Ragamuffin Soul

It was not a out of body experience, it was a out of head experience.

So Snap does it again.
Capturing my last time on stage at Sandals.
This post is long and full of pictures. If you don’t like those kind of posts, get over it.

So if that is not going out on top I don’t know what is.
And the peace I had inside me all day long could only have been God given.
Only more of an affirmation of this move being ordained by Him.
A peace about the things behind me.
A peace about the feeling inside me.
A peace about the road ahead of me.
Thank You Sandals Church.
Never Stop Pumping your Fists.
Late,
Los

Heather asked the kids to say something to me and she would type it out
Here is what they said…

Sohaila: I love you and I am going to miss you and I dont want you to
get hurt when you go in the accident and I miss you I’m going ot miss
you and i found my glasses HMMM. I missed you and I think your not
going to go to chick fil A and your not goign to do anything nice and
I want you and love you. and I dont want you to get really by bad
people at night and I want to go on a boat this summer. And go to
rachels house to go swimming and I want you to go to the movies and
watch a good show. And I want you to have a balloon. Two of them for
me and seanna. And I want you to come home I am sad today. I love you.
I want you to be good there and I want you to come home soon and bring
a balloon for everyone. And make me a picture. Good bye.


Seanna: I miss you. and I want you . I want you to come home and I
want him, maybe we not going to chick fil a or maybe we not singing at
this home. I miss him and want my daddy so much. And maybe we are not
going to the movies at the movies with nani. We are not going to see
our room anymore or go to the movies with matt and tammy ethan kennedy
or madison or lori. Or we are going to do the alphabet in Atlanta.
Good-bye, I love you kisses good-bye dat it.

Losiah: AHHHH get me out of bed!

Me: I miss you! it was lonely last night once the kids went to bed.
But i look forward to going down stairs and not having to clean up
cereal. I miss you so much you are my best friend.
I am off to go and to my chores. H

My family might simply be the most amazing crew on the planet.
Los

So as I am walking up to the plane the lady checking our boarding passes looks at me and says…”Pastor Carlos!!!”
I recognized her and knew she went to Sandals. How ironic that the last person I see in So Cal is a Sandals attender. We hugged and exchanged some Sandals love it was AWESOME. I almost started crying when I turned around to grab a pic.
I boarded the plane and crammed into seat 35C. The asle seat next to 2 nice young men. We started talking iPhone when Mrs. Sandals Attender of the Year comes walking up the aisle.
“Mr. Whittaker. Your seat assignment has been changed.”
With a wink and a smile she ushered me to seat 1C.
First class.
“Please take care of this man. He is my pastor.”
She left and I cried for a good 15 minutes.
What an amazing place.
Thank you Sandals Church.
You will always have a piece of my heart.

Now to give my heart to the ATL

Los

I’m sitting in Ontario International Airport about to board a red eye to the ATL. It has not hit me that I am moving. Like right now. I am moving. My life is shifting from So Cal to the ATL. First day is tomorrow where I get to head up to a farm and apologize to my new team for my snoring for 2 nights.
What a day.
I’m toast.
Los

It’s my last day at Sandals.
Toot your horns.
Los

Oh My Word.
Los

2 of the members from Spur58. Good stuff.
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Los

This Sunday.
Sandals Church.
Let’s all be there.
So the LA Ink Cameras can see how we do it in the Dirtyside.
The LA Ink film crew will be attending Sandals Church to film the music this Sunday.
They are filming for B Roll footage for my episode.
Let’s give them some conversation for the van ride back to LA when they are finished.
“Did you see all those people’s fists pumping at the same time? Did you hear them singing?”
Be there.
Los

from Yahoo news…

ATLANTA – Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta’s indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an “epidemic” that is becoming a “major concern” around the country.

“Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it’s the in thing,” Martin said Wednesday. “I don’t want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future.”

The proposed ordinance would also bar women from showing the strap of a thong beneath their pants. They would also be prohibited from wearing jogging bras in public or show a bra strap, said Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

The proposed ordinance states that “the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments” would be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.

The penalty would be a fine in an amount to be determined, Martin said.

But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge. She said the law could not be enforced in a nondiscriminatory way because it targets something that came out of the black youth culture.

“This is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling,” Seagraves said.

Martin, who is black, said he plans to hold public hearings and vet the proposal through churches, civil rights groups and neighborhood organizations. The proposal will get its first public airing next Tuesday in the City Council’s Public Safety Committee.

“The purpose of the paper is to generate some conversation to see if we can find a solution,” Martin said. “It will be like all the discussions we’ve had around the value of the hip-hop culture. We know there are First Amendment issues … and some will say I’m just trying to put young black men in jail, but it’s going to be fines.”

Makeda Johnson, an Atlanta mother of a 14-year-old girl, said she is glad Martin introduced the proposal. She does not want to see a law against clothing, but said she thinks teenagers are sending a message with a way of dressing that is based in jailhouse behavior.

Atlanta would not be the first city to take on sagging pants.

Earlier this year, the town council in Delcambre, La., passed an ordinance that carries a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months.

Oh the dirty south.
Los