Hello everyone. Let me re-introduce myself as the good hearted, kind and generous person I have always been since childhood. Love yourself-Love your family-Don't believe every single thing you see or hear.
Gifts, favors and rewards are not worth it if it comes with disingenuous intentions and know that you have respectfully and ethically worked hard for everything you have received. It's all someone else's perception and personal gain.
A plan or act is for the good of everyone and it sacrifices no one. As you get older you stop occupying your time with what others think about you. Love your spirit and create your future because your identity belongs to you and your soul. Let no one mistake your kindness for weakness because you're no fool. When it's time to set the record straight-Don't hesitate.
Strike down evil at every turn. Keep moving-Keep the faith and stay positive and resilient. Gloria
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Note to Congress: Higher Ground
Note to Congress: Higher Ground
The Republicans, Independents and Democratic members who are playing political games with America's budget and therefore the U.S. citizens tax dollars, I would encourage you to use your legislative skills in the current and future budget negotiations and understand that a number of families are in need of an economic boost and confidence in our U.S. and international monetary system. It is with a clear focus that I woke up this morning, spirit filled while hearing and feeling that the problems of our nation and societal issues we have yet to solve is of an urgent matter or we will repeat historical mistakes. Congress has the ability to negotiate a just, fair and equitable budget for all. Anything less is unacceptable to the voters of the United States of America. Our financial state of affairs falls in the camp of the previous and present administrations and I am sure that all parties involved are looking at what legacy they will build and leave to the American public and world for years to come. Let's leave the hidden agendas and control tactics that undermine each other’s thoughts, ideas and plans for the future off the table and put on the kitchen table ideas, agendas and plans that provide positive substance to sustain families in their everyday struggle to survive.
On this day as the NASA organization sends the last shuttle to space and recognizing the human strength, innovation, intelligence and spirit that put men and women on the moon and the International Space Station, surely budget settlements is a goal we can reach and put ourselves and the economy on higher ground.
Let Your Innervoice Rise-
Gloria J Harden-Bailey
The Republicans, Independents and Democratic members who are playing political games with America's budget and therefore the U.S. citizens tax dollars, I would encourage you to use your legislative skills in the current and future budget negotiations and understand that a number of families are in need of an economic boost and confidence in our U.S. and international monetary system. It is with a clear focus that I woke up this morning, spirit filled while hearing and feeling that the problems of our nation and societal issues we have yet to solve is of an urgent matter or we will repeat historical mistakes. Congress has the ability to negotiate a just, fair and equitable budget for all. Anything less is unacceptable to the voters of the United States of America. Our financial state of affairs falls in the camp of the previous and present administrations and I am sure that all parties involved are looking at what legacy they will build and leave to the American public and world for years to come. Let's leave the hidden agendas and control tactics that undermine each other’s thoughts, ideas and plans for the future off the table and put on the kitchen table ideas, agendas and plans that provide positive substance to sustain families in their everyday struggle to survive.
On this day as the NASA organization sends the last shuttle to space and recognizing the human strength, innovation, intelligence and spirit that put men and women on the moon and the International Space Station, surely budget settlements is a goal we can reach and put ourselves and the economy on higher ground.
Let Your Innervoice Rise-
Gloria J Harden-Bailey
Friday, June 3, 2011
Gloria J Bailey's Family, religious, social, cultural, economic and political views:
1. I am and always have been a (straight) heterosexual female. Marriage to a Man/male.
2. I am a mother and family orientated woman.
3. I am a Christian who is inclusive of other religious views.
4. I am a Moderate Democrat who is inclusive of some independent and republican views.
5. I have always been and continue to be supportive and inclusive of disabilities. I am supportive and inclusive of people who are deaf, hearing impaired and blind. I am supportive and inclusive of intellectual disabilities.
6. I have always advocated and volunteered for children issues and education.
7. I believe in the empowerment of women and men.
8. I am supportive of individuals who suffer from the addiction of alcohol and substance abuse.
9. I am understanding and inclusive of diverse races, culture, backgrounds, perspectives and the GLBT community.
10. I am an advocate for Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.
11. I am an advocate of healthy food choices and nutrition.
12. I like most animals. Favorite pet choices are dog, fish and birds.
13. I am in support of environmental, green initiatives and auto industry transformation.
14. I am in support of our men and women in the military.
15. I have always had interest and conversations on, artistic, educational, historical, social,cultural, economic and political issues.
16. If I left out a subject or view, it is not intentional or a slight against anyone or an organization.
~Gloria J Bailey, BFA
2. I am a mother and family orientated woman.
3. I am a Christian who is inclusive of other religious views.
4. I am a Moderate Democrat who is inclusive of some independent and republican views.
5. I have always been and continue to be supportive and inclusive of disabilities. I am supportive and inclusive of people who are deaf, hearing impaired and blind. I am supportive and inclusive of intellectual disabilities.
