Tagged... and since I am often told I am not an easy person to get to know.. here you go..

Must include the rules in the tag
· Each tagged individual must mention 10 things about themselves in a journal
· Tag 10 different people
· Go to their profiles and let them know
· You can't return the tag

10 things about me

1: I was born a poor black child (mixed race actually, but it makes a more dramatic statement! shush, it's my story!) in the ghetto's of Cook County Chicago slightly less then 2 month before the neighborhood erupted in what would be classified to date as the 3rd worst riot in US history after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. 5 days of crazy. Neighbors came and told my mom 'dont go outside, if you need anything, milk, food for the babies (my sister was about 20 mnths old to my 2 months) call us and we will bring it to you. She says she can still hear the guns crack and smell the city burning.

2: I can let my temper get the best of me... *shrug* zen, it's a work in progress.

3: As a whole, I truly dont understand humans.

4: I believe beauty and pretty things are important, but what 'we' see as beauty is subjective.

5: When I see a wound, physical or mental, my chest literally lights up with pain, feels like the blood rush when your hand is waking up from 'falling asleep', right at my sternum.  

6: A lot of the time others tend to have more faith in my abilities then I do.

7: I have a phobia of moths, it has gotten better as I age but .. um.. yeah, I cant share the same room with one fluttering around. My children think it's very funny.. mom can do snakes, spiders, blood, all the 'usual suspects'.. but a 1 inch moth? .. not so much.

8: I love food and have an incurable sweet tooth. Chocolate is the cure to just about anything that ails me.  

9: I adore words but am a horrible, horrible speller. I thank the powers that be for dictionaries and spell check! Seriously! I can misspell the same word 3 different ways in one sentence! Now that's talent! ( a bit of hyperbole, but only a little!)

10: It has taken a life time for me to start learning to dance in the rain... bad shit happens we can check out.. or learn to dance.     

There.. some stuff.
I'm sorry I wont tag anyone... I'm a rule breaker like that!
But if you read this, old friends and new, feel free to tell me something about you.. tit for tat and all.  

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