Let’s go back in time when acceleration wasn’t the purpose, but cherish the moment with the expectancy that was. We will go back as far as we can, but not too far as we could go back to a time that we want to forget. We have arrived in the 1960’s to the time when music was, and people cared about one another. It was a day when do woo had swing which many romances were developed along with cars of delight and intrique. Do you remember what you were doing? You forgot that quick? I was three years old as I was born in 1957. I do remember living on Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York with a united family with all the get togethers you can name. I also do remember the big band which my Grandfather’s uncle and mine, Eubie Blake was the pianist, and worked with such entertainers such as Dizzy Gillisipee, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and many others as the list goes on and on. This was a time of swing and movin to the music, and having a good day time while enjoying life too the fullest. It was do you care too dance, and cut a rug. By next morning, you were sore from all that dancing and drinking the night before. I see you trying to capture the moment of the past, but I also see you reaching for that ben-gay.

Back then, life meant something, and had a meaning too live. The whole idea was live today because there could be something different tomorrow. The whole idea of music was the rhythm, and the artist who was performing. The 1960’s was a year to reflect, and look back from which were came. The Civil Rights movement in Washington, DC as thousands gathered from all over the United States to assist Dr. Martin Luther King in the struggle for equality of all races. My Grandfather was among them who traveled to be part of the struggle, and let cause and effect have meaning in the Nations Capitol. The message was, “Let our voices be heard, and Lift every voice as a nation”. This was also a time when Rochdale Village became a community, and my Grandparents including myself, was one of the first residents to move into Rochdale.

Well, we must say goodbye to the time 1960, and get back to the time machine to face present time reality as too what we live by. I hope you enjoyed our brief tour back, and hope it has helped you live your life for the future. Time in a bottle well spent. To be honest, look back at life, and to see what life was like, but now living our life what it should be, and prepare hopes and admiration for the present, and moving fast forward to the future of life destiny. “Life is too live as walking is too moving”.