What is up?! October in Long Beach is reminding me of New York :-) That's a good thing. A little good nostalgia is good for the soul.
Long Beach is such an amazing place. The spirit of the people and the community is uplifting and since I started Leadership Long Beach, this feeling has just intensified. There are so many great opportunities for collaborations and support for the work we are doing at Cabrillo Villages Shelters as well as for our work at Bixby Park near where I live. That's the bomb, actually running into kids that we do programs with in our own neighborhood. Nothing beats it. I can see the wheels turning in their head when they see us coming down the street, like "oh, hey! those are the heads who do the art in the park," nice feeling to be apart of something positive in a child or young person's life.
We had a grant letter due yesterday, was fortunate enough to be able to walk it into the office where I ran into Sandy, who we've been working with from the Long Beach Community Foundation. They're great and even if we don't get the grant (I hope we get the grant :-) I told her that it's a good thing just to have a chance to tell the story, even to ourselves, of what we've done. The most amazing thing about this work is that you're so present and in it that you don't really have a chance to sit back and see what you've accomplished until it's time to write one of these grant proposals or do a press release or one of these kinds of things. Kind of keeps you honest in a way.
The angels really sent me some inspiration though. Back when I did the Liberty Hill piece, which we'll be working on again soon, I was having a hard time articulating exactly the connection between how the arts contributes to sustainability in communities. It was coming off as kind of airy fairy and when that happens for me then it's a signal that I need to go back to the ground, as my homeby Mark Armstrong in Chicago used to say.
Because there is definitely a connection.
When I sat down to write the proposal for Long Beach Community Foundation, it all fell into place. This is what I came up with, check it out:
"Little by little Living Love Foundation is doing its part in creating a space where children and their families can work and think progressively about their world and the possibilities of their lives inside and outside shelter grounds. By yielding tools; helping make connections and providing real capacity building, our goal is to establish a sustainable continuum of creative community engagement that will move beyond our investment of time and resources at the shelters."
This is the first place I've shared that outside of the grant proposal, but really it's what we've been doing, and it feels good to be able to put a hold of some words to describe it. Because I think it's really magic, when we can work with communities, employing art and fun and love to do this, then we've been involved in magic making. Straight up. Need more of that in the world.
I told Sandy that it's like this cauldron of all these great things, a stew that we've put together and hopefully, with the continued help of the community and the attention of folks like Councilman Robert Garcia and his staff (lovely folks) and on the ground support from friends of Living Love like Chris Lyles (my great big shining light), it will all come together in some wonderfully inspired young people who are ready to face the world with their heads held up high, ready to walk in any room, anywhere in the world and feel good about themselves. That's what all this rigamaroo is about...can't ever forget it. Til later-Cheers :-)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
We're getting in gear for the third year of programming at Cabrillo Villages, the campus of shelters where Living Love has been doing Home Is Where the Art Is. Last year we expanded the program by adding a garden component. It was a magical thing, not without its challenges. Right now I am working on ways to incorporate more solid community activity inside and outside of the garden. I see that some of the issues facing this community of children and adults is lack of kinetic role models, people, individuals who are moving progressively, positively towards the future. The thing is to get the kids around, their parents too, inspire them. It's hard work...but do-able with the support of Long Beach community at large.
We've been meeting also with the lovely ladies of Robert Garcia's office, the councilman, focusing on finding a space. Hopefully somewhere on Pine. The idea did not appeal to me at first, but the more I spend time on Pine and work there (the Infinite is there, the Yoga studio and Evan Kelly's/LB!Creative has their spot there too) the more I think it would be an awesome fit for LLF. We'll see what happens, keep casting the net.
Started Long Beach Leadership this past August. Honey...lemme say, it's more than a notion. I say that primarily because of the weekend retreat that we took up to Big Bear. A blast in a lot of ways, but grueling. I'm bound by contractual agreement not go into what we did (just kidding :-) well almost ) but really, it was a necessary part of my development, not just as a leader, but as a human being. I think everyone should go up there and do the stuff we did. Back on the ground here, I'm working to create a once a week fitness program that will enhance folk's usual workout, the purpose of this one is to build neural pathways in the brain to continue building and growing. Exciting. I try to run as much as possible and keep myself fit, living here in LBC that's easy since the beach is right there. It's also a walking town. So walks here are never boring. These are some of the things that not only inspire me about being here, but also enable to me envision how it is that we can use creativity to fulfill our mission, which is to inspire children to greatness through creativity and the arts.