6. I have always advocated and volunteered for children issues and education.
7. I believe in the empowerment of women and men.
8. I am supportive of individuals who suffer from the addiction of alcohol and substance abuse.
9. I am understanding and inclusive of diverse races, culture, backgrounds, perspectives and the GLBT community.
10. I am an advocate for Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.
11. I am an advocate of healthy food choices and nutrition.
12. I like most animals. Favorite pet choices are dog, fish and birds.
13. I am in support of environmental, green initiatives and auto industry transformation.
14. I am in support of our men and women in the military.
15. I have always had interest and conversations on, artistic, educational, historical, social,cultural, economic and political issues.
16. If I left out a subject or view, it is not intentional or a slight against anyone or an organization.
~Gloria J Bailey, BFA
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Inner Voice- Inner Change- Inner Peace
One of my examples of a significant life changing experience would center around my early college years as a counselor intern for the Wayne State University Rosa Parks/M.L. King/Cesar Chavez College Day program in Detroit, MI. I worked as an intern with students in the middle to high school inner city where there was the most at-risk need to promote the importance of education and administer training sessions on self esteem, life skills, career options and most importantly plant the seed of encouragement that students can achieve despite their circumstances and to visualize attainment of a college degree while giving them step by step practical tools. Our counselor supervisor enrolled all the counselors and interns in a program called Efficacy Detroit which is now named the “Efficacy Institute” at http://www.efficacy.org . Along with learning about the Efficacy materials as a group, we all attended the weeklong eight hour workshop at Mary Grove College. As an ethnically diverse group made up of teachers, counselors, business professionals , ministers, holistic health practitioners and volunteers along with a trained psychologist we purged many misconceptions we had about each other’s background, race and most importantly perceptions about urban underserved youth within the city. This approach was taken as a way to not transfer any of our negative perceptions onto children who were already combating tough situations in school and at home.
Sometimes significant change can happen over years and sometimes at the right moment and in a brief period of time where you can see yourself and others more clearly than you had before. This one week we hold in confidentiality that shed tears, pain, empathy, encouragement and joy of self actualization. I suppose these days it would be called intensive group therapy as the facilitator adapted the program to meet the topics and needs of the community. When the training was over, we all held workshops at public schools feeling more equipped mentally and spiritually to interact with students and make the best impact possible on their lives.
I faced life with better answers, greater confidence and more inner peace.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Bailey
Sometimes significant change can happen over years and sometimes at the right moment and in a brief period of time where you can see yourself and others more clearly than you had before. This one week we hold in confidentiality that shed tears, pain, empathy, encouragement and joy of self actualization. I suppose these days it would be called intensive group therapy as the facilitator adapted the program to meet the topics and needs of the community. When the training was over, we all held workshops at public schools feeling more equipped mentally and spiritually to interact with students and make the best impact possible on their lives.
I faced life with better answers, greater confidence and more inner peace.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Bailey
Thursday, September 30, 2010
NEW LOGO COMING SOON
I am exercising my creative talents and artistic skills to design a new logo for Innervoice reflective of my journey of the past and vision of the future. As always I honor the past and my presence in it and now I look forward to the expanse of the future and the moments it will bring. My creative design and artwork will reflect those moments and I have no idea what the result will be. That's the fun part. Stay tuned......
Gloria J Bailey
Let Your Innervoice Rise-
Gloria J Bailey
Let Your Innervoice Rise-
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Hybrid, Chameleon and all parts in between? We're Just People.
As our nation completes the 2010 census and the United States and the world moves toward a more racially and ethnically diverse population, many still are challenged by their identity. Groups of people although increasingly becoming smaller still challenge and minimize their own cultural heritage and individual expression but also seek to oppress other diverse populations.
The fact still remains whether you have a spiritual, humanist, historical or an ideological view, we can not change our biological DNA. Sure you can view yourself spiritually and embrace your identity as a child of God and that is your choice but when we are born unto this earth we are also the parts of our parents. Since the beginning of time cultures have intermingled through trade, workplace and marriage, so this notion that how did America or the world become so multicultural or a melting pot of sorts should be of no surprise. It is only a surprise to people who have made a selective choice to identify and socialize with only people of their own skin color or belief systems. Many in the past and current day use skin color in their mind to move up economically and escape the so called burdens of a particular race they believe are holding them back from prosperity. An example would be the "passing for white" or Caucasian during the slavery system. Ironically, it was a double edged sword as the benefits of skin color brought on by unjust laws and policies was based on a false hierarchy of entitlement that was morally wrong. Many know this deep down in their hearts but often times, and unfortunately, status, praise and greed trumps the moral high ground.
