Month: March 2025

Real talk: Try, even when it’s trying!

Tada!

Another masterpiece. I am particularly pleased the background music is not super loud.

I enjoyed my try. I forgot that I don’t know what I am doing. I forgot about not feeling well. I forgot about limitations.

I simply enjoyed the process. How simple.

Have an amazing day today, beloveds. Do ONE thing that will take you closer to your dream.

Take ONE step. A tiny step. A shaky step. Still, it will have been a step. Go!

We got thangs to do, beloveds. The world awaits to open before you.

Get after it.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Who knew that it would take FIVE HOURS TO POST FIVE MINUTES OF CONTENT!?

What the what the?!

What in the fresh hell?!

Heckamiah Jeremiah!

I enjoyed every frustrating, exasperating, maddening minute. ❤😎🥰🤗

What worked yesterday did NOT work today. Yesterday, I was able to embed the video here. Today, I had to fight just to get the Instagram link to post. Egads!

I hope you enjoy as much as I did. Be encouraged. Make it happen some kind of maddening way. Don’t let setbacks stop you from putting your effort out there.


One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Try, even when it’s trying!

Try, even when it’s trying! You CAN. You WILL. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJI_g3xHLa/?igsh=MnBhZTR6ZzRoNG5u

I feel like a complete idiot.


I’m having a blast, though! I’m learning how to add music. I’m sure I will either be too loud or it will be too low. So what? I won’t know unless I DO.


In the past, beloveds, I would never do until I did things perfectly. I wanted to get things “right” first. Smh.
Now, I just do and put my results out there. I am NOT my results. My mistakes do NOT make ME a mistake!


I used to judge myself, harshly, by my results. Or, lack thereof.


Results vary. Try not to base your worth, your value, or on your perceptions of your performance.


I am looking forward to posting today’s catastrophe, er, video  results. I do so, in part, to may, perhaps, hopefully, giving someone else the courage to put their results out there.

Don’t be swayed, but what other folks think of your results. They are viewing things through THEIR lens. Our job is to DO. Period. We leave the results with God/Life/The Universe.


Keep trying, even when it’s trying!
asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I’m trying to.

I’m trying to.

Catch lightning in a bottle.

I’m trying to.

Make it happen.

I’m trying to.

Run down my dreams and catch up with them.

I may not catch it.

I may not catch them.

I may not.

Ah, but I try.

Still.

Who knows what my try shall bring.

trying to catch lightning in a bottle,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: This has been an awesome moment chasing my dreams today. I wonder what they will look like when I catch up with them!

Keep doing you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What are YOU going to DO about it?

Things are not working out.

What are YOU going to DO about it?

Things are hard.

What are YOU going to DO about that?

Your mountain won’t move.

What are YOU going to DO about this?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are well able to overcome the things that are going on in your life right now. What are you going to do about it?

You are:

Mighty.

Powerful.

Capable.

Well able!

Get up!

FIGHT!!!!

Make it happen, beloveds.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Keep shining your light.

Keep shining your light. Keep BEING a light.

I REFUSE to stand by and allow darkness to run rampant without challenge. To hell with that!

Be encouraged. We fight on.😡🔥

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Turn it into something good.

I’m angry.

I wanted to tell the 🌎 world to go…uh-oh!

I didn’t.

I turned it into something good:

I wrote.

I prayed.

I promised myself that I would keep trying.

I made pudding. I whipped said pudding. Poor pudding.

Anger wanted to turn into apathy. Both lazy and later said “to hell with that” and ran off to get act right.

Act right came storming in and sat me down in front of my try. My try asked me to be patient. I told try that I would keep trying…shhoooooot!

I am not going to list all the awful 📰 news I saw today. I am genuinely 😡 angry. Taking 1 billion 💵 dollars away from feeding young people and school lunch programs has me furious and horrified.

Listening to an Idaho school teacher who is fighting to keep up a sign that says “Everyone is welcome” because the school district says “not everyone agrees with that”, because the sign included children’s hands, of all colors, has me heartbroken that schools are actively teaching students to see folk of color as less than and not welcome.

Ah, beloveds, what are we all doing? How can this be?

I do my utmost to keep this page uplifting and light. I’m over my mad now. I gave myself a good couple hours to be mad.

Now, I shine my light. Be encouraged, all. Love as many folks as you can. Lift up as many hearts as you can.

Keep pursuing your dreams. Work on them today. Even if just for a few minutes. Do ONE thing that will take you closer to your 🥅 goal.

The morning was terribly frustrating 😤. I used the frustration to my benefit.

Promise YOU that you will NEVER allow bad/sad news to make you turn away and run from folk. Promise yourself you will NEVER allow these things to cause you to give up.

Keep looking UP. Keep standing ten toes down on FAITH. This, too, shall pass.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have done my try today. Your turn…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Enjoy you!

I may be 56 but I’m still 25 at heart!

Enjoy yourself. In whatever state you may find yourself.

Take some time out of your day. Just enjoy the day. You don’t have to learn every single second. Do something just because. Take a long nap. Take the day off. Take the time to do you.

Have a wonderful day.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I’m tired today. I think I will shut it down early. I think that will pop some popcorn and watch movies. I have been working hard since 4:00 o’clock this morning. Tired was getting really tired. I think I will save the world tomorrow.

Give yourself permission to leave the world saving to others for a day.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When your want to doesn’t want to is precisely when you must!

When your want to doesn’t want to is precisely when you must!

Nuff said.

Now get out there and make it happen, beloveds.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You got this. Whether you know it or not. Whether you want to or not. Get it!

I so didn’t want to get out of bed. I’m sooooooo glad I did. The joy I experienced from keeping my promise to me fills my soul!

Get up. Get going. You got thangs to do!

In the meantime, enjoy the moments. They are priceless. As are you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Repeat after me: I am not.

Repeat after me:

I am not helpless.

I am not hopeless.

I am not worthless.

I shall help myself.

I shall remain hopeful.

I am worthy, worth it, and worthwhile.

Nuff said.
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I feel helpless. I feel hopeless. I feel a tad worthless when it comes to making an impact. Thankfully, my feels don’t run me. Thankfully, none of that is remotely true.

I just stopped by to encourage those who are damned tired of all the what in the fresh hell is going on in the world.

Be encouraged. Be good to you as you wait PATIENTLY for your efforts to bear fruit. Your fruit may have been meant for others to eat. Mine as well.

I may never see my 🌿 plants bear their fruit. Did I plant just so I could eat? Did I plant so all may eat? Did I plant for recognition? Did I plant because I was asked to? Ah, great questions. I plant because I care. Periodt. We fight on.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What purpose does it serve? What good will it do?

Apathy: What purpose does it serve?

Doubt: What good will it do?

Me: I’m going to find out.

caring no matter what,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: 514 days. Consecutively. Encouraging folk. Asking for folk to give a damn. The Bible says, “Let us not grow weary, in well doing, for in due season, we shall reap, IF we faint not.”

What purpose have I served? What good have I done? Who cares, right?

I have been watching a movie where there is this guy who has been fighting injustice for five years. Every time he gets close to winning, he loses. I’m damned tired of watching the bad guy win because nobody wants to give two damns enough to…*sigh*

I would dearly love to pack up my light…*sigh*.

If there is someone who gives two figs,  say something encouraging to the class. I am going to go finish the movie and hope the good guy wins.

We fight on. Fresh hell…

Be encouraged. Keep caring.



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!