The shot heard across the world…Michael Jackson gone…
They say that it always comes in 3’s.
Then…Farrah
Then…Ed McMann
Now, Michael?
I had thought about writing today…then got tired and decided not to. But then the phone rang…and word came of Michael’s passing. And I have been in conversation after conversation trying to find out exactly what is what. And all the while thinking…how sad.
I had heard about Farrah earlier today…but then had forgotten about it. She had
battled hard against cancer…but perhaps it was her battle with drugs…that had taken a bigger total on her. Once the body becomes weaken…there is not much that it can do to ward off too much of anything else. And drugs had definitely weaken her.
Classical example of ‘bad boy/good girl.‘ From the time she became involved with the wrong man…she just never recovered. Though she had proven that she ‘really’ could act…all of it was blown to the wind when drugs became to her…a soul mate.
Michael at 50, just days away from his next birthday, had years ago began fighting his own addiction…surgery to his head, body and face. It seems that once he got started…he could not stop. It became perpetual.
Then on top it…I guess the injuries…to his back and knee… that he suffered while shooting that Pepsie commerical and after falling off stage…just never went away either. So, down went the pills…and on came the addiction.
It is sad really…a life filled with so much promise should have such an end. One
can not help but to think about how much he seemed to romance the idea of becoming ‘the next big thing’ behind Elvis after death. So, much so that he even married into that family. The King of Pop vs the King of Rock & Roll…knocking at heaven’s gate.
But it is sad when you reflect and think back on Michael’s life…how he just never
seemed to connect with life. Somehow, it all seemed beyond him…just out of his
reach… a real life… with any kind of normalcy. How he just never appeared to have felt comfortable being who he was. How much he must have really hated himself… to ruin his face and body in the way that he did. How sad he and lonely he must have really been…that he only sought solace among young children.
How sad a life Michael had. Never was allowed to be a real child…growing up in school…with real friends. Once he had been sitting on top of the world…but over the course of years that world began to crumble from under him.
He was
king…because he wanted to be. He could dance and sing his
way into anyone’s heart. And he did
for years… years ago… but today was a new day. Though…yes, he still had plenty of adorning and loving fans…who remembered Michael ‘when.’
Amid years of allegations of child molestation…Michael lost most of all he had behind one legal battle after another. And like R. Kelly…quietly paying parents off.
It was not hard to see that Michael had problems. Much of it started when Michae
l started listening to the handlers who caused him to separate himself from his parents and other sibling. Filling his head with big ideas… how he didn’t need them. And how he could
make it on his own.
And he did.
He made it on his own. And blew up…and became as large as life.
But through it all…all the money…platinum records/CD’s… sold out concerts… big
record breaking contract deals… large real estate holdings… etc… he… he lost it all…and was hoping for a final horrah with plans for a final tour. But it was not to be.
Even when it seemed that he had it all…way up there on top of the world…you sensed that he was not happy. And no amount of famous names
collected around him…or who he had managed to encase himself with…seemed to off-set that fact.
Yes, Michael was never really happy. Which is why he
probably poured himself into his musical projects… and his talent the way that he did. To some degree working… and performing… became hislover… the seat of his happiness. The place where he forgot… he was Michael…isolated…and shut-up away from the
rest of the world.
But he seemed to like being shut-up and away from the rest of the world…much like
Howard Hughes. But then life comes closing in on you. It did for Elvis…it for Howard…and I suspect it did for Michael Jackson, as well.
Al Sharpton following the corners reporting…called Michael Jackson a trail blazer. And that he truly was. With more than 750 million albums/CD’s sold worldwide…13 Grammy’s…and tons of other alccolades. Eccentric at times…even down-right weird at others…he was nonetheless Michael Jackson…and perhaps the greatest entertainer of all times.
The whole music video industry would be nothing without the vision…foresight…intuitiveness and creative energy of Michael Jackson. He saw how music and videos could be merged and used as a creative medium and selling tool.