Lately, since the election of President Obama people have taken their rants out on people of color in the form of comments such as "Hybrids", meaning that if your heritage is of two or more races then your some sort of other strange anomaly floating somewhere in space whereby they can't wrap their heads around the fact that a person who was born of multiple races could not possibly negotiate their two worlds, let alone have educational, historical and social views that may be similar or different from their own. God forgive them, they don't know any better. Of course we all should be proud of our heritage, no matter what our skin color, experience or disability but that also means not isolating yourselves culturally within your own groups including your church groups, which by the way is one of the reasons for decline in church attendance because outdated social religious morays are not in tune with the younger generation way of life, so the result is religious governing bodies who continue to set agendas and programs that don't speak to their changing or diverse population. For sure, there are folks who just don't understand or care to know the historical and cultural history of a group and tend to take the community value approach, which is fine but the community is made up of different people and culturally orientated groups practice and view their spiritual beliefs and religions in their own way, even if they all share the same faith. As resources in our world environment are becoming more scarce, we should re-think how we live and converse with one another no matter how old you are. Some promote a multitude of identities and I call this the chameleon approach and that's fine too as long as you don't get confused with what is your core belief. The only problem with the chameleon approach is that people take on so many identities and absorb others identities as their own to the point that they lose their own identity along the way. I for one,who entered back into a more formal workplace rather than a home office, have just recently became aware of shadowing and its affects. The chameleon approach taken too far is the most harmful because if you factor out skin color, cultural group and spirituality, you are left with pure emotion and that can be uncontrollable.
So let's just leave the term hybrid to the electric cars and the human genome project; Chameleon to a changeable positive transformation while knowing your core self; and all the parts in between as a tribute to where you have been and where you are going.
As I have said in the past, I embrace all of who I am and at the center of that is my belief in God. So as the butterfly changes, transforms, rises and have fun doing it, the wings are never too far from the spiritual core.
Hybrid, Chameleon and all parts in between? We're Just People.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Bailey
The fact still remains whether you have a spiritual, humanist, historical or an ideological view, we can not change our biological DNA. Sure you can view yourself spiritually and embrace your identity as a child of God and that is your choice but when we are born unto this earth we are also the parts of our parents. Since the beginning of time cultures have intermingled through trade, workplace and marriage, so this notion that how did America or the world become so multicultural or a melting pot of sorts should be of no surprise. It is only a surprise to people who have made a selective choice to identify and socialize with only people of their own skin color or belief systems. Many in the past and current day use skin color in their mind to move up economically and escape the so called burdens of a particular race they believe are holding them back from prosperity. An example would be the "passing for white" or Caucasian during the slavery system. Ironically, it was a double edged sword as the benefits of skin color brought on by unjust laws and policies was based on a false hierarchy of entitlement that was morally wrong. Many know this deep down in their hearts but often times, and unfortunately, status, praise and greed trumps the moral high ground.
Lately, since the election of President Obama people have taken their rants out on people of color in the form of comments such as "Hybrids", meaning that if your heritage is of two or more races then your some sort of other strange anomaly floating somewhere in space whereby they can't wrap their heads around the fact that a person who was born of multiple races could not possibly negotiate their two worlds, let alone have educational, historical and social views that may be similar or different from their own. God forgive them, they don't know any better. Of course we all should be proud of our heritage, no matter what our skin color, experience or disability but that also means not isolating yourselves culturally within your own groups including your church groups, which by the way is one of the reasons for decline in church attendance because outdated social religious morays are not in tune with the younger generation way of life, so the result is religious governing bodies who continue to set agendas and programs that don't speak to their changing or diverse population. For sure, there are folks who just don't understand or care to know the historical and cultural history of a group and tend to take the community value approach, which is fine but the community is made up of different people and culturally orientated groups practice and view their spiritual beliefs and religions in their own way, even if they all share the same faith. As resources in our world environment are becoming more scarce, we should re-think how we live and converse with one another no matter how old you are. Some promote a multitude of identities and I call this the chameleon approach and that's fine too as long as you don't get confused with what is your core belief. The only problem with the chameleon approach is that people take on so many identities and absorb others identities as their own to the point that they lose their own identity along the way. I for one,who entered back into a more formal workplace rather than a home office, have just recently became aware of shadowing and its affects. The chameleon approach taken too far is the most harmful because if you factor out skin color, cultural group and spirituality, you are left with pure emotion and that can be uncontrollable.
So let's just leave the term hybrid to the electric cars and the human genome project; Chameleon to a changeable positive transformation while knowing your core self; and all the parts in between as a tribute to where you have been and where you are going.
As I have said in the past, I embrace all of who I am and at the center of that is my belief in God. So as the butterfly changes, transforms, rises and have fun doing it, the wings are never too far from the spiritual core.
