tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64951527710497154622013-01-29T09:45:25.611-05:00Daphné From Da BlockMom,Wife,Event Planner,Passionate young Haitian woman,yearning for a CHANGE!
Living...Loving...and LaughingTiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-86059574997570659042013-01-28T22:19:00.001-05:002013-01-28T22:19:59.622-05:002013-01-28T22:19:59.622-05:00Dare to be free?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tonight I will babble and call it a blog. I blog when I am upset, annoyed or plain frustrated about things. Sometimes so personal that the words just slowly eat at me, or land in the ears of an unlucky person </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This post will be somewhat personal as for you to truly understand the point I will attempt to make you have to understand my reality. As I have lived it for 20 some years now. I don’t need pity, I am not typing as a victim, but as someone who has experienced a few things. Nothing remotely close to what most have experienced in their lifetime though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">How free are you to be yourself? Independent, to do what you please (within limits, I guess), to be happy? To live out your dreams and potentials; how free are you to be you, the individual you were created to be. How hindered are you too? Made up? Compromised? Trapped? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are some of your fears? Can you dare step out of the box you’ve created for you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My head is constantly filled with these questions; early on in my adolescent years, I struggled a lot with being myself, not that I was not allowed to be, but thinking back I realized that I wasn’t encouraged to be either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was almost always about fitting in, pleasing this person, that friend, etc. I grew up with the best set of parents one could maybe ask for. Dad being military often times ordered us around, still very attentive and affectionate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom was your typical submissive Haitian wife, very caring and dutiful to her family. Growing up I prayed to be just like her, to follow right in her footstep and play that role, the role that us women are supposed to skillfully master. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I didn’t. I haven’t. I stopped praying for that actually. Still in my teens I was sexually abused, by a man, someone close, whom I trusted. For a long time I acted as if the abuse meant nothing to me. Oprah became my sole therapist as I continued to perform on life’s stage, often alone and lonely. I became prisoner of myself, prisoner of this secret, and how it really affected me. I was more concerned about protecting everyone around me and the few people who knew were sworn to secrecy, as my parents were forbidden from ever knowing this truth. (Crap, mom is on FB and is probably reading this as we speak). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From then to now, life happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School, marriage, kids. I was still caged, maybe still am to some extent. For a while I lived trapped in my head and my body. My self esteem along with my many dreams became nonexistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I focused on what my ideas of a great life and a great marriage should be, barely living one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few people noticed, funny how you can make people believe whatever they want about you and your life. The other day I asked how do people know that President Obama and his wife are happy, not because I was being a pest, but because I know how it is to “look and act” happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can’t blame my abuse for all my bad moments in life, but it did change me and basically shifted my source of energy. I tried to turn to God for solace, but a man of God had abused me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I went to church, but with caution. God wasn’t responsible, but church became more of a social place than a spiritual, so I went, prayed but that was it. No real connection was made with God, for a while. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know better now though, I trust God, only. Everyone else is just trying to act like they are Gods. My opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I decided, almost two years ago to be free, to live freely. I opted for being an individual. I left all of my pains away two years ago, ran to the motherland to redefine myself. I know who I am now, my strengths and my weaknesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still so weak, as I am a work in progress but I am progressing, all that matters at this point. I decided that my happiness depended on me and no one else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a hard life, being happy and unhindered requires commitment. Not caring and focusing on me, being an individual and holding on to my freedom as a person are some of the most important things in my life right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love my husband, my family, my kids … but not more than feeling liberated and free. Not more than the strength I get in being me, as weird and weird and ….only weird keeps coming to my head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I bite when I feel that my freedom and space are threatened. It took me a while; I am actually still at it, to trust again. My happiness revolves around me feeling safe, not by anyone, but by myself. I trust what I can do, within my limits. I trust myself, if I do it; it means I can handle what comes with doing it. Once it takes away from my peace of mind, it no longer interests me. So, I don’t bother with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">LOL, BTW, I can sense it. The psychologists are probably at it again, analyzing me, Enjoy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Females have a harder time finding happiness, in my opinion, as we are often shadowed by what makes our husbands or mates happy and believe it to be our own happiness. We lose our identity as we get married, I started forgetting I was named “Daphne” as I became “Mme Vlad” the day I said “I do”. People, marriage and relationships are great; this isn’t my point here though. I am not discussing the blessed union of marriage. I am discussing individualism, women individualism to be more precise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ok, now the overzealous Christians have surely joined the psychologist in judging me. Thy shalt not judge. Ya’ll better go repent somewhere </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Seek it, trust that God will help you find it, but first define it. Happiness isn’t the same for everyone, my happy life could well be your miserable life and vice versa. Define and accept your happiness, know your limits and always claim your freedom. Be free to think for yourself, decide for yourself and act for yourself. I am not telling you to go crazy, but follow your heart from time to time and do what pleases you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you are hindered from being yourself, chances are you are not happy. I am just saying. I am no Oprah though. </span></div>
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TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-37052100828185936792013-01-25T17:07:00.002-05:002013-01-25T17:11:16.104-05:002013-01-25T17:11:16.104-05:00 Commitment issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-38771251191492546622013-01-07T22:26:00.001-05:002013-01-07T22:27:46.007-05:002013-01-07T22:27:46.007-05:00Emotional and spiritual jumping jacks :/<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't believe in New Years resolutions! Mainly because I never keep them and feel like a total failure not even two months into the new year. Like i am still overweight. I typed <i>fat</i> but decided to be <i>nicer</i> to myself :/<br />
