August 30, 2010
Miami International Airport, Gate D25
I am sitting on the ground in the waiting area of gate D25 in Miami International Airport. I am waiting for my connecting flight which will take me to Chicago en route to New Delhi, India. I am heading there to take part in a workshop on Building Global Democracy (*yawn*). I just bought a book (“The Power” by Rhonda Byrne), as well as an Essence magazine. I am prepping myself mentally for a 15+ hour flight to Delhi.
New Delhi. I am so calm about going that I am beginning to wonder if it has even really sunk in yet that that is what I am doing…flying halfway around the world to New Delhi, India…one of the places that I rate highly after Africa as places-I-just-have-to-go-one-day. I think I will land and just be blown away by the largeness of it all. I think that it is only when I arrive in India that it is going to hit me, “Oh shit, I’m in India“. I am very open about the experience…just kinda watching it to see how it will evolve, and willing and promising myself to make the absolute best of the opportunity.
I am not sure about what this week in India will bring, but one thing I know with all certainty is that the trip will have an impact on me…one way or another.
Change is swirling around me. Last night/this morning I finished (well…almost) moving in to a new home. It is by the beach in Copacabana, Bull Bay…a small, two-bedroom house that I plan to build into a home for Sade and me. I am currently heading to the other side of the globe…taking what is, without doubt the longest trip that I have ever taken. In just over two weeks Sade and I will go to Tobago for two and half weeks to visit and help out my mother, who is going to be having hip replacement surgery soon. It is a much needed break from Jamaica and all that comes with it.
Baja gal, yu reach far and I know you are destined to go even further!!!!! Let the ancestors guide your path. Love you, miss you, see you soon!
Mi picknies dem say “Hi Anti Oyedele”