State of Mind Address

We live in a world today where males that can dance like Beyonce are celebrated more than males that graduate high school, college, and go through life without being incarcerated. We live in a world where people are more fascinated and amazed by a female twerking, than a female that is working her way to the top of her field. Babies are still having babies, and grandmas under 30 are becoming the "norm". We live in a time where there is more education available than ever before but we still choose to be ignorant about the decisions we make. We'd rather spread our business, then tell people to stay out of it than to take care of business and make something out of ourselves. We'd rather point and laugh at those who are struggling than to do what we can to help them out of it. We expect that since we were strong enough to overcome things in our lives that everyone else should have that same strength and pull themselves out of the hole they are in. We have so much hatred for our fellow man that we'd watch someone starve or thirst to death while we watch them, holding our own plates of food and glasses of drink. So many messages of love are lost in translation because real love has been misconstrued to the point where it's no longer recognized. We call the people in our lives fake because they don't do what we do the way we do it, or because they disagree with us in some sort of way. We no longer say exactly how we feel in order to get whatever it is off of our chests. Instead, we simply say that we're feeling "some type of way". We have all but lost the ability to think for ourselves because we listen to and believe each and everything we're told instead of finding the real truth for ourselves. We push the people that love us away, then cry about being alone. We date people who we know we shouldn't over and over again then make proclamations that there are no more good men/women left. We fail to take responsibility for the things in our lives that we have the power to change, and we do it all knowing that we can absolutely do better.

We want to claim change and a new "me" in the new year when those very changes should have been made a long time ago and at the end of this coming year, we'll be sitting here saying the exact same thing we're saying now.

What are we going to do?

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Post by Don Savant, Poet Extraordinaire.

Seasons of Change (Healthy New You)

November is sitting at our doorsteps waiting to get in. This is the time of year when we begin to reflect on where we are versus where we feel we should be. This is the time where we usually start to proclaim that some changes need to be made in our lives and that in the coming year those changes will be applied. The things is though... If you recognize that something needs to be changed, why wait until you say Happy New Year to do it, when you can begin a Healthy New You right now? Don't drop the ball while waiting for the ball to drop. Change now!

A Message from Don Savant

Vasectomy

This is a poem I wrote yesterday for a new collection of poetry that I'm calling Naked Thoughts.

Vasectomy

We are
Constantly losing our manhood
Continually being
Emasculated as
Our strength
And our purpose
Is slowly being stripped away

We are
Beginning to
Lose our ability
To be who we are
Through
A seemingly staged identity crisis

Our pants are
Hanging lower
Than ever before
Exposing bits and pieces of us
That were never meant to be seen

Our passion for life
And our
Willingness to love
Feels like more of
An afterthought
Than the prominent
Stand out features
That used to
Promote who we are…

The vasectomy
That the world is performing on us
Is
Stunting our growth
And keeping us
From being
The brothers
The fathers
The sons
The uncles
The husbands
And the men
That God Himself
Ordained us to be
Through our birth
And
Through the death
Of His
Only begotten Son

Reclaim your manhood

©2013 Don Savant

Change

With every mistake I make I become more ashamed of myself. Why? Because I know that I know better. I know that I cannot use being an imperfect human being as an excuse to mess up over and over again without correcting the things I continue to get wrong.  There must be point where I understand that these are teachable moments that I must hold on to for the reason of growth, and that when the situation arises once again, I will know better how to navigate it.  I know it all starts with me, yet I do not apply that knowledge as often as I should.  Change...

Attitude Reflects...

Sometimes we see or interact with people and we leave them wondering why they act the way they do. I've done this many times myself. It happens most often in my field of work. People say things, do things, and act in ways that I'll never understand but at some point, I've come to realize that it's not about how they act towards me, it's how I react and act towards them. My personality has always has not so subtle hints of sarcasm and I've often used it to my advantage in certain O.T.J. situations. However, it always leaves me questioning myself, asking if that was the right way to handle it. If I can't say yes immediately, then I know what the answer is. I know that I must be careful of how I treat people because honestly, there's no telling what they've been through, or may be going through and you never know the circumstances that surround why they are the way they are. It just goes to show how imperfect this world and the people that inhabit it really are. Greet everyone with a smile, make sure it is sincere and keep it available in your heart always.

The Return of Don the Blogger

Hello everyone,

I've had so many thing on my mind lately that it's been sort of driving me crazy. I've laughed, I'm cried, smiled and I'm sat in reflection. I've been praying for myself and others, more-so others than myself. Today, as I was in the middle of my thoughts, it occurred to me that I still have a blog and that I haven't posted anything new since August. For that I apologize. I promise that from now moving forward I will use this blog more often. I will empty my head of the thoughts that plague me, be they good, bad or ugly. Keep me in prayer, and I will do the same for you.

Love,

-Don Savant