Tornado Hits Downtown Atlanta!

These pictures are definitely enough to strike up a conversation about God and science, about prayers and the praying and about the reality of the strong and the weak and what your life is really about.

My husband and children were at the Hawks game when the storm hit. Hubby took the high road and got himself and the children to safety before the tornado planted its tail on Downtown Atlanta.

Driving to work this morning was eye opening. I work about 3-5 minutes from the CNN Center and to see the windows busted in the office buildings and hotels made me feel...well, that's just it. It gave me a feeling. I can't really describe what IT was but just a feeling. Maybe I'll call it thankfulness.

Tornado Hits Downtown Atlanta!

Why Not Me?

Well, I did it. I finally finished a manuscript for the opportunity to become a fellow of the Cave Canem Summer Retreat (a retreat for writers committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry). I have submitted before but this time I believe I have a manuscript that I am proud of. I have always known how excitingly competitive it is but that only gave me fuel for my fire. It only made me ask myself..."why not me?" and surprisingly I listen to that pesky inner voice and continue to ask myself the question of why not me?

It's not so much a matter of what if I get in or when, what matters most to my creative spirit is what I choose to do at those moments when I'm not feeling as confident or creative as the moment I did when I stuck the manuscript in the mail. Maybe I will think of ten great things that I can do and share them with you. Until next time...

Beware,

Miss Know It All

Why Not Me?