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it is 2 am here in Twin Falls Idaho and I am back in the hotel, after the show, a great dinner, and it is time to go to sleep.

Inevitibly i am wide awake and having to get up at 8am so i can go speak to some high school kids at 9:30.

College of Southern Idaho has a yearly Multicultural Fest where they have local Junior and Senior High School students come out to hear someone motivational speak and maybe get them excited about the possibility of attending college. While a large percentage of the population here is Latino, only 50% of them graduate.

It is funny to me that that motivational person should be me. In the last year or so I have been doing more teaching and speaking, and i guess it trips me out. I guess I never really thought that those little poems I started writing back in High School would take me where they have, and propel me into the future I know is coming...even though exactlly what it holds is still revealing itself to me as I carefully step along this path...almost like stepping on rocks to cross a stream, you're always looking for the right one and hoping you won't lose your footing.

Knamean?

I wonder sometimes when I'm in the middle of teaching what could I possibly have to offer in the way of wisdom when it feels like I have so much to learn yet. Me a motivational speaker? When I sit at home watch George Lopez, eat trail mix and crack corny jokes waiting to be motivated myself?

wow.

I still feel like I have so far to go and so many things i still want to accomplish...i'm far from having it figured out in any way...

But for now, I guess I have to just trust that there is something valuable I have to offer by sharing my work and my story. It's so easy to think that the smallest things we do have no significance...that we don't matter...imagine if we all thought just a little differently, and realized that even the most mundande of actions in our everyday life could change someone else's?

I'm ramblin and am nervous about talking to these kids, so i will go and not worry about what has yet to come and just think about what i need to do right at this moment, which is rest.

g'nite, buenas noche,

may you all sleep with angels and be blessed with dreams that bring guidance and wisdom.