me, dust me off, and send me on my way in love." Yes, Love... The action that surpasses all understanding... The force, that creates forgiveness, in the mist of derision. The virtue, that gives all fallen souls the ability to journey on... and to the sender (the forgiver who's been wronged) the ability to heal, and also grow on.
(January 11, 2010)

Every Today was once a Tomorrow,
Every Tomorrow will become Today…
What will you do Today, to influence your Tomorrow?
(January 18, 2010)

Turn down the thermostat! Stop expelling valuable energy! Winterize your heart! Insulate the warmth of your spirit, and conserve yourself (your being) for those who acknowledge your wroth.
(January 23, 2010)

My thought for today is a reflection of something my mother always said, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and well meaning people, who never got around to proving the thoughts of their heart". (February 6, 2010)

The grass always looks greener on the other side, but don’t climb the fence, the dog bites, the cat scratches, and the owner is a jack ass.
(February 7, 2010)

I would hate to wander through the desert of hope, hungry, only to find the fig tree barren.
(February 10, 2010)

What is adequate for one can be inadequate for another, time reveals what is. (February 17, 2010)

We are all more than we believe, if we merely believe.
(February 26, 2010)

To be unpredictable, for some is a challenge of intellect.
To be conventional, for some is deifying creativity.
To be absolutely unique, is a freedom we all seek, at various levels. (February 27, 2010)

We view photo's, we read blogs and status', we agree or disagree, we like or dislike, we study, examine and respond, based on our perceptions of what we believe is communicated and revealed, What you see is not always what you get.
There are times we should use our prudent minds, to take another look, there could be more than what meets the eye.
(March 7, 2010)

Things don't always End Well,
Yet its well they ended.
(March 17, 2010)

Women, we are always told, we talk to much, so men created Facebook, Texting & Twitter, to teach us to be direct and to the point. Please say it in 140 - 420 characters or less…
(March 18, 2010)

S H I N E !!! Even in your darkness shine.
Those who need your light will see it. S H I N E!!!
(March 20, 2010)

Selfishness will tax any relationship, and chronic selflessness taxes the individual.
(March 27, 2010)

Many of us read to locate, take note of, or memorize, that which has been taught unto us. Some of us study to gather information of that which is written, and has been taught unto us, with no intention of questioning its validity.
Others of us locate, take note of, memorize, gather information and are able to rightly divide the written and spoken word, which has been taught unto us, and there confirming or denying its validity. Wisdom is seeking beyond what is taught or understood, to affirm truth.
(March 29, 2010)

We are taught in childhood, not to question, our parents, our elders, and those deemed to have religious authority over us... We are not to lean to our own understandings, and if we find ourselves of another opinion, we are told it is the devil. Therefore withstanding our failure, our unwillingness, our fear to question, that which is questionable, we adhere to a belief passed down but never scrutinize by those we looked to for guidance. We pledge servitude to a belief we ourselves struggle to comprehend, and in so doing, we vaguely acknowledge the God-ness, the creative force within ourselves… (Greater is he that is within U than he that is in the world. (The world meaning, outside of U.)
(March 30, 2010)

Misery loves company, and hurt people hurt people. If folks fail to take the time needed to heal, they will always repeat the cycle of pain. I have found love means different things to different folks, so we must find our definition of love, and apply it as we await the arrival of that mate, whom shares the same definition of love as ourselves.
“Can two walk together, except they agree" Amos 3:3
(March 31, 2010)

Normal isn't fun....
Sanity has no adventure... and when U go crazy,
there are no valid excuses... I'm staying crazy...
(April 24, 2010)

Not every Hello is permanent,
and not every Goodbye forever...
time is the common denominator.
(April 29, 2010)

Allergies are like sucker punches,
there aren't any warnings,
and you're never prepared....
(May 3, 2010)

There must be balance… as you will learn;
your success is no more superior than your greatest failure.
(May 4, 2010)

Reggie Arnold THOUGHT: you have to love some people from a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng distance. Help yourself before you extend too far, there may not be enough rope left..
(May 8, 2010)

God always places the answer within us...
We must be still enough to hear, and wise enough to listen....
(May 18, 2010)

soap & water don't make U clean..
it just makes U washed...
so watch U'r deeds...
(May 27, 2010)

Love at first, second or third sight is possible.
For U determine the love u will give...
U determine the barriers or limitations U will set.
We don't love because we think others will love us,
We love because we so desire to do so,
Despite whether we are loved in return.
Love at first sight simply means I choose to love this person despite their willingness or lack thereof to love me back...
I will love without seeking a return...
I Love u because I can.
(June 28, 2010)

All Life's lessons can't be learned in a day,
so slow down and pace yourself,
it's not that kind of race. ~Sista
(July 27, 2010)

It would seems at some point we should graduate
from believing to knowing...
Are U ready for your cap and gown?
(July 27, 2010)

Wine is a necessity... for relaxing conversation... :)
(July 29, 2010)

One should not work to maintain faith,
If you’re working, you are working in fear,
For faith and knowing, just is.
Copyright © Kim Daniel
(July 30, 2010)

If you’re giving to get,
You’re not giving, you’re lending.
(August 10, 2010)

Baby stepping to my forward motion....
Hope the train don't leave the station fo' I get there...
(August 18, 2010)

One of the most amazing encounters is watching my thoughts manifest before my eyes...
I am grateful
(September 3, 2010)

Rummaging through the closets of my memory, I found U.
Just like old times, we laughed and smile, and joke for awhile, then the phone rang, and guest what, it was U... (September 29, 2010)

Wisdom can sometimes look crazy, and looks can sometimes be deceiving. (October 22, 2010)
resolve to LOVE Unconditionally

Living In A Stream Of Possibilities