Being an artist and free spirit I tend to meet lots of interesting people on a regular basis. Short, tall, male, female, transgender, black, white, latino, asian, gay, straight, bi, Christian, Muslim, etc. I meet lots of people. As I've grown more comfortable in my own skin and with who I am it has enabled me to really appreciate life and to see myself in everything and everyone around me.

We are all connected in a painfully obvious way, but we often deny this simple truth. Spiritually and systemically we are on, but our actions demonstrate our collective disbelief of the obvious. Once you accept that God is in each of us and we are one together it makes petty differences and judgements of each other seem like the pathetic waste of time that they are.

Recently I met and have become friends with a young man named Karell who now lives in Canada and is living his dream of dancing professionally. He is a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. To say that he is inspiring is an understatement. He walks, talks and lives life with a joy that can only be described as divine. Stop right there and DO NOT MAKE THE ASSUMPTION YOU WERE ABOUT TO MAKE...LOL...I SIMPLY LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE HAPPY AND DOING THINGS THAT BRING THEM JOY. It is the same joy you see in young children and it is the joy we are each meant to have everyday of our lives. I have begun to reclaim my inner child and I urge each of you to do the same.

Look at these pictures and instead of trying to judge who he is or who you imagine him to be, for just one moment appreciate the pure joy he expresses in his experience of the simple things. I think it's beautiful and something I just had to share.

I'm glad you POPPed today, but while you're at get your JOY on too!!!!

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