September 07, 2009
August 08, 2009
July 23, 2009
At Ten Years Old...The Power of Affirmation Grabbed Hold of ME!
When I was 10 years old, I remember being in the kitchen listening to Patrice Rushen's LOOK UP AND ENJOY! Who remembers that!!!! "If you're feeling down, here's what cha' do, pick it up and get higher, you know you can do it,If you wanna sing, you gotta' move pick it up and get higher, you know you can do t,Look up and enjoy, Look up and enjoy"
I remember thinking....That's it....I got to look up and think positive thoughts. I need to speak it and feel it! I remember thinking, I am going to think in positive way!
This was huge for me at 10 years old because I've been thinking that way ever since. In high school, when everybody was running around like some freak-o-zoid teenage maniacs...I was at the cafeteria table with my notebook writing over and over and over again...I LOVE MYSELF...I LOVE MYSELF...I would fill up pages of this type of affirmations......I had affirmation posters that I made all in my room all over my walls!I am so happy for the living power of affirmations! And I am so happy for Patrice Rushen's song LOOK UP!I am going to continue to LOOK UP & ENJOY!!!!! Yeah!!!
Signs of A Mama of 4 Pushing Herself To Live Courageoulsy!!!
I thought it would be interesting to talk about or give a title
to some of my writings centered on living COURAGEOUSLY. Even when I
feel the fear. I live courageously. Even when I want to be mediocre, I
live courageossly. When I see my vision within I live courageously
without. Courageous!!! Courageous!
Courageous....Utilizing courage in my live. I believe that is the only way I will see my inner vision on the outside world. So
I commit to have a beautiful dance with COURAGE; and I will allow
COURAGE to lead the way....no actually, I will let my Spirit lead the way & COURAGE will tag along for this amazing ride of manifesting my inner vision! Yeah, I think I COURAGE will be my forever life partner in this particular dance of blitzing my inner vision out to the world!
July 14, 2009
July 11, 2009
My Musical Business in a Nutshell!
My business, is one of creating and performing"Inspired Soul Music"! My process of creating and performing music is a "Soulistic" journey intended to inspire my life and those that come in earshot of it! I hope it can inspire a slice of your life as it does mine! -----Ajuana Black
July 05, 2009
Ajuana Black......Gotta Share Who I Am So Far!
Who Is Ajuana Black?
A performing artist, actress &
magnetic, incredible awe-inspiring vocalist who has been echoing her
rootzy, soulful sounds from her infectious spirit since she can
remember! Ajuana is definitely a stunning & brilliant talent to be
reckoned with!
Yes, Ajuana Black, is, unequivocal another
astonishing spectacular talent in our midst & she's been here all
the time perfecting her marvelous gift of inspiring soul s through her
uplifting lyrics & passionate, fiery stage performance! With just
one listen to Ajuana Black's soulful songs, you will become drawn to
her special energy & what she has to give..."A personal
representation of true lyrical & vocal inspiration!"
Born & raised in the Bay Area & adopted at the age of two, Ajuana has always been on this deep-seated, profound & multi-layered inner journey of searching, & understanding & subsequently shining her inward experience by pouring out an infectious, melodic & musical stage explosiveness!
The Main Stage!
Uprooted from the fertile grounds of Oakland, California, Ajuana
(a-wa-na) has groomed her innate talent for the stage by starring in
musicals such as Dream Girls (Lorrell), which included Dorian Wilson
from the hit sitcom The Parkers, Go Down Garvey, which included Sharon
Neal who recently played in the movie Dream Girls as well as the Tyler
Perry movie, Why Did I get Married? Once On This Island (Timoune),
& Aint Misbehavin' (Charlene)!Ajuana continues her trailblazing
stage career by finishing up a one-woman developmental tour play
entitled Queen Calafia, Ruler of California, written & produced by
African-American historian John Templeton!
Commercials & television appearances are also apart of Ajuana's
extensive performing career. One of her most memorable TV roles has
been the role of Johnnie Gibson as a teenager in the CBS movie, The
Johnnie Gibson Story; which included the wonderful actress Lynn
Whitefield from Martin Lawrence's Thin Line between Love & Hate
& Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion!
Over the last two years, Ajuana has
worked diligently with producer David Decuir of Decuir Digital
Recordings, to create & put out the amazing CD entitled A Soulful
Journey! With her soulful, heartfelt, jazzy tones & inspired
lyrics, Ajuana unmistakably uplifts & inspires the inner soul of
anyone who has the wonderful chance to listen!
