"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

-An Ugly Person.

In The Pocket - A comfortable place where you are able to move freely and be successful

"We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite." Assata Shakur

As I sit in the middle seat aboard this flight jostling for position with these broad ass shoulders I sit and think about how great Atlanta is and the motivation it gives me every time I visit.

Right around Christmas time every year we start plotting on the next year. We constantly say "New Year. New Me." Or the classic "I'm leaving this and that in said year." Well going into 2017 let's say "New Year. Same Me. But Better!" We cannot start over every year, but we can build on the foundations or groundwork from year to year.

My spiritual adviser Baby told me over 16 years ago just don't allow any kind of foolishness with your women. Once you "touched" them they are yours forever. And with these wise words from a decent man I been living my life this way since then.

Street life was regular to me because I had never seen anything else. Hell, from 93-95 my house was the trap house. Remember to this day my uncle counting twenty-five stacks on a pissy bunk bed mattress in my Aunt's crib. Even riding with him to do "pickups." Drug money paid for all my school field trips, every pair of Deion Sanders and even my cold ass Sonic The Hedgehog trapper keeper!