The thought of excercizing is still so foreign to me. I had promised myself last year to read more, tweet and facebook less. Nah. Still kept the same pace.<br />
I have thought of many ways to save more. Only to get really broke and simply think of all the ways I should have saved. Shaking My Head.<br />
Ah blogging, I was suppose to do more of that too. And open my online business. Bref, do you get the point?<br />
Whatever motivates most people to make resolutions and actually keep them; I don't have.<br />
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Every first of the year though, my mind runs at 100 miles an hour. Looking and silently promising myself "a change"! A change. What could I possibly commit to doing better this year?<br />
A whole lot! But so far, seven days into 2013 and only one thing thugs at my heart: an emotional and spiritual detox.<br />
I am tired of being vain, thinking and constantly worrying about my looks, smarts and financial well being. This year, although not a resoution, I would like to pay attention to <i>myself , my emotional and spiritual well being. </i><br />
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Since I have moved to Haiti I have not found a home church. I am actually glad I haven't. I thought that spiritually I needed to be inside a building to trust, serve and be connected to God. It helps. But I don't feel like Ive missed much. For the kids sake I will continue to look. But.... I digress...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">2012 was good but the most emotionally charged year I have gone through in a while. I shed a lot of tears. A lot. Resolution kept or not, I made it. My family made it. I am still married ( was supposed to be going through a divorce) and my kids are fine. Were sick a LOT but are healthy. My parents are still alive. Mom is doing so much better. My siblings are well and kicking. Zaria has brought such a fun and pretty addition to our lives. </span><br />
In 2013 I would like to shed everything. I'd like to pray more. Medidate more. Keep a journal again and write down how I am emotionally. To be more in tune with my feelings.<br />
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I would like to be spiritually and emotionally fit, lean and long. Hopefully, dare again. Like back in 2011(I moved back to Haiti). Take another big jump. Do something I have contemplated doing a while. Who knows. Laugh at my fears. Tackle my fears. Move past them. Do something about them. Discover new fears. I Dont Know.<br />
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In 2013 I am better spiritually, because I have decided to be. In 2013 I am better emotionally because I control my emotions and am ready to deal with the things that drain me and bring me heartaches.<br />
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So I guess I don't really need to make any new resolutions sinve I have decided and resolved my 2013 fate. It shall be as I pray and wish for. A spiritually and emotionally fit 2013. Eevrything else will fall into place, accordingly.<br />
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Happy New Year again :) </div>
TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-14846567850751626472012-01-18T16:00:00.001-05:002012-01-18T16:02:47.072-05:002012-01-18T16:02:47.072-05:00AS IF!!!!!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br />
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I will start by apologizing to my few … and I mean few, female acquaintances. It has been a while since I have had “girlfriends” and I was reminded today of why I don’t seek and really try to stay away from my kind. I really hope that you don’t take any of the following personally, but then again being the females that you are you will surely think that this blog post is about you. You’re vain, I know. I don’t care. <br />
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I recently tweeted that “females are annoying; sometimes”; well, it has been my experience that they are annoying all the time. Could it be that I am a male trapped in a female’s body? Most female ways irritate me. <br />
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Top 5 reasons females really aggravate me:<br />
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1. Drama Queens- Most girls I know, insist on making everything about them, like this whole wide world belongs to them and their silly caprices. Get a life. <br />
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2. Competitive- As if! If girls competed against what is in their brains, it would be constructive. Most females compete over the most superficial things, like looks, clothes and the worse….GUYS! So what you THINK you’re cuter, better…..you’re vain, remember. <br />
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3. Judgmental- ADJECTIVE. Tending to criticize: tending to judge or criticize the conduct of other people (Exactly what I am doing right now. I am a girl, OK)! <br />
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4. Less Fun- Is it me or are boys more fun? Less drama, less competition, less judgmental, to the point, in your face, real…..BOOM, what you see is what you get. Give me BOYS!<br />
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5. Hard to talk to- I am so tired of having to mind my mouth, girls are wayyy too sensitive for me and remember their caprices and how judgmental they are? Who has time for that? <br />
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At my age, I don’t want to give a hoot, I don’t want to care about how delicate your feelings are and feel like I am constantly in a love and hate relationship with you. I am tired of thinking you are my friend, yet you spend more time tearing me apart than building me up. <br />
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They say behind every man there’s a strong woman. Well in my experience, behind every woman there’s a gazillion of woman, like her, waiting to tear her down. <br />
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</div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-73684976654711810442011-07-20T13:44:00.000-04:002011-07-20T13:44:30.483-04:002011-07-20T13:44:30.483-04:00Are we there yet?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It has been five whole months since I have moved back to Haiti. I am happy to report that so far I am still alive, contrary to many beliefs no one has kidnapped me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yet (mandé Bondye padon)</i> and I have not been affected by cholera. Success, huh? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking for work was the hardest part of the whole process but thankfully as everyone predicted within three months I was fully employed in Haiti. I feel such pride and worth in saying that I found work all by myself, I didn’t have any “push” or “contact”. It is safe to say that my qualifications got me the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I love it here, the work in itself is great, but somehow I don’t see myself doing it for long. