Amazing and Inspiring Lady

 

This is the female leader Arizona should be proudest of!

 

Honoring MLK

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." - Rev. Martin Luther King (16 April 1963, Birmingham, AL)

January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!

A phrase exclaimed every year with such promise, expectation and sometimes relief. We do not know what the year ahead will bring, but we are hopeful it will be good to us.

2011 was a challenging year from an unusual deep freeze with rolling blackouts and busted pipes in February to a similar snow in early December that closed the Las Cruces GLBTQ Center for most of the month. It was a year when we lost family, friends and pets. It was a year of struggle for so many and victory for few. I can’t remember a year like this in decades. 2011 was a year the majority of people I know were glad to see end and will not miss it.

What does 2012 hold? Will it be the year the 99% take our government back from the 1%?  Will it be the year the world finds peace?  Will it be a year of compassion, understanding and respect? Only time will tell what 2012 holds.

2012, whatever you have waiting for us, be gentle with us. 2011 has left us a bit battered and bruised

Emotional Intelligence

"Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know" - Oprah Winfrey, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008 US actress & television talk show host (1954 -)