Hybrid, Chameleon and all parts in between? We're Just People.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Bailey
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
"Mercy, Mercy Me" What's Going On"?
Environment and Conservation. Two words that cause different reactions depending on which side of the debate you fall on. Surely, by now with all the scientific evidence and ecological weather events that we all have experienced,there should be little doubt that there is a Global Climate Problem that needs to be addressed as we speak.
Many researchers are documenting and collating information and now it's time to implement the solutions. I've always pondered ideas about how we can reduce wasted consumption in mass quantity even though I still need to be more conscious of the climate. Once, I even drew out plans and researched machines to reduce aluminum that was user friendly to the public. Maybe I'll patent it one day.
The point is that we need fresh and new ideas of innovation to combine with scientific research in the same room and remove the red tape and enclosed categorized boxes that stifle creativity and the ideas of change. We are reminded of the oil spills that continue to happen and I recall the time I spent living in San Pedro, California where many Marine Mammals including Sea Lions suffered deaths due to the domoic poisoning off the Los Angeles County California Coast due to lack of facilities and expertise. Those heroic Marine Biologist and Sea life workers who cared for these animals were apart of the Whale Rescue Team. It was sad to see and my middle son had an eye opening experience as he learned first hand in his classroom lesson to protect the environment during California history week and on a field trip to San Juan Capistrano. Of course it helped that his 4th grade teacher was married to a Marine Biologist so the students learned all sorts of information and empathy for the suffering of animals and the environment. My son was nervous about going on the field trip because he thought a California Bear which is on the State Seal was going to eat him on the hiking part of the trip. I assured him even though I was nervous myself that he would come back in one piece and he did.
Unfortunately, Coast across the United States and around the world are not being protected as they could be from environmental hazards or human suffering lest we forget the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and many other man made and natural disasters that the world could do without.
I have been listening to singer Marvin Gaye's music and the songs that inspired the 80's is applicable to the year 2010. I like mostly all of his music and on an environmental note, I have been vibing to the songs "Mercy, Mercy Me" and "What's Going On." Very relevant and socially conscious music that was ahead of it's time.
Certainly addressing changes in the way we consume, live and take care of the earth is a complex issue but we must begin to put the plan in action in each phase to begin the process of making progress towards solutions and the educational awareness and spiritual reckoning of this God given planet that we share.
Inspirational Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ97jPY9ejs
Or you can view the video clip on You Tube under Mercy,Mercy Me and
What Going On? Marvin Gaye, 1980's Live Concert at Jazz Festival Montreux.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Harden-Bailey
Many researchers are documenting and collating information and now it's time to implement the solutions. I've always pondered ideas about how we can reduce wasted consumption in mass quantity even though I still need to be more conscious of the climate. Once, I even drew out plans and researched machines to reduce aluminum that was user friendly to the public. Maybe I'll patent it one day.
The point is that we need fresh and new ideas of innovation to combine with scientific research in the same room and remove the red tape and enclosed categorized boxes that stifle creativity and the ideas of change. We are reminded of the oil spills that continue to happen and I recall the time I spent living in San Pedro, California where many Marine Mammals including Sea Lions suffered deaths due to the domoic poisoning off the Los Angeles County California Coast due to lack of facilities and expertise. Those heroic Marine Biologist and Sea life workers who cared for these animals were apart of the Whale Rescue Team. It was sad to see and my middle son had an eye opening experience as he learned first hand in his classroom lesson to protect the environment during California history week and on a field trip to San Juan Capistrano. Of course it helped that his 4th grade teacher was married to a Marine Biologist so the students learned all sorts of information and empathy for the suffering of animals and the environment. My son was nervous about going on the field trip because he thought a California Bear which is on the State Seal was going to eat him on the hiking part of the trip. I assured him even though I was nervous myself that he would come back in one piece and he did.
Unfortunately, Coast across the United States and around the world are not being protected as they could be from environmental hazards or human suffering lest we forget the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and many other man made and natural disasters that the world could do without.
I have been listening to singer Marvin Gaye's music and the songs that inspired the 80's is applicable to the year 2010. I like mostly all of his music and on an environmental note, I have been vibing to the songs "Mercy, Mercy Me" and "What's Going On." Very relevant and socially conscious music that was ahead of it's time.
Certainly addressing changes in the way we consume, live and take care of the earth is a complex issue but we must begin to put the plan in action in each phase to begin the process of making progress towards solutions and the educational awareness and spiritual reckoning of this God given planet that we share.
Inspirational Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ97jPY9ejs
Or you can view the video clip on You Tube under Mercy,Mercy Me and
What Going On? Marvin Gaye, 1980's Live Concert at Jazz Festival Montreux.
Let Your Inner Voice Rise-
Gloria J Harden-Bailey
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