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coming to Haiti was bigger than me, it was not just about finding “a” job, it was about finding a career and work in something I am passionate about. It was about giving back my talents and abilities to Haiti so that I can proudly say one day that I helped in the efforts towards taking Haiti from point A to B. Delusional I know! It is still early, but that’s the void in me. I am longing to find that “thing” to do where I would feel happy and fulfilled every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am praying for the opportunity to bring change to people’s lives, the chance to help them better themselves, so that Haiti in turn can be better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I long to bring a smile to a child, who hopefully will make him, even if temporarily; forget that he lives in a land that offers him no opportunity. I just would love, for a second, to believe that my move will and can mean something more than collecting a paycheck, going to the beach and being reintroduced to my mother land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have done a lot in five months, more than I thought I could do. The decision to move was huge, adjusting is another achievement and I have accomplished that quite nicely. I can say that as far as Haiti is concerned I am on the road to personal success. Yet, I haven’t done enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I will devote the rest of this year, to find ways to give more of myself, my time and my talent to Haiti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is truly time for me to develop this “give and take” relationship with the country. I will hold myself accountable to not only talk of a better country but actively work towards a better country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I enjoy and bathe in the beautiful sun of Haiti I need to commit to doing what I came to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shall never escape that promise, because it is by giving of me that my emptiness will be filled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-32825475055646526562011-04-13T15:04:00.000-04:002011-04-13T15:04:35.164-04:002011-04-13T15:04:35.164-04:00Huh????!!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know that I haven't blogged in almost two months. I have a lot to share, yet they don't make it past my forehead. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VNjZTWKP2cY/TaXzT_RxD9I/AAAAAAAAAGc/srjk5qdq_IQ/s1600/StolenBlock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VNjZTWKP2cY/TaXzT_RxD9I/AAAAAAAAAGc/srjk5qdq_IQ/s400/StolenBlock.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fACX2-qTJEE/TaXzWWyK4BI/AAAAAAAAAGg/-DFZV9kio6k/s1600/mental-block.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fACX2-qTJEE/TaXzWWyK4BI/AAAAAAAAAGg/-DFZV9kio6k/s400/mental-block.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-large;">HELP!!! </span></div></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-142254159698380962011-02-26T17:36:00.000-05:002011-02-26T17:36:36.425-05:002011-02-26T17:36:36.425-05:00Finally here......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Its been a while since I have blogged, I was busy taking the plunge of my life. So, finally, after the many back and forth trips I am in Haiti. I plan to be here for however long it takes, hopefully Haiti doesn't kick me out again :-)<br />
Kids are adjusting, I was worried about them not "Liking" it, well as expected they LOVE it so far. Alexa complains about the mosquitoes, which she calls "mouche". Dimitri is not getting used to the heat yet, but its a matter of time until he settlles in. <br />
My father in loving this, he gest to permenantly be a grandfather. That I enjoy seeing on a daily basis. I am being spoiled...I know it wont last long. I am like the "just come"...everything I think of wanting I get. What a wonderful week it has been so far. <br />
I will keep everyone posted on the time here, I feel its important to blog about my adventure, the good and the bad...so, I will try my hardest to update on a weekly basis. <br />
Toodles...</div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-34326918891535575432011-02-01T01:24:00.000-05:002011-02-01T01:24:55.328-05:002011-02-01T01:24:55.328-05:00Black Love...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>FR</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">February is here! I am always excited to welcome a new month! <span> </span>February being here means that I survived January, with everything that it brought. <span> </span>Until I moved to the States, I only thought of Valentines’ day when it came to February.<span> </span>The LOVE month; the month we go all out, well some of us.<span> </span>I remember visiting Madrid a few years back, on a 14<sup>th</sup> of February, the whole city was covered in red roses, and hotels were sold out! They take that holiday that seriously. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Between Black History month and Valentine’s Day, I am feeling inspired to write about black love. Not that I have any type of prejudice against any other type or color of love….I only know about black love. <span> </span>I’ve only really had a chance to admire black love.<span> </span>Something about being loved and feeling loved and knowing you are loved by a black man is just magical. I won’t even venture into a Haitian man; I will keep it generalized to all black man. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I truly feel like it takes a certain woman to understand, comprehend, and appreciate a black man. <span> </span>A black man, to me, often time comes with a baggage, whether it be frustration, the feeling of being misunderstood, not being good enough, it’s always something that makes them need the constant reassurance of a solid, loving woman. <span> </span>It took me sometime to be that woman, but I think I am closer to being there. Love takes work; I was too young to process that before. If I knew than what I know now, about love, about my black man……….I would have made fewer mistakes, I would have loved him more, not just with my heart but my head and my complete being. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am no expert in relationships; Lord knows I go through my ups and downs! <span> </span>So much so that I am shocked at every single day that finds me still in love with my black man. <span></span>Without a doubt in my head and heart, my black man loves me, he’s own way.<span> </span>My friends always joke around and say that he “really” loves me, the kind of love that most girls look for.<span> </span>He looks out for me, and always makes sure I see and feel like he has my best interest in mind. <span> </span>How much our love has grown? Who would have thought? It took me simply understanding and appreciating him, for who is he to fully benefit from the love he has for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As the days get closer for me to move, I start to wonder how will I make it? He has truly become my black prince charming; who will look for me in the middle of the night? Who will scratch my hair, and release the constant tension in my neck?<span> </span>Who will cover my feet in the middle of the night, and shower me with random kisses? <span> </span>Who will I cuddle with in the middle of the night? Who will wake me up in the night for those pillow talks? Whose attention will I have, whose smile, look, love? Who will call me 15 times in a row while I am out? Who’s going to spoil me, and seek out my presence all day long? Who will watch my sappy shows with me? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I pray that black love gets me through this separation….I pray that our love becomes stronger as the days goes by! </span></div></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-7107742033703276502011-01-31T02:36:00.002-05:002011-01-31T02:38:51.133-05:002011-01-31T02:38:51.133-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">No more Drama....please</span></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This past week was though, to say the least. I swear sometimes I think I stay in the drama club. The more drama free I think I am, the more drama creeps up on me. I had to sit back this past week and do a little introspective, questioning my issues and how I might contribute to the staying and perpetuating of the drama in my life. Enough with the drama already! This time, I take none of the blame, I swear. I can be a pest, I acknowledge that, but this time around, I really, truly didn’t do it. I have gone through dramas that make me feel like I am riding on the worse roller coaster ever, yet this time can’t compare. For some reason, this ride is rougher, these tracks rise in patterns I’m unfamiliar with, and these inversions have left me upside down. Can someone please flip the switch? Can I be brought back to earth? Where things are usually OK for me, where people respect each other and look out for each other. