Month: January 2024

What love looks like to me.

I was tired. Life was being tiresome again.

Sorry life.

I called my sis. Yakked a bit. We said our goodnight. Ah. Love.

I had a final cup of ☕ coffee. Content. Ah, love.

I sat. Still. Thinking of a mom I missed dearly. Aha, love.

I lay in bed 🛏. Comfy. Contemplating. Dreaming of dreams that may come true, by morning light. Oh, love.

I woke. Stretched. Readied for a day not ready for me. Yes, love.

That’s what love looks like to me…

Today.

As for tomorrow?

Beats me, beloveds. I am too busy loving, today. Today. While I have breath. While I still have a say in today.

Take care. Be encouraged. Be sure and pass out some water balloons, er, love, to the newbies. And, in case she is a foot, pop an old-bie or two. Must play fair, eh, Britta?

loving,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t let the battles of life keep you from living and loving. Life is short. What does love look like to you today?

Remember you are loved and not alone.

What joy looks like to me.

I find myself joyful.

Writing, in the dark.

Thinking of a perfectly made cup of coffee ☕.

Ah, that’s what joy looks like to me.

Joy also looks like:

A nap, taken.

A joke, shared.

A song, badly sung.

A dance, clumsily, in my chair, in my undies, wriggling in bed.

A piece, happily written.

A movie, romantically watched.

A book, The Book, wonderfully read.

A prayer, whispered.

A tear, silently shed.

These, and many more, are what joy looks like. To me.

What does joy look like, to YOU?

Too often, folk try to make like the lives of others on Tiktok or Instagram. Live YOUR life, beloveds.

Let me know what your joy looks like. Share some of mine.

Be encouraged.

joyfully yours,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:🤗❤️🌏

Oh, God! My dreams won’t let me alone.

Me: Oh, God!

God: What on 🌎 earth is all the fuss about?

Me: My dreams won’t leave me alone!!

God: What are they doing?

Me: Nothing! That’s the point!!…*stamps foot*

God: What are your dreams supposed to be doing?

Me: How on 🌎 earth would I know?! YOU gave them to me! WITH NO INSTRUCTIONS!!…*snorts and stamp BOTH feet*

God: Hhmm. That DOES appear to be a tad frustrating.

Me: Tell me about it.

Dreams: Tell me about it!

Me: Why you keep bothering me dreams?!

Dreams: Great question. Keep asking…

Me: OMG! Do you see?! What is the purpose of being given dreams I have NO idea how to fulfill or make real in REAL TIME!!!!!?

God: Great question. Keep asking…

😳

asking through a maze of what in the fresh hell is this,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I know. I know. You are as sick of my uplifting notes as I am of 📝 writing them! Give me my dreams, Universe!!…*stamps foot*

Keep going. Today, our dreams may finally wake us up and take us for ☕ coffee…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Why you mad?

Why you mad?

Why you mad, at ME?

What have I done?

What have I done, to YOU?

*Cassandra stops shouting at a world that appears to have gone mad. Or mad, at her. For some reason. For no reason. For whatever reason.*

wandering through a mad world,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: This is normally where I would heap a helping of love, encouragement and care. Pass some around to your neighbors:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Keep on playing: What the world was that?!😳

“What in the world was TTTHHAAATTT!!!”

*Screams of agony could be heard, the world over, as Cassandra watched incredibly STUPID 🏈 FOOTBALL PLAY!!!*

Omg!

O

M

G

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!

God: Did someone call Me?

Me: I sowwy. Ehem. Scuze me…

So, I spent a deliciously frustrating evening watching some normally great 🏈 football teams play some uncharacteristically BAD FOOTBALL! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!!

Whew!

Permit me to get over my annoyance so I can get in with the point anx upliftment of this piece. Smh.

I promised myself, a good while ago, to turn disappointment and Life acting a foolness into blessings, pieces, encouragement for others.

In this way, we all win. I get to keep on keeping on. Albeit badly. You get a good laugh and hopefully a timely message from my aforementioned foolishness.

So, whilst hollering at the 📺 television, I was simultaneously devising uplifting pieces to share about keeping on keeping on when the game isn’t going your way.

Okay, so I was actually just hollering at the television while wondering WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING?!!!!!!!!!

Now, calm, I can think back on these observations:

One team played poorly and won.

One team played well and lost.

Hhhm.