Then there was his music…and with the on-slant of pop music… Yes, I guess you could say he was the undisputed King of Pop.
Who could move like him?
Who had perfected their art the way he did?
During the MOTOWN 25th television special he stole the show with a single
move…called the ‘moon walk.’
They say…he was frail.
They say…it was the medication.
They say…it was the addiction to the pain pills.
I say…he found this world cold…and unaccommondating.
Elvis may have impersonators…but Michael Jackson has spawd a slew of ‘would be shinning stars.’
I am just sorry that I could not do anything to helf him. What a great loss.
One can truly say-
“He gave his life to his profession.”
http://www.popeater.com/music/article/michael-jackson-dead-at-50/544453
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31552029?gt1=43001
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31555400#31555400
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31562509#31562509
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31552029/ns/entertainment-music/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529103,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31571531#31571531
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31568341/ns/entertainment-music/?GT1=43001
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31573698#31573698
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31568341/ns/entertainment-music/?GT1=43001
I am still twiddling my tumbs waiting on the publishers to finish. I am counting down
the time when my book will soon be made available for sale. God is good…I am so happy to finally have gotten it done and out…and into the final stage of the process…besides getting out to aid in selling it.
I am working hard on my book trailer for
‘youtube’…and my radio promo.
Well, enjoy the rest of your day and evening.
God bless…
Thank you for reading this blog…and my others. Please be sure to continue to share this blog site with your family, co-workers and all your friends… “pass it on…” www.bsmith101.wordpress.com ©2009
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1 comment June 26, 2009
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Tags: dealing with death, Elvis, Howard Hughes, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Stephanie Mills, The Bishop's Wife, youtube
The attitude of champions…
Because when you loose…you hate yourself. Because you know down deep…your fullest capabilities to win. It is the mark of a winner…and time after time they push to continue to reach that mark.
Capabilities are good. Many people have them…and never end up living up to them…their fullest capabilities. Because it takes work…hard work…and plenty of dedication.
And many of us are just not willing to make the sacrifice…or sacrifices required to make it happen.
Just imagine how many of us have the capabilities to become champions. But just lack the attitude of champions…not to mention that burning desire to make it happen…which of course also encompasses…dedication and a
displine to develop the craft to its highest level.
But Michael had it…and probably still processes it as a businessman. Tiger has it…Densel has it…Muhammad Ali…many have it. They can iBut it takes that something more…that many of us are just not willing to do…or add into our being. But imagine the possibilities if we did.
Certainly, losses are to be expected…it goes with the territory. You will some…and loose some…Tiger, Michael and Muhammad have all experienced it. Even Denzel has experience a flop in the theaters…when a movie did not met its expectation in box office sales. It is life. But it makes winners work all the harder for the next time.
http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main/serena-williams-upset/505834
I am twiddling my tumbs waiting on the publishers to finish. I am counting down
the time when my book will soon be made available for sale. God is good…I am so happy to finally have gotten it done and out…and into the final stage of the process…besides getting out to aid in selling it.
Well, enjoy the rest of your day and evening.
God bless…
Thank you for reading this blog…and my others. Please be sure to continue to share this blog site with your family, co-workers and all your friends… “pass it on…” www.bsmith101.wordpress.com ©2009
1 comment June 16, 2009
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Tags: attitude, being up on the game, Co-Pastor Susie Owens, dedication, Martina Navratilova, Michael Jordan, self-publishing, Serena Williams, Sports, The Bishop's Wife, Tiger Woods
Corporate greed…re-organizing… retraining…America’s work force…
I had not noticed it until my son pointed it out to me. But recently a
very large car dealership here closed. One day their lots were full…and the next everything was gone. It happened so fast…I hadn’t even noticed that it had.
The MG bankruptcy is very impactful upon us all.
What happened to all those mechanics…sales people…parts people etc….?
