The louder hate gets, the louder I become. I REFUSE to allow hate to spread without me doing all I can to extinguish it.
Call me DEI because of my skin color. Call me unqualified because of my race. Ha!
Call me whatever you like, world, I KNOW who I am. I KNOW where I stand:
Ten toes down on FAITH.
100% on HOPE.
1,000,000,000 times 1,000,000,000 on LOVE.
Keep on being YOU, beloveds. Unapologetically.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Hate has no place among us. Let us continue to love one another. Love WILL win in the end. WE all decide when the lights gets turned on. Mine is blazing. How about yours? Asking for billions of friends.
One minute the temperature is bitterly cold. Hours later the sun comes and hangs out with us.
I’m learning how to adapt to the changes in my life.
I have always been a creature of habit. I like things the way I like things. I have been teaching myself how to like other things!
Embrace the change in your life. Change is needed at times. Change is not meant as a punishment. Everything changes. It’s a part of life.
It’s a good thing I have decided to embrace the change. WordPress has changed how things are and it took forever figuring out where things were.
Initially, I threw a fit…
Then, I remembered I was supposed to be zen and embracing all this change nonsense and got back to embracing THIS INCREDIBLY AND ANNOYING CHANGES IN WORDPRESS. WHY, WHY, WHY IN THE FRESH HELL….okay…opposite.
Choose laughter over anger. Choose hope over fear. Choose to try rather than walk away from change.
Use 2025 for your good. There are NO victims here. If you are tired of something, change it. Change you. Turn the channel. Turn off social media. Stop following trends just for following trends sake. BE the next trend.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Nuff said. Seize these moments. You have NO idea 💡 what God and Life will do with your try. Just TRY. I dare you. Dare yourself. Challenge yourself. Who knows what your day will bring?
Be encouraged.
Do NOT waste too much of your day feeding into all the gloom and doom being tossed about.
Take some time away from your 📱 phone. I have a basket that I put my phone in every day now. Before I kept my phone within arm’s length. I just HAD to have it close by. I dared not miss the latest whatever was going on.
One day, my twin told me to turn off the phone and leave it at my desk. I gasped and told her I couldn’t. Eventually, I did. It took a while, but I relearned how to enjoy a life not chained to my phone.
Take some time. Embrace the change. Life will change on a dime. Don’t be afraid. If afraid, go an
These are some tough days. For women. For people of color. In America at least. Just today the Air Force has been forced to remove its teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen and women pilots. This will be in compliance with the new mandate to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Yet, I’m still here. Here I will remain. I will continue to love as many people as I can. especially those who do not look like me.
I have been doing my best to encourage people to keep on moving. I am doing all of my power to shine my light. It breaks my heart. how people treat those that don’t look or believe like them.
We don’t have to agree about everything. We do have to agree that we are going to come together. We do have to agree that we are going to treat one another with civility. We do have to agree to leave something for others to have.
I do the best that I can to leave politics out of my blog. The 2024 election has made that about impossible. I am a black woman. Executive orders have been written to take away many of my freedoms. Laws are being written to try and erase black history and culture.
To that I say this: I love my country and the people within it. even those who hate everything about me simply because I’m a black woman. I find that terribly disheartening, discouraging and sad.
Still, I’m going to keep my promise to love them. I will continue to pray for them every day. All that I ask. is for you to continue to say prayers for those who have. such mouths in their heart that they would turn their back on another. They are obviously hurting. I hurt for them. I hurt for us all.
I don’t know what the next 4 years are going to bring for me. It will be more difficult to get a job. That’s okay. I’ve been there. I’ve done that. I am doing it even now.
I refuse to be ended. I refuse to be quiet. I will continue shouting into the void. I love you. My sister, my brother. I don’t care what country you come from. I don’t care what culture you live by. I care for you. Simply because you were born.
It is imperative that we all speak up. Especially in these dark days.
