Life has a way of making you do things its way.
Mood:  suave
Topic: My Life: Daniel Reeves
Well it’s been along time since I was last here I just want to say that tings are going well. I’m doing the things that my doctor said that I must do if I’m going to live. At first I just waited until I understood that my life was changing as of the second and that I had all the cards in my favor if I just did what was right. As always life puts things in your way so that you can understand what he has in mind only if you are able to live life by his means. This was not hard for god has always been in my heart. That was not the hard part the hard part was doing it day after day month after month to year after year. This was the hard part for I was known for being lazy at times in my life. But that 8years ago not now. For today I’m 200lbs less my health is in better ways than 8-years ago. I love life more every day than the last day. I see the sunrise as a good thing now. I miss not have something to live for everyday. Well it’s great to be back with life doing the things that one loves to do. Until next time have love in tour life if not than give it to someone else who needs it. Daniel

Sorry that I have not been back>
Mood:  hug me
Topic: My Life: Daniel Reeves

Hi,

 It's been too long and I'm sorry. Ok let's see what have I been up too since I last been here. Well  I have lost about 200lbs as of july 17 2006. I walk about 2.5 miles 5-6 times a week. So things are going well for me. Until next time give walking a chance you won't be sorry. Daniel

Life what is it.
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: My Life: Daniel Reeves
Hi,
I just can't say what on my mind yet maybe soon. So until than just think about Life and what it can do to you. Look around you see the life you miss by seeing only work or head down as you walk and seeing not a thing as you pass your day. What is life without you looking to see it pass you by.

Photo's By Daniel R Reeves
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Photos by Daniel of Seattle
Hi to all this time of year I try to make my time on this planet mean something more than just being here. So I started a photo album to try to let you see what I see when I look around my world. photo album

June is the time to get your act in line.
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: My Life: Daniel Reeves
Hello, to all this my time in june and to me this has been as good as you can get it. Life is so short that you must do all you can to live. This is why I am so happy today and tonight. For I hope to have all in a short time. Daniel

My life in the 60's
Mood:  sharp
Topic: My Life: Daniel Reeves
Welcome. This page is about Daniel Robert Reeves with help from my Sister Debbie. Who I am is hard to say, but I am finding out more and more about myself every day. Part of the reason I am writing is so that you and I will gain some insight into me -- the man who is writing what you are about to read. This is just one small part of my history. As they say, everyone has a story. Before I was five years old, I new that my life was different from most for I had seen more than most people get to see by age 65. By age five, I had met a United States President, dined at the White House, met the first African American Supreme Court Justice (my sister's godfather), and more civil rights activists than I can possibly remember. In my home, the most important people of the time came to dinner, and spent hours and hours and hours discussing legal and political strategies to gain social, political, and economic freedom for African Americans. Adding to my good luck is the fact that my mother and father loved the Arts and would take my sister and me to the theater to listen to Classical Music, the Opera, or a play from the Big Apple. And I can't forget the time we spent outdoors such as listening to music in Rock Creek Park. Or all the fun times at my father's Saturday or Sunday picnics. We had a great time with the games and Daddy's stories about President John Kennedy and his office in the White House, and being in federal court, and his talks about Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King. He would frequently take me to a local delicatessen where we would meet up with some of his law students and I would listen to him talk for hours about the law being for all people, not just for some folks. How we needed to fight to get us there. Boy, if I could only remember exactly what he said -- I was between the ages of five and nine years old and even though I instinctively knew that what he was saying was powerfully important, I was sad that I did not have the capacity to remember it all. I was more interested in the GI Joe action figure that my dad bought for me. When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my parents decided to move to a new home. Daddy has started working for President John F. Kennedy as the Special Assistant for Minority Affairs. My parents decided that it was time to integrate a neighborhood. They bought a home at 7760 16th Street, NW in Washington, DC. The house was at the corner of 16th Street and Kalmia Road. We were one of the first African American families to move into that neighborhood. We might have been the first! Before we moved, though, we had the first run in with the Klan that I remember. Apparently, our white neighbor (who was a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan) did not approve of the notion of black folks moving into white neighborhoods (he lived next door to us on New Hampshire Avenue--this was before we moved to 16th Street). He complained to my mother that my sister and I made too much noise in the back yard. He told her that the next time we were in the back yard; he would throw lye on us. Mommy sent us, along with our two dogs, to live with her parents in Le Droit Park - until we actually moved to 16th Street. Not long after we moved to 7760 16th Street, the Klan decided that they had a right to march down the street in front our home. Rumor had it that they wanted to intimidate our family. When they first came marching down the street, I laughed because I thought they were a group of clowns on their way to a party. I wanted to see them up close. My sister knew who they were, though, because she screamed at me to stay away from them. She was mowing the lawn - unasked - because she was in trouble with Mrs. Whitehead - her eighth grade math teacher at Gordon Junior High School. Mrs. Whitehead was a good friend of our mother's so my sister could never do anything wrong in school and get away with it. That was the day that Mrs. Whitehead called our house and mommy found out that my sister had not been doing her math homework. Anyway, my sister Debbi was at the end of the lawn close to the sidewalk when the Klan cam marching into view. She screamed at me to get inside and ran into the house. She told our mother that the Klan was marching down 16th Street. Mommy didn't believe her - she told Mrs. Whitehead, "That girl has an overactive imagination. Now she is trying to tell me that the Klan is marching down the street." I went back outside because I wanted to see the clowns more than I wanted to see my sister get into trouble. One of my friends who lived down Kalmia Road, Knute, came by and we ran down 16th Street to follow the Klansmen. By then, folks were coming out of their homes and throwing things at the men in the white robes - they were screaming at them to go away. News photographers were everywhere and the television cameras were not far behind. The march broke up just after the Klansmen got pass Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Mommy took Debbi in the car down to Mrs. Whitehead's house so that Debbi could do her math homework. I stayed at home with one of my Dad's law students. When they got home, I could tell that my sister was in deep trouble with my mother. She kept trying to tell my mother that the Klan really did march down the street and my mother, who became quite frustrated, told Debbi to be quiet and not to say another word. She used "the tone." You know the tone you would have to have a death wish to disobey. The next morning, my mother called to my sister and me to get downstairs right away. We were still in our pajamas watching cartoons. I could tell that my sister was afraid that she was in more trouble. We went downstairs, peeking cautiously around the corner into the living room where our mother sat reading the paper. With tears in her eyes, she grabbed us both and hugged us. On the coffee table, I saw a front-page photo of the Klan marching down 16th Street, with Knute and me quite visible in the crowd - pointing and laughing at the clowns. To this day, my sister still has an overactive imagination, and she is not very good at math. My mother lives in Florida with my second father whom she married over thirty-five years ago, and my first father is deceased.