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090613/AUTO01/906130324/1148/auto01/58+Michigan+dealers+axed
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23198.html
The dealership was large and had been in business for years…many years. And I would have never guessed anything going on in the middle of this country would have effected it. But it did. And now a long time city company is now gone. A city tax contributor…and employer is gone…a community event sponsor and underwriter is…very gone.
Now, one has to wonder what has happened to all those people who
worked there?
Did they go to another dealership?
It is highly unlikely. Even if one or 2 or…even a few of them managed to get a job at another dealership…the vast numbers of them did not. Because every dealership is suffering from the same thing. And all of them are fighting to keep their heads above the water.
Why?
Well, lets face it…who has money to buy a new car?
Everybody is trying to sit back and watch how things are going to work out. So, it really isn’t a good time to go out and try to buy or make any large investments right now. There is just to much…uncertainty. That’s what people are thinking. And rightly so.
So, there is an air of apprehension…and unsurety everywhere in this country…and probably around the world.
So, if people really aren’t spending money right now…every industry
and company in this country is going to suffer.
Then there is the other side of the coin too…
Many people have found themselves out of work and without any real prespects for future employment.
So, how is this thing going to work itself out?
How can it work itself out?
One of the most booming business is in the market today…is the computer…or better put is the internet. Now, that is not to say that we are seeing the number of millionaires being churned out of it…as we did some years ago when interest in the
infant stages of the internet initially started to take root.
What you see is a booming in wthe eb social sites…such as facebook, youtube, myspace etc…. And things like blogging, tweeting etc.
But people need jobs. They need to be able to meet their daily
responsibilities and needs.
What about jobs?
What good is retraining people when they have nothing to be retained for?
It is just a process with no real hope of a positive outcome for those who are being retained.
I recalled talking to someone who was in the process of graduating from a jr. college after being in a retaining program there. She had worked many years in a factory doing piece-work. So, she had to learn about
computers…their operation and so on…and a bunch of other things which she never had to have a knowledge of before…nor had to worry about learning before. She was happy and looking forward to a progressive and shinning future following her graduation and all the time she had invested in her retaining.
But after coming across her again some months later…all that hope and enthusiasm was gone. It had turned into desperation. She had been retained and was hoping to get into medical billing…but there were no jobs in our town or any of the neighboring towns in the field. And her other problem was…her age.
Retraining people sounds good…but where do they go after they get retrained?
Are they just being sold a bill of goods…false hopes…with no real relief once they have been forced out of their old jobs.
The first problem with the retraining system is that employers need to be honest with the people they push out of jobs. Stop selling them a bill of
goods…and false dreams when they know that there are no jobs out there for all these people. And that those workers will never get back what they are loosing…by way of their old jobs…not to mention the pay…or benefits.
The only real way of fixing this problem is to bring jobs back into America. All this farming out of jobs abroad has to stop. Manufacturing has to be brought into this country. There must be a recreation of jobs in America.
All these American companies have gone abroad…where they can get labor cheaper…and this has seriously hurt the workers in this country…our economy…our neighborhoods…ownership of homes…and means of providing for our familes.
Jobs that millions of Americans used to get up and go out to daily are now gone…vanished into the thin air. While their factories…and buildings…and compounds…sit abandon…or have been rehab into condominiums…or artists lofts.
And the internet didn’t help any either. It made it easy for companies to employ foreign workers…by merely writing a deal and providing them with
phone lines. It was just that easy. They made a deal with someone sitting in a house or some back room somewhere…who you can’t even understand…and sounds like the exact same person from company to company whenever you have to contact a customer service department for any reason. Some guy with a thick accent handling customer service for a lot of different companies.
Forget about the fact that…you can’t understand them…rather him…because they (he) can’t understand you…and if it’s not him…then it is her. They must be related or a husband and wife team. Because they have the exact same accent. And you get them all the time…just him…or her…no matter what company or product you think that you are calling about.
