Jilly from Philly reminding us all to live positively

Shoutout to DJDScott for sharing!

Jill has a new vid!

I'm a Queen on my throne! I'm magnificent!

A friend's facebook status asks, "If there was a soundtrack to your life, what would be on it?". I want to dedicate a post to answering that, but that takes more time than I am allowed to procrastinate with right now (I have a meeting with my independent study professor at 3), so for now just enjoy this song off Jill Scott's new album (have I mentioned she's next on the list of people I need to see live?) that seems appropriate for my life right now, in more ways than I've told you all about. [You guys might get a surprise on Saturday. Be excited.] 

Adventures

Fact: There is absolutely no reason why my life has to stop feeling like one. I can make my own damn adventures. When did I forget that? 

Music to this effect: 

My New Motto in Life

What exactly my dear are you clinging to

Some propaganda stating you've gone as far as you're going to?

That your skies are finite and limited

That your growth is an impossible dream

That your future is inhibited

Aw please, they been shoveling them lies since the '50s

Can't nobody decide what your life can move through

This is your time and your challenge--what is it that you want to do?

Sit and be still and not shine the way your light was meant to?

Oh, I pray that ain't true, I pray that ain't true

Aw please, don't fall into the abyss because something negative once ruled you

Please understand I'm from where you are and I've got to fight my demons too

Please don't give up because somebody broke your heart and some things fell through

This is life. You owe it. Life does NOT owe you, okay?

An obstacle is something that impedes or blocks one's way

You can climb over, you can dig under, you can chip through it, you can go around it, you can move it, you can ignore it, but you can DO it

YOU      CAN        DO          IT

-Jill Scott, as seen in this song by Kem: