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Author Helen Bevel Discusses the Significance of the Right-to-Vote Movement
Can the Nonviolent Clinical Process (NCP) be used to AVERT violence this summer? Discussion and details in this book say, “Yes it can.” Helen L. Bevel is the wife of Rev. James L. Bevel, the man who has been dubbed as “The Father of the 1965 Nonviolent Right-to-Vote Movement” in Selma, AL. Helen compiled the book, “SELMA, The Spiritual Significance of the Nonviolent Right-to-Vote Movement, Demonstrated by Reverend James L. Bevel,” and says, “He may be the most important civil rights activist in the 20th century that you’ve never heard of.” Don’t miss having the true story that “All Truth Carries Proof” for yourself and the family. Join the Cider Enterprises Book Club Conference Call number 218-339-9469 and enter pass code 20112# at 7PM on Thursday, April 16, 2015 to get an insider’s scoop about this historical “Right-to-Vote Movement” to change America. This call will conclude our third season until we resume with season four on September 17, 2015.
FEBRUARY: The Month of Love and Celebrations!
During February, “The Month of Love,” I find myself celebrating many important dates and traditions. Let me first say, “Happy Birthday!” to my fellow Aquarians. Secondly, I declare that “I deeply and truly love myself exactly as I am.” And I suppose that the great minds and hearts of the many people born in February are the Universe’s way of balancing it being the shortest month of the year. Think about it … Rev. Dr. Johnnie Colemon, Dee Alexander, Dennis Redic, Jamika Smith, Don Kelley, Chasity A. Wells, Ernest Pitts, Randal Degroat, Alphonso Rodgers, Asadah Kirkland, and the Queen RedHatter- Mae Young are just a few February born powerhouses I know personally. February 11 is my birthday, as well as Alphonso, Randal, and Ernest.
Delta Sigma Theta’s World Authors’ Tour and the Need for an Authors’ Showcase
Recently, I attended the Delta Sigma Theta’s World Authors’ Tour, which has appeared in major cities and received outstanding reviews. As an avid reader of newspapers, magazines, books and now an abundance of emails and internet content of interest, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this great group of authors. These renowned authors of multiple genres have been traveling across the country for several years giving credence to the value of reading. Upon reading about them, I became excited enough to skip my leisurely planned Saturday and go out to attend their event.
Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action! Celebrating the 3-Year Vision
The time of the year is here for acknowledging, commemorating, and celebrating the third year anniversary of my vision for “Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action!” This luxurious resort is in tribute to the powerful, creative and loving African-American women, who share their humanity for the good of many.
The Mission: To be the premier place, where tributes to Sisterhood are evident throughout. Hospitality, Hope and Health are the Pavilions of our connected spirits and the avenues of our expression.
The Vision: To be an opulent waterfront international destination in Chicago, IL. People from around the world will feel the energy of African-American women and use “Sistah’s Home” – as a place of respite, renewal and rejoicing.
Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action: One Year Anniversary!
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October 2013 is here and it seems hard to believe that on the 20th of this month, a whole year will have gone by since “Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action!” had its introductory “Prayer and Praise Breakfast.” The outcome of that event will remain legendary to me because I got to see, feel and be with people who believe in me. Although not everyone has embraced my dream for this opulent waterfront resort, this past year has brought a significant group of new recruits. In addition, many more people are seeing this “International Destination” here in Chicago as a tribute to African-American women and the value our Sisterhood brings to the world. “Sistah’s Home” is anchored in Hospitality, Hope and Health and has transformed into a true help for people during this year.
Looking back over the year, I stopped to reflect on achievements and am grateful that there have been many. I count my decisions that shape and influence the ambiance of Sistah’s Home among my greatest accomplishments because of the many options in the universe. Inspiration is the key influence to all of my selections: the vivid colors like those captured in Dr. Yemonja Small’s divine painting, “Like there’s No Tomorrow,” and words that remind us of our connectivity in the poem by Jo Anne Meekins entitled “United.” Ideas and practices that motivate and elevate are in: Celebration permeates the air, colors uplift and engage, and music carries the spirit that emits success and well-being with tones of love throughout all of it. These choices create the feng shui environment of Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action!
THE VISIONING CONTINUES:
Each day at “Sistah’s Home” will begin with drumming music (the soul chakra tone of my people) and an opportunity to listen to an inspirational prayer-based conference call, The Love Journey, Inc., from Monday through Friday. Sistah’s Home, a movement in itself, has the strong, powerful chords of triumph and invincibility in the music. New and cherished sounds of authentic personal expressions flow throughout. Fragrant spices, herbs and flowers that heal and promote a sense of well-being are soothing and richly aromatic. The resort “hums” with energy in each space, according to its design.
The Hospitality Pavilion offers prolific ways of welcome that include young and senior aged Personal Concierges. Our Personal Concierges are available to ensure that each guest’s wishes are fulfilled in accordance with our mission to be a premier place where the Love of Sisterhood is expressed and experienced. Inside the warm atmosphere is a feeling of “come in and relax, you can take a load off here.” Beautiful and magnificent arrangements of flowers and fragrant herbs and spices are part of the elegant backdrop throughout. Spectacular art titillates the eye and imagination. The immediacy and thoroughness of service are rendered according to personal requests.
After cordial greetings and settling in, guests usually look forward to refreshing themselves in Sistah’s Home progressive degrees of elegant eating venues. Great chefs and nutritionists provide delicious and palate pleasing meals and a wide assortment of cultural delights. I can already envision the largest eating area, showcasing the diner with important and powerful seating and lighting while guests enjoy a meal. The designers know exactly how to create the desired setting. Varying degrees of progressive elegance also affords the opportunity to eat with a personal group of participants in smaller and more specialized eating areas, like the upscale luxurious dining area or the paparazzi bar and appetizer areas for observation and networking. The greatest group of staff waiters makes all dining experiences memorable. During a television episode of the George Oliphant’s “Meal Estate,” I heard a dining concept of “no room service” that was pleasing to me as yet another way to promote the connection of our “alike-ness” as people and especially as sisters. The largest area for meals was in a communal space. I think a “room service” concept could exist in a late night experience and in keeping with the artists and the night-time visitors of guests.
Also within “Sistah’s Home” resort campus is the Hope Pavilion, an area anchored by a greenhouse and non-denominational chapel. The greenhouse provides mostly all flora and fauna needed in-house and services the surrounding communities’ need for fresh produce and flowers. Mind you, I know nothing more about greenhouses other than I love them and that it will be a magnificent feature of “Sistah’s Home.” The “therapeutic” effect will be especially great during Chicago winters. Always on the look-out for news and information on how to promote Green Technology throughout the resort, I attended a summer festival that featured a number of green tech entities. Well wouldn’t you know it, I was introduced to Urban Farms South, a bountiful urban garden growing in the heart of South-Side Chicago. The “farmers” turned out to be four men, passionate about organic produce for people living in “food-deserts” throughout certain areas of the city. These four men grow produce and flowers; offer the opportunity for others to rent plots for personal growing; open themselves to providers of nutritional information; provide classes on canning and preserving of garden contents; and even host vegan meal dinners for the public several times a month. My excitement about finding this urban garden pushed me to find out more. After several visits and conversations with these guys, I learned they were more than a little interested in helping me set up the Sistah’s Home greenhouse! They have been gracious enough to steer me to needed resources (i.e. blue prints, expenses and individuals to run the greenhouse) and have also offered to be lead contractors for the greenhouse.
Sistah’s Home – The Place of Love in Action! We are celebrating our one year anniversary with a Fish Fry on Friday, October 18, 2013 at 6 p.m. This event will be held at St. Edmunds Tower Community Room, 6141 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL. Come join us for a festive evening of food, fun and fellowship!
UNVEILED – SISTAH’S HOME – the PLACE OF LOVE IN ACTION!
Can you hear me breathing? Each exhalation of a long deep breath is one of release and gratefulness. Each inhalation is a direct flow from the universe. I can have what I believe I can have. Each inhaled breath of strength straightens my back and my resolve. Each breath I take, expecting the goodness of the universe, propels me right into action – no further hesitation or doubt. The fear and procrastination drops away – I exhale it all. Aaaah! What a delight to move in the will of the universe.
I nailed it! The unveiling of my dream, Sistah’s Home – the Place of Love in Action! is done. This Prayer and Praise Breakfast was one of the best times I have ever experienced. There was so much love and support in the planning, the actual event presentation and in the creative support of my sisters and brothers.
First, let me give special thanks to the Most High. Secondly, my thanks to Mr. Brit Savage, Business Manager, of the Chesterfield Tom Thumb Day Care Center located at 9208 S. Cottage Grove in Chicago. Brit, you are a great person to offer the facility for the community’s use. You displayed favor and kindness in continuing to respond to my requests even when I did not always keep my word on appointment times. Thanks for hanging in there with me and my dream. To those friends and talented individuals who helped to make the breakfast an event that will be long remembered – Ashe.
A very special group helped me to present the visual and Power Point expressions of the Pavilions of Hospitality, Hope and Help in Sistah’s Home. They took my concepts and vague descriptions and set it out! Thank you, Min. Joy Sigur-Ramza of Neighborship of Joy, contact her at neighborshipofjoy@yahoo.com, for working through the night with me to get my Power Points in sync with the photographic work of the wonderful Don Kelley of DK Photo at 773-255-1192. Don, and his friend Phil, are working to build brand recognition and identity for Sistah’s Home. Don video recorded the breakfast so we can all look forward to seeing some great shots in the near future.
Explosive thanks to Deborah Gary, Owner/Painter, Paint On Me, Inc. Contact Deb at 773-209-5325 or wepaintsmiles@gmail.com and www.PaintOnMe.com. I send “creative thanks” for the great work you did on my face. You helped me to convey the drama and enthusiasm I wanted to bring to my commercial. Your work enhanced me as I convincingly portrayed the look of person who has a dream like Sistah’s Home. Your work was a driving force in the presentation. To my friend and sistah, Belinda Harris, you’re the kind of sister the dream belongs to. You showed out in the details with a “yes” every time. Thank you to Mama Sunshine, Dorothy Lyles, contact her at cosmicdiva1usa@yahoo.com. Your piece on “Forgiveness” and the reason for the ancestors is us – was a powerful reminder that the strength of the world is best depicted in the strength of the sisters. It was so on point. Sister Abuna Hetap, contact her at abunahetep@gmail.com, your creation of the flyer invitation perfectly conveyed my sentiments to the “Consciously Committed Ones”. Your help in centering me on last-minute details is greatly appreciated. You also have a video that I want to add to my personal collection. I guess I’m one of the last to know what a smart phone is capable of doing.
To Rev. Catherine Jackson, contact her at csleadership@gmail.com, you introduced me with enthusiasm and aplomb. You woke the audience up – I felt like a Rock Star with that intro. However, in the future, be sure to add these words about me – “that I am a woman who is proof of the Unlimited Supply of God”. To my special “food and family friend”, Ms. Leigh-Ann Murphy of Lee’s, contact her at lmurphyh@comcast.net, “Thank you”. You filled us up with delicious fare and your young crew of help was a delight to see and experience, especially at such an early hour.
To my traveling angels, Joe Merrills of Merrills & Hogan Family Movers, contact Joe at 773-225-4259 and Melvyna Gaynor of Boon Jab-ba LLC., contact her at melvyna.boonjabba@yahoo.com; “Ya’ll kept it moving”. I have great appreciation for your getting me to and from the breakfast. Your unwavering commitment to get me there, regardless of circumstances, is but another testament of the goodness of God.
To my mother, Doris Love Redic and my sister, Jacqueline Pinegar, thanks to the both of you for your faith, conviction and commitment to me. I saw the looks of love and pride on your faces. Your unfaltering willingness to see how you can help despite your personal situations is my motivation when I feel like “not going on”. To each and every one of my guests, “thanks” for your support of me. It will not be forgotten. You will be among the first to know of all the good news about Sistah’s Home. To each of my supporters and well-wishers at a distance, I felt the love. Each donation was received in gratitude for your contribution to Sistah’s Home – the Place of Love in Action!
My featured guest – Janine A. Ingram, author of Born to Be Rich, rocked the house. Janine, facilitator and founder of the AMPRAYERCALL, is my declared other “Mother”. She helped “deliver” a new soldier into the universe. Janine A. Ingram brought her special gifts of encouragement, the win/win spirit and enthusiasm to the breakfast. By the time this dynamic and energetic sistah got through with her message – we had a “love train” moving in the place! And for those who don’t know, Sister Joy can drop it like its’ hot, right along with Janine. Those sistahs did the thang! We danced and celebrated to “Money is Coming to Me” so much and so long that the owners were waiting for us to go! We were fired up and couldn’t let such a high moment end. We took ourselves and the extra food over to “Your School of Beauty Culture” located at 116 E. Pershing Road in Chicago, IL. We brought joy and cheer to a packed school. We were just in time for a Birthday celebration there for sweet Betty White. We had customers in different states of “getting that butter whipped” join us in a soul-train line. The operators tapped and sang along with us. They didn’t want us to leave. It was so stimulating and well received; I thought such a “love-train” might be something we could consider for the holidays. There are so many individuals and places of business in need of cheer.
I will conclude this blog today, telling you that your dreams can be realized. I have just started on the birth of my own dream and I move forward with the expectancy that my greatest good is coming to me right now. If the universe did it for me, it will certainly do it for you – Just Ask! I can tell you that the right individuals, things and circumstances will show up at your request!
Indeed, Let the Church Say Amen
Peace and Love,
Queen Hostess,
Claudette Redic
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