YOU ARE THE SUN, BRINGING LIGHT INTO THE WORLD.
YOU ARE NEEDED, YOU ARE LOVED.
TODAY IS A BLESSING, A GIFT
YOU CAN'T EVER GET BACK: SHINE THE BRIGHTEST YOU CAN.


Today, as first order of business (after getting breakfast and checking other emails), I submitted an idea for a mural to be done next Monday for MLK Service Day. It's simple: a rising sun with all the beautiful dawn colors to catch people's attention, and the poem I just wrote somewhere over the dawn scene.

If the uppers like my idea, we will paint it on a wall at Walter L. Cohen High School, a school in which at least one girl in every class is pregnant, and most of the population will probably end up in jail, or at least quite unprepared for the real world ahead.

This is why I moved to New Orleans, baby.

Here's praying the Universe will let me inspire others with this mural idea...