And it goes a little something like this…

 I had a early morning show, a woman's empowerment brunch on skid row. Which I didn't exactly know was gonna be in the heart of skid row I just thought "downtown" which in the day light hours is not so bad.  Either way, I get there and unsure of where to park, I see a spot in a 1 hour parking zone so I pull in.  I step out of my car greeted by a few hundred of what might be described as sketchy folks.  The early morning air smells of pee and streets that have never seen clean hot water, bleach or any cleaning solution.   The men compliment me, the woman extend smiles noticing I am not from around there.  I get to the first of many open doors with lines forming for medication and food- pull out my cell to call my contact.  He refers me to the parking lot around the corner for more secure parking, under my breath I thank god I was a bit worried.  Not that my car is in any way "nice" just I remember having our family car broken into as a child around this area for nothing more then some cassette tapes.  As I take the 15-20 steps back to my car I notice a crowd of skid row residents forming near my car.  As I approach I see a Latino guy, late 20's being handcuffed with those plastic cuffs and being searched leaned up against the back of my car.  There is a bike lying in the middle of the street and a old blue Honda civic like car with dark tinted windows.  All the doors are flung open and traffic is beginning to back up seeing as how the civic is stopped diagonal in the street.  I open my car door and make eye contact with the undercover cops who are dressed in USC t-shirts and jeans.  I figure they will move the undercover cop car which was clearly blocking me in.

BUT no, these muthafuckas look at me and then one has the nerve to say "you like this don't you ma"

to which I replied " no, its actually quite alarming and makes me real uncomfortable"

Still leaned against my trunk the "suspect" is being asked if he swallowed the drugs. They open his mouth and look, search his pockets then begin to search under and around my car in the event that he threw the drugs.  I ask the more normal of the two cops if he would move the car I needed to go. He politely says it will just be a second and then he loads the "suspect" into the back of the civic and drives away.  By this point two other undercover cars drive up, one which the bike is loaded into and the other asks if everything is cool. 

As quickly as the man was jerked off his bike it was over and San Pedro st was back to speeding cars, addicts and the recovering.  I was off to Inspire!

*The Drama was real.  One of the other speakers said as she walked in, she noticed the man on the bike but thought he was just getting a ride from one of his friends.

During a phone conversation with a friend

Me: Wear something cute
Her: i feel like i always do, Its really weird that you would even say that
Me: Oh, I'm sorry beyonce!
Her: i mean damn
Me: ok Bye Beyonce

Phone call ends.

Friends are so amazing thank you for the classic moments!

Thanks DamnYo....

Write 10 random things about yourself, then list ten friends and why you chose them, and then leave them a comment to let them know that you tagged them....

1. I love Febreze
2. I sing in the car full out.  Like I'm getting paid- I'm sure people wonder what's wrong with me
3. When I was a kid I wanted to be a singer
4. Cherry pie is the best
5. I look for furniture people have thrown away and fix it. Current project: an old beat up desk for my office.
6. My house is filled with nude pictures of beautiful ladies
7. I never wash my car
8. I have really small ears
9. When I was 9 I was skating and a pine cone got caught in the wheel of my skate, I had a coke bottle in my hand (when bottles were still glass) and I fell, the bottle broke and went into my wrist. I got the scar to prove it! 
10. I never lose things

Def sound- 5^th grade best friend

Pharoahe monch- great mind

Thea- I need more stories

Crystal- South Carolina…..

GaKnew- Is one of  the funniest people I know (low key)

Mayda- One of the best story tellers she does random well

Tony B- just cause

Judah 1- cuz he uses old school words  

Javon- hes crazier then a soup sandwich

Emily- She always has amazing random shit going on.

Honorary person: AJ cuz I adore her crazy ass

* inspired by Michelle Obama and Oprah

There was a silence in the air I have not lived long enough to have previously experience

The kind that only falls on 12,000 people the way only inspiration can

Feet and back ached

Eyes burn from tears

Bursting firework like

Uncontrollable but free

Proud to have something to burst for besides heart break

I have heard of days like today

Of movements that made walking to work easy

That made sit-ins the obvious choice

And made being propelled down streets from the force of fire hoses worth it

Seen possibility grow into human form

But today I have seen what the work was done for

I felt a people rise

Felt a people purge and morph

From broken to whole

Often thought being a woman was too difficult

Growing into an unbalanced adulthood made womanhood and childbirth undesirable

Couldn't imagine all I would face without grace could imagine the fall

I finally understand what the fight was for

Finally felt the reason God created me a girl with big dreams and a heart that only accepts the possibility

I cried strong today

Proudly

Wanted the cameras to see me healing

Felt the room transform around me

I believe

Publicly in the possibility

Fear doesn't live here anymore

And neither does doubt

Can't convince me now

My heart has decided once and for all

Every cell in my body lined up

Waited patiently and now

I'm FREE