Currently...
Currently, Ajuana is on a mission to bring all that she intrinsically
embodies within her by performing her in-development "Harlem Cabaret"
entitled Sunshine Rae's Speak Easy! Using her theatrical & musical
gifts, Ajuana portrays the character, Sunshine Rae Johnson! Sunshine
Rae sings those spectacular jazz tunes from the 20's & 30's that
gives the "speak easy" performance a definite nostalgic vibe as well
as setting the stage on fire performing contemporary jazz songs that
keeps the performance on an elevated pace!
There is no doubt that Ajuana's musical journey is rooted in an amazing
& magnificent splendid path! It would behoove the ears & eyes
of all who desire to live life to the fullest, to stop, watch &
take a listen to Ajuana Black & receive all the remarkable lyrical
& musical inspiration she has to offer to this world!
June 27, 2009
Introducing My Diary as as The Founding Mama of Mama Earth Magazine
I
thought to kick this part of my blog off of documenting this journey I have been on
for the last 10 years...manifesting a publication simply and
majestically entitled Mama Earth Magazine; it would be special for me
to post my first editor's inner note. I share the blocked walls I was
running into head first and some other sentiments that were key to the
first time I published Mama Earth Magazine in 2004! 10 years after it
was first born within my spirit!
Editor's Inner Notes
June 25, 2004 (crazy
that I am typing this almost 2 years exactly to this date.....June 25,
2008..... I started working on this blog around 11:30pm....Divine Order
in Action!)...WOW, I am retyping this BABY again adding to my original blog just a few days shy of it being a year from last year!!!! What's up with this June thing?.......I know what it is MAMA EARTH MAGAZINE...really wants to come out and she tellin' me not to be scared and even if I am....to feel the fear but to keep owith the keepin on because time is near!...The Birth that is
It's Important For Me To Say Thank You!
I
would just like to personally thank a very close friend who I know
would not like for me to name her but has been so instrumental in
assisting me, more ways than one---in birthing the first issue of Mama
Earth Magazine. Thank You......!
Those host of other people I have tugged on and called on when I had literally lost the initial first issue of Mama Earth Magazine ( That was simply insane!) Thank you for hooking me up with other people who could help me. But a Blasted Thanks goes out to Terone Ward, over at the SF Bayview Newspaper! The Technical person I leaned on the most. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Thank you to Mary Ratcliff for accepting my Mama Earth columns. In addition to these thank yous , one more goes to JR, the publisher of the brand new World Wind International Black Newspaper!
May
something2004 after my whole 1st issue could not be retrieved out of my
computer/1 hour before printing, I thought these words....
"It
feels like when you are about to deliver a baby, but your midwife tells
you , you haven't dilated all the way. I have worked so hard. What does
this mean I can't get the magazine file open? It was like spirit was
saying, " You want this? Let's see how much. I'll take it away and you
will create it once again...with more diligence and determination than
ever! I've been pregnant for a long time...Here We Go!
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Mama of 4!
Ajuana Black
June 22, 2009
Bethanie Hines...Healing Photographer...MADE ME CRY!!!!
How pictures can heal is amazing! It's not so much the product as it is the process of looking at myself...seeing a reflection of what I am, who I look like, who I look like that I haven't found yet. My birth mama. You see, I am adopted and I am still on the search of looking fo DONNA MARTIN, MY BIRTH MAMA! When I see pictures of her, I see the beauty and how photogenic she was in those pictures. When Iwas viewing my pictures for the first time with Bethanie, I wept because I couldn't help but to think or even see my birth mama's pictures...her reflection through me. It's a longing anda loving I was experiencing SEEING THE PICTURES FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
Then to see the pictures that speak courage and strength when I looked at them for the first time was so uplifting for me....I heard myself inside tell myself..."Oh my God, you are strong, powerful, and empowered!" I am I am....didn't know I didn't feel strong.....kinda been going through some things and obviously I have been telling myself some not so empowering words......but the pictures..reflections of me and "she" that came before me...communicated some healing strong ass energy....and I thank Bethanie for her gift of capturing what she captures through the LENS...........Oh Should I tell that it took me a good 5 months to get the courage to even set the appointment to go and view the pictures. Something deep inside, I believe, knew it was going to bring up alot for me............so I ask you.......
Has Any Body Seen DONNA MARTIN?