So, you call trying to work out a problem and hang up with a
headache…having resolved nothing. Because neither of you could understand the other. Perhaps, the company who make deals with
these type of service providers in various countries…and it sounds like one specific person…handling many different lines…but maybe the companies that farm out their customer service departments to entities such as these…really shouldn’t be getting our business in the first place. Because they could care less if we get helped or not.
They just want to say that they have customer service…because it makes people feel better when they buy a product or service to know that if their is a problem or question they can hound somebody about it. So, these companies just want to say that they offer customer service…not intending to actually provide it. So, they hire someone who can half speak English to help us.
These companies…that gave away those jobs that Americans used to have in their customer service departments…they only look at the bottom line. What do they care about service…or whether we get some or not? Or whether the guy understands you or not? They don’t have to talk to him…but we do.
These companies really shouldn’t be getting our business…because in fact when they farm out jobs abroad…they are in fact…destroying this country…by destroying the job force here…by deleting more and more jobs in America in pursuit of cheaper and cheaper labor. It is really unfortunate that we never experience their poor customer service departments…until after we have bought into the service or purchased their products.
I understand that we live in a capitalistic society. I even understand global capitalism…and that for capitalists the
bottom line is everything…but not if you cut off your own nose in spite of your face. And that is exactly what sending America’s jobs abroad has ended up to being.
Without jobs…people can’t buy…anything. The whole country is at a stand still…because everything has been farmed out…outside of our own borders.
And though those countries are getting the jobs…but they are not earning enough money to uplift them or their country. Therefore these companies seeking the cheap labor cannot create any other potenial customer markets for their companies which are taking advantage of these pooper countries…by under paying them. Because they can’t afford anything…either…though they have the jobs. But they are making no real money…or better put…earning.
GM dealership closings by state
Ala —.33; Alaska — 0; Ariz. — 11; Ark. — 17; Calif.— 65; Colo. — 15; Conn. — 11; Del. — 2; Fla. — 35; Ga. — 24; Hawaii — 2; Idaho — 8; Ill. — 66; Ind. — 48; Iowa — 46; Kan. — 29; Ky. — 23; La. — 10;.
Maine — 14; Md. — 21; Mass. — 29; Mich. — 58; Minn. — 39; Miss. — 14; Mo. — 38; Mont. — 16; Neb. — 21; Nev. — 3; N.H. — 6; N.J. — 33; N.M. — 10; N.Y. — 60; N.C. — 36; N.D. — 6.
Ohio — 79; Okla. — 17; Ore. — 21; Pa. — 90; R.I. — 3; S.C. — 24; S.D. — 16; Tenn. — 30; Texas — 55; Utah — 6; Vt. — 26; Wash. — 18; W.Va. — 25; Wis. — 50; Wyo. — 6.
Nation — 1,323
Therefore, greed just does not pay.
What seemed like a great idea…going abroad to obtain cheaper labor has in fact worked against these American companies. So, it seems that the only way of
rectifying the problem is to bring the jobs back to America…which is still the largest customer market in the world…when we are working.
So, yes…THE BISHOP’S WIFE, my book is due to be out soon. A matter of a couple weeks now…and I am so excited. I will keep you abreast. And soon you will be to see the youtube ad for it. Haven’t completed it yet…but I am working on it. In it you actually get a chance to hear me. I don’t think you will see me…but you will hear me…and perhaps see
a phone. As I see that many of you have checked out my ABOUT page…seeking to find out more info on me.
I am media…that is what I am.
Well, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Just finished getting my hair done…and plan on being in church tomorrow. And yes… I am still trying to catch up on my sleep…and will be doing so for quite time as I have a weeks of sleep to catch up on.
God bless…
Thank you for reading this blog…and my others. Please be sure to continue to share this blog site with your family, co-workers and all your friends… “pass it on…” www.bsmith101.wordpress.com ©2009
2 comments June 14, 2009
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Working….
