De Donde Eres???

Today I walked into our new home which is about 2 days from being completely done. I walk and stared at our huge new home only to remember the small, old-wood, paint-peeling barrio home on 4th street. Or the 4 room home on gravel street which our new home is bigger just upstairs than that old 409 gravel st. house. I think of the struggles I have put behind me to push forward like those billions of water drops eventually breaking that rock in half. Bruce Lee once stated, "be like the nature of water" which to me means if you have the ability to allow your life to overcome any challenges you face then you will be successfully. Your dreams may be as soft as a water droplet, but if you continue building your dreams then your droplet can be a destructive force that tears down any walls you face.

So here I am, Masters degree, beautiful home, and soon a beautiful and successful wife, and to think.......All this from a little Chicano boy born to the streets of Blumberg Park to the suburbs of Northwest Crossing.

This is me.....JAKE from 4th Street, Seguin, Tx 78155

Did you see her???

"I don't have any underpants on" she says
My gut tightens and butterflies form
Gently I turn to see what she has to offer
Once again the beauty that awaits me is breathtaking
So As I slide myself towards her she smiles
I slither ever so slow towards her and shes moving
Moving towards anything but me
I stop, she stops
I move, she moves
Enraged I run, she runs
As I stop to think
I realize that after all this time
It was the TV and what I was seeing next to me......my hand

Book of the day

I am not here for your entertainment
Although I can be
I am not here to be your slave
Although I can teach you about them
I am not here to be your prison
Although I can teach you how to avoid them
I am not here for you to make fun of
Although I can teach you how to be a comedian
I am not here because I have to be
Although you are better because I am
I am not here to list all the reasons I am here for
Although you never get that far with me to find out
I am not here.
But you can make me visible.

Scary Mexican

Slash my heart and I will defend myself
Pound harder on my chest as I scream
Scream to make the sound of destruction fade
As my breath is overtaken by emptiness I gasp
Clawing and kicking to build my strength
I focus on myself and together we survive
Another smack of my soul and harder I practice
Another gulp of his liquid courage and I continue to read
Years of corruption in my looking-glass followed by, me
A danger to the social norm is what I've made myself
Scary to those who say "your a product of your environment"
I have become a product of THEIR environment,
am I scary?
yes I am
Porque estoy un mexicano educado