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This past week was tough, to say the least. My sister, Farah keeps reminding me that the only way I can survive life is to lower my expectations in people. The higher I put them, the more I hurt when they let me down. As if them letting me down is to be expected. We’ve all fall short, I know that. But am I to lower how I see people? My expectations, do I change them to fit how short people fall? What will be left then? Shouldn’t people aim higher? Whatever happened to accountability and trust and integrity? Again, why should I change my standards to accommodate someone who obviously doesn’t really get it? So many questions, I know!<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This past week was though, to say the least. But notice how it’s in the past tense. Then so am I with this drama. Everyone who knows me knows that I am somewhat of a cry baby, well a huge cry baby. Yet, I have not been able to drop not one tear…not sure that I am sad, just shocked that it all had to end like this. Now that I have my big girl panties on, I am ready to tackle whatever comes my way, my way! I still hold people on a pedestal; I don’t want to even think that I can’t. Thinking that way will make me feel like I truly live in a jungle, with animals. Where everyone is out to fend for themselves. I don’t want to even think that way; yet. So I am still confident that people are good at heart, they just make mistakes. I pray that they learn from them and most importantly man/woman up when they do fall and admit to their faults so that closure can be brought and trust restored. Although in this particular instance, I won’t hold my breath…</span></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="color: purple; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I literally Love the color purple...like not the movie, well i like the movie, but the COLOR...get it?</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="color: purple; text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="color: purple; text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="color: purple; text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">I have cracked a couple of teeth on those, but they are a fav of mine!</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Why can't we just wear flip flops every where and all the time?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">I always LOVED cake...but I have this new found love for cupcakes...something about biting through the icing and getting into the cake! YUMMY</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">I dont like menthy flavored gum...THESE I love!</span></td></tr>
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I am so behind scheduled its not even funny! I was suppose to be out of here by today, but my plans have been pushed back at least 2 weeks. I have been cultivating the art of not asking questions, so I am going with the flow, waiting patiently for things to unfold on their own.<br />
I have had the Sunday from hell, so much so that I want to crawl into a hole and stay there, until everything around me starts to make sense again. These last few weeks I MUST make things happen, one final push so that I can finally get this ball rolling.<br />
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I cannot afford to cater to outside distractions. This year, so far the same lesson keep resurfacing...stay motivated on yourself and your family. The people who matter the most. Do not give any more of yourself towards anyone or anything else. So, for once, I must not be stubborn. I must listen and do as I am told. Motivation, the name of the game! <br />
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Je vous remercie d’avoir répondu à mon invitation de ce jour et saisis cette opportunité qui m’est offerte de m’adresser a mes concitoyens.<br />
Très brièvement, je vous dirai combien j’ai été favorablement impressionné par l’accueil qui m’a été réservé depuis l’Aéroport International Francois Duvalier pour cette visite, surtout par cette foule de jeunes qui ne m’ont pas connu.<br />
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Cela donne chaud au cœur. M di yo mèsi anpil, m’te kontan viv moman sa-a.<br />
Cela dit, je sais à quel point nombre de vous sont curieux de savoir l’objet de mon retour à Port-au-Prince après un quart de siècle d’absence. Cette question est sur toutes les lèvres.<br />
En effet, j’ai voulu rendre un hommage aux nombreuses victimes du séisme dévastateur du 12 janvier 2010 qui a fait, selon des estimations officielles, trois cent seize mille (316.000) morts. Malheureusement, je ne suis pas arrivé à temps pour cette commémoration.<br />
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Chers compatriotes,<br />
Me voici revenu vous témoigner de ma solidarité en cette période extrêmement difficile de la vie nationale où vous êtes encore des centaines de milliers à vivre à la belle étoile, au milieu des ruines. Dès l’instant que j’ai pris la décision de revenir en Haiti pour commémorer avec vous, dans notre pays, ce triste anniversaire, je m’attendais à toute sorte de persécutions ; mais croyez-moi, le désir de participer à vos cotés, à cette Konbit pour la reconstruction nationale, dépasse de loin les tracasseries auxquelles je pourrais être confronté… Peu importe le prix à payer, l’essentiel pour moi étant de me trouver avec vous. Et j’affirme qu’à ce titre, tous les Haïtiens et Haïtiennes de bonne volonté ont le droit de vouloir y prendre part.<br />
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Je saisis cette occasion pour présenter publiquement mes sympathies à mes millions de partisans qui, après mon départ volontaire d’Haiti, afin d’éviter un bain de sang et de faciliter le dénouement rapide de la crise politique, en 1986, ont été livrés à eux-mêmes. Des milliers ont été lâchement assassinés, boucanés, grillés, suppliciés au « pè lebrun », mot devenu tristement célèbre ; leurs maisons, leurs biens pillés, déchoukés , incendiés. Et tout cela, sous les feux des caméras du monde entier.<br />
Je saisis aussi cette occasion pour exprimer, une fois de plus, ma profonde tristesse à l’endroit de mes compatriotes qui se reconnaissent, à juste titre, d’avoir été victimes sous mon gouvernement.<br />
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Jeunesse de mon pays,<br />
Durant mon long séjour en France, j’ai toujours été attentif à vos cris et à vos malheurs. J’ai vécu vos moments difficiles avec beaucoup de peine et de chagrin. C’est à vous, futurs leaders de ce pays, qu’il convient d’assumer la relève et montrer au monde que l’âme haïtienne est bien vivace et forte.<br />
Et comme pour parodier le Révérend Martin Luther King : « quand vous ferez en sorte que la cloche de la réconciliation nationale puisse résonner dans tous les cœurs et que nous la laissions carillonner dans chaque commune, dans chaque ville, dans chaque quartier , dans chaque foyer, alors, nous pourrons hâter la venue du jour où tous les enfants d’Haiti, hommes et femmes, vieux et jeunes, riches et pauvres, ceux de l’intérieur comme ceux de la diaspora, puissent marcher la main dans la main sans exclusion et participer ensemble à la renaissance d’Haiti ».<br />
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Tel est le message de mon retour.<br />
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Vive Haiti ! Que Dieu nous bénisse !<br />