Hhmm?

Hhmm!

Both played.

One won.

One lost.

For all but the last minute of the game, the good playing team looked as though they had the win, in the bag. They didn’t.

For all but the last minute of the game, the bad playing team looked as though they had stupidly lost the game. They hadn’t.

Turns out, neither team could control the elements and the outcome.

They played.

One side lost.

One side won.

Moral of the story?

Try.

Play.

Rinse.

Repeat.

You will win when you thought you have lost. You will lose one you thought you had won. The outcome is not up to you. All that is required is your try.

You will make mistakes. So what? You will look foolish. So what? You may not get a trophy. So what?

Keep on playing anyway.

playing with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note 🗒: Keep showing up…

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Don’t engage the hate.

Hate is gonna hate.

Haters are gonna hate.

Hate HATES to be ignored.

Don’t engage the hate.

Love.

Love.

Love more.

Still.

Shine your light.

Tell hate to kick 🥊 rocks.

Be corny.

Be old-fashioned.

Be out of fashion and love.

With ALL your ♥ heart.

Give away every drop of love within you.

Then, tomorrow, rinse and repeat!

Be encouraged, beloveds. Yes, we live in troubled times. Troubling times. Restless times.

Yet, we also live in hopeful times. Resilient times. Hopeful times.

And, it’s up to each of us, to choose to help make this world a better place.

making the world a better place with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Um, why you still here?! Get on out there and make your world better by your love and your care! Scat!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Fear, I see you.

Fear, I see you.

I refuse to fear you, though.

I shall face you.

I shall!

I see ME, fear.

Which is why I CAN face you!

Fear, you are:

A, liar.

A, distortion of the truth.

Of, no consequence to me, to my present, to my future.

Go away from here, fear. You are not welcome here.

Not anymore.

no longer afraid,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

🗒: I have NO idea why fear has been clawing at my 55. I have determined to enjoy my life. No matter what happens. No matter how I feel. I choose joy. I choose to embrace whatever the day brings. Whatever the moments bring. Bring it on!

Be encouraged. Fear can be super loud. It has a really big 📣 megaphone. Keep shedding light upon what you are afraid of. The fear will show you were the lies are. Tell the lies to shut up! You CAN. You WILL! You are loved and you are not alone. Keep on being… YOU!

What could happen?

Don’t fear the future.

Don’t fret about the unknown.

What could happen?

Envision the possibility.

Dismiss the lazy way of expecting doom and disaster.

A half full cup is ALWAYS half full!

So what if it’s half empty!

Enjoy the half that remains.

Don’t waste a drop lamenting of the sips now taken.

Don’t despair over 💧 drops spilled.

Share a few sips with others.

Don’t be stingy. Afraid, your cup will run empty.

There will ALWAYS be enough to go around!

What could happen?

Who knows?

Life is a mystery. Enjoy discovering all it has for you. The unknown doesn’t have to be dark, dank and scary.

Life is awesome. Life is amazing. Life is.

Let life be.

leaving life to be.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Don’t forget:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

I wish the world was different.

I wish the world was different.

I wish the world loved, more.

I wish the world cared, more.

I wish the world gave, more.

I wish the world would do, more.

God: You are the world.

The Universe: YOU are the world.

Life: You ARE the world.

Me: I am?

Me: I am!

Me: I will.

being the difference,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be the difference. You are the difference.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

It’s okay to not understand.

I told God I just don’t understand.

God said, “I understand. It’s okay for you not to understand.”

Kind of hard to argue with that!

I’m finding it’s okay to not understand. What a relief. Whew!

It’s nice to know I don’t have to run the world. Whew!🌏😂 Neither do you.

We don’t have to all at once. We don’t have to! Period. Whew!

Take the haves and the shoulds from your life. Do because you CHOOSE.

Love, just because. If love is returned, enjoy the miracle of reciprocated love. If not, you loved. The Universe will bless you for giving, to a world, which loved you not.

Give, just because. If you receive, enjoy the blessing. If not, don’t become bitter. God, will honor your giving, to a world, which gave you nothing, in return, for your everything.

Do, just because. If others do for you, enjoy the efforts, made on your behalf. If not, don’t despair. Life, will love your try, for a world who tried/tries not, for you.

Keep going. It’s okay to not understand.

waiting patiently,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I don’t know. I toldja…😂🥰