New Year, New York: August, 7th, 2001

This 14th episode is one I wrote in New York City.  If you peep the date, it was a month and 3 days before 9/11 in NY and it was my first time in NYC and it had always been a dream of mine to go there, what a blessing for me to see it and feel it before that happened.

This trip to NYC was truly divine intervention, my friend Anisha (RIP), said that she was going to NYC with her mom, because her mom was moving back from there and they were going to get her stuff.  Almost jokingly I said, “Can I come, I’ve always wanted to go to NY”, instead of laughing she said, let me ask my mom.  And that was it, I was going to NYC like the next day.

After dreaming about this city, spending hundreds of hours in my adolescence watching countless music videos and movies that took place in this city, TV shows like NY Undercover, the Cosby Show, Living Single, I was finally in that city!  Let me tell you it was all I ever wanted.  I was cracking up as I found this entry because of course I brought my journal and found time to write in it on the trip.

Key themes from reflection on this entry:

·  One theme of my life is having great friends, great people in my life who have been a part in making dreams come true for me.  People have made what seemed impossible happen just like that, and I am so grateful for how God has blessed me through the amazing people in my life.  I am forever grateful to Anisha for this trip to NYC. 

·  Dreams come true, be ready for them.  

·  Some things you just need to experience, and I’ve said this before in other episodes, but some things really are what you imagine, and the serendipity of it all was amazing.

·  Realizing you are enough, another thing from this entry was just me realizing that I could hang in NY, that as cool as I thought it was, I was cool enough.  This theme is a constant, most of the time we get it, but a reminder is always nice. I mean even my little piece about the guy I had met, ha like I was enough.  I just love that because I know that and was coming into my own. 

· I’ve been to NYC so many times since this, I still get energized from this city and it’s still kind of like a dream every time and each time I am there I am reminded that I belong wherever I go and that I can hang with the best.  Cheers to us always meeting our moments!

 

Queens know they are enough at all times and wherever they are, they meet their moments and understand how it shapes them and all they touch.

-  What moments have you met lately?

-  Are you ready for your next?  If what you say you want was a reality tomorrow, are you ready for it?

-  Who in your life has made dreams come true for you?  How can you do that for others?

Author, poet, spoken word artist and emcee Opal Ellyse has been keeping handwritten journals since 1995.  Each week she shares an entry and ties it to current events and relevant topics of conversation.  Royalty is living in your legacy while you're still here.  Understanding your past and bridging it to the present (and future) is a gift.  Join Opal as she shares wisdom from the past as it becomes present day epiphany and a blueprint for all that is next. 

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