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MerciTiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-18683587448492124572011-01-21T02:41:00.000-05:002011-01-21T02:41:06.324-05:002011-01-21T02:41:06.324-05:00My silly Rabbits!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Today I was thinking about life, and I thought of my dad…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My dad is a hand’s on kind of father.<span> </span>Growing up he was always there. Some kids complain about their parents not being present in their lives, well for me it was different. Let’s just say that by the time I was fifteen I was really wishing and praying for the type of dad who did not notice the smallest of things.<span> </span>I remember the conversations around the dinner table in the afternoons, I remember him making sure we are studying.<span> </span>I remember the fun times; hanging out at the house, the trips to Jacmel, Port-de-Paix, etc.<span> </span>Dad putting together a baptism ceremony for our dolls when we were little girls, he and mom took care of all the details, taking the celebration further than we could have ever imagined. Guests were invited, mom sewed the doll’s dresses, a cake was made, and small little finger foods were prepared and served. Dad acted like the pastor and the little dolls lives were presented to God.<span> </span>He was and remains to be that kind of a dad. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My dad has this land in Cesselesse, Haiti, I vividly remember him talking about it. How he would build five houses on it; four in each corner of the land and one in the middle, he would describe with such passion how once he retired he would take our kids to school in the morning, or take them on the weekends so that we could enjoy our lives.<span> </span>Again, dad was a hand’s on kind of father who could not wait to see us graduate from school and get married.<span> </span>I remember him talking about us getting married in the house we lived in; he would detail how it would happen and all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My dad is and always was a stand up guy, excessively cautious some might say. He never really took risks or shortcuts; he always went about things the way they were supposed to be done. <span> </span>Until this day, complete strangers tell me, how he is a stickler for order and discipline. I have had people who work with him tell me that because of him they missed out on a lot of illegal “opportunities”, he just would not allow it. Ironic for someone who was part of an institution blamed for so much injustice and unfairness.<span> </span>To many, it almost goes against logic, to say that someone who was part of the Haitian military was a stand up guy. How do you defend that? I can, many others can and have. <span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My dad is the silent type guy, the more he is in the shadow the better. High ranked, yet no one knew him. I went to school with people my whole life who never even knew who and or what my father was or did. Following those facts I am always puzzled by how life turned on him, us as a family.<span> </span>How is it that he became a victim? Many have been victimized; I am focusing on my dad though, because I know him. I can vouch for him and loudly say that he was done wrong.<span> </span>The taste of life has been taken away from him unjustly.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Today I was thinking about life and thought of dad, thought about how my dad’s life would be right now, had he been a doctor, or a social worker. <span> </span>I remember his stories of how he wanted to go to medical school, or to become a social worker. How, for a good part of his life he wanted to work in human services; any field that worked or dealt with developing and helping people. I </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Today I was thinking about life and thought of dad, wondering if the cards had been played differently if he would have lost a good part of his adulthood as he has now. <span> </span>My dad has missed most of our graduations, he’s only seen me get married and that’s because I got married in Haiti. I remember him complaining that he hasn’t gotten to witness any of his girls pregnant yet, he still has some grand children that he has never met.<span> </span>Quite frankly the others he has met them but they don’t know him. My dad, not being around us and his grand kids to spoil them is just wrong; its injustice in its pure form.<span> </span>This is truly the worst thing that could have ever happened to such a family man as my dad. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So today, I was thinking about life and just got real upset! Upset at how it can destroy a man in a sense. <span> </span>I miss and think about how our lives could have been a lot, especially lately.<span> </span>I think of all of those wonderful plans we had as a family but I am left with a dad stuck in Haiti, a mom sick in Boston, a brother in Afghanistan, niece and nephew in California, me moving back to Haiti, leaving a husband and sisters in Tampa! Is that really the essence of life? What good are we to each other as a family when we are all away from each other? Is that what we signed up for? Where did we go wrong? What happened? Can you piece it back together Lord? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TTe8m_SJFVI/AAAAAAAAADw/ba4NsdXHN8w/s1600/hope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TTe8m_SJFVI/AAAAAAAAADw/ba4NsdXHN8w/s320/hope.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My hope is that one day soon, before his taken from us, he gets to enjoy those tiny </span><span lang="EN-US">little </span><span lang="EN-US"> pleasures of life again. I hope that for every year he is away from us, God adds a couple of more to his, so that we can all enjoy the great reunion. 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</div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-51368157044270701792011-01-19T16:16:00.002-05:002011-01-19T16:21:55.740-05:002011-01-19T16:21:55.740-05:00President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Statement, January 19, 2011<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><b>Dr Jean-Bertrand Aristide </b></h3>Former President of Haiti <br />
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<b>19 January 2011 </b><br />
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I would like to thank the government and the people of South Africa for the historic hospitality, deeply rooted in Ubuntu, extended to my family and I. <br />
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Since my forced arrival in the Mother Continent six and a half years ago, the people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return to Haiti . Despite the enormous challenges that they face in the aftermath of the deadly January 12, 2010 earthquake, their determination to make the return happen has increased. <br />
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As far as I am concerned, I am ready. Once again I express my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time. The purpose is very clear: To contribute to serving my Haitian sisters and brothers as a simple citizen in the field of education. <br />
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The return is indispensable, too, for medical reasons: It is strongly recommended that I not spend the coming winter in South Africa ’s because in 6 years I have undergone 6 eye surgeries. The surgeons are excellent and very well skilled, but the unbearable pain experienced in the winter must be avoided in order to reduce any risk of further complications and blindness. <br />
