Now or never....

OMG! With as much excitement that I approached this blog, I have experienced as much frustration..perhaps I dont know what I am doing. But it is too late to continue to try to make this work...I need simple and not complex...So off to sleep...Dont know if I will be back...

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Ok, so I am a vegetarian – not vegan – since I love dairy (particularly ice cream) and brownies, cake, pastries but I don’t eat meat.

Now I have a colleague who claims to be vegetarian and is very picky – or appears to be – sometimes going to the extent of preparing her own meals if we have catered lunch meetings. I totally understand that especially those with food allergies, pro-animal rights or whatever reason chosen to live the vegetarian lifestyle. HOWEVER, what I have an issue with is the fact that she calls herself vegetarian, but eats turkey EVERY Thanksgiving Day!!!!

I understand that it may only be once a year but the fact that you deliberately eat turkey on that day and then for the week to follow, you are not truly a vegetarian, and shouldn’t use that label. However, I am sure there are others who would say that there are some vegetarians who may not eat meat but indulge in the delicacies of fish – pescetarian – but the semi-vegetarian (my label for her) is what she is, if she should even be consider being called a vegetarian at all.

Oh well…like I said, I have an opinion on lots of things…that is just one example….

But if you have a great vegetarian – no meat/fish ingredients please – recipes, please feel free to share…and if you like what you see here, please follow me…I would love to meet you!

Thruthebirdseye

Yellow Bird!

DANCE!

So the bumper sticker encourages us to dance as though no one is watching!

Sounds so natural, well if you love to dance. But if you don’t, you take a twist at it and do it anyway….afterall, no one is watching!

Today I received an email from a former student who I had not been in touch with for about 3 years that I just wanted to share it with you….I hope they don’t mind me sharing, but how will they know! 

Any identifying information has been omitted and replaced with the words in brackets without compromising the content of the original email.

Hello [Yellow Bird] LOL

I surely hope you remember me!

You’ve run across my mind several times in the past months and I’ve decided it was time to reach out. Wishing you well; I’m sure nothing has changed and you’re doing great.

My younger brother D woke up in January of 2010 with lung cancer (he was a nonsmoker), and fought for 6 months until he lost his fight. It’s taken me a while, but I’ve regained the mental and emotional stability to continue on with my life. Dealing with loss, I’ve focused on all the other major ups and downs in my life and how I’ve arrived at this very point right now. I can’t help but think about being [so close to failing out of school] but focusing and graduating with [a degree]; my final semester I was only a handful of points from straight A’s! When I think about how different my life would be had I flunked out and remained out of school, I think of you every time.

I don’t know what it was way back in 2003 [when we first met]that made me stand out, but until the summer of 2008 when I finally graduated, you were more than [an instructor]. I never felt like you were just another adult that pushed me along. Your firm words and direct personality are just what I needed as I went from an outstanding high school student to a lazy undergrad. Without your real talk, your guidance, your help, I would have ended up on my mom’s couch thinking of how much better my life would be had I gotten out of bed for my 8am’s.

I needed to email you and thank you for being a big part of why I got back on track. After graduating with my [Bachelors Degree in $%$# and a minor in #$#$], I’ve done a little modeling, I’ve been at [major sports company] for 3 years doing live in-game statistics and analysis, and I’m now at [a Fortune 500 company] systems working my way up. I work 19 hours a day, 6 days a week and most importantly I’m happy. I know you’ve dealt with thousands of students over the years and by now, 3 years later, I may have become just another student (no disrespect), but to me you were never just another school employee. I’m working two jobs, supporting myself and my family during a trying time, moving up with promise of future success at two Fortune 500 companies, and getting into grad school to pursue a Master’s in School Counseling, and it all started with the multiple kicks in the pants you gave me during my 5 years in [location of school].

As I look back at the loss of my brother, my dear friend CS who died in a car accident last year, and 9 other loved ones in a span of just 9 months, God has turned my head in the direction of my many blessings. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your help in getting me where I am today.

Have a great day!

[Signed Former Student]

After reading this email, it brought a smile to my lips and warmth to my spirit.  Then I remember that though no one may see or understand the work that I do on a daily basis, I need to continue to be ME. Not to think about what I do when others are watching, but to do what I know I should do – all in the best interest of EACH INDIVIDUAL I encounter! To do so because it is fair, because it is right, because every person deserves my best so they can reach their own full potential. So I will dance, I will dance/teach/mentor/encourage/coach/train as though no one is looking and not looking for anything else in return but to develop the BEST in the person I am working with at that moment.

