Speak up or shut up. Anything in between is unneccessary. - Me
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
To love or not to love..
I am hopelessly devoted to love, in all its forms. I am a lover, not a fighter. And I have the upmost desire to not participate in the hurting of others.... But somehow I keep hurting, seemingly at the expense of not hurting others. Or maybe I just need to accept that certain people will never change. One must have compassion for others. I have compassion for all but especially those who hide behind their insecurities and fears. I have compassion, I have compassion...
I dont think the statement "fight for love" is the right choice of words, maybe "never give up on" or "keep standing up for"..but fighting should not be apart of love. Fight means battle, struggle or angry argument. I dont want anything to do with all that. I want to love, to love endlessly; relish in faithfullness and devotion. I want that all or nothing love. Not the "cant live without" love but the type of love that doesnt know anything else. That moment you meet someone and your life will never be the same kinda love. That kinda love that makes your heart skip a beat and the world around you disappears kinda love. The kind of love that makes a man tell all his friends hes found the one kinda love. That love that no matter what happens you know youre gonna get through.
Is it better to go through life not being hurt but not loving.. or is it better to feel both the pain and the love? Atleast that way you know youre alive. I feel pain inflicted by others cruel intentions all the time. I feel the pain of people who are going through things, when it doesnt even have anything to do with me. I dont choose to feel, I just do. In my head I question what it all means but in my heart I know that I would never trade my sensitivity and compassion for a cold heart. It hurts me just thinking about hurting someone. I dont overstand at all how people hurt people..
One of the scariest things in life might be giving your heart to someone, not knowing if you`ll end up hurt. I am a firm believer that honesty and trust go hand in hand; you cannot have one without the other. Without honesty, trust cannot be present and without trust a relationship cannot grow. To be able to give your heart to someone you must be honest with them and trust them. I found a quote by Mother Theresa saying "If you love until it hurts, youll feel no more hurt, just more love." How much hurting must you take before it stops hurting and turns to love. That is the concept I am working with here, no matter how much hurt I feel, I will continue to dish out nothin but love and positivity...until eventually (ideally) that hurt will turn into a feeling love for all eternity. Love so much it hurts, until it doesnt hurt anymore...... hmmmmmmmm, I am not sure I have fully grasped this yet. But yet, even after all the pain, giving my heart to someone is still an option...for the possibility of eternal love is way more intriguing to me than the gauruntee of living a life without love.
This brings us to our final topic in relation to love and pain. The dreaded day women all over the world feel inadequate if they are without a lover. The day men get anxiety attacks and stores make the quota for the rest of the year. Some call this day "Singles Awareness Day" which makes sense, becuase if youre single you defintly become aware this time of the year. Just because you are single though, does not mean that noone wants you, it simply means you havent found the right person yet. There is nothing depressing about this. Learn to love yourself everyday of your life and loving others will come easy. Do "you" the best you can and eventually someone will come along and want to turn that you into "us".... thats real talk.
Just have faith and feel the love around you even if noones there...
Embrace being alone and never allow love to get you down.
Rather than falling, choose to STAND IN LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY.
thats where im headed.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
RIP Dolla
RIP DOLLA Born Roderick Anthony Burton II, 21 from Atlanta was shot in the head as he and several other people stood near the center's La Cienega Boulevard entrance of the Beverly Center in L.A. Although its not in the police report the shooting is assumed to be gang-related. After the shooting, Burton was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a few blocks from the mall, where he died. Burton was an up-and-coming rapper who had recorded several singles. He was in town to work on his first album, slated to be released this summer on Jive Records. Although mixed up in some negativity, this man was very young and talented and his heart was good. The gun violence must stop. Guns dont kill people, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. STOP the violence and spread the love.
This clip from Rap City is one of my favorites, when I first heard this he had already died and I was heartborken at the worlds loss of this beautiful mind and spirit.
Rest In Peace November 25, 1987 – May 18, 2009
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Happy Birthday Bob..
Its 7:45 pm. Watching Shottas and ....!
I want to take this time pay resepct and to reminsce..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT "NESTA" MARLEY BERHANE SELASSIE!
February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981
This man is the man who showed the world the ways of reggae music and the Rastafari movement. He is most widely known for the beautiful music he has made throughout his life but he also did amazing things for the minds of people in Jamaica and throughout the world. The mindset is a hard thing to change but Bob Marleys words of peace and love had a great effect on alot of people and still do to this day. Bob will live forever though his music and the messages within. Respect to one of the greatest musicians of all time.