To the New Year "2004"
Hi, To the New Year "2004" I hope this year will be as good as or better than last year. What I want for the New Year? 1. Give to GOD my life. Not just in words but acts, that means something to my faith. 2. Go to therapy 2 times a week. 3. Call my mother on Thursday. 4. Have money all month long. 5. Finish working with my weight and walking 2 to 3 times a week. 6. Work hard at all you do. 7. Show love to everything and everybody you meet.

What to do. Now that Christmas Is over.
Yes, Christmas is now over, you do not know what to do next well send all the Christmas money to me, and I will make you so proud on how I spend it. If not well, next year is almost here and you will have to do this again anyway in 354 days so think on this and send me your Christmas money to Daniel for things to do. Until next time. OK. I just wanted you to smile some and feel the energy come back into to you, so you can get into doing your jobs again before Monday comes around. The end of the year is the time you take to think of the things you did this year and find out if you have any thing you want to talk to GOD about before the next year comes round. You must do this now for GOD has a way to make you hear him and you may not like what you hear. For I know what I am talking about. Make your plans for next year now before it comes. Don't wait until the last minute to do this for your life is more important, than going to parties and having fun. See you Next YEAR 2004

Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2004. Hello, If you can read this at all, I thank you. This is new to me so go with it and my words to you will be short, if at all.Anyway, you will hear more from me next time. I only sign-in to say what is on my mind, until next time. Be all you can be, because only you can live your life and see time go bye, not me. Keep your head up and do only good things. Be happy and you will be fine. Any way, have a good time until than. Today is the last time you will hear from me until next month. Hey, has any one heard any good talk at the water cooler lately? If so tell me. Ok that is all for now until next time, DANIEL.

My Father: Frank D. Reeves
Hi to all, This blog is going to about my frank D. Reeves his Life and Works. I am going to use the words of Dr. J. Clay Smith, Jr. Professor at the Howard University School of Law to make my point that this man needs to be remembered.I have put him on my web site at https://dankimtree311.tripod.com/. The person I want to talk about is my Father: Frank Daniel Reeves:
" Mr. Reeves was born on March 23, 1916 in Montreal, Canada. He moved to New York City in 1928, where he received his education. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Howard University. Reeves graduated in the same class that produced Spottswood William Robinson III, James Aaron Washington, Jr., and twenty other lawyers, who like Mr. Reeves, would enter the legal profession throughout the United States. He was a member of the class of 1939.After receiving his law degree; Mr. Reeves went to New York City to work for the NAACP. Thurgood Marshall, who recognized his substantial interpretative intellect, relied on his legal skills. The 1950's proved to be a busy period in Mr. Reeves' life. During this time, Mr. Reeves was a key operative in helping to shape the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown I) and Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294 (Brown II) (1955) which held that "separate but equal" in public schools based on race was unconstitutional (Brown I) and that desegregation should take place with all deliberate speed (Brown II).Reeves, like others, has earned an honored place in legal history. He joins a distinguished group of legal crusaders including Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter, Louis Redding, Jack Greenberg, Spottswood W. Robinson, III, James Madison Nabrit, Jr., Constance Baker Motley, and Oliver Hill... He was the first African American appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, an appointment that he declined (perhaps because he had higher political aspirations). In 1960, He became the first African American to serve on the Democratic National Committee and as an advisor on minority affairs to John F. Kennedy, who was then a Senator and the Democratic nominee for president. Frank Reeves' life was fully occupied with public service while teaching full time (Constitutional Law) at the Howard University School of Law during the 1960s. During this time, he also was counsel to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped negotiate the historic March on Washington in 1963 and the Poor Peoples Campaign in 1967-1968. Perhaps, one of the most important cases that Professor Reeves was involved was the landmark case of Powell v. McCormick, 395 U.S. 486 (1969), a case challenging the refusal by Congress to seat Congressman Adam Clayton Powell of New York (Harlem). In Powell v. McCormick, the Court agreed with the arguments presented by Reeves and ruled in favor of Congressman Powell, holding that the House of Representatives was without power to exclude from its membership any person who was duly elected and met the age, citizenship and residential requirements stated in the U.S. Constitution." Source: http://www.law.howard.edu/alumni/legalgiants/huslgiantoct2k1.htm
Well this is all I am puting in my blog for now see you soon. D.