Traveling Through Time

It's been two weeks since I've written. I know that seems like a long time. I've been busy, good busy. I have also been traveling. I got a full time job with benefits and have been traveling around to different community centers and places in San Francisco as part of my work with SF County Social Services through the Seneca Center. (Which is pretty amazing to get in this economy.)  I also took a trip to St. Petersburg, Florida for five days for a conference of the African People's Solidarity Committee. Then, I've been traveling  around Oakland - postering, going to rallies, attending meetings in an effort to organize people to a long term stand for justice for the black community following the BART police killing of Oscar Grant III, a young father who was shot by Johannes Mehserle in the early morning hours of the new year after being forced onto his belly. 

I say I traveled through time because I used to live in Florida and I always travel back to that time in the mid 90's when I go there. This time I happened to connect with Logan unexpectedly in a wonderful surprise that we were both in the Tampa Bay Area at the same time. 

I told him about the 1996 community rebellions following the police killing of TyRon Lewis, my family's reactions and concerns about my political activism and felt a real satisfaction in the merging of these two seemingly separate at times but interconnected parts of my life. Thank you Logan for being there. I like to think that Ned set it up with the Big Spirit up there so that we could be at the same place at the same time.

More to say but much more to do. Hope everyone is having fun with the cookbook. I have already made the Edminster's Cheesy Bread twice and I recommend the Miner's Hot Pepper Chicken.  Also, forgot to mention that Jasmine's rock band - Poison Apple Pie - had its fourth gig on January 6th. Here they are in November doing an REM cover. Love to all.