Tag: evolving
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To dream
“Sometimes the ultimate dream is to be able to dream at all.” If there is anything a child should be given in their childhood and possibly to every adult daily on their lofe’s journey, it should be the space and the freedom to dream and the tools to act on their dream.
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Love yourself with tenderness.
When you love yourself, be deliberate and tender. You are uniquely you and no one can be a better you. You are God’s gift to the world; His masterpiece. When you look at yourself, say those same sweet things to you that you’d say to the person you love. Be unconditional while at it. Invest…
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#9 Travel diary: bicycles everywhere.
When I was a young girl, my brother taught me how to ride a bicycle. It was a very freeing activity. When I rode down that rocky road past farms and past slowly trekking people, I felt like one of those people in the exclusive league which my brother was born into, the free males.…
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Do You Cry Too?
I admit it: I’m a “crier.” I sometimes cry during the national anthem; I’ve sometimes cried at an airshow when I feel the power and agility and precision of fighter jets. I cry during movies. Just last night I was watching a series of the history of Southeastern Conference Football, and I found myself […]…
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Holding the relatable story
It’s quite easy Everytime someone listens to another person tell their story, their experience to immediately think: “I know what you’re talking about. I’ve been through that. I have a relatable experience. “ The thing is though, that you haven’t listened to their story and much as it may have similarity(ies) to yours, this is…
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If you have one side of the story, you might be hurting someone on the other side of that story.
The other day I watched a video of someone trashing their partner and saying how this person was a terrible person, a bad mother, a bad wife, he was crying and shedding serious tears. This is a calm person unlike his partner in question who is a vibrant personality, sometimes controversial in her sense of…
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My home is shaken.
You know what they say about home being where the heart is? My home has always been with a person. It’s no place. Every place I have lived has only been a place I lived but never home. The one constant has been my mother’s presence and wherever she is has always been home for…
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I am not sure I want to be a white gown bride.
Growing up I did not dream of my wedding day like most girls. I didn’t dream of the big white gown and long veil. I was more obsessed with my education and growing into a somebody, a respectable adult who is in any form and magnitude adding value to my society. I’m still working on…
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Whatever you think you want from someone else,….
“Whatever you think you want from someone else, Give it to yourself first.” ~Unknown~ No one knows how to love you like you know. No one knows how to validate you like you can. As the world sees you love yourself, the world learns how to love you. Most of our frustration with people comes…
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You are powerful beyond measure.
One of my favorite quotes as a child was from the movie Akilla; “Your greatest fear is not that you are inadequate. Your greatest fear is that you are powerful beyond measure. “ ~A~ You have exactly what you need to do and be exactly who you should be – your truest self. It is…
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Hope against cynicism.
There is nothing quite so sad as a young cynic; because it means they have moved from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou “To be sceptical is to say I’m willing to explore and learn and question. To be cynical is to say it is not true because nothing is ever true. To be…
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Make room in your heart.
A story is told of this little boy who was supposed to act as the inn keeper in the Christmas Bible story. As the Bible tells it, Emperor Augustus orders a census in the whole Roman empire. Everyone, then, went to register himself, each to his own town.Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in…
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……, BUT …
Many times comes right after saying something good. After bestowing confidence on yourself or on someone else with compliments and love or with strength, light and flowers and all that is brilliant. Then comes the BUT. Everytime someone utters the three letters, in the mind of the recepient it’s like everything else is erased. Whatever…
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Hope is not blind optimism…
“Hope is not blind optimism. It is rather the complete belief that our natural aspirations for truth, meaning, and purpose will come to full practical realization.” ~Unknown~ I would wish that everyone has hope. Hope is what helps the farmer to sleep at night in peaceful assurance that what he has planted is growing even…
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Lifting others up.
“Putting you down does nothing for me. Lifting you up however, does everything for both of us” ~Unknown~
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She;
She that bears a golden heart Maternal sisterly and friendly Nuturing, protective and edifying Loving , kind and self-giving Reliable, selfless and altruistic. My mother dear See, she… Gives and gives of herself From the heart to the hands From her hands to the world She is a teacher, a nurse, carer A mother, a…
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Appreciate what you do have here and now.
If you stop worrying about what you don’t have maybe you’ll appreciate what you do have. Many times in life we are stuck in the dark places of our lives; the dirt corners, the undesirable family history, the failed dreams and unrealized goals, the hidden scars (physical, spiritual and/or emotional), the missteps, lost or never…