So exactly one year ago today, I was driving up through the mountains of Jamaica to the house where Bob grew up in to pay respect to his grave. Bob is buried 7 feet ABOVE the ground and is in a room where no pictures or shoes are allowed, we were allowed in to view and pay resepct and that is it (my girl is an artist and she left a painting of Bob on his grave for him, so beautiful).
It was quite the experience and the celebration was live! We had the honour to have a tour by the infamous 'Captain Crazy' (if you havent heard of him, youtube him!) who just crazed up the experience to another level. After the trip through the tourist attractions we went off road to some wild marijuana fields, it was a dry season so they werent that high, but man oh man.... were we ever! LOL it was the second highest day of my life (second after the Ottawa trip for the marijuana protest on Parlaiment Hill, but thats another story)... totally worth the 4 hour drive into the mountains.
Jamaica was amazing, once you get used to the locals youll do jus fine (by the end of the week, guys walked up to me and turned right back around without me havin to say a word! I had mastered the look on my face to say "this white girls not havin it so DO NOT EVEN TRY"...lmao I was pretty impressed wit myself lol)...
Our hotel was right downtown Ocho Rios, so downtown that we had locals sittin by our pool at night lol... slightly frightening at times but mostly very entertaining. It was a very humbling experience. One of the highlights of our many meals, was a trip to "Evita's" for dinner. The place was so beautiful and the service was intensly excellent. While we waited for our exquisitly cooked meal, we browsed the many frames on the walls containing photos of all sorts of celebrities (from LL Cool J to the Rolling Stones). The service was so excellent we had to tip our waiter 50% of the bill because the service was really THAT excellent lol... He basically waited on us hand and foot while we sat overlooking the most beautiful nighttime view I have ever seen in my life.
We took another trip up into the mountains, except this time by horse back. We were blessed to be able to take a private trip with a rasta man and another blessed Jamaican man who took good care of us. Going in car is one thing, but going by horse back is a totally different experience. The trip was amazing, the horses were amazing, the scenery was amazing. At the top, we stopped and relaxed and smoked a few tings while enjoying the view. On our way back down, we took a dip in the ocean.
The most amazing of all was the waterfalls though. We went to Duns River Falls, but I look forward to finding more natural waterfalls next time I go. The beach on the bottom was so beautiful and the trip up the waterfall was definitly one of the best experiences of my life. I left the experience feeling like ten years had been added to my life. It was a life-giving experience.I serisouly gotta run now though, its 11:15 and I got to get my ass out of the house and head downtown. Have a good night everyone. Onelove and bless! H
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
STOLEN FROM AFRICA is the MOVEMENT!
Dear Haters..
Artist Name: Logikal Ethix
Contact: logicalethix@gmail.com
http://stolenfromafrica.com/
http://www.myspace.com/logikalethix
http://grassrootsyouth.ca/
http://stolenfromafricville.com/
http://baobabconnections.org/
Artist Name: Logikal Ethix
Contact: logicalethix@gmail.com
http://stolenfromafrica.com/
http://www.myspace.com/logikalethix
http://grassrootsyouth.ca/
http://stolenfromafricville.com/
http://baobabconnections.org/
Photo by:
Ajani Charles
Ajani Charles
Monday, February 1, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hmmm..
I don’t care what any other guy looks like or how big his equipment is. If he cant make the room and the world disappear, if he cant make magic pulse into you through his fingertips and give you the impression its never going to stop, then he cant make heat radiate from a place inside you that you didn’t know existed. Make you yearn for his controlling slow soft touch to float across your attentive skin till your so warm and your skin is so awake and tingling you wonder if you will pass out or if you have ever been more awake. Bringing you to reach up to a new out of body experience, a new plane of living in the moment. Intense true pleasure comes from your mind and in so many ways he gives me that. Its a slow process and we need to end up with knowledge of each other and an intimacy frequency that removes the selfishness and the practicality of nerve endings and their hunger. We need to desire, to passionately desire to give. When giving seems like its the most obvious way a to RECIEVE pleasure, that’s when a moment of waiting to be touched, waiting blindfolded and breathing heavily waiting in a room that’s about to be sweaty and so hot you can taste it waiting with a thirst that makes you whimper waiting for that moment can last forever. That forever where your body tenses and you know what’s coming...
do you want to feel more ?