Right now I am very excited about incorporating chapters from "W0rking With Joy: Creating Sustainability Through Love and Movement" into this blog. The idea is that we talk to people we have worked with here in Long Beach in this movement, children's orgs; art galleries; social networking outfits; all who have come together to enhance the spirit of this city by bringing people together and making the lives of children better...talk to these people and share here with you how we are tapping into sustainability through our efforts. Like I said yo...it's work, but it's worth it. I interviewed one head about sustainability and she was like..."have I ever seen it? I hear about it all the time, but I don't know if we're really doing it." She and I agreed, like I said, that it's alot of work. And it is...but once again, worth it.
Is sustainability through the arts this elusive principle...this place that we arrive at? or is it always already happening? That is a question for the ages, but I really want to delve into it, because not-for-profits need to know :-) Know what I mean? Living Love needs to know. We must build in sustainability from the ground up and fit it into anything we endeavor to create programmatically. The days of charitable giving are coming to a close, when programs can float on their own, that's the best. We'll flesh it out, take the best and run with it...I think that's all for now. See you soon :-) Kelly
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Hello All :-)
It's June. We're seguing out of our daily workshops and moving towards Summer Programs. We'll have four arts programs; health and fitness programs going on starting in July. The city of Long Beach, its citizens and leadership have come together to support the vision of Living Love in investing in children through the arts. This is a winning ticket. Period. It's good to be somewhere, to live somewhere and work somewhere where that's understood. It's also very humbling. That's a funny thing to say and people look at me sideways when I say it, but like mom used to say, "things aren't always good, so be thankful when they are."
Things are good right now. There is audible, tangible hope in the air. The conversations amongst peers and colleagues are centered around sustainability and the wealth of investing in meaningful relationships that pay in dividends in real ways. It feels like the world is changing and people will have access, have tapped into their access to creating and making the world a place where we all want to live. Now that it's here, that this time is here, I wouldn't know how to imagine any other way of being...it's electric and these are the times that some really wonderful things happen, seeds are planted, take root and change the game.
Paradigm shifting is never easy, well not for me at least :-) but the impact of the shift, of moving from one way of being to another, especially when it involves creating change on the ground in ways that will create long lasting positive impact makes shifting provocative and necessary. It's like waking up every day wondering like "wow, what great thing is gonna happen today? what great flower is going to emerge from the seeds we planted in winter or in the spring?" That's pure, organic magic.
This summer Living Love is bringing together some of the titans of the on the ground arts scene in Long Beach, and working on an open air arts program in one of the most beautiful parks in the city. We'll be at Bixby Park, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and we'll be doing raw food classes and yoga and recylced arts workshops and have guests like Pedal Movement and LB!Creative and working with professional artists who will take their time to teach hand crocheting and t-shirt printing....hosting workshops for the kids and elders. Maribel will be coming from Ventura to lend her special expertise to the children of this community...we are all very excited.
On July 10th we're having a launch and a fundraiser to invite everyone to sample what we'll be doing and who will be there. Bixby Park...probably start around 11:00 AM...
The program will run two full days out of the week. But check it out...the idea of kids who have had little to no exposure to the arts, on their way to the beach from North LBC or the Westside, the idea of them running into a full-on conservatory quality arts program, FREE...in session twice a week, the idea that it could catch their attention, change their lives, make an impression on them that could last a lifetime...give them some hope and help them make some new connections...there is no way to express how lovely it is to be involved with that experience. That these things have come together here...like this...gorgeous :-)
Glad to be a part of it.
Glad to be a part of something good.
See you at Bixby :-)
Ciao Meow
Kelly
It's June. We're seguing out of our daily workshops and moving towards Summer Programs. We'll have four arts programs; health and fitness programs going on starting in July. The city of Long Beach, its citizens and leadership have come together to support the vision of Living Love in investing in children through the arts. This is a winning ticket. Period. It's good to be somewhere, to live somewhere and work somewhere where that's understood. It's also very humbling. That's a funny thing to say and people look at me sideways when I say it, but like mom used to say, "things aren't always good, so be thankful when they are."