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So, to all those asking me to return home, I reiterate my willingness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time. Let us hope that the Haitian and South African governments will enter into communication in order to make that happen in the next coming days. <br />
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United to the Haitian people, once again my family and I express our sincere gratitude to the government and the people of South Africa .<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This will be short; I mean what's there to say? Really...someone somewhere is screaming...»Check Mate"!!!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Haiti's become a simple game of chess...</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Every Haitian is a pawn in someone's game...</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Sad thing is no one is sure whose game it is... Who are the key players?</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">How did most of us even get in this stupid game? How did we become pawns? Why did we become pawns?</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Whether we like it or not, it is true. We are being used towards someone’s personal objectives and ambitions. It’s no longer for the common good, actually was it ever? </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In the game of chess the rules are simple….When you play your game of chess, be careful of your moves. Be careful of your steps. Be careful of your strategy. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In Haiti, this game of chess has gotten triple complicated…we've developed new rules!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">My concern is how much more of this tasteless game will us pawns continue to endure? </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Game should be over! As soon as there is foul play……….all fun is out the window.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">One wrong move, the end of the game should have come.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">One wrong move? Check mate.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Why are we still playing? It’s a simple game for crying out loud!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Not many like to know they are pawns, not many even like to acknowledge that life is a game of chess…my question again is why have we not only accepted this game but are official players? </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">For the first time in my history I have no words when it comes to Haiti. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">I have concluded that you have to be of a HUGE mind to do politics and my small brain can no longer go at it.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">I will keep this short I promise; all I know is the return of Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti is a start of something. Not sure what. I am sure we will all know soon.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">One thing is certain, Préval is by far the smartest or stupidest politician Haiti's ever seen. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">I have to mend my heart and prepare myself for anything when it comes to my beloved, only then will I make it.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Mentally Haiti is just a bit much. I hate that our emotions are constantly played with. Do we appear to be this stupid? I won't say much more…..I’m becoming incoherent! </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TTPaoQRE88I/AAAAAAAAADc/vYE6IWXHm0Q/s1600/CheckmateD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TTPaoQRE88I/AAAAAAAAADc/vYE6IWXHm0Q/s320/CheckmateD.jpg" width="245" /></a></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-49286418529653507122011-01-10T23:48:00.002-05:002011-01-10T23:56:22.565-05:002011-01-10T23:56:22.565-05:00Will we EVER forget?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TSvgmAXrh4I/AAAAAAAAADU/4yjMU4FBNpg/s1600/12janvier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TSvgmAXrh4I/AAAAAAAAADU/4yjMU4FBNpg/s400/12janvier.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I haven’t blogged since the New Year. Yea, its 2011! I couldn’t wait for this year to get here! I haven’t felt inspired much though, so I have been taking it easy….thinking a lot but not writing anything down. Being in Haiti inspires me, as I expected. I try to write some of the things I see and think about down, but I can’t really write anything down. I think of doing it in Creole, because I feel that maybe then, I could really express what I think of the situation in Haiti. But then I don’t. This whole week, I have been thinking about what most people in my circle have been thinking about. Haiti. 12 Janvier 2010. Election. Cholera. Mostly 12 Janvier 2010….a year later. I know.... it’s a lot in someone’s head! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">“I remember”! This catchy little phrase that everyone has been posting as their status has magically inspired me, because every time I read it something inside of me SCREAMS….How could we NOT remember? Even though I am not grieving or remembering anyone in particular, I am haunted by over 250,000 Haitian souls questioning why their deaths haven't helped change things around, asking why over 800,000 of their loved ones still live an earthquake on a daily basis.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">When you are in Haiti, it’s impossible to not “remember”, it’s on people’s faces; the despair, the sadness, the expression of hopelessness. Everyone wants to share their story with you, it just pours out of them. They tell you over and over how it feels to feel the earth shake so violently. Every single survivor tells you how they escaped and how God saved them for a reason. And then there are the physical reminders, on the way from the airport, the tent cities, the palace, houses, businesses, one would have to be blind to not see, let alone forget. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I like that we “remember”! Haitians actually have a reputation of forgetting too quickly! We forget the wrong they do to us and allow them to be repeated over and over again. Sort of like what we are living now. I want to remember, I don’t want to forget, because lives were lost….can‘t forget such a thing. I want to remember for the people who are still struggling, people who have to start yet another year under those tents. I want to remember for the women who are being raped, those who get pregnant and have to raise a child conceived in such horrifying circumstances. Families who made it alive out of the earthquake but are losing loved ones to Cholera. I want to remember for the lady I heard on the radio, wishing she had died on January 12<sup>th</sup>, 2010….because life is so hard for her and her kids now. I have been wondering how many must feel the same way? I want to remember for those who have reasons to lose hope yet are still holding on, praying and hoping that all of 2011 will not see them in this same predicament. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I want to remember the wrong being done to Haiti, the abuse that she has endured this past year. I don’t want to forget the people who claim they care, who have pledged their help to us yet haven’t done anything BUT help themselves both on the national and international level. I don’t want to forget those who have contributed in the ongoing misery of my fellow Haitians, those who’ve benefited from this natural disaster. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Above all, I don’t want to forget my people’s resilience. I want to remember Haitians as they were the days after the earthquake…united and willing to help rebuild Haiti. I want to remember the songs that were sung, the prayers that went up and the feeling of hope that lingered around. I want to continue to remember, because we have to give value to the lives that were lost on that day. God....let this be the last year we simply "remember"! Help us match our actions to our thoughts! Help us make better decisions and hold each other accountable for the growth and future of Haiti. January 12<sup>th</sup>, 2010…I do remember.Will we EVER forget?</span></span></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-26813623151846315622010-12-11T03:35:00.001-05:002010-12-11T03:38:34.451-05:002010-12-11T03:38:34.451-05:00Boiling up...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TQM2-PtKECI/AAAAAAAAADM/2cH4QEMUBQc/s1600/hunger3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TQM2-PtKECI/AAAAAAAAADM/2cH4QEMUBQc/s320/hunger3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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I am <strong>frustrated</strong> at the people who are <strong>frustrated</strong> at the people who are <strong>frustrated</strong>…huh? I have a point, I promise!<br />
