Let it Be

Right now I'm majoring in Communications, but I'd thought about it and saw that a business degree would go hand in hand with the vision I've dreamed about. In this vision, there's a recreation center, but instead of it being there for athletics and etc, this recreation center would be for "Fine Arts". This art center would be available for children in underprivileged neighborhoods.  Children can go there to learn different aspects of vocal training, music composition, music history, dance, poetry, drawing, painting and sculpting.  The idea came to me when I reminisced being a child and going to a rec center for summer camp. That was the one place where I could make friends, play different activities and I could escape from school and home. Sadly in most cases, Fine Arts funding in schools will decrease before football, basketball or any other popular high school sport that people crave to see. In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether a child i

Jana reached out her hands, pretending she was hugging some human form. It was an imaginary person of course. She called him JECK, which was the name of our four initials and the name of "our room". Yes we gave our room a name! J.E.C.K. stood for "Jana, Ebony, Charlene, and Kerrie". We lived together in one building working at the summer camp.  I could hear a gut-busting laugh coming from all my co-workers including me. We were cleaning the chapel, getting ready for the next group of campers coming in for the TYI week (Territorial Youth Institute). I laughed because I was still surprised that Jana was claiming a space, an imaginary form, her friend. I thought it was lovely. It brought me back to the golden years as a kid and having the same thing....an imaginary friend. My friend's name was Jelly. We became friends when I was 10 and departed ways, when I finally became a teenager. It was sad. Going into the next chapter of my life at age 13, and realizing, for o