KeepOnSinging wrote:

Good late morning to everyone.  I have been sick during the past several weeks.  Nothing life threatening, but getting well involved a lot of sleep.  Now I am working on getting into a schedule that makes is possible for me to post at least once in the morning onto our message board. 

I am still very technologically challenged.  Once I get better, I will post pictures along with narrative about the Beloved Community Potluck Dinners.  It is hard to believe that this coming Sunday will be our 27th dinner.  I think that I have shared with you all that the senior pastor at New Hope told me that he knew I was shocked when 90 people showed up at the first dinner, but he wasn't.  What he is shocked about is that we are now headed to our 27th dinner.  Keeping us on track and emphasizing the grass roots nature of this venture has upset people who want to co-opt it for their own puposes.  We had to tell the president of our university that we would love for him to come to the dinners be a part of the conversation, but no, he was not going to be able to speak at a dinner and oversee a question and answer time.  We pointed out that the mayor comes regularly and has never asked to use the group to further his vision for our community.  I had dinner with one of the young men from the Black Male Initiative the other night, and he told me that more and more he was seeing the importance of building a small team of people committed to grass roots development.  He said he had not given much thought before to the power a few committed people who are not part of the power structure.  It was then that I remembered two movies:  "The Power of One" and "Ladyhawk"..  About 2/3 of the way through "The Power of One" and the beginning of "Ladyhawk",  there are powerful statements.  The main character in "The Power of One" notes that "A waterfal begins with only one drop of water." as he gives his reason for making the decision to turn down a wonderful academic opportuinity in order to help with literacy in South Africa.  In" Ladyhawk", a relatively unimportant prisoner escapes from a dungeon at the beginning of the movie.  When the wicked Bishop is told that it really is not such a big deal because Mouse is unimportant, the Bishop replies, "Great stories announce themselves with a single breeze, and a single rebel spark can ignite the fires of rebellion."  If you have not seen these movies, they are beautiful, although, I personally do not care for the soundtrack to "Ladyhawk".  

I am posting this video of Randiss Hopkins.  He attended New Hope for four years and earned his degree in music.  And he was also a member of the Black Male Initiative (BMI) and attended some of the Beloved Community Dinners.   He and I had breakfast together several times while he was in DeKalb, and we had lunch together just before he left DeKalb.  Randiss also loves sports and is now working in community relations for the Orlando Magic, April and Niecey's stomping grounds.  


       



I apologize because this comes over as a picture and not as a video.  I will try to bring over the video properly so that it plays as a video.  It will be in a separate post. 

 
KOS.....I've been thinking of you very much the past few days and intended to contact you.  So sorry you have continued to be under the weather for this long. . Hope you are feeling much better.  Please take good care of yourself....and thanks for the update!

CEK40 wrote:

Well we finally got to see "Little Maks" this morning....what do you all think of the little one???  I still applaud Maks and Peta for not wanting to make a public display of their child.  I wonder now with them being new parents will either of both of them return to DWTS????  And if you watched the video Peta was talking about the wedding and said it would be a 3 day event with 300 people...WOW...glad I am not planning that!!!



Well it is time to head out for now...but first...

April...so glad you and NIecey are home and I pray that all is progressing as it is suppose to...

Jet...did you ever decide what project you would start next???  I remember you were undecided?

Luv...How are you doing...miss you hope all is good with you!!!

Booky...hope you are doing good, glad to see you playing our little game with us...

View...how are things going with you? Is you furbaby doing well being alone now...

Annie...I am so glad you got to see the DWTS Tour...Thanks for sharing your experience with us.  Hope your doing good!

Gabriele...How are you and has it cooled off there???  Has your older son gotten home yet??? How is the Little guy doing lately???

Gunner...Hope you are doing well and not having any trouble with the weather or the dam situtation out there!!!  Come by and say hi!!

Vmmm...have you had to dig out of the snow there?  How is school going and how is the robotics club doing?

KOS...haven't heard from you in a while...hope you are doing well.  Stop by and say hi!!

Tango...how are you doing??? Have you got any dance lessons lined up???  Where do you think you will be taking them at the Texas Studio or do you prefer going to NY???

HRM...Have things warmed up for you there yet???  Hope you are doing well.  I know you must be busy with tax season in full swing...Hope you are able to stop by soon...



Have a Fantastic Friday Everyone...see you later !!!!

