(Healthy Thoughts for daily pleasures)
There's something about the brown buttery skin and cocoa butter aroma of a sister that drives me into another state of peace and tranquility. When she embraces me with her sweet serene keenness of independence it drives me up and around the wall of my manhood. The resonation of love to many is defined by sexual intercourse in minority communities. We define the act of it more than we define it by the spiritual connection of greatness meeting greatness. Quite a delicate topic for one to contemplate on nonetheless; in most relationships and experiences we allow conversation to come after sex rather than before sex.
The forecast of intimacy and health has become one of the biggest gauges we've ever seen in the minority community. We love to love but we hate to get tested. Very contradictory indeed! As we start up another amazing and delectable year we begin this issue with a topic that is like the burning fire across the Santa Barbara coast. HIV in the minority community and the target population is African American women.
For so long these women whose hands were rigged with pain, backs ached from tireless hours of work, children always manicured for greatness always seemed to make a way out of no way. But now this way, this epidemic, this infectious disease we call HIV has closed that path of hope temporarily. This backbone of the Black community has been hit by a nuclear disease disabling future doctors, lawyers, teachers and mothers.
Let me titillate your mind and spirit for a moment. So you can see what this epidemic is doing and how YOU can be an effective part of a healthy act of random kindness to one of those buttery brown, cocoa butter smelling sisters around you. Communication! The one thing that turns a frown into a smile. The thing that can save a marriage on the sandiest shore on the isle of nowhere. The thing that has the power of life and death in it. Communication. Let us as a community of people, cohorts with one another communicate to friends, kinfolk, colleagues about the infestation of HIV on a culture of history changers.
March 7, 2009 National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and my challenge for each reader is to make a personal health commitment to yourself and your community that you will talk about HIV testing and talk about the infectious disease that is infecting and affecting minority women all over this country we call free. Bill Moyer has been noted to say, "Once you decide to titillate instead of illuminate…..you create a climate of expectation that requires a higher and higher level of intensity." So I leave this with you. The hope which is the expectation of greatness that you will do one of the easiest health initiatives possible for man. Communicate with your sexual partners; communicate with your girlfriends, or home boys. Let's not just talk about things we can't change but let's converse about things we can change. And we as history changers have the ability to change, motivate and make anew of what our tomorrow shall look like.
A healthy thought for a daily pleasure: Communication can lead to a canal of greatness for you, your family and community. Take this as your foretaste into the 2009. Talk, get tested and live!
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