Sorry, but I have had my nose hard at the press…trying to push out my book, THE BISHOP’S WIFE. 
No television, no DVD’s, no phone conversations… and no sleep… haven’t even left the house. Though I have bathe…eaten…and gone to the bathroom a few times…but that is about the limit of it…except for reading and re-reading my book trying to discover all the errors. It would sure be a lot easier if I could afford a copy editor…somebody who could go through it with a keen eye…and had a real command of language and proper grammar. It would be so helpful. But since I don’t…I’m doing it myself.
You can’t ask people to pay for something…that is not worth selling. And that you wouldn’t want to buy yourself.
So, I am going to push out this book and get it done finally…if it kills me. And I am working of perfecting it…getting it up to snuff.
Now, if you will excuse me I must go back to work.
I am not going to let nothing deter me. I have gotten back 4 galleys…and each one of them was worst than the last. Instead of them correcting my errors as listed…they either overlooked them…or made them worst.
So, now I have been re-reading….re-reading….re-reading the thing…some 90,000 plus words….so that I can create a pdf file for them and finally be done with the whole process.
You know the old saying….
“If you want something done right…you have to do it yourself.”
And I am.
And you know what?
That statement is so true.
I will keep you abreast. Enjoy your weekend. I will be spending mine getting my book into shape….just like I did last weekend and during this entire week. I am not going anywhere…or doing anything else…until it is totally done. And it shall be by the end of this weekend.
Again, enjoy your weekend. Can’t say that I will…but if you want to do something…do it right.
God bless…
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Add comment May 15, 2009
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Tags: self-publishing, The Bishop's Wife
What women won’t do 2…Star Jones
I don’t know…I just wanted to see. I had heard that Star Jones had started her own blog and I just wanted to see how it was going…and what she was talking about. But as her blog site finally came up…I couldn’t help but to continue to look at her picture. A very very large picture of her which takes up…I don’t know…maybe about a third of that page.
Yes, it is beautiful…but…
You really have to look to recognize that it is suppose to be Star Jones that you are looking at.
I don’t know…I haven’t always been fat. And I thought that I hated what I looked like. But I can honestly say…I do not think I have every felt about me quite the way that Star Jones obviously has felt about her ‘old self.’ She must have really hated that woman…and it was more than just being fat.
Besides having lost all that weight…she must have also done…and is doing all kinds of things to other parts of her body…including her face.
I would have never had paid to do what Star has done to herself. I really do not see the benefit of such drastic transformations.
Following the lost of all that weight…to me…Star looked like a pluck chicken… from those pictures to the one that is on her blog page… Well…she may look like a cover girl…but all of that to get a man?
Never.
“B. Smith 101, please get a grip.”
“Does that thing make you horny or something?”
She has always thought she was a beauty queen (my sister)…but after that operation she has been none stop…gone wild in fact. And I must tell you…I have truly been praying for her…because something is out of whack.
I can understand stepping into something in which you always wished you were…and how that must make you feel. But how do you allow it to consume you in such a way as I have seen in my sister?
I wouldn’t want to do anything…that would take me over in such a way.
The only thing I want to be subject to is God…not to trying to attract and run down everything…or anything that I feel will validate me. I am already validated. God validated me…when He gave me His love…showed me His mercy…and commanded me…to come out.
If you are like Star Jones…or like my sister…and need that kind of validation…I sincerely feel for you. But to me it just displays a lot of pent up self-hate.
My goodness….what some women won’t do.
My sister can’t keep anything down since that operation. I can’t see myself being sick for the rest of my life. No…learn how to put down the fork…and get out and do some exercise first before considering all that cutting up and stitching.
And has Star been lightening herself up too?
Well, I’m not going anywhere today. I am resting…keeping my feet high and been listening to the promo that I’m putting together for youtube
regarding plugging my book, THE BISHOP’S WIFE. This coming week…I will work on the visual content of it. And then I am going to post it right here for you to see and hear…the voice is mine and the content I created using all the skills I have acquired while gaining expertise mastering various media related software.
