My home

I consider TO my home. I'm always a New Yorker at heart, but my home is here.

I'm so blessed to have found a good place to stay and be making lovely headway with finding my peace. I definitely need to work on holding onto my peace and not letting anyone steal it. Your peace is rightfully yours.

How to undo the negative cycles and thought processes that hinder progress.

Simple. Imagination & positive energy!

What happens to a dream deferred?

Langston asked that eons ago...Four years ago I asked the same question.

Here's the answer...

A dream deferred sags like a heavy load or exlodes into wonderful reality.

My advice...don't defer your dreams. Make them reality!

Start Strong Sundays

Happy Sunday!

For the past year- I've termed my Sundays Start Strong Sundays.
Sunday is my fave day of the week because for me I get a chance to start anew and try again. I get to clean my space and air out and bring in positive energy. I'm spiritual and thrive on rituals so Start Strong Sunday gives me the opportunity to bring in some goodness into my life in various simple ways. Every Sunday for two years how I've been getting a motivational email from Spark telling me to keep going. It's quite cheesy- sometimes I respond to that email!

A day to rest my body and just breathe. Wow. Every day is a blessing, but to me Sundays are especially so.

I would like to treat this blog more like a journal - except I hardly post - my energies tend to be elsewhere.

Yesterday I had this beautiful vision of my future home and neighborhood. I'll be moving there in 2013 between now and then I need to procure $500 000 cash. Gotta work my tush off for it. As I say while I lounge around and sleep all September away!! Great.

Today is the 21st of Sept and I give thanks for 21 blessings:

1. -communication
2. -love
3. -forgiveness
4. -family
5. -true friendship
6. -clarity
7. -the journey
8. -my sexy danskin pants
9. -art
10. -my congregation
11. -manga
12. -books
13. -letters
14. -health
15. -my body
16. -music
17. -dreams
18. -growth
19. -my hot soulsista tank top
20. -my digiframe
21. -imagination

I love Toronto in the healthiest way possible & it feels good. Not infatuation or fake love. I love Toronto because it houses me in my most healthy state and things can only go uphill from here. I love TO because of the little green nooks and crannies everywhere. I like the neighborhoods I have yet to explore and the ones whose glimpses drive me wild like West Queen West. The possibilities that knock at my window every day. The gorgeous winter that's coming up. The cheesiness that TO inspires in me. Even that, I love. Mostly I am grateful of this space that's a balance of diversity, health, community and urban life.

Happy Sunday all!

Today is September 14th and I am giving thanks for 14 things

Things I am grateful for today in TO

1. A good HOME
2. The beautiful green spaces along Queen St. East
3. Enlightenment
4. My dad & how he inspires me
5. Streetcars
6. Books and how they captivate me
7. My triathlon
8. Water
9. My friends all over the world who support me
10. My family
11. Growth
12. Today's amazing Start Strong Sunday
13. Soul food
14. Congregation

Answers to the poll! More updates...

The following are Canadian inventions: Basketball, Pictionary & the Telephone.

Can you believe they have a phone company here named Bell after Alexander Graham Bell? How cheesy is that? As cheesy as Chiitos I say. Gross.

Toronto, abbreviated TO has other redeeming qualities that I'm learning to discover....

Almost every other block has a payphone. I have yet to find a nonworking one. Efficiency & public service hooray!

I haven't seen any hobos or beggars on the subway. Good social assistance programs.

Downside: They tax you for EVERYTHING....When I buy something I automatically add a few extra dollars to the listed price because that's ultimately the real price...I never did quite understand why the price isn't listed inclusive of the tax.

I did mean to write a post about pizza, but I don't think I'll be doing much pizza eating. Meanwhile- gotta live through this week. Been here almost a month. Gotta just become & embrace the term Torontonian.

I hereby renounce my New Yorker ways & learn some manners & cleanliness!!