Category: Inspiration

I am wondering…

Soooooooooo, I was asleep. Sleeping 😴 soundly.

Awoke, suddenly. Suddenly, I tell you!!😳

What woke me, beloveds, out of a dead sleep?!…*gasp*.

My ridiculous mind wondering and wandering and wondering about something completely irrelevant and stupid in the middle of the night when I have to work in a few hours!…*stamps foot*.

So, now I am awake, in the middle of the night…*sigh*…wondering how you are, beloveds.

I am wondering:

How are you?

Is your heart okay?

Are you still hanging in there?

I am wondering how I can:

Make you laugh.

Annoy your try enough to get you to try.

Make your lazy mad enough to do something.

I am wondering if you know:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Whilst wondering and wandering, I decided to wake up and just check on you:

How are you?

Is your heart okay?

Are you still hanging in there?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:🤗

Share your heart.

Your heart is precious.

Yes, YOURS.

You.

YOU!

You are used to hiding your heart, eh, beloveds?

You are used to being the one giving. You are used to being of service. That’s great. Needed. Yet, YOU are needed. Yea, you. Just YOU. Not your gifts, only.

Share YOUR heart.

What do YOU dream of?

Where would YOU like to go?

Get to dreaming. Get to sharing.

YOUR heart.

You matter.

Yea, beloveds, you do.

Why do I harp on this so much? Because, it’s easy to feel unseen in such a huge world. It’s easy to wonder if we really and for truly matter. We do. Each of us. ALL of us.

I find it terribly sad how many folks are running around pretending to be someone they are not. Why? Because they think their them is not enough. It is! They are! You are!

I wish I could run screaming, through the streets, letting folk know they matter. I guess I could but I don’t feel like getting locked up somewhere. Who wants to see an old coot like me running around hollering? Okay, so I do said hollering in my apartment, so there is that…lol.

Share your heart, beloveds. Don’t fret about folks taking advantage of you. It’s the way of the world. There will ALWAYS be folk who will try to take advantage. Dismiss them and keep it moving. Stop locking your heart away because of some dummies who had no clue the priceless treasure held!

Okay, enough. Off with you. Get on our there and share your heart.

sharing my heart with whosoever will,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is short. Live it. Stop surviving life. Life is to be embraced and enjoyed. For a while, I had been so focused on enduring the hard, I had begun to forget my why. I did a reset, had an extra cup of coffee, gave myself more love, then hit the streets to LIVE.

Be encouraged. Give hard a cup of coffee then keep it moving. We have things to do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Here I am. Again.

Here I am.

Again.

Chasing my dreams.

Again.

Running from disappointment.

Again.

Running into challenges.

Again.

Here I am.

AGAIN!

Facing my fears.

Again.

Facing the sun.

Again.

Facing forward.

Again.

HERE I AM, WORLD.

AGAIN!

DEAL WITH ME, WORLD!

I’m NOT going anywhere.

Here I am.

Again.

being about being about it,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep being about being about it. Making diamonds takes effort. Effort. More effort. Rinse. Repeat.

Most fools, er, folks, are waiting for the world to come and toss diamonds, beneath their feet. We know the secret. WE make diamonds as we try. We are adding gold threads, within our hearts, as we try. Ah. Aha!

Keep going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Heart check ❤️ Thursday.

I have lived an entire year in this first month of the year!

I could end the piece right there.😳

I have warm my knuckles out banging on the door of my dreams. I’ve worn out my boots trying to kick down the 🚪 door!

I am learning how to rest. I am learning that I have no idea how to rest half the time. I guess learning is the point, eh?

I’m trying my best to be good to me while I am being good to others. I feel I have not done that well. I have found that I have been trying to find comfort in…* shrug*

Comfort has been hard to find lately. Lately, I have been wondering what the point is to keep pointing out to folk to keep believing.

Who am I? I know as soon as I start asking this, I tell my feels to shut up. It’s just discouragement who is trying to get me to focus on the disappointment. I tell both to kick rocks.

To be truthful, beloveds, I am weary of kicking rocks. I want to be skipping rocks, on a lake. I want to be drinking ☕ coffee from a glassed in balcony.

Crap.

Ack.

*Cassandra tells her dreams to shut up already and goes to find a cup of blasted coffee so she can write some uplifting pieces to encourage the world all whilst ready to tell the wide world to kick rocks!*😳🥊😭🗝🚪

Hhmm.

Oh, yea, I was supposed to be checking on YOUR heart, wasn’t I? My bad.

How is your heart? Be honest. No need in tall tales. God knows. Be encouraged. Keep going. You CAN. You WILL.

trying through trying times,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

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:🤗❤️🌏

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

!

!

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