2009 Seattle AIDSwalk

Dear Friend,

I hope this message finds you well! I would like to invite you to be a part of our team for the Seattle AIDS Walk on Saturday, September 26. Our goal as a team between now and then is to help raise funds and awareness to support Lifelong AIDS Alliance. It's a great way to have fun working together in support of a worthy cause. Together we can help to end the AIDS epidemic!

Lifelong provides basic human services to the community, including food, housing, and medical coverage. You can learn more about their programs and services at www.llaa.org.

Thousands of people throughout the year depend upon these services provided by Lifelong. Our contribution as an AIDS Walk team has the power to change their lives.

If you are unable to walk with us on September 26, note that you can still join our team as a Virtual Walker or support our efforts through a donation.

Thanks for your time and consideration. I hope you can join us!

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Click here to view the team page for ATT Mobility League

Jacob, moving, and the new energy

So many have been asking about the new things going on in my life... i realize i havent done a real update blog in a long long time... seems that i have spent a great deal of time living life and not so much in the documentation of it all. I have found the more that I just enjoy the moment the more I am enjoying not always documenting it all. I have about 5 blogs started and just took a slight break.

So many new things...

The most important thing that has changed is that I found someone that I am very excited about. So many people want all the details and I will give some information. I met Jacob a while back online. We started out a friendship and at some point the conversations changed. He lives in Portland as a 911 operator and that keeps him very very busy. Between that and my work hours we have been trying to see each other as much as possible.

The thing is that I have worked very hard to build a sense of autonomy and work on finding the positive energy. This has included cutting some of the negative out of my life. Once i started to feel very much at peace and happy at the place that I am at in my life BAM!!!!! there was Jacob.

I connect with Jacob on many levels. We are both in the right place at the right time. It is more than just kismet that brought us together. We definitely connect on a physical, emotional, spiritual and sexually way. I have had a huge amount of support from my friends and that feels so very good.

The other big change was a move to Bothell. I am now much closer to my work (withing minutes of walking) and the mellow energy is so very very nice. It is good to not being sleeping in a makeshift room that is actually a dining room. I also get more time to spend with Dutchess. She has been such an amazing pup since I moved. I am liking the low key life and a lot of time to just contemplate.

The true fact is that I am in such a great happy place in my life. I am truly surround by great freinds that everyday show me so much love and support. I am very thankful for that. I am also so lucky to have met such a great man like Jacob. He reminds me everyday of what true pure love is and i get a glimpse into my future. He has definately awaken something deep inside me that I didnt know was there. A certain light. The distance does not stop the light or the feelings I have deep inside me.

This is my quick update and a glimpse into the new energy and place that I am at this point in my life. I am so blessed and lucky and very much at peace. Thank you so much for all the support my dear freinds and thank you so much Jacob for all that you bring to my life.

Remembering MJ!!!!

I am not one to blog about celebrities or the idea of celebrities. I have lost my enamor and glow of celebrities a while back when i began to meet and know indie artists such as Christopher Dallman, Eric Himan, Levi Kreis, Casey Stratton, Sacha Sacket and the like.

Meeting these amazing artists shattered the wall i think once existed on fame and celebrity as has the modern technology of Twitter, Facebook and the now dinosaur-ish MySpace. Seeing twitter updates from Rob Thomas, Darren hayes, Imogen Heap and the like has broken down that wall.

I feel though I have to write about the events of June, 25th, 2009. I was working and i got an email saying that Michael Jackson had was being taken to the hospital of a heart attack. My bf jacob calls me an eternal optimist and in my head I thought. poor guy i hope he gets better. Sadly he didnt. He passed away and the moment I heard the news I have to admit that I teared up instantly as did my coworker Lacey.

I have thought alot about why the feeling is there that there is such a loss. The truth is that MJ represented something to me that was not present by my surroundings as a child. Despite the tainting of his image over the years and the cost he has paid for being a childhood star. I don't have that image of him.

I remember a man who brought me joy as a child. I remember going to a freinds house as a kid. We weren't allowed to have cable cause it was "not suitable for children" LOL ... oh how times change. My freind Mike Myers (yes his real name) did though. I remember turning on the TV and watching the movie that would be THRILLER. I had never seen anything so amazing. After that moment my recesses were filled with trying to re-enact the whole video... of course me being the role of MJ.I loved doing the dance moves and learning every step that of the choreopgraphy.

I know that I am not alone in a generation that made THRILLER as the first musical purchase. I loved that album and the next album BAD. I have put much thought into why I enjoyed the music and the energy of MJ. Then it hit me.

A lot of the people that remember MJ seem to remember a time of innocence and our childhood was a happy place. Those of us especially who felt as if we didn't fit in and were looking for some type of escape saw something in him that was amazing. A real person who had the kind of childlike charm that many of us needed.

Despite anything that has been said or tried to be judged about him since those days I honestly remember a simple man that was one of the most amazing dancers, performers, and artists of my lifetime. Someone who taught me that it is ok to be innocent and to love what you do. An artist that no matter how old i get will always take me back to a time of innocence and childhood. I am thankful that I have gotten that chance in my lifetime to know a musical genius...

Thank you for that MJ. RIP....