
Ok here's my first ever Saturday post. Sad I know but I wanted to go ahead and post this. Since I'm posting today don't expect a post on Monday, you greedy bastards! At any rate I went to see Akeelah and the Bee last night and it was quite entertaining.

I'm no Ebert and Roper but I'd give the movie to royal thumbs up. But since my opinion weighs a lot more in your life than theirs they should be saying that they aren't the King. But I digress. Other than hoping Laurence Fishburne would break charachter and grab Angela Bassett and say something like "YOU TRYNA HELP IKE?!" or "Anna Mae! Anna Mae, where you going?! I need some sleep!" and her saying "Go straight to hell Ike." How do I get off on these tangents? Ok one more. At one point in the movie Laurence Fishburne is sitting in a chair with a high back and he has his hands crossed. I promise you I wanted to yell out "ANGELA TAKE THE RED PILL!!!" Ha! Ok focus D! FOCUS! Alright I'm good. Let's carry on.
The movie was funny, it was well written, directed, and when you have Larry and Ang you know the acting was excellent. There was only one scene that didn't seem realistic and it involved the neighborhood gangster. When you see the movie you'll see what I mean. But anyway I highly recommend the movie. I could relate to Akeelah's story a lot because I was always smarter than my classmates and yet when I was younger I would pretend to not be as smart because being smart wasn't considered cool. Ironically I have always been a great speller as well and not to toot my own horn(Beep! Beep!) I never even worked at it. I guess it came with my love of reading. Anyway they use a quote from Marianne Williamson in the movie and some of you might have heard it before but I really liked it and I will incorporate it when I am mentoring kids as well as in my own life. Enjoy.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not in just some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.