Yes, it’s coming…my book, THE BISHOP’S WIFE, will soon be out and on sale. That is kind of exciting…but I have written so much. I can’t tell you how many plays and screenplays…10 screenplays alone and I have lost track of how many plays. Yes, I am mostly a writer along with all of the other things…and gifts that God has given me.
But my book…THE BISHOP’S WIFE will soon be out…and it really didn’t take me that long to write. But it was the corrections and problems with the publishers that have eaten away at the time. But for everything there is a season…the end product is much better for it all.
Enjoy your weekend…and if you need some much needed rest too…awh…just go ahead and get it. I’m getting mine. Been burning too much of that midnight oil I’m afraid… too many late night hours. It is amazing…how I remember back in the days when I could stay up all night and not feel it at all. Gone are those days believe me…forever.
God bless…
Thank you for reading this blog…and my others. Please be sure to continue to share this blog site with your family, co-workers and all your friends… “pass it on…” www.bsmith101.wordpress.com ©2009
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thoughts on it to myself…and share them among friends only…if they asked me. But after thinking about it I realized that I could not.

woman-ness… sought out places that were exclusively women… restaurants… bookstores… vacation spots… curise-liners… clubs… etc…
would be. Some people would walking around calling themselves some kind of animal…maybe this is a bit extreme. But not that far fetch… considering some of the things that some people involve themselves in.![u18855339[1] u18855339[1]](http://bsmith101.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/u188553391.jpg?w=99&h=141)
I am just so glad that God does the selecting and choosing…as to what we will be. Could you imagine a more confusing situation than that? Trying to choose whether your child would male or female. Though some scientist have tried to come up with a way of doing just that. And many countries have put a premimium on one sex over the other…the male species…though without women this world would come to sudden and complete end.![s1045511[1] s1045511[1]](http://bsmith101.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/s10455111.jpg?w=107&h=170)
sex change was so accepting of it…as though it were a natual transition in life…something acceptable. I would hate to think that any poor child or teenage or another adult currently battling with issues over their sexuality…should read that article and think that such a thing is either natural…or really acceptable. Not acceptable to you or me…but for themselves. As it goes against nature.
this I mean…there are parents who are allowing their very young pre-teen children…sons or daughters to decide that they were not either male or female anymore…and dressing like whatever they wanted to be.
boy had become jealous of his little sister. I don’t know…maybe the parents stopped doting on him and became pre-occupied with his little sister. So, he of course wanting his parents attention once again…he might desire to become his little sister…or some how take her place in order to regain their…his parent’s attention and love again.
little girl…his sister.



ing a woman encompasses a variety of things. We do and think differently from the male species. Our tendencies towards giving, sharing, helping, family, responsibilities, listening, conversing with others, aiding, depth of compassion, commitment, emotions, emotional strenght etc…and so much more are all quite different from men. It is far more than one group having a different set of sex organs from the other. And all the pills and operations…and therapy in the world is not going to change this.
Well, I finally did it…and now at last I can get some real sleep. And I have a lot of sleep to catch up on. But I finally got the final edition of the book off and out…and I am so glad.
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about $6…milk is $4 something…butter is $5…ice cream about $6…bread is $3…laundry detergent is $8…chicken wings is $8…a pack of hot dogs is $5+. And now you want to tax soda. Oh, give me a break.
It’s a bunch of health nuts. Do-gooders who are going to force you into something…by making it a burden to you.
During the middle of this week, I was out with my son and one of his little friends. As I got into my son’s truck I noticed that she wasn’t her usually jovelle self. I never got a clue until my son said to her over the course of our dinner-
answered it. That is when I overheard what the problem was.
fly Air Force One into the protected air space over the Statue of Liberty.