Random Thought

How can you be in a crowded place and feel so alone

With visions, thoughts and cares all your own

How can you know your thoughts are pure

Where no one else sees they’re so obscure

Should you share, but will they care

Should you tell, or be banished to hell

Can you be loved and not know it at all

Until it rocks you to and fro to a crushing fall

To look and gaze upon a beautiful face

And to wonder if it is indeed a safe place

Should you accept and hinge on a bet

Should you refuse and move on to what’s next

How can you know except you let go, release and express….

I'm Back!

Hello everyone, well the few of you following me at this time…I appreciate you.

First, I need to apologize for the tardy posts, but I have been ill for the past few days. I was feeling light headed and had some nasal congestion that kept me a bit under the weather. I am doing much better today but it is amazing the kind of thoughts that go through your mind when you are ill or perhaps have nothing else to do but be alone with your thoughts.

I mentioned in my bio-sketch that I am in my mid thirties, but I didn’t mention that I am also single. Yes, single and not dating, but that is another blog for another time. LOL. So as I lay in my bed, it occurred to me that if I were ever to be deathly ill, (or just need some orange juice or over the counter meds) it could possibly take days before anyone called or even showed up to see if I were still alive. You may ask how is that possible so I guess I should explain. I am currently living in a state where I have absolutely no family. The closest family member (including parents and siblings) is about 3 hours away and all of my best friends are at least that far away as well.  And I really cant say I have people around who would notice that I was absent for a few days barring perhaps the people I see in the gym when I work out and the people I work with on a daily basis. That is pretty sad. I am realizing that I don’t have very many so-called friends that I surround myself with on a regular basis. And I am sure that could be another blog. But hey it is my reality. I guess once the ‘rents (parents) don’t hear from me, then they will realize that something is wrong….body would have been rotting by then, but oh well.

See? Too many thoughts….

Until the next blog….call someone you haven’t in a long time just to say hey or to say you are thinking about them. And guess what? If you don’t want to talk to them, you could just text them! Isn’t technology great?

Take care,

Yellow Bird

BTW: I need to get this blog looking a little more fancy, huh? SMH!

First step

Ok so I thought this blogging thing was supposed to be intuitive...umm I am not the most tech savvy and all these hoops I have to go through just to "find" the blog and then respond...I dont know how long I am going to persevere through this....

But I guess I have to try and so tonight is a great time to express my frustrations..so I guess this may be  a good time to ask, what frustrates you? Here let me share a few of mine....

* Slow drivers
* Drivers who don't use turn signals
* People who dont use pedestrian crossings especially with children in tow...

Can you tell how my commute home was this evening? LOL.

Well that is it for tonight...going to slow down my heart rate...until next posting...take care!

Yellow Bird

Introduction

Hello all,

So I am VERY new to the blogging world, but no time like the present, huh? So I am interested in seeing how this goes...I will give it about 30 days!!!!


I have an opinion about most things and more often than not, people say that my opinions are very funny. I really dont understand how funny because most of the time that is not my intention. So several of them encouraged me to start a blog and so here I am.

I am not sure what to expect since I dont even know what my goals are beside sharing whatever is on my mind at that particular moment. And please note, I dont claim to know a whole lot of anything...


By the way, I guess I should introduce myself - oh yeah, I can be EASILY distracted and can be a little tangential but maybe having a blog can re-direct me.

So I am a mid-thirties young female professional who likes to observe more than speak, but I guess when I do speak, I could go on for a moment and some consider it to be funny and/or insighful...or may be gibberish...you guys and gals will let me know.


I chose my blog name by the fact that the opinions I express here are MINE and so it is coming from my view - which is not very big. Since most birds are not very big beings, they may go unnoticed but they see the world through their own eyes....from an angle we have never or may have never considered...hence "thruthebirdseye".

Stay with me and I hope this is an exciting journey. Follow me and I will follow you, well as long as it is a place we all want to go....


One love!
Yellow Bird - only because Tweety Bird just came to mind -  I told you I could be random! LOL!