november nine two thousand ten

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A small token of appreciation for all of those who celebrated with me on "November Nine Two Thousand Ten". There are no words that can describe the feelings that one gets, when they realize, in a blink, an instance, that their voice is being heard, their ideas are making a difference and dreams are indeed manifest in the minds of others. Thank each and every one of you, and may this year be as passionate as years prior. 

Always remember that it is possible to grab clouds ... 

Namaste

Thanks to: Eddie Correia, Nikki Manus, Marni Anderson-Brown, Laura Harris-Williams, Vania Connolly,  Jazzmine Phoenix,  Guy Outlaw,  Bishop J. Nathan Paige,  Caprisheus Oliver,  Oinetta' Hunt, Pamela Green Jackson,  KaWambee N. Whitaker-Potts,  Karen D. Swim,  Shonika Proctor,  Cecelia Morris,  Tai Goodwin,  Suzie Kummins-Poirier,  KaRiana Hunt, Kaela Elise Hunt,  BJay Newton,  Jennel Gonzalez,  Marie Watson-Allen,  Nikki Giavasis,  Carrie NeverdropstheBall Mason,  Greg Black,  Ann Marie Collymore,  Shalonda Johnson,  Jeff Betts,  Coleone Taylor,  James Alvin Hubbard Jr., Autumn Canaday  Stéphanie Castelain,  Ashley Knight,  Karri Woodard-Jackson,  Jill Marie Porter,  Fabian TheFabian,  Alex Santiago,  LaShaunda Campbell Washington,  Domini Bryant,  Antwon Davis,  Nellie Almazan,  Carolyn Bennett,  Felisha Jones,  Tracie Hunt,  Maneeza Iqbal,  Shelli Harpole,  Eve Ren'e Harvey,  Andrea Henry-Nichols,  Candi Alwaysblessed Crumpton,  Jershaun Burns,  Priscilla Ellis,  Otis T Gordon,  KaWambee N. Whitaker-Potts,  Nikki Chakas,  Lashawndra Perry,  Femi Nilaja Anderson,  Evan Davis,  Minister Forrest Wooley III , Shelley Honeybee Scott,  Jens Kuehnemann,  Jenny She,  Louis Christian,  Deborah Bryan,  Suzie Thompson Berry,  John Lusher,  Charrise Sweazy McCrorey,  Tonya Guest,  Sarah Mrsdavistobe, Scott Kiere,  Sierra Hunt-Troutman,  Staci Jordan Shelton,  Don Hornsby,  Tanya  Wright Thornton, Maurice A H Gatling,  Isabella Jones,  Richard Byrd , Sharon Kolker,  Julie Abel,  Hajj E. Flemings,  Tania Wineglass-Graham,  Elonzo D. Coleman,  Lynn B. Turner,  Phillip L Moran,  Tracy Washington,  Ginger Ormond Jones,  Joan Harris-Graves,  Kela Price, Sabrina Lovell,  TheArtist Everett Dixon,  Michael Dean,  Toi Evans,  Daks Evans, Kenny Moran,  Selena Miller Moore,  Xenia Dycianna Lingo,  Ceylon Hunt,   Loyd Ford,  Jeff Abeln,  Martin Schmaltz,  Cyndi C. Jewell,  Hope Allen,  Chandra Mickle Lee,  James Ward,  Charrise Sweazy McCrorey,  Michelle Pugh,  Mia Jane, Desiree Edwards,  Melonie Crowe,  Sharon Ford,  Deborah D. Jenkins, Freontae Maynor,  Maria Jalloh,  Kolby Rook, Suzie Thompson Berry,  Josh Boutwell

the role of the visionary ... what my friend don hornsby revealed to me.

I have often talked about the "role of the visionary". In most cases, when I get on this path of discussion it turns into an all out "rant", and at the end of writing (ranting) I usually feel like getting up and doing something. Making a difference. BUT today is going to be different. I was cruising through the web, doing my normal morning research, and catching up on the lives of my friends and family on Facebook when I ran across a friend of mines, Don Hornsby, wall post. The wall post, though it was "cute", it was equally compelling. SO compelling in-fact that I feel like I will never have to write another manifesto, essay, or idea about "the role of a visionary". 

The role of a visionary is to see the "what will be" floating around in the atmosphere, grab it, and pull it into the earth. It's really about that simple right? The visionary has the innate ability to manifest the unseen through persistence, hard work, and a firm belief in what he/she has seen in the atmosphere, or even better yet, what they "expect" God to deliver.

For instance ... Bill Gates saw a computer in the home of every individual on the earth. Steve Jobs saw us leveraging the cell phone in an interesting new way, and the Wright Bro's saw us flying through the sky as birds. Each of these "visionaries" had the ability to see things that others could not see, and they had the audacity to pull them down from the atmosphere and manifest them in the earth. Like hunters and prey, they laid wait, and they practiced the hunt day in and day out until the vision became manifest, then they pounced. 

As humans, it's hard for us to sometimes pursue what we can not see. It's difficult for us to believe that the ideas that we have are tangible and real to the universe and in the mind of God. And it's even MORE DIFFICULT for us to realize that the way things make it into the earth, is through the minds and hands of human beings. I have said this once, I have said it twice, I have said it one thousand times, but I am going to say it again ... 

"Everything that you see, touch, and feel in the earth, outside of the natural resources, the canvas that God has provided for us, was the direct result of human execution..." 

So with that said, I am sharing the video that my good friend Don Hornsby shared this morning from YouTube. The questions that you might want to ask yourself AFTER you watch this video include ... What is nature trying to teach us? Why does every other living thing in the earth understand the role of a visionary, and what was it that removed our "instinctual visionary" behavior? 

Thanks Don Hornsby ... You Rock!