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Notes from Nathan: Changes

Changes are inevitable. We float through life wondering about the next change. What's it going to be? Will someone die? Will I lose my job? Will I win the lottery?

We live in a microwave world where literally every nanosecond has change attached to it. The question I ask today is how do you manage change? Do you go with the flow or do you resist it? I believe that we can say how it goes. We can choose the changes. I remember a few years ago when I got caught up in drug abuse. It was a course that I never thought I'd be on, but I travelled it and with some of the best people too! I felt like a star, I was doing it with some of the best of them. I didn't realize that it was all smoke and mirrors (no pun intended here), until I decided one day to STOP. I had to leave that life behind me. I had to move on and better myself. I saw people around me either dying or plain and simply spinning out of control because of the drugs and I didn't want that for my life. I had come so far and had accomplished so much. I refused to throw it all away.

One day, I prayed and asked God to show me the direction to take my life and that's when I made the change. I went to church. I began to read my bible more frequently. I stopped using profanity and I stopped hanging with those seedy characters that I once called friends. It was quite the sordid life. But I'm back, from outer space, taking on the world with a new sense of purpose and zeal.

There are less than 100 days left in this year. What changes are you willing to make, that you didn't make when you declared those New Year's Resolutions at the top of 2009. It's never too late!

Create a "Sevenly" Day!

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Arts.Advocacy+Wellness: "Cornelius talks Fetish: Lip Language"

LIP LANGUAGE

Round, massive, proportions so full.

Dark browns, Purples, Reds – Brown top-Pink bottom, Pink top-Brown bottom,

Brown all over with a pink indention

The dip in the middle

The folds along the edges

The story it tells when it curves up in excitement,

Frowns down in disbelief or question.

When it purses and clenches together in agitation-expectation-stimulation.

When it relaxes in between thoughts,

Pause for a breath – bottom and top, part, defenses drop allowing room for help.

The catalogue is extensive-monumental.

Archived and preserved like history.

Ranging in many shapes and forms, the things they have in common is:

The fullness: the prominent unevenness, the plumpness, the ripeness, the sweetness, and the succulent alluring thickness, articulating the story of its greatness. ©2009 Cornelius Jones Jr.

FUTURE FANS,

My fetish: Lips….more specifically lips of African descent. They have so much culture, so much history. Lips are communicators and storytellers.

What’s your fetish? Does it speak to you?