Lucky Happy Endings...and Incongruent Beginnings - 09' to 2010

The last few days of this year have been filled with 'near misses', lucky breaks, and naturally occuring beautiful contradictions. 


I will be posting a recap of Two Thousand MINE later. For now however, sharing the last couple weeks is an appropriate footnote to a year filled with both planned and unexpected, thrilling adventures that have left me gasping at the wonder of life...

Near-miss or (un)Lucky break?

About that accident you heard about...


I've spent the past decade almost exclusively flying home to Jamaica on AA.  Just this once, I decided to try something new. In so doing, I got snowed in and delayed by four days.  I didn't broadcast these facts, so when the accident happened - there were lots of calls about my whereabouts.  

Well - I had a safe arrival luckily enough. About that arrival though...

It is customery for passengers to applaud successful landings on the island of Jamaica, so naturally we did so when Jetblue accurately estimated the length of the runway and brought us in smoothly.  

But this time, as we taxied down the tarmac past the American Airlines fuselage, the applause was particularly emphatic - followed by airline personnel singing an old Jamaican folk song over the PA system "this is the land of my birth (repeat), this is Jamaica, my Jamaica, the land of my birth".  All 200+ passengers chimed in; cabin-wide choral joy I tell you! Absolute hilarity I found.  

Jetblue could not have paid for better marketing if they'd offered their entire capital worth for it. 

NOTE - as I understand it, surviving passengers (luckily all passengers in this case) are to receive up to $30,000 in compensation. DAMMIT!

(PHOTO from AP. I couldn't be bothered to take a photo myself...tsk)

 

Beautiful Contradictions

Moonlit Days to Watching the Moonrise:

 

 

 

Message I got...

Don't wait to shine, don't wait to RIZE.

Just get UP and take your place HIGH.

New definition of Hot Tops:

 Jumbo mushrooms bloom out of nowhere on the front lawn, just shy of the shade they could have had under a small palm tree. Rather than withering in the direct blast of the Jamaican sun, they grew and grew and grew...

 

 

 

 

Message we should get...

Conditions won't always be perfect.

So wherever you are, dig in, root yourself,

and grow - no matter how hot it gets.  And more often than you realise, help does arrive...

Love, Light, Gratitude, and Wicked Hot Vibrations for the New Year

B

Birthday Gallery Soiree ThanXX

Rich are we to be loved.  Damn X-cessive and Xtravagant to be loved by many. You all made me into a Double X Diva. 

Thanks for swimming thru the puddles to come celebrate with me, and um, sorry about the lack of photo editing - had to get 'em up fast. Hope you enjoy them as I did. 

Photos by: Marlis Momber, John Mazlish, and moi.

Works exhibited by Avery Daily, Yxia Olivares, and moi!  :)

Odic Birthday Message from a dear friend

God looked down admiringly, exclaimed "Nothing could be fine-ah!"
"Than the sassy smart and sweet lil babe I just forced out that vagina!"
She knew not then her destiny nor recalled the moment prior
When God had asked her to descend to stir up quite a fire
"Blaze not with rage but warmth and light for this is what is needed"
"It will take some time to figure out, to get the garden weeded"
So, each year, when the day arrives that marks your popping out
Know you are light and not mistakes, and know this with no doubt


by Mark Pergola
 
Thank you Marky-boo!  I love you SO MUCH!