Yes I've developed a new found respect today for the people who work in nail salons.  Hannah was hovering over the city today so it was rainy, cloudy, and all the good stuff that comes along with a Hurricane (shiver).  I really didn't get any sleep the previous night so I was a little tired. I cleaned a little ( heheheh ), had a fit because I couldn't find my passport ( found it EXACTLY where I left it ), cooked chicken burgers to some ungrateful kids ( when I say ungrateful I mean it ) and uploaded some mood music on here.  It was an odd day in a sense where nothing felt real. Anyway while walking bare foot to the kitchen I noticed that my toes looked horrible. I mean there was chipped polish every where so I decided to take care of that.

I have an accent, but I like to think of it as a refined accent. I pronounce all of my words through to the end. There are no dropped letters here. Growing up in a West Indian  household I always thought it was base to speak in third person..instead of "I'm going" its was "Me ah go", or  " I don't know" it was " Me nuh no".  Not to be confused I'm so proud of my heritage and there is something magical about the way we talk because for one it is English but if you're not used to it you won't understand a word of it.   Its like caribbean morse code and I love it. I love reggae music, love soca, love calypso and sing along proudly the music of my heritage.  My point, I've gone nearly 20 years perfecting my accent so that if needed you would never be able to distinguish me from my brothers or sisters and in a manner of hours you've infiltrated and spoiled everything.

The phone rang and I answered thinking it was someone else.  With a huge grin on my face I pulled into my parking space and the first words out of my mouth were " hi baby".  It wasn’t baby it was you and you became excited I called you baby. I tried to be nice about it but decided to be honest "I didn’t realized it was you" I politely said "I thought it was someone else". 

They're calling Barack Obama's  speech history making simply because it coincides with one of the most famous speech in history. I wasn't alive to hear "I Have a Dream" live but I know it almost by heart. I know the intentions of the man who made that speech, what he wanted for people from all walks of life.

The nineteenth-century English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins attempted to reveal what he called "Inscape" - the pattern of distinctive characteristics that constitute the individual essence of a thing. In your daily life take time to pause and absorb the inscape in the people and things you see around you. Try to move beyond superficialities to perceive the uniqueness of each thing. Appreciate this uniqueness as an expression of the spirit.