I picture us seeing each other from across a dark club. The music is pounding and the lights are moving to the beat. The dance floor is filled from wall to wall with people, all dressed to impress each other and everyone’s really feeling this parties energy. The bodies and faces of drunken girls and boys have a thin glimmer of sweat as they move their hips and grind their bodies to the sound of their favorite music. Our eyes lock into each others and we feel the room go silent. We hold each others gaze as the room fades away and a hunger rises inside. Slowly, through the tangle of sexy bodies, we make our way towards each other. Breathing gets deeper and heavier, cutting a path through the crowd of dancers like two blazing fires. At the middle of the dance floor we meet. You part your lips, I open my mouth to speak, and as the music reaches a heart stopping crescendo, you grip me firmly by my waist and pull me into your body. Still holding eye contact, one of your hands moves up my back to the back of my head and tilts my waiting lips towards yours. I am holding my breath. My body is stiff in anticipation, waiting for what I sense is coming next. The fire burns between us, our lips touch, soft and supple our sweet kiss is. The music plays on and our eyes close. The passion we feel from each other makes our own desires starts to rise and the dam holding it back bursts open, letting a rush of desire flood forth, we can no longer define where my body begins and yours ends. I feel your hard chest pressed up against me. You hold me firmly as our tongues and lips search and discover their newest addiction. Now we slowly pull away and looking at each other, once more we dive back into each other with the same passion only more softly this time, more teasingly. My lips dance kisses on yours pulling back only to catch my breath as you move your lips back and forth softly, like warm air, caressing my sensitive waiting plush pink lower lip. You suck it softly in to your mouth and taste it between your own…..
If you could do anything right now and totally set your inhibitions aside, really feel your hedonistic side and allow yourself to feel unjudged and free, what would you want to do ?
do you want to feel more ?
I picture us seeing each other from across a dark club. The music is pounding and the lights are moving to the beat. The dance floor is filled from wall to wall with people, all dressed to impress each other and everyone’s really feeling this parties energy. The bodies and faces of drunken girls and boys have a thin glimmer of sweat as they move their hips and grind their bodies to the sound of their favorite music. Our eyes lock into each others and we feel the room go silent. We hold each others gaze as the room fades away and a hunger rises inside. Slowly, through the tangle of sexy bodies, we make our way towards each other. Breathing gets deeper and heavier, cutting a path through the crowd of dancers like two blazing fires. At the middle of the dance floor we meet. You part your lips, I open my mouth to speak, and as the music reaches a heart stopping crescendo, you grip me firmly by my waist and pull me into your body. Still holding eye contact, one of your hands moves up my back to the back of my head and tilts my waiting lips towards yours. I am holding my breath. My body is stiff in anticipation, waiting for what I sense is coming next. The fire burns between us, our lips touch, soft and supple our sweet kiss is. The music plays on and our eyes close. The passion we feel from each other makes our own desires starts to rise and the dam holding it back bursts open, letting a rush of desire flood forth, we can no longer define where my body begins and yours ends. I feel your hard chest pressed up against me. You hold me firmly as our tongues and lips search and discover their newest addiction. Now we slowly pull away and looking at each other, once more we dive back into each other with the same passion only more softly this time, more teasingly. My lips dance kisses on yours pulling back only to catch my breath as you move your lips back and forth softly, like warm air, caressing my sensitive waiting plush pink lower lip. You suck it softly in to your mouth and taste it between your own…..
If you could do anything right now and totally set your inhibitions aside, really feel your hedonistic side and allow yourself to feel unjudged and free, what would you want to do ?
Friday, January 22, 2010
Broken intimacy..
Sex. Sexual intercourse. Love making. Fucking. Gettin it oooon. Whatever you wanna call it. Sexual intercourse. Noun. Genital contact, esp. the insertion of the penis into the vagina, followed by orgasm.
So the inspiration for this post is my frustration with people using the word "slam" in refrence to sex. Like really, if your sex is "slamming" into eachother, youre doing it wrong. The definition of "slam" is to shut forcefully and noisily. How does that come anywhere near in relation to the act of sexual intercourse. Whether your sex is closer to making love, or just fucking.. its still a far cry from slamming.
