Just Be!

It doesn't matter who u be. Just be you...Be different.Differente mi gente. Don't let someone else decide which road you take. Living someone else's life could be your worst mistake. Walk as you walk, talk as you talk, wear what you wear. Who cares? It's none of your business what others want you to be. Just be different!

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That Road...ohhh that road.

So in a few days the much anticipated "Day Before Sound Tour" begins. Soon I'll be taking that road (on the left) to leave the place I've been calling home for the past couple of years. Who would have thought? That I'd be going on a tour across the nation teaching Youth Workshops, Professional Development workshops and Performing. Doing things that I love doing. Seeing new places, meeting new people and passing on various "pearls of wisdom that have been passed down to me.

Years ago, I wouldn't have even thought that I'd be living on this road. The roads I knew were actually streets and they were both impoverished and filled with desperation in the eyes of those that walked them. Streets in Queens, Bronx and Puerto Rico (on the island they're called las calles. Streets that I once called home are now the streets that I work to rebuild. The Youth I'll be working with have much of the same desperation in their eyes that I once had in mine. Desperation that has now been filled with hope, love, knowledge and belief in self.

Who am I not take that road and work with those young people. Quien seria yo to not drive down in and walk up on stages to spit the lines that have kept me inhaling for better tomorrows and exhaling the pains of given yesterdays. WHO AM I TO NOT GIVE BACK! The "Day Before Sound Tour" starts soon. Though I'll miss my loves here dearly. I'll be building up spirits as I build my own. Because every heart one helps to rebuild strengthens ones own.

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Que Mundito

Our world...a place with love and hate. Fear and courage. Filled with sadness and joy. Our world filled with life. "Live not for which is green and re-begin living for which is your being"

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Que Rico

Inhaling as the smell of my arroz con habichuelas permeates the air that surrounds me. Thought of tasting it...but sometimes its best to wait until love overwhelms before enjoying it's sabor. Na Mean?


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A donde?

Where I been? I been in classrooms where the light was so dim children couldn't find themselves in the dark. At events where love was expressed with the gift of a fist waving in the air. On an island that suffers from the parasite of dinero and misses the beauty of its passion. Loving a Goddess and being loved by her wisdom. In laboratories experimenting with words as healing salves. Purifying my body and mind with natural earth ingredients and the cleansing experiences of "la vida". Building tomorrow and allowing yesterday's false existence to remain evident. In summation...I been being be while I be.

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A dormir

Inhaling the sweatness of the night as I exhale the putrid flavor of the day. Morning will bring NYC as I see what will seem of me in Matt's photography. Hoping that time will abound for my heart to be warmed by the familiar faces of blood and family ties. As in me lie the feelings of guilt for chasing a dream that at times seems farther than it might and closer than it is.

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Working En Un Dream...

Waking up to the sun without the satisfaction that my soul is where it's meant to be leaves a taste of deceit upon my tongue. A comedian once said..."God's gift to us is talent and our gift to God is using that talent". The feeling at times is almost fraudulent as God's gift remains unreturned.

Throughout the months of sun I've pondered on where my path might lie rather than where I shall go. For a path has already been cut for us all...we only need walk it once it is found. I've sat in utter despair as ancestral spirits caress my mind leading the way. As the voices of brothers and sisters lead a way they know not of. "I am from a people destined to be contrary to Master's expectations and the opposite of Media's representation". I have been granted gifts that remain unused. Gifts that I have yet to pass on while the hands of time are not deterred. Easy it is not and musn't be for if it were the end of the journey would not taste as sweet. Regardless of time, difficulty, or the horrific fear that abounds within...

I must and shall be!
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