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I’ve never gone hungry; I grew up in a house that had an actual room as a pantry. Where, rice, beans, pasta, flour, sugar, canned milk and more, were stocked as if we had our own private grocery store, where the freezers were always filled with meat. I grew up around the time where refrigerators could still be on, all day long, because electricity wasn’t an issue. I grew up, expecting and always getting breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner and super. I have never gone hungry. I don’t know what it feels like to be hungry. Even the days that I would complain of being “grangou”, my parents would remind me of what the actual words meant…”avoir grand gout”, far from being hungry; I will not attempt to describe what I think it feels like to be hungry, the kind where someone goes a couple of days without eating. That would be somewhat insulting to try, in my opinion. I will stick to the fact that again; I have never been nor gone hungry. <br />
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I have never gone without shelter, as early as I could remember, we always had a house. A nice house, at one point when we lived in Carrefour we had the nicest house in the neighborhood. Then Carrefour wasn’t enough so we moved to Village Theodat in La Plaine, where again we had a gorgeous house. I started counting the bedrooms and stopped at eight….so shelter has never been a problem for me. With the house came the transportation, never an issue there. Each parent had a car, and then there were the chauffeurs, so the only time I took a camionette (public transportation) in my life was because I wanted to, or I had to sneak and do something that my parents did not approve of. When electricity became scarce, I had the Delco, then the Inverter, so again, when most were in the dark I managed to still study, do my homework without any real issues. In addition to regular Haitian games kids played, I grew up with the Nitendo, Satellite TV, being able to travel to the States. I took violin lessons (even though I couldn’t play to save my life), tennis lesson…etc.…so again, I never needed for anything. <br />
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Most of the people around me grew up the same way. We all went about our business; most of the time really thinking that life was just that way. I am sure we saw the differences and the inequalities, yet what could we do? As for me, I was just a kid, whose parents were able to provide. I will forever be grateful to GOD for that. <br />
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I have said all this to make what point? No, I did not just want to brag about how well I had it growing up. I am frustrated. I am frustrated at the people who are frustrated at the people who take to the streets and cause havoc! <br />
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People, Haitians at that, who say that that’s all we are good at, that we have perfected the art of burning tires, breaking businesses and killing each other. I am frustrated at these people. Who sit behind their computers, and tweet or chat all day long about how barbaric Haitians are, without taking a minute to think of WHY they do the things they do. <br />
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How would you feel if you couldn’t eat?<br />
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How would you feel if your kids could not eat?<br />
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How about if you’ve been living under a tent for now eleven months with no apparent hope of leaving there?<br />
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How would you feel if you kids have not been able to go to school at all this year, and the year is a month shy of being over…a few weeks actually! <br />
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How about if you had no access to clean water and people around you were dying of Cholera, at a rate of thirty people a day! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL?? Yes I am screaming! <br />
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I do not condone violence. I don’t pardon the fact that someone goes out and destroy what others have worked hard to create. But “tout chien jennen mode”, desperation must make people do crazy things. <br />
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I would be frustrated if I couldn’t feed Alexa and Dimitri…I would want answers and even be tempted to break things. I am human, but as long as they keep treating me like an animal, my behavior will reflect that. <br />
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I can’t judge these people, for wanting to fight and break for a change. For once I should and will attempt to understand their frustration and commit to doing something about it. I can’t expect them to act like civilized and rational people when I have treated them with so little regard for so long. <br />
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Yes, we must find other ways of expressing our anger and frustrations. <br />
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Yes, we must engage in dialogue and find common grounds to resolve our so many issues. <br />
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But, No, the Haitian people aren’t barbaric. <br />
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The Haitian people are tired of being mistreated. <br />
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They are reacting to actions committed against them…I need to understand them!TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-56693548972403814052010-12-09T22:11:00.001-05:002010-12-10T02:17:48.905-05:002010-12-10T02:17:48.905-05:00...Heartless/Cynical or just both?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>FR</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TQHSw1qV3KI/AAAAAAAAADE/6lqSYe-qZm0/s1600/cynicism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TQHSw1qV3KI/AAAAAAAAADE/6lqSYe-qZm0/s400/cynicism.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">I have a lot going on in my head...</span><span lang="EN-US">So many emotions, since things have just taken a turn for the worst in Haiti. I am 31 years old and since I was about 6 or 7 I cannot remember a year in Haiti when things weren't taking a turn for the worst. Ironically, every time we all cry that this is it! That "THIS TIME" Haiti will either be saved or doomed forever. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Today I was in the shower, thinking that Haiti’s 208 years of independence is fast approaching, yet we are so far behind in the game of independent and sovereign countries that it isn’t even necessary to linger on the thought. It’s shameful, disgraceful, appalling, outrageous... (I know, these words all mean about the same thing)!!! You get the point though?