Society has stripped sex of its natural light. It is now this casual act between people, that spreads disease and negative feelings (jealousy, envy, lust, etc..). I believe sex was created for many reasons. Obviously the main reason being reproduction, but it also has many other benifits that add to our health and happiness. Sex is healthy, it is great excercise - for both strength and cardio. It also reduces stress, orgasming has been proven to be a neccessary part of a healthy lifestyle (yay for that one!). Masturbation is also healthy, although its still a taboo subject in this day lol.... I like to quote Gerald Butler from The Ugly Truth when he says (paraphrased) "If you wouldnt want to fuck yourself, why would anyone else want to." That right there makes so much sense to me. Similar to the idea of being content with yourself and being alone (if you dont enjoy your own company, why would you expect other people to enjoy your company?)...
Besides reproduction and health benifits, sex has way more to offer us than just that. Another reason would definitly be the desire to show one another something special, something saved for them and none other. A way of expressing love, passion and attraction for another person. Call it a declaration of love if you will, but in todays day people are spreading that love so thin, that its barely holding on by a thread.
I always preach, spread the love. What I mean by that is not have lots of sex but to spread the energy of love. Energy is what makes this world go round, and we need to channel all that love and other positive feelings and generate more love in the world. Be kind, be compassionate. And dont judge people because you never know what they've been through. Dont spread your legs for love, keep them closed and you will feel the real love begin to form from within. And the most important thing about love, is to love yourself. Love yourself so much, that you overflow with love... only then will you truly have love to share with others.
So here are a few links id like to share that relate..
First, is a song by Rhianna. I try not to support main stream entertainment, but every once in awhile something catches my ear.... so this song to me, represents the flow of making love. it starts slow and sweet, and consistently gets more intense and full of passion until the end.... the end is an intense orchestration of atleast 8 instruments; representing the climax. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmGLVx75ac
Second is a song I am sure everyone has heard, called Sex by Lyfe Jennings. This song is real talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4xjzIrEWbU
And heres a little eye candy for the ladies that like dark skin. So sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYeRnGHeXc
And ofcourse, last but not least a little soul music curtosey of Marvin Gaye.
Lets get it ooon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag
When a man loves a women. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCMt1gtdmY
If you love someone, tell them! You never what tomorrow may bring.
Good night world. Hope you enjoyed. Make love. xoxo
Hali Lee - warrior princess of passion?! (lol)
So the inspiration for this post is my frustration with people using the word "slam" in refrence to sex. Like really, if your sex is "slamming" into eachother, youre doing it wrong. The definition of "slam" is to shut forcefully and noisily. How does that come anywhere near in relation to the act of sexual intercourse. Whether your sex is closer to making love, or just fucking.. its still a far cry from slamming.
Society has stripped sex of its natural light. It is now this casual act between people, that spreads disease and negative feelings (jealousy, envy, lust, etc..). I believe sex was created for many reasons. Obviously the main reason being reproduction, but it also has many other benifits that add to our health and happiness. Sex is healthy, it is great excercise - for both strength and cardio. It also reduces stress, orgasming has been proven to be a neccessary part of a healthy lifestyle (yay for that one!). Masturbation is also healthy, although its still a taboo subject in this day lol.... I like to quote Gerald Butler from The Ugly Truth when he says (paraphrased) "If you wouldnt want to fuck yourself, why would anyone else want to." That right there makes so much sense to me. Similar to the idea of being content with yourself and being alone (if you dont enjoy your own company, why would you expect other people to enjoy your company?)...
Besides reproduction and health benifits, sex has way more to offer us than just that. Another reason would definitly be the desire to show one another something special, something saved for them and none other. A way of expressing love, passion and attraction for another person. Call it a declaration of love if you will, but in todays day people are spreading that love so thin, that its barely holding on by a thread.
I always preach, spread the love. What I mean by that is not have lots of sex but to spread the energy of love. Energy is what makes this world go round, and we need to channel all that love and other positive feelings and generate more love in the world. Be kind, be compassionate. And dont judge people because you never know what they've been through. Dont spread your legs for love, keep them closed and you will feel the real love begin to form from within. And the most important thing about love, is to love yourself. Love yourself so much, that you overflow with love... only then will you truly have love to share with others.
So here are a few links id like to share that relate..
First, is a song by Rhianna. I try not to support main stream entertainment, but every once in awhile something catches my ear.... so this song to me, represents the flow of making love. it starts slow and sweet, and consistently gets more intense and full of passion until the end.... the end is an intense orchestration of atleast 8 instruments; representing the climax. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmGLVx75ac
Second is a song I am sure everyone has heard, called Sex by Lyfe Jennings. This song is real talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4xjzIrEWbU
And heres a little eye candy for the ladies that like dark skin. So sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYeRnGHeXc
And ofcourse, last but not least a little soul music curtosey of Marvin Gaye.
