Dialogue

I've taken my good friend's advice and I've created an article from our dialogue...We both have a lot to say and share with others.
Enjoy!

Dear John, I am amazed with all the research you have done. And although I couldn't read all the blogs you wrote about this, this last one put together many loose pieces I was wondering about, not all (I should have read all the blogs for the full understanding). More than one will be very thankful for all the time you put into this. I wish I'd have the time to read all I want to read, do all I want to do... I am very "inquisitive" and interested in most everything, every subject, every topic.. I wish the day would last way more than 24 hrs, and/or we shouldn't spend time in other less interesting things that do not add anything to our lives and spirits.. How do YOU manage to do SO many things at the same time???? I admire the people that can just do so many things.. I call them "multitaskers".. I can just focus in one thing at a time, at least to "do things properly"...
Until any time,, always with admiration and love, gab

Hola, Gabriella:
I am so very happy that you read the final closing work on mtDNA. When you have time, try to read all of them starting with the beginning article.
I worked hard with the FTDNA representative and they have graciously permitted anyone who matches my very ancient Taino mtDNA to change their kits to reflect our heritage. They have also extended that boon to others who are willing to declare their Taino ancestry on their authorization forms when they are just sending in their kits. That boon is has also been extended to others who have already tested their mtDNA as well and want to declare their Taino ancestry. We, in essence, are no longer extinct as far as FTDNA goes. And if everyone of us who decides to get their mtDNA tested and comes out as having the genes of their ancestor mothers, then our numbers will increase and then someone will say, look here. There's something going on. These people are taino. The essence of our genetics don't lie.
I hope my poeple will realize the valuable prize that has been won for them.
I had a lot of help from my DNA mentor and genetic cousins in Floirda in getting the necessary scientific papers that FTDNA had requested. Surprisingly their decision to grant our wish wasn't based upon the contents of those papers. I think it came from their great sense of humanity and understanding of our struggle to regain our place here on this earth.
About my way of being and doing things: I am a very intense person. Very focused in all I do. If there is a need, I educate myself. Then I go do whats needed to be done. I have no sense of self limitation. I try very hard to perfect all I do. My art, my writing, my sculpture and my photography as well as my poetry and any projects on behalf of people. I am no expert. I just do it. For me its all a part of life and living. Being creative is at the very core of everyone. When the words, I can't,are spoken it begins a process that stops the flow of the potential for creativity and the creation of beautiful things. That wisdom can be extended to every endeavor that one attempts in their life. Relationships, drawing, painting, making money without having to work too hard for it. Try, try again are the keywords here. Keep on trying until you become successful at what you are attempting to do. This also falls within the realm of focus and self discipline. When one gets tired one pushes further just a little bit more to get a project done.
Time melts away from those who do creative things within their lives. In essence, they become ageless. They also become, Baracutey, solitary ones, that stand on the outside looking in.
If one is working very hard, too hard for the money, then they must have said somewhere along the line, I can't. I am not able to because... Usually a lack of education, status of some kind comes into play along with the I can't.
If one doesn't have a status of some sort, then one goes out and gets it.
If one doesn't have an education, then one also goes out to get it as well.
If one doesn't know how to draw, then one begins drawing instead of saying...
I can't even draw a straight line.
I have studied Leonardo Da Vinci and many other artists way of painting and thinking as well. The great ones had many things in common. They all had a goal. They all believed in themselves. They studied and painted from life.
Their realism came out of painting the things the saw in life. They were focused on their tasks. They were keen observers of the world around them. Not one detail was missed. When they looked, they saw the pure essence of a thing. Their keen sense of observation extended itself to all things in their lives and their endeavors. They observed and then they questioned and then they came to know. They also didn't have any self limitations either.
Salvador Dali once said, "To become the genius one has to act like one."
He implied that one wasn't born a genius one became one by acting like one.
Da Vinci had a mind that was full of curiosity, he learned to observe, to think about things, to question. He also experimented a lot and out of his experimentations he invented many things that were very futuristic. Did you know that his father was from a distinguished house? Did you know that Da Vinci was a bastard son? If he lived now, in our time I am very sure that his brain would have been ruminating about DNA too. Many people today demean him. Call him things. I think its because they can't understand or grasp what went on in that great brain of his. People always like to look at the negative and will also go very far in contriving negative things when they aren't really there about a person.
One more thing...People around us are always trying to drag us down to their assumed level of insecurity. Or they try to pass on things that were passed onto them by their society, their parents etc. This is where keen observation and discerment come in...



John.. your reply deserves a new post. I mean, you should have posted this reply as a blog. You once said to me "we are made of the same fabric". I can see now that you were saying a much deeper truth than what I think you've even imagined... I am a musician, pianist, choir conductor, creative, in the sense that I like to make choral arrangements, "re-create" things, life, I appreciate "beauty", esthetics, nature, etc. I thought you were reffering as both being artists, and also spiritual persons. But you have written something I have "said" and also "written" in other context.. in a context of my life I have never talked about to almost anybody... I am a strong believer that if you "want" something, it's up to you to get it, to achieve it, to accomplish what you have commited to. I am passionate about all what I do, and terribly obsessive until I get exactly what I want. I am a fighter of my ideals, my values, and to pursue what I believe in.
On to something deeper, and also further, I have also learned that not "everything" is up to us, or depends on our strong will and/or passion or determination.. We've been created with certain gifts, talents, characteristics, etc. We can choose to use them, or not. Not everybody has the same gifts, talents, and characteristics. May be this is a small point in which I differ with you (mostly when you reffer to 'artistic" gifts. That is something we can leave for another discussion). Back to my point, we are not omnipotent... There is a higher Power, that "uses" our talents for a certain purpose.. In other ways, for example, you did something wonderful not only for yourself, but for many other people who can benefit from it. You have been "used" as an instrument for a higher purpose, not only your "personal" purpose.. I don't know if I am able to say what I really want to express.. I'll talk in first person. In my personal life, I know I have been "used" as an instrument for something that is a miracle for me, and also, to benefit hundreds of persons,... I humble myself to God for this.. That was not "my" merit,, that was "His" will, and I was able to understand it, educate myself too to be able to accomplish "my" goal and desire, and others'.. I believe may be this was kind of a "plan" or "mission" God had for me..
Today I can say I am "proud" for it, but not in an 'arrogant' way... I will rather say I've been blessed to have been able to do what I did.. I feel an enormous satisfaction, but more than for "what I did", for what I received as a result of that.. And I'll leave it there.. I don't know if this makes any sense to you or not, it is something very deep in me to transmit in an abstract way, but for some reason, while reading your reply, this feeling and thought came very vivid into my mind.. May be another time, I'll be able or feel more free to go deeper into this.
Congratulations again, and thank you for this excellent reply. You couldn't have said it better, and I certainly agree with your deep insight.. gab