Things are good right now. There is audible, tangible hope in the air. The conversations amongst peers and colleagues are centered around sustainability and the wealth of investing in meaningful relationships that pay in dividends in real ways. It feels like the world is changing and people will have access, have tapped into their access to creating and making the world a place where we all want to live. Now that it's here, that this time is here, I wouldn't know how to imagine any other way of being...it's electric and these are the times that some really wonderful things happen, seeds are planted, take root and change the game.
Paradigm shifting is never easy, well not for me at least :-) but the impact of the shift, of moving from one way of being to another, especially when it involves creating change on the ground in ways that will create long lasting positive impact makes shifting provocative and necessary. It's like waking up every day wondering like "wow, what great thing is gonna happen today? what great flower is going to emerge from the seeds we planted in winter or in the spring?" That's pure, organic magic.
This summer Living Love is bringing together some of the titans of the on the ground arts scene in Long Beach, and working on an open air arts program in one of the most beautiful parks in the city. We'll be at Bixby Park, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and we'll be doing raw food classes and yoga and recylced arts workshops and have guests like Pedal Movement and LB!Creative and working with professional artists who will take their time to teach hand crocheting and t-shirt printing....hosting workshops for the kids and elders. Maribel will be coming from Ventura to lend her special expertise to the children of this community...we are all very excited.
On July 10th we're having a launch and a fundraiser to invite everyone to sample what we'll be doing and who will be there. Bixby Park...probably start around 11:00 AM...
The program will run two full days out of the week. But check it out...the idea of kids who have had little to no exposure to the arts, on their way to the beach from North LBC or the Westside, the idea of them running into a full-on conservatory quality arts program, FREE...in session twice a week, the idea that it could catch their attention, change their lives, make an impression on them that could last a lifetime...give them some hope and help them make some new connections...there is no way to express how lovely it is to be involved with that experience. That these things have come together here...like this...gorgeous :-)
Glad to be a part of it.
Glad to be a part of something good.
See you at Bixby :-)
Ciao Meow
Kelly
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Foundation will be at The Aquarium of the Pacific tomorrow for it's celebration of Black History Month. We'll be doing hearts with the several thousand visitors who are gonna roll through from everywhere. Days at the Aquarium and fun, exciting, lots of art and lots of people! It's exciting because we really get a chance to share arts with all kinds of different people from all different walks of life. It's also great because we get to make things with recycled pieces of everything. Great chance to have fun. I remember the last time we were there, for Halloween, I was working with this little boy and while we were picking what supplies he wanted to use, he had the choice of used toilet paper rolls, fuzzy dice, googli eyes, paint, crayon, these crazy leather strips, he was like "I'm getting confused, there are so many things I don't know what to choose," at that moment, when I told him he could choose as many as he wanted and do whatever he wanted to do with them...when he looked up at me with these big wide excited eyes I realized that art is one of the only places where it's appropriate and exciting to do exactly what you want...anything you want. That's why I like the days at the Aquarium, to see kids come through and stop and look and sit and stay and work and create something of their very own...it's alot because there are SOOOO many people and the days are long, but it's worth it.
Long Beach is coming along in general. I am certain that Living Love Foundation will continue to grow here. For the first time, I really feel like we've found our niche. The programs are growing like crazy and there's so much excitement about the mission and what we're doing. It makes all the hard times feel worth it. This April will make four years since we launched Living Love and it's come along way. I'm humbled to see the progress and the way communities have embraced what we're doing. Feels weird to be doing work that is the answer and have it regarded in that way.
This past February 13th, Mom's birthday, we had children and volunteers and consultants having fun in the garden, planting, painting, it was great. The community involvement here in this city is great! I don't think I've lived anywhere where just about everybody is active in one way or another. And in March we're gonna take some of our volunteers and students up north to Ventura to work on the art program at Pleasant Valley. That will be great, I love it when all the different programs get a chance to meet and compare work and styles. Not an easy thing here without solid public transportation. In New York you could get some train passes and get everybody around like that...not so here. But the hard work pays and in the spring when the gardens blossom ( you can already see the little fennel poking its head up in the herb garden) that will be the best :-) all that sweat and toil coming up daisies...the road to beautiful...I mean :-)
Ciao
Long Beach is coming along in general. I am certain that Living Love Foundation will continue to grow here. For the first time, I really feel like we've found our niche. The programs are growing like crazy and there's so much excitement about the mission and what we're doing. It makes all the hard times feel worth it. This April will make four years since we launched Living Love and it's come along way. I'm humbled to see the progress and the way communities have embraced what we're doing. Feels weird to be doing work that is the answer and have it regarded in that way.