Lets get it ooon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag
When a man loves a women. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCMt1gtdmY
If you love someone, tell them! You never what tomorrow may bring.
Good night world. Hope you enjoyed. Make love. xoxo
Hali Lee - warrior princess of passion?! (lol)
Monday, January 18, 2010
No war..
Barrington Levy:
We dont make trouble, we dont make war.
Everyday we war, back we stay afar.
If we deal with truth and rights, come some more into my sight.
Whether your black or whether your white.
See all im trying to do is just get on with my life.
The children are the future, so give them a try.
Stop the senseless killing.
Aye you people, your backs against the wall.
They way that we are living, we are bound to fall.
Why dont we get together and tear down the walls.....
Kardinal:
As I look to the floor, I saw the nines in reach.
But if I do what im thinkin, than whos left to teach?
My people my community, theres no immunity.
War spreadin like the plague, discouraging unity.
So I pray to the sky light for Jah Jah to bless, we under stress.
But intelligence and onelove is how we progress.
Dear Jah/God/Allah, Help. Onelove, Hali lee.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Livin like were bulletproof..
Dear Diary,
My life is full of demons. How do I rid my mind of all these distractions and disturbances. To find a place of peace and serenity. Time moves to fast in America. Mainstream music, entertainment and media are full of corruption and subliminal messaging. How do we live in this world and avoid these comings, how do we protect the youth. Generations are getting dumber and more conformable. I feel like I am constantly in connection with and surrounded by technology. My blackberry, computer, TV, MP3 player, etc.. I don't spend nearly enough time laying in the grass or on the beach just watching the clouds, just listening to the beat of the music. Reconnecting with myself, deep in thought. Bringing my mind back to a simpler place, full of love and genuineness. The place I want to be may be far away but I vow to never stop my pursuit of happiness.
We are livin like were bullet proof even though we are surrounded by war and corruption. Look around, turn on the news, watch movies. You see how in movies the show the media saying one thing, while disaster is near... they are telling us only what they want us to know; promoting ignorance in the worst way. Open your eyes and see the lies in our world..
We all have the power to spread positivity and to eliminate negativity. If human nature is to seek pleasure and avoid pain, why do so many people thrive off violence and hate? If there is more than enough of everything in the world to go around, why is it that there are people starving while wars are being financed all over the world? At what point in history did this happen, when did life become disposable?
"They say tomorrows not promised today, but today I promise, if we dont make our own way somebody will take it from us, snatch it like rats to cheese. So Lord help me please cuase id rather die on feet than to live on my knees." - Ludacris
Take in this video.. if it results in a shift in mental awareness in even one person, this whole blog has been worth it. Thanks for reading and I wish everyone a prosperous and blessed 2010!
One Love,
Hali Lee
My life is full of demons. How do I rid my mind of all these distractions and disturbances. To find a place of peace and serenity. Time moves to fast in America. Mainstream music, entertainment and media are full of corruption and subliminal messaging. How do we live in this world and avoid these comings, how do we protect the youth. Generations are getting dumber and more conformable. I feel like I am constantly in connection with and surrounded by technology. My blackberry, computer, TV, MP3 player, etc.. I don't spend nearly enough time laying in the grass or on the beach just watching the clouds, just listening to the beat of the music. Reconnecting with myself, deep in thought. Bringing my mind back to a simpler place, full of love and genuineness. The place I want to be may be far away but I vow to never stop my pursuit of happiness.
We are livin like were bullet proof even though we are surrounded by war and corruption. Look around, turn on the news, watch movies. You see how in movies the show the media saying one thing, while disaster is near... they are telling us only what they want us to know; promoting ignorance in the worst way. Open your eyes and see the lies in our world..
We all have the power to spread positivity and to eliminate negativity. If human nature is to seek pleasure and avoid pain, why do so many people thrive off violence and hate? If there is more than enough of everything in the world to go around, why is it that there are people starving while wars are being financed all over the world? At what point in history did this happen, when did life become disposable?
"They say tomorrows not promised today, but today I promise, if we dont make our own way somebody will take it from us, snatch it like rats to cheese. So Lord help me please cuase id rather die on feet than to live on my knees." - Ludacris
Take in this video.. if it results in a shift in mental awareness in even one person, this whole blog has been worth it. Thanks for reading and I wish everyone a prosperous and blessed 2010!
One Love,
Hali Lee
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