Hi, CEK....my "new" projects are actually UFO's (UnFinished Objects) that have been hanging around or buried somewhere!!  Have made progress on a couple and completed one (well, finished piecing it and have it ready to start quilting).  Most of them are fairly small (wall hanging size) but that's ok!  There are some pillow sham UFOs (to go with bed quilts) still hanging around that I hope to complete as well--before I get nuts again and start something new!!!  LOL.  

I didn't see GMA but looked at some of the photos/articles.  I think Maksito has Peta's mouth/lips.

Last edited by JetmamaDiDi (2/17/2017 5:06 pm)

Yes, Happy Birthday, annie.

And KOS,

CEK40 wrote:

Well we finally got to see "Little Maks" this morning....what do you all think of the little one???  I still applaud Maks and Peta for not wanting to make a public display of their child.  I wonder now with them being new parents will either of both of them return to DWTS????  And if you watched the video Peta was talking about the wedding and said it would be a 3 day event with 300 people...WOW...glad I am not planning that!!!



Well it is time to head out for now...but first...

April...so glad you and NIecey are home and I pray that all is progressing as it is suppose to...

Jet...did you ever decide what project you would start next???  I remember you were undecided?

Luv...How are you doing...miss you hope all is good with you!!!

Booky...hope you are doing good, glad to see you playing our little game with us...

View...how are things going with you? Is you furbaby doing well being alone now...

Annie...I am so glad you got to see the DWTS Tour...Thanks for sharing your experience with us.  Hope your doing good!

Gabriele...How are you and has it cooled off there???  Has your older son gotten home yet??? How is the Little guy doing lately???

Gunner...Hope you are doing well and not having any trouble with the weather or the dam situtation out there!!!  Come by and say hi!!

Vmmm...have you had to dig out of the snow there?  How is school going and how is the robotics club doing?

KOS...haven't heard from you in a while...hope you are doing well.  Stop by and say hi!!

Tango...how are you doing??? Have you got any dance lessons lined up???  Where do you think you will be taking them at the Texas Studio or do you prefer going to NY???

HRM...Have things warmed up for you there yet???  Hope you are doing well.  I know you must be busy with tax season in full swing...Hope you are able to stop by soon...



Have a Fantastic Friday Everyone...see you later !!!!

I thought it was funny that Maks has changed Shai's diaper only once; before he was born, Maks kept telling everyone that he was gonna take that baby over and do everything. Also, he was going to put Shai in a carrier that Maks could wear on his chest with the baby in it. Typical Maks exaggeration. LOL
 

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

Well we finally got to see "Little Maks" this morning....what do you all think of the little one???  I still applaud Maks and Peta for not wanting to make a public display of their child.  I wonder now with them being new parents will either of both of them return to DWTS????  And if you watched the video Peta was talking about the wedding and said it would be a 3 day event with 300 people...WOW...glad I am not planning that!!!



Well it is time to head out for now...but first...

April...so glad you and NIecey are home and I pray that all is progressing as it is suppose to...

Jet...did you ever decide what project you would start next???  I remember you were undecided?

Luv...How are you doing...miss you hope all is good with you!!!

Booky...hope you are doing good, glad to see you playing our little game with us...

View...how are things going with you? Is you furbaby doing well being alone now...

Annie...I am so glad you got to see the DWTS Tour...Thanks for sharing your experience with us.  Hope your doing good!

Gabriele...How are you and has it cooled off there???  Has your older son gotten home yet??? How is the Little guy doing lately???

Gunner...Hope you are doing well and not having any trouble with the weather or the dam situtation out there!!!  Come by and say hi!!

Vmmm...have you had to dig out of the snow there?  How is school going and how is the robotics club doing?

KOS...haven't heard from you in a while...hope you are doing well.  Stop by and say hi!!

Tango...how are you doing??? Have you got any dance lessons lined up???  Where do you think you will be taking them at the Texas Studio or do you prefer going to NY???

HRM...Have things warmed up for you there yet???  Hope you are doing well.  I know you must be busy with tax season in full swing...Hope you are able to stop by soon...



Have a Fantastic Friday Everyone...see you later !!!!

Hi, CEK....my "new" projects are actually UFO's (UnFinished Objects) that have been hanging around or buried somewhere!! Have made progress on a couple and completed one (well, finished piecing it and have it ready to start quilting). Most of them are fairly small (wall hanging size) but that's ok! There are some pillow sham UFOs (to go with bed quilts) still hanging around that I hope to complete as well--before I get nuts again and start something new!!! LOL.  

I didn't see GMA but looked at some of the photos/articles. I think Maksito has Peta's mouth/lips.

He also has Peta's nose.