This past February 13th, Mom's birthday, we had children and volunteers and consultants having fun in the garden, planting, painting, it was great. The community involvement here in this city is great! I don't think I've lived anywhere where just about everybody is active in one way or another. And in March we're gonna take some of our volunteers and students up north to Ventura to work on the art program at Pleasant Valley. That will be great, I love it when all the different programs get a chance to meet and compare work and styles. Not an easy thing here without solid public transportation. In New York you could get some train passes and get everybody around like that...not so here. But the hard work pays and in the spring when the gardens blossom ( you can already see the little fennel poking its head up in the herb garden) that will be the best :-) all that sweat and toil coming up daisies...the road to beautiful...I mean :-)
Ciao
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I can't believe it's been a year since we did our first Gallery show up at Bell Arts in Ventura last year. Time flies!
Now we're in Long Beach, preparing for our second toy/art supply/book/clothing give away. The first one was for NOLA, after Hurricane Katrina...these things aren't easy. So many items! We have three hundred kids at the shelters in LBC and I hope that we can have something for each one, and something for children who just show up or are visiting. This is going to tax my organizational skills, but I know we can do it.
The Holidays are the best, most awesome time of year, people can give and not be ashamed. Love and not be ashamed. Be loved and not be ashamed. I guess that's why it was one of mom's favorite holidays too, she definitely passed the gene to me and Chris, that's for sure.
We're working with LBCreative! to do a big winter wonderland on the campus at Cabrillo Villages. Cabrillo houses over 5 family shelters, it's where our children's garden is and our afterschool program. The children just finished planting this week and they were thrilled. I want to get copies of my Strawberry Shortcake book, the one I was fortunate enough to write and have published on the subject of the "Butterfly Garden."
I wrote that right after I'd completed a real butterfly garden with my students in Harlem years ago. It's like a time capsule of all the great work we put into the garden. I want to get some copies of that book and give to all the little gardeners at the shelter...we have about 25 in all. They're a good bunch. Magical...Wish me luck on the toy drive :-)K
Now we're in Long Beach, preparing for our second toy/art supply/book/clothing give away. The first one was for NOLA, after Hurricane Katrina...these things aren't easy. So many items! We have three hundred kids at the shelters in LBC and I hope that we can have something for each one, and something for children who just show up or are visiting. This is going to tax my organizational skills, but I know we can do it.
The Holidays are the best, most awesome time of year, people can give and not be ashamed. Love and not be ashamed. Be loved and not be ashamed. I guess that's why it was one of mom's favorite holidays too, she definitely passed the gene to me and Chris, that's for sure.
We're working with LBCreative! to do a big winter wonderland on the campus at Cabrillo Villages. Cabrillo houses over 5 family shelters, it's where our children's garden is and our afterschool program. The children just finished planting this week and they were thrilled. I want to get copies of my Strawberry Shortcake book, the one I was fortunate enough to write and have published on the subject of the "Butterfly Garden."
I wrote that right after I'd completed a real butterfly garden with my students in Harlem years ago. It's like a time capsule of all the great work we put into the garden. I want to get some copies of that book and give to all the little gardeners at the shelter...we have about 25 in all. They're a good bunch. Magical...Wish me luck on the toy drive :-)K
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
June gloom and still the sun shines through!
June Gloom is in full effect ya'll...can't stop the sun from shining through though and a great hope and love for the future.
This just in!
Living Love Foundation will be walking on over to Long Beach within the year...moving headquarters...living and growing in a culturally diverse, very aware and pretty hip part of Southern California.
Long Beach, its government organizations, grassroots communities and children have shown Living Love Foundation and it's programs, especially Home is Where The Art Is, our program for homeless children and their families, alot of love. We're gonna follow that and head out as soon as we find a home for our great and lovely organization.
Change is the wind...yes indeed. New people, new places, new port...:-)
I guess that means we'll be doing classes in San Diego soon since it's so close...I have to remember to think big, but manageable...San Diego's not that far right?
Ciao Ya'll
This just in!
Living Love Foundation will be walking on over to Long Beach within the year...moving headquarters...living and growing in a culturally diverse, very aware and pretty hip part of Southern California.
