Notes from a Baby Mama ...We Got Birds.......and they are having more birds....

Time keeps on slipping into the future...

I blog or leave Notes because I feel compelled to share the journey of everyday life with anyone who will listen, I am also intrigued by life as lived and find more humor than sorrow in any of it

10/28/08 The Blog I started but didn't complete......

Ali was taken to the Slauson Mall (bka Slauson Swapmeet) on Sunday (10/26) by his Dad. Upon my return to pick him up I was greeted by Ali, Dizzy and Jimmy. Dizzy is the girl, African Finch and Jimmy is the boy African Finch.



They are small white birds that aren't nearly as exciting to look at as the blue, green and yellow parakeets that have all gone to heaven, but they are AFRICAN Finches and I have decided that because they are AFRICAN Finches, they are automatically more intriguing to me. To that end they are more driven and ambitious than the last lot. This is evidenced by the fact that there was a box of white grassy stuff inside the cage and a small empty nest. Within a week they were pulling the stuffing from the box and placing it in their nest. These two were in fact nesting in their nest.


The first set of parakeets were provided a nest they wouldn't have to fill with a thing. All they had to do was get in it and peck through the filling stuff that was already inside. They never did. They would cuddle together in the food compartment "thingy" and "nest there. They spoke no english so I couldn't tell them. I tried with hand motions, but to no avail. The girl froze to death and the boy eventually bit the dust.

I gave the details on the demise of the 3rd solo parakeet. It is still too painful to relive by telling the story again (see 9/30/08 Blog Post). Suffice it to say we are rolling forward with the AFRICAN Finches whom Ali's father warned would lay eggs and today we discovered they did ....5 eggs to be exact. For now I am not building out the garage or the back house to accommodate the clan. I have other fires to hose down, our new arrivals will have to take a number ....I am however proud to say...

We have Birds....

Ali told me recently, "My birthday is April 25th and I am inviting friends and those who RESPECT me!"..I of course was floored

Coming up....

I am certain that God's Love abides with the Crossing Guard at Ali's school who every morning says to me "I Love You Darling".

We Did It !!!!....We Really Did It !!! (Got the Pics this Time)

This is us at Obama Rally in Vegas where as my son puts it "I saw the real Obama"


Like 8 days its taken me to get here and I should be writing lesson plans right now....but I want to take a quick minute just to say the tears about what we did together haven't stopped...

This morning I watched the new Will I Am "New Day" and then it just rolled into "Yes We Can" and the tears came streaming and....well I have no words

despite running my bank account into the ground in two weeks by going to Vegas and Canvassing for Obama, then running to homecoming in Tuskegee (I am c/o '93) and seeing all the beloved People I went to school with and realized I have so much love for even if it is just sitting the "new chicken coop at 1am" and eating 3 wing specials with drunk friends hollering at and hugging more skegee folk coming through the door while trying to find some semblance of a party.. (Love you Steve Cephus and "Bran") it was really all so good!!!! ...it is the spirit of love and unity that Life has to be about.....Together We Are Stronger (shameless plug please shop at my www.cafepress.com/ObamaRoad ....


The picture is my Dad (Tuskegee Institute c/o '65 with my son and my girlfriend's son (who is mixed))...Everything I did in the campaign was for Ali (my son) and Baine (my girl's son) who hopefully are future TU grads (despite the fact that my girl went to Savannah College of Art and Design) (up and over to the left was one of my Fave's in school Angela Bell , left and her younger sister Nancy, right)



For real...it has just been an amazing 8 days filled with LOVE and LAUGHTER and not enough drinks....and for me I haven't danced like I wanted so meet me at Zanzibar this Friday here in LA... (below is me and line sisters Deitrea and Tammala)


All I know is that I Love my son and I Love Obama and his family and that he has been elected ...the new First Family is Black ...what do you think about that?....there is this Dark and Lovely print ad that reads...."My Black is Triumphant" ....it sure is !!!!

(this is Breuna and I (Baine is her son....note cafe press bag in myhand :-)

I hope people will now buy my stuff from Cafe Press


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What Next !!!!!! ..... I am ready to start campaigning for 2012 and please listen to my radio show
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I am just really out of words on Obama.......I believe my actions and deeds over the last 16 or 17 months have actually spoken the loudest.....and yes I will at some point change my outgoing messages and outgoing greetings which all say "Vote Obama" to something as soon as I figure out what.

all love
danna "that one" kiel

We've Come This Far By Faith....Most Meorable Moments of the Campaign

When responding to the ladies of the Kitchen Table about the most memorable moments of the campaign ...my testimony went like this...

Dr. Harris Lacewell explained "she called it" when making a prediction on CNN in the 15 minutes of pre commentary preceding the Speech in Philly on Race...

"I called it" too and there are too many moments to name but when I learned that he won the Iowa Caucus I was returning to Los Angeles from Christmas Holiday in Birmingham, AL and I called my twin sister and simply said in a message (in my "Best Man" movie imitation of the pimp who comments "that fool 'bout to fall" as Taye Diggs character was being held over the balcony by Morris Chestnut's character) ....."This Fool 'Bout to Be President!"

(I couldn't believe I still had friends at this time about who to support in the primary)

My first time watching the Yes We Can Music/Speech Video ...a campaign that raised that level of artistry was Beautiful too me...I am musician who only played clarinet for 2 years (in middle school :-) but my parents exposing me to the joy of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder (and all things 70's soul) when I was YOUNG did something to me...music has for me filled gaping holes left by sorrow (the death of my mother when I was 11) and reading the excerpt of the speech used in the song brought me to tears and floored me all at once. I hold back the tears as I type because there have been so many moments personal and through the media that makes what I believe will be triumph tomorrow almost pyrrhic....I believe the joy of destination will be beyond measure, but this campaign... what a journey ...

We Have Come This Far By Faith...
Danna