Looking for something positive...

Waking up this morning after a long three weeks in my own life, but an even longer seven days for our world. Feeling relieved in my own space, but heart felt pain for so many others. Those in Boston, those who love someone in Boston, what can we do from this far away? How can we help, support and honor those on the east coast? We send thoughts, prayers and healing light. But, it doesn't feel like enough. I walk around now with you in my heart!!! I remember when I was live on the air during 9/11, I remember when Katrina hit the gulf coast, I remember Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, this is just as horrible. I hate this feeling. It's helpless, and at times hopeless. I know I can find something positive, but not right now. I'm always searching for that, even in the worst of times when the worst of things happen. I'm looking forward to a better week for us all. I plan to enjoy life more now, love stronger, give more often and make each moment mean something. I will be cherishing my friendships, my family and myself so much more now. I vow to work more towards my goals and dreams. I promise to be the best sister, daughter, aunt and friend I am capable of being!

Jackie, Let's Celebrate, Honor and Remember #42!!!!

Wow, each year at this time I get giddy, excited and a bit melancholy. I want to spend the days leading up to April 15th, Jackie Robinson Day in MLB cheering and remembering! This year it's a little extra special. A Biopic of Jackie's life opens in theaters tomorrow nationwide. I haven't anticipated a movie this much, EVER in my life. Part of me wants to go to a local theater and camp out, awaiting the very first show at 12:40pm tomorrow! I know I'd be the only person there, but maybe it would get some media attention, anything to keep his legacy alive. Anything to teach the kids about a guy that truly CHANGED the world through sports. "42" opens tomorrow, I'll be at that first show, with a group of people, smiling, laughing, crying, cheering and remembering Jackie Robinson. A man who integrated not only baseball; he started something and he stuck it out, even when it was almost too painful to handle. He broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. He tolerated years of verbal and physical abuse. His family tolerated years of verbal abuse as well. Every single child in this country needs to know what he did for people of color in this nation. He broke into baseball years before even schools were desegregated. The military was even just integrating soldiers into regimes around our country. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, Jackie Robinson did more for this country and the civil rights movement than any of us. That came from MLK!!! He has a national holiday in his honor every January. I vote for a national holiday for JR42, and I will spend the rest of my life working to get Jackie Robinson a holiday, to get Jackie Robinson on a postage stamp and and to keep his memory alive. I ask you, I challenge you to share his legacy with young people. Please, let's all continue to tell his story and help keep the conversation going, it will make us all better people. He's left me that gift and I'd like to offer it to you. Jackie Robinson died waaaaay to young at the age of 53, but his memory and story will remain alive forever! Hip Hip Hooray for JR42!!!