Long Beach, its government organizations, grassroots communities and children have shown Living Love Foundation and it's programs, especially Home is Where The Art Is, our program for homeless children and their families, alot of love. We're gonna follow that and head out as soon as we find a home for our great and lovely organization.
Change is the wind...yes indeed. New people, new places, new port...:-)
I guess that means we'll be doing classes in San Diego soon since it's so close...I have to remember to think big, but manageable...San Diego's not that far right?
Ciao Ya'll
Friday, February 13, 2009
Happy Birthday Betty Ann!
My mother was born on Friday the thirteenth, February 1948. It was the day before Valentine’s; in a leap year; during the height of America’s baby-boom.
For me, growing up it was always weird because as we were preparing for her birthday, mom was preparing for Valentine’s Day. And as we were giving mom birthday gifts, she was busy making valentine’s baskets for us for the next day. Chocolates, fruit, stuffed fluffy hearts…sweet loving things.
Somewhere, at some point in my maturation as a kid, I wondered what mom got out of it all. Didn’t it steal Betty Ann’s thunder…a holiday like that being right on top of her birthday?
I got my answer today when made a Valentine’s Party for the kids at our Port Hueneme school. The kids there named the little school house Kingdom of Art and Talent, which for some reason makes me chuckle every time I say it.
The chocolate kisses and tres leche cake and chips and salsa were part of the excitement, but the thrill of sharing a celebration of positivity and goodness, the fact that the world even makes a day for that felt like the balm in Gilead. No joke.
I watched the kids pour in from the street after school, laughing and playing, painting and recycling and brainstorming their valentines cards (my favorite said I LOVE HIM! in bright red and yellow) and sweat me for when the food was gonna be done. I cut up one of those whole rotisserie chickens and one of the Kingdom of Art and Talent School House Living Love students sliced the bread really small and we made these tasty, tiny sandwiches.
I thought back to mom preparing her baskets and readying the house for Valentine’s day and thinking to myself “doesn’t that steal her thunder,” today for the first time ever I realized that mom was celebrating love…for love’s sake…
It was about real love. Just good old, pure love.
The love the kids showed us when they came into the Kingdom of Art and Talent Living Love School House and saw that Tamas and Gloria and Maribel and I had been cleaning and moving things around for days and days to get ready to have a real bonafide place to learn and teach and do art and continue our mission of inspiring them to love themselves…and they said “wo!!! You guys did all this for us!”
The real love when Gloria and Bill, who run the mobile home park, invited us yesterday to use the Art-Energy Program to teach the kids how to install solar panels on their mobile homes, so they can help the environment, save money for their families and learn that the earth has natural resources that they can tap into without hurting future generations.
The love of our web designer Cindy who has worked late nights all this week to bring us an online store so we can share some more oldies but goodies from Betty’s closet, sell some t-shirts and continue our work AND launch on mom’s birthday, Friday the 13th.
The love of my father who has reached out his hand; put his hand in his pocket; and monitored his temper to mentor and train me, Ms. bratty Kumbaya My Lord, into being someone who can have a real, sustainable impact on the world.
My mother’s sister Kathy, who has gurued me to a livable sanity the last three years and some months since mom passed away and Nicole, my mom’s grand niece who just calls to see how I’m holding up on mom’s special days and anniversaries.
The love of the children…pure love, who ask us “can’t Living Love come every day?!!!” My brother Christopher, the combat veteran who patiently hands out little bowls of water and suggests that they shouldn’t dab again in other people’s colors before they rinse their brushes…
Monica who writes grants for Living Love in her sleep from Inwood in New York City and texts me in the middle of the night about her ideas…my boys in Morocco who are waiting for us to return with art classes and smiles…
My mother who travels dimensions when my spirits are low to shine her good light and keen sense of humor on my path and remind me that with pure love, every dream I have ever dreamed for the children of the world can come to be true.
Little Erik who made the beautiful card you see on the face of the website for his mom and dad and put it under his jacket so it wouldn’t get ruined as he rode his bike back to his mobile home after the party.
Tonight as Maribel and I drove away from The Kingdom of Art and Talent School House, bellies full of tres leche cake, Gloria’s delicious potato enchiladas and Hershey’s kisses chocolate, I understood more what mom was doing. How she saw things. And how natural a stroke across God’s palette to birth a child like her to the world who loved love for love’s sake, the day before valentine’s day…at a time in the year…if even for a moment when people organized to celebrate love…and not just the romantic mushy kind. But the kind that can’t have thunder stolen; because it’s love and real love is busy making thunder of its own.