It is not the end. We are in the beginning of a whole new world. This life is what we make it. I plan on making my end of the world as a wonderful, as hopeful as joyful, as ridiculous as I can.
Be encouraged. Hate can be awfully loud. Nothing is louder than love. Nothing!
Don’t allow social media to convince you that everyone hates everyone else. Don’t fall for the foolishness that your country is the only country that matters. Don’t waste time on the lie that other countries don’t care about you and your country. They do.
Get to know someone else’s culture. Read about them. Watch a channel about them. Share their story. Share your story.
Today was supposed to be a day of rest for me. I can’t rest. There are too many people that are hurting. I pray for them. I pray for you. Be encouraged. Don’t give up on your fellow man/woman. If folk truly knew better, they would do better. I am praying/hoping folk start getting some act right.
In the meantime, I hold up MY light. At least there is one light shining. Perhaps other lights shall see mine and blaze away. Ah, God. I hope…
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Every time I try to stop writing, I see something else discouraging has happened in the world. I cannot rest. I shall not rest. I will continue to uplift this world in prayer. I will continue to encourage folk to hang in there. Be encouraged. We are not each other’s enemies. We are one global family. I never forget this. I remind me myself of this daily.
This is only the beginning. Your life is what you make it. Make it an awesome one in 2025. There are times, in history, where The Universe asks us all to stand up and be counted. Count me in.
Ask that 🗻 mountain over there. What pile of rocks? Oh, those tiny rocks used to be a big bully 🗻 that was trying to 💪 flex its largeness on me. My supposed “tiny” consistency wore it down.
consistently/patiently turning mountains into molehills, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Stay consistent. See how many 🗻 mountains you can turn back into molehills!
STOP beating yourself up for being human, beloveds. We ALL experience times where we doubt ourselves. It really IS okay.
I am sooooooooo thankful a job has not fallen from the job tree yet. I have needed this time off to heal and to grow. I have been working most of my life without a real break.
Before the jobs, I helped raise siblings and nieces and nephews.
Growing up, all we knew was hard. My life, up t now, has been viewed through the lens of hard.
Yet, God has been teaching me to see the beauty I EVERYTHING. Hard has not been a punishment. That’s what I used to think. I now know hard is just…hard.
Life can be hard. Life can be harsh. So what? We can still do our thangs, beloveds.
56 is growing up me. This morning, she sat me down and showed me a treasure trove of experience she has gathered through the years.
56 also showed me all my tears. She showed me how many times I have tried. She showed me ALL of my failures and commended me for still trying. There was a LOT of failure.
Finally, beloveds, she showed me every footstep that I had ever taken had brought me to THIS day.
The Bible says THIS is the day that the Lord has made. We are to REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
I am learning, in this hard, how to rejoice in EVERY day.
Be encouraged. It really is okay. Plus, it’s perfectly okay to not be okay until we become okay again.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Everything will be alright. in the meantime, continue being good to yourself. Be encouraged. Those two words uplift my spirit every time I see them or say them.
Note: Be encouraged. If you are feeling a tad inadequate, join the bazillion others who have felt the same.
I am feeling like such an idiot. I spent forever yesterday trying to make a motivational video. I finished said video. I posted said video. Nobody seemed to have given two damns. I wanted to say “never again” and kick the 🌎 world to the curb. I can’t. I promised to care no matter what. I care on…*😳 embarrassed sigh*.
Be encouraged. Keep on doing you. As for me, I feel inadequate. Today. Ah, God. Yikes…
The cold here is melting my brain 🧠. Yep, it’s sooooooo cold my mind has numbed.🥶
I had some inspiration rattling around, but it has to thaw out. In the meantime, I just wanted to encourage someone.
Tik Tok and the internet is full of nothing but gloom. Don’t despair. Live your life. Life is more than Tik Tok. Put down the phone. Since you have the phone 📱, call someone and have an actual conversation!
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