Sunday, January 2, 2011

Being Taken to Class

So I'm sitting here watching TV and turned it on the new Oprah channel. There's a show called Master Class, which is people with experience talking about stuff. So here I am, 44 year old white writer, teacher, etc and I discover Jay-Z talking on this show. And damn the man is so intelligent and so . . . insightful. He's talking about integrity and believing in yourself and this constant striving for more in life. Yep, he is taking me to class and I am learning from what he says. I've heard his music before and even have a song on my MP3 player, but beyond that I don't know anything about him. But now, with this program, he is saying things that make sense to me. He is saying things that I can think about and mull over beyond the hour he will be on my television.

I guess the whole point of this rambling is to say that we can learn from anyone at anytime. All we have to do is open our ears and our mind and our heart. We need to listen to one another, no matter what the message is and learn to understand one another. Everyday we are given an opportunity and we need to take it and make something of it. If I learned nothing from last year, I learned that time is short. We need to take hold of life with both hands and get what we can out of it. No matter what.

--GC

9 comments:

  1. Hi! First, I'd like to say, cool contest!

    Ok, my name is Dana Bowie, email is diremommy@yahoo.com, and the books I'd love to try out of yours are Contact Point and Heart Bond.

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  2. Thanks for the contest.

    Caught by Cupid, and Be Mine.

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  3. Love this!

    Perpetua

    perpetua2206@yahoo.co.uk

    Heart Bond and Dark Fall

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  4. Great contest

    Danae
    danae072 AT yahoo DOT ca

    Heart Bond
    Dark Fall

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  5. Happy New Year to All.

    If chosen, I would like Dark Fall and Heart Bond.

    Thanks,
    Tracey D
    booklover0226 at gmail dot com

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  6. Thanks for the chance to win!

    Blood Bond
    Take Me There

    Amy Smith
    amysmith98@gmail.com

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  7. Thanks for doing this contest! I'd love Caught by Cupid
    hugs
    molli
    molli@carpedementem.org

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  8. I totally agree. You can learn something, even a small thing from almost anyone! Would love to read some of your books.. Seems that some of these people like Heart Bond and Dark Fall, so I will go with those two. :)
    Thanks! Nancy
    Carlin0042@yahoo.com

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  9. HI GWEN AGAIN. BE MINE AND BLOOD BOND

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