Saturday, August 26, 2006

SAYYIDAH SHARIFA "Katrina" RAHIM

...in this year's time, my heart seeks your's over so many minutes and so many miles...

Seem's much more than 1one year since Katrina...this first anniversary causes me to think on the very special times of OUR lives...prompts me to realize again and again the very essence of appreciation I feel for YOU!

Perhaps I never told you...Your decision to make the move to New Orleans several years ago gave me strength to adopt the proverbial brave heart of SISTAH SOJOURNER when I heeded Reno's call some two years ago. I knew full well you were of strong mantle to travel to the Gulf from Memphis - I never felt that it was easy for you to distance yourself geographically from Mother, Harun...our beautiful baby girls - I knew THEN; however, much better NOW...YOU ARE THAT NEW FRONTIER WOMAN...spiritually willing and dedicatedly able...

Please accept my sincere apology for not communicating with you regularly these past months...PLEASE know, I am fully tested & vested and STILL on the journey - I do not think it remiss of me to consider that you know FULL well the taxing process of reinventing one's self around new places and Oh so many, many new (sometimes smiling) faces...

I have ALL ways considered nothing less than success for us...I OVERSTOOD your being unable to rush immediately back to Memphis after the levies were blown...I still remember EVERY word you shared with me those days, weeks and months after your catastrophic leaving of New Orleans.

From your gift of truth to me, the heART of my children has known power and glory...the posters they made from your words hung predominately at the University of Nevada's Reno CHURCHILL Campus Gallery and at the First United Methodist Reno Church Gallery during the July ART*TOWN sanctioned event..."WHAT ART CIVIL LIBERTIES?"...we collaborated with the ACLU as performers and exhibitors...

Thinking about YOU as I write...I remember as I recall...

It is not new for you and I to work as one per community events...Remember? How about almost twenty years and counting - from BLACK FAMILY REUNIONS, KING HOLIDAYS, KWANZAA, MEMPHIS in MAY, SENIOR CITIZEN CONFERENCES, AFRICA in APRIL, CAMPING EXCURSIONS, BIRTHS, DEATHS...and so, so much more...

I appreciate you being there for me...US!
I appreciate my SAYYIDAH (Learned*Teacher) SHARIFA...
ALL ways loving...FOREVER standing long & strong!

Asante Sana...Thank YOU Very Much!
PEACE & BLESSINGS!

I sincerely love and cherish YOU!