That was the exact same air space…which every New Yorker knows is protected air space…that those airplanes flew over that hit the World Trade Center causing the earth to shake…the buildings to fall…people to jump for their lives…dark clouds of heavy smoke, suet and human ashes…amid streets of rumble …bodies… much havoc… and panic.
It was a day of much confusion and panic… because no one knew exactly what was going on. Many believing that the world was coming to an end…or that someone had declared war upon us…the darkness that fell upon New York that day left an undelible mark across the world…and particularly among those in New York City…and the tri-state area that will never be removed throughout the history of this country.![RWS1034[1] RWS1034[1]](http://bsmith101.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/rws10341.jpg?w=170&h=113)
I was hoping to go to bed early tonight. Didn’t get in until after 2 AM last night. Had the opportunity to go into New York for the 2nd night of the funeral of the God Father of Gospel Music, Rev. Timothy Wright. And what an event it was. I am still happy that we decided to go. 
others performed…a host of them. And it was fabulous…each and everyone of them. I am still glowing from that service in honor of the God Father of Gospel Music, Rev. Timothy Wright…a man I really feel was not given the real honor that his music deserved…during the course of his life. But he never complained…he continued writing… producing… performing and preaching to the glory of God. Truly, a fabulous man…and a real lover of his church…and God. Faithful…
had just been down a few booths and to the opposite of the aisle from Vicki Winans’ booth. He was
autographing his book while cheerfully beaconing passerbyers to stop at his booth.
Sisters, Ricky Dillard etc…and in a quick flash of a moment…his career had come to a end. He lost his wife and grand son…and very nearly lost his own life in less than 6 hours since the time I had spoken with both him and his wife as they worked their booth with their grand son.
happens to one of us that we rally to do something about drivers who continue to get behind the wheel knowing that they are incapable of doing so properly or safely. 
all the person I thought him to be. I guess it is hard to accept when people do not meet your expectations of who you believe them to be…based upon your media knowledge of them…meaning news items that you read. 

commitee…another foolish black man…along the vain of a Clarence Thomas. 

of handlers…any more than Solomon or David was. Media did not create Tiger Woods…or Michael Jordan…or Muhammad 

costing over $500 as most sneakers cost $200 and more. Or maybe…the fuss was just over Michelle wearing those sneakers to some charity event…but men wear Stacy Adams shoes…and other people wear a bunch of expensive footware today…and nobody is calling to question their shoes…or sneakers.
they have taken together free of anybody being right up on them. I don’t know…but I find that rather sad. The joy of life seems to be stolen from them. It is the cost of fame I guess…and certainly the cost of becoming the President, First Lady and First Family of the United States. 

I really do not like people who like to laugh and kajol themselves on the back of other people’s suffering. As if Chrysler’s going into bankruptcy only impacted the top dogs at Chrysler. If that was so…then maybe my attitude might be somewhat different too. But it does not…the top dogs rarely feel much of the ping…when the zing falls hardest upon those at the bottom. The top dogs get paid out…retire…and go on vacation for the rest of their lives while the poor factory workers get squeezed out of jobs. And are left suffering…wondering about tomorrow.
declare bankruptcy?
And yes…President Obama should do everything he can to help constrain and assist Chrysler from totally going under.
and only know how to work in a factory…who many may be well up in age…meaning old…too old in fact to actively and with any real hope of ever being hired for a decent job outside of becoming some store associate, perhaps… far from receiving the pay they earned while doing piece work while on their 

as then ancient Africa…as Africa in ancient times stretched all the way into Asia. Ethiopia and other current African countries are cited in the Bible. Haran, a village in Africa, was the original home of Abram whose name was later changed by God to Abraham. And mentioned a few times in the Bible is the Queen of Sheba…an great African queen, who upon one time where she is mentioned she paid a visit to young king by the name of Solomon where she questioned him concerning things of God…as she was woman of God.
anticipation. I guess because my book, THE BISHOP’S WIFE…is due out soon…and then the work really begins. I will keep you abreast.