I think these two should share a line…Happy Birthday Betty Ann and Happy Valentine’s Day to the world!
Love You Always-Kelly
My mother was born on Friday the thirteenth, February 1948. It was the day before Valentine’s; in a leap year; during the height of America’s baby-boom.
For me, growing up it was always weird because as we were preparing for her birthday, mom was preparing for Valentine’s Day. And as we were giving mom birthday gifts, she was busy making valentine’s baskets for us for the next day. Chocolates, fruit, stuffed fluffy hearts…sweet loving things.
Somewhere, at some point in my maturation as a kid, I wondered what mom got out of it all. Didn’t it steal Betty Ann’s thunder…a holiday like that being right on top of her birthday?
I got my answer today when made a Valentine’s Party for the kids at our Port Hueneme school. The kids there named the little school house Kingdom of Art and Talent, which for some reason makes me chuckle every time I say it.
The chocolate kisses and tres leche cake and chips and salsa were part of the excitement, but the thrill of sharing a celebration of positivity and goodness, the fact that the world even makes a day for that felt like the balm in Gilead. No joke.
I watched the kids pour in from the street after school, laughing and playing, painting and recycling and brainstorming their valentines cards (my favorite said I LOVE HIM! in bright red and yellow) and sweat me for when the food was gonna be done. I cut up one of those whole rotisserie chickens and one of the Kingdom of Art and Talent School House Living Love students sliced the bread really small and we made these tasty, tiny sandwiches.
I thought back to mom preparing her baskets and readying the house for Valentine’s day and thinking to myself “doesn’t that steal her thunder,” today for the first time ever I realized that mom was celebrating love…for love’s sake…
It was about real love. Just good old, pure love.
The love the kids showed us when they came into the Kingdom of Art and Talent Living Love School House and saw that Tamas and Gloria and Maribel and I had been cleaning and moving things around for days and days to get ready to have a real bonafide place to learn and teach and do art and continue our mission of inspiring them to love themselves…and they said “wo!!! You guys did all this for us!”
The real love when Gloria and Bill, who run the mobile home park, invited us yesterday to use the Art-Energy Program to teach the kids how to install solar panels on their mobile homes, so they can help the environment, save money for their families and learn that the earth has natural resources that they can tap into without hurting future generations.
The love of our web designer Cindy who has worked late nights all this week to bring us an online store so we can share some more oldies but goodies from Betty’s closet, sell some t-shirts and continue our work AND launch on mom’s birthday, Friday the 13th.
The love of my father who has reached out his hand; put his hand in his pocket; and monitored his temper to mentor and train me, Ms. bratty Kumbaya My Lord, into being someone who can have a real, sustainable impact on the world.
My mother’s sister Kathy, who has gurued me to a livable sanity the last three years and some months since mom passed away and Nicole, my mom’s grand niece who just calls to see how I’m holding up on mom’s special days and anniversaries.
The love of the children…pure love, who ask us “can’t Living Love come every day?!!!” My brother Christopher, the combat veteran who patiently hands out little bowls of water and suggests that they shouldn’t dab again in other people’s colors before they rinse their brushes…
Monica who writes grants for Living Love in her sleep from Inwood in New York City and texts me in the middle of the night about her ideas…my boys in Morocco who are waiting for us to return with art classes and smiles…
My mother who travels dimensions when my spirits are low to shine her good light and keen sense of humor on my path and remind me that with pure love, every dream I have ever dreamed for the children of the world can come to be true.
Little Erik who made the beautiful card you see on the face of the website for his mom and dad and put it under his jacket so it wouldn’t get ruined as he rode his bike back to his mobile home after the party.
Tonight as Maribel and I drove away from The Kingdom of Art and Talent School House, bellies full of tres leche cake, Gloria’s delicious potato enchiladas and Hershey’s kisses chocolate, I understood more what mom was doing. How she saw things. And how natural a stroke across God’s palette to birth a child like her to the world who loved love for love’s sake, the day before valentine’s day…at a time in the year…if even for a moment when people organized to celebrate love…and not just the romantic mushy kind. But the kind that can’t have thunder stolen; because it’s love and real love is busy making thunder of its own.
I think these two should share a line…Happy Birthday Betty Ann and Happy Valentine’s Day to the world!
Love You Always-Kelly
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