Virtual Party - 4th Song

Who in that Eric B & Rakim frame of mind!  Enjoy the next song on our Virtual Party Play list!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyl_j0g9AwU

Virtual Party - Excerpt

Here' an exclusive, Virtual Party Excerpt from my up and coming project entitled "The Random Alignment of Life" Chapbook & CD:  Enjoy!!

(Untitiled)

His presences, congers eerie memories,

Like teenagers with keys to liquor cabinet & wigi boards,

Images that had been boarded up against the outskirts of her physic,

Like windows in Peabody projects,  

In other words…suppressed,

Now overexposed like Diddy’s Time Square billboard,

She’s logging those moments as if she’s on Donald Trumps, executive board,

And it has her walking a thin line of sanity,

The memories chase her to questions,

She asked since adolescences,

If God so loved his only begotten son, but gave him unto this world…..

Virtual Party - 3rd Song

This songs, gets me motivated, what about you, what songs, get you motivated?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

Virtual Party

Hello All;

Welcome to the Virtual Alignment of Life, launch party.  Enjoy this song to start the party off right.  Please fee free to comment during the party. 

If you've signed up to follow the blog, you have been automatically entered into a Grand Prize winning of an I-Tunes gift card! :)  So let the party begin!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8iouO9JRH0

Virtual Launch Party

Hello All, 

I want to thank each of you for your support so far!  My intention is to make this blog a community, where we can all be inspired, motivated, supported & loved.  To celebrate the Launch of "The Random Alignment of Life" Blog, I’m having a Virtual Party!  I'm sooo excited!  There will be music, great conversation, games, and prizes. 

There will also be an Open Interview with Me.  Be the first to see excerpts from my first official project, which is a collection of poetry and spoken word.  The Chapbook & CD, entitled, “The Random Alignment of Life!” is coming soon.  So don't be shy, if you haven't already, signed up for "The Random Alignment of Life" Blog, do so NOW! You can’t afford to miss this party! 

Host: Kizzy K Robb 
When: April 30th (Saturday) 12am - May 1st (Sunday) 12pm
Where: The Random Alignment Blog & Facebook
(No need to leave home, just log in from anywhere, even directly from your smart phone)
Why: Because we all need to be inspired, motivated and loved!

Until Next Time, Love Someone

Sedated Reality

I’ve lived my life sedated, almost as long as the life expectancy of an African American male, living in the inner cities of Chicago or St. Louis.  If I was being ambiguous, I’d act as if I didn’t know when it started or why, but, I remember the exact moment.  This, is my FACT!

When your life is filled with harsh realities, a shattered heart, abandoned promises and dreams that seem like the Loch Nest Monster, appearing all too real to you, but never captured, never realized, you tend to try and find a way to cope.  You cope with your “drug” of choice; it can be sex, restricted drugs, illegal drugs, food and alcohol, gambling or even shopping.  It’s interesting, as family and friends, we can clearly identify the junkie or alcoholic. We spot their pain, because they wear it  like a Susan Komen, “pink ribbon.” With every slurred word, the mysterious absences at family events, every belligerent argument, the unexplained withdrawal, the aggressive stench that waffles through the air, each time they move or even the missing household items, we begin to put the peaces together.  How many of us recognize by the number of shoes, their girlfriend, daughter, or mother bought last week, that they too are living life sedated?  How many of us, can identify the baggage our love ones carry around by the number of reese peanut butter cups they eat?  Did we ever stop to think that the “need” to remodel the house, wasn’t about an upgrade, but a cover-up?  What about, this seems to be girlfriend number 14, in two months for your cousin or brother? Today we have support groups for almost any “condition” that can offer us direction and support on the road to recovery.  We also need the love, understanding and patiences of our loved ones. 

Which one was my form of sedation, you ask?  A relationship! A relationship with a man, who could not love me like I deserved.  I knew he couldn’t when I started the relationship, but that’s the sedation. I decided it would be easier to have a relationship with a man who I knew couldn’t love me, versus, facing the possibilities, of true love.  To me taking the chance on love, meant being vulnerable, meant the chance of being hurt and I just couldn’t live with the thought of being hurt, so I sedated.  