</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Where did we go wrong? What are we paying for? Why is that that this little country cannot get a break? I think we have yet to see the wealth of Haiti! Someone, somewhere knows more about what we have to offer then we do, therefore they have one purpose in mind…that of keeping us crippled for their own personal good. Hear me out, as messed up as it’s been, why is it that everyone in Haiti fight for one position? Why does everyone want power? Why so much raucous over the highest seat of the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere? Illogical right!!! The one position that most of the time gets them kicked out of the country for good!!! Are they really ALL corrupt? Why would not one single one of them have our interest in mind. Or wait, why is it that even if they did, as soon as they walk into the white house all of that changes? Why do they so easily and carelessly forget about us? Why do they sell out, without a care for they own kind? How does it not bother them to see how we are living as a nation? Are they blind? Have they been blinded? I know, politics stinks in most countries. Even here in these great United States, corruption happens! Yes, I agree, but they provide their people with a minimum, a small amount of their needs are met enough to shut them up. Their kids eat, go to school, they are able to find work, and have a place to lay their heads at night. The BASICS. When will our leaders find a way to shut us up? When will they get tired of hearing us complain about the same issues over and over again? When will it resonate? Who's going to be the leader to take us to the next level? Who will be tired of shaming us globally? Who will stop treating us like animals, because quite frankly, these so called leaders have only served one purpose in our lives....that of bringing the worse out of us! They mistreat us, we get tired, so much so that we take the streets and act like animals and fools. I will forever wonder! </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">In any event, one thing is certain…they all fight for the wrong reasons. Imagine if all that energy, money and passion was invested in actually doing SOME good for the country? I mean, we are talking about a people who are asking for the most basic things…food, shelter, work, health care…etc…The most basic. Yet, no one can commit to providing that <u><span style="font-size: xx-small;">little</span></u> to them….Somehow; to someone our misery is sweet and beneficial. Enfin! </span></span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TP8pjUtc74I/AAAAAAAAADA/IBTbj1KzM3o/s1600/haitiiiii.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aKMoJi4wQr0/TP8pjUtc74I/AAAAAAAAADA/IBTbj1KzM3o/s400/haitiiiii.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Someone had this as their status on Facebook today... <b><u>"It’s easier to wait for the results of an AIDS test, then to wait for those of the Haitian elections"</u></b>....Now that the results are out, I am not sure which is worse. Haiti has once again been handed a sentence. A terminally ill disease! <span> </span>Some say that we have been at this cancer for 20 years now...Only blaming the issues on the last group in power. Is that just though? When will we all take responsibility for this raging cancer, that's been eating at us for over 20 years? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Our forefathers left us a gem; we pride ourselves at saying that Haiti was once a pearl, forgetting that we all have contributed to her losing her sparkle. It would take too long and too many strokes to go back and recall every single guilty party, yet we must all respond to the culpable call. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Interesting how we get passionate and feisty when things are going wrong, but we forget that things are ALWAYS wrong in Haiti. We have settled for this way of life, it’s become our standard. The people who have forced this sense of normalcy down our throats know well that we are nowhere near normal…yet we allow them to continue to poison us with their ideals, or lack thereof! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Why is it that as a people we are able to swallow this….over and over? Why do we not only let them rape the country, but us, as the living children of the country? How do we forget so quickly, only to turn right back into the same deep <b><u>shit</u></b> we had just recovered from? When will we learn, that we deserve better.<span> </span>Our kids, from generation to generation are handed down this diseased country without even a prescription, let alone a cure. We are not asking for a magic pill! Nah….far from that, we are merely asking for a conscious effort to be made towards finding a palliative for this cancer. <span> </span>Everyone’s guilty, guilty of not caring enough, of only caring about ourselves, of not looking at the big picture, of letting this cancer eat at us for so long! We are all guilty of accepting such inadequate care. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Forget the fact that we are sick. It’s already a fact. Now it is up to us, to <b><u>demand</u></b> that our illness gets proper care. Because it is curable, we simply need a few doctors who care enough to join the fight and decide that Haiti mustn’t die of this cancer…but that Haiti must continue to be an example of great courage and endurance! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Every Haitian has it in them to win this fight! Let us all become leaders, lovers, defenders, doctors of Haiti…until she’s cured! <span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span></span></div>TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495152771049715462.post-34852865562597109802010-12-06T14:57:00.000-05:002010-12-06T14:57:51.013-05:002010-12-06T14:57:51.013-05:00The Haitian elections....these here elections! They have taken over every part of my brain. I eat, sleep, drink, shower and eat some more elections. They have paralyzed me from my regular routine, because I am forever Tuned in, Tweeting or Fbooking...<br />
The other night it was 5am when I woke up to some weird song on Signal FM...I had passed out in front of the laptop. <br />
What to make of these elections though, that is the question? Easy, NOTHING. What a joke afterall, clearly Haitians have lost all of their marbles, by Haitians I guess it would be nice to specify and say Haitian leaders..have lost their marbles. Or maybe its because all of this time we've been thinking that we have leaders! <br />
Since November 28th, my spirit has been sad, sad that once again we missed the mark. Makes me want to scream WHAT NOW? Why is it that everyone sees that a change is needed BUT the ones who can help make the change. How many more songs will be written about Haiti and change? How many more blog entries, poems, tweets, Fbook updates? Why must we continue to be in the news, in a negative way? How come our leaders are not as tired as we are, and actually decide to do something? <br />
I dream of the day when Haiti will be ok, I am not even holding my breath for her to be good. Imagine if our courage and resilience was used in a more productive way? Imagine where we could be right now as a nation. <br />
Haiti needs that one leader who loves her so much that he or she will actually care enough to make that one turn we all need. He or she won't allow anyone into bullying her into doing things that are not in the interest of the country. Haitians will be put first in Haiti, imagine that! Until then, until the day that people, so called leaders stop thinking of personal goals, power and money, Haiti will continue to be in this rut...longing for better days! <br />
Now we all wait for the result of the elections, if the rumors are correct, may God watch over our beloved like never before!TiSakSuk http://www.blogger.com/profile/05020527941528241502noreply@blogger.com0