A sedated reality, doesn’t mean freedom, happiness or safety, it means isolation.  Trotting through life numb, isn’t LIFE at all, it’s a shallow existence, filled with loneliness, illusions of grandeur, without the cast or crew to create the colorful memoirs of your life.  In stead of walking, “The Green Mile” for the rest of my life, I’ve decided to experiences LIFE!  I’ve taken a pledge and you can too.  You aren’t alone!  Today is a great day, to reclaim your personal best. 

“I pledge an allegiance to Life and all it has to offer!  I will remove the cloak I’ve placed over my heart, and replace it with the rays of divine possibilities. I shall forever be in pursuit of living my dreams OUT LOUD, through love, life, family and friends!”   

What about you?  What’s your sedation?  Are you ready to take the pledge?  What's standing in the way?

Here's some great places to start, learn and maybe seek support:

Alcohol =  http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash

Drug = http://www.na.org/

Food = http://www.oprah.com/own-addicted-to-food/addicted-to-food.html

Shopping = http://www.addicted.com/addiction-resources/self-tests/shopping-addiction-quiz

Until Next Time, Love Someone!

An Empty Basket:

For many of us, we celebrated Easter, a World holiday, with our family and friends.  I alone, with many others do not believe in the religious reason for celebrating Easter.  However, my religious disbeliefs, do not take away my desire to spend time with my family any chance I can get.  We overate, we prayed (to what ever God you believe in), we laughed, we danced, and we rejoiced in thankfulness for the kinship of family. 

At some point between pulling up to my mother’s beautifully decorated home, framed by a white picket fence and watching the Orlando & Atlanta NBA playoff game, in a testosterone filled room, I wondered.  I wondered how many of us, welcomed strangers into the comforts of our home?  How many of us, thought of friends who lost family, or have no family, or family that is distant?  The one’s who seldom experience the boisterous rant of an overly intoxicated Uncle during a playoff game, the sound of hard wood floors scuffing as children sprint across chasing each other?  Who welcomed, friends who long for the aroma of a dinner, Big Mama prepared the night before, while singing backup for to The Temptations?  The friends who can provide an eye witness account of the demolishment of a Peach Cobbler by a person who circled the cobbler for minutes, scaring children away with their barks, then without warning swallowed the entire pie in 30 seconds! How many of us welcomed friends, whose baskets are empty, not just on “Holidays” but the majority of their days!

Extending a branch of kindness, shouldn’t just be reserved for special times of the year, but every possible opportunity we have.  We shouldn’t wait until national or local disasters, like the Tornados in, MO this past weekend, to fill someone’s basket.  We shouldn’t look to fill baskets with colorful eggs and sugar filled candy, but moments of kindness, conversations that have all the trimmings of a hilarious inside joke. Pictures framed by the mind, and irreplaceable memories weaved together, to blanket those who for whatever reason are unable to create their own, so at moments of despair or loneliness, they can be warmed.  They can be comforted in knowing, their baskets will never run empty because of people like you who care! 

That’s my Perspective   

Until Next Time, Love Someone

Welcome to My World

The Random Alignment of Life was created to chronicle, well, "life" through my eyes as a Mother, Daughter, Sister, Friend, Lover, Writer and Poet.  I’m going to talk about life and how it seems to be pre-planned at some points and randomly thrown together at others.  My points of view will be based on a few things, Theory (contemplation or speculation), Perspective (the state of one’s ideas, facts known to one) or Reality (a real thing or fact).  My post will be filled with life experiences, with a little help from statistics, science, professional insight & tons of passion!

Look to be challenged, provoked, intrigued, entertained, loved, nurtured and inspired.  

So, take a ride with me.  A ride that is sure to have plenty of speeding tickets, flat tires, broken air conditions, premium car spas, road trips, left-over food under the seat and Mystic Blue air fresher to name a few.  Stay tuned for this awesome journey, with “The Random Alignment of Life!”