Category: Hobbies

Let your no mean no.

No!

I will no longer:

Put myself, laugh.

Put myself, down.

Put myself, off.

Because everyone else was:

More, important.

More, necessary.

More, loveable.

No!

I will no longer:

Think my dreams, any less, worthy.

Think me, any less, worthwhile.

Think, my heart, worthless.

No!

I will no longer:

Count me, last.

Count me, out.

Count me, as anything other than the priceless got I am!

No!

NO!

NO!!

Every day, I let folk know they are loved and not alone. And, every day, I ask God, I ask The Universe, if….ah, if…*sigh*

asking,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Stand up for YOUR heart, beloveds. Your time WILL come. When? I asked God for it to be today. Who knows what the day may bring?

Be encouraged. Love someone. Starting with you.

I must admit, my heart a bit heavy. I grieve for all who are waiting on love and dreams to arrive. The waiting feels interminable, at times. In the meantime, love on you. I have been enjoying some days of true peace and quiet.

I have also bewildered those who were used to me being there every second of every day. I have held to my no so I can have a bit of me solitude time.

Don’t let folk guilt you out of your me time. If they truly care, they will leave you be. If not, time to part ways. Either way, you win. I’m not suggesting kicking everyone in your life to the curb. Just suggesting you park it…lol

What do you LIKE about you?

What do you LIKE about you?

Like, not tolerate.

Like, not despise.

Like, not hide.

I’m loud. Voice wise. This, apparently, has annoyed many.

“Use your indoor voice.”

Outdoors?! Really?!🤷‍♀️🤣😉♥️

Folks said I was too loud:

In school.

Outside.

At church.

At church?!😳🥸😂🥰

Thankfully, God has always told me to just keep on being me. THIS me. This incredibly loud me.

I like this about me. I like being weird. I don’t think I’m weird at all. Weird is in the eyes of the beholder. Maybe, I think you are weird for thinking me weird…lol.

Most will think it weird that I am reaching out to a world who could care less about what I have to offer.

That’s okay. I offer, anyway. Some will enjoy it. Some won’t. I can’t worry about who will and who won’t. I just do.

What do you LIKE about you? Don’t worry that others may not like it. Be you. This world needs what only YOU can offer.

Keep sharing your weird, er, your life, with the world.

sharing my weird,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be the amazing you that you were born to be!

Do the dumb thing.

Do the dumb thing. You know that thing that god and the universe have been trying to get you to do forever.

The dumb thing that will have you go out on a ledge.

The dumb thing that will have you vulnerable.

The dumb thing that will have you alone.

The dumb thing that will have you acting alone.

The dumb thing that can change your life forever for the good.

The dumb thing back and change your life in ways you could never imagine.

The dumb thing that leaves you breathless every time you think about doing it.

Yea, beloveds, THAT dumb thing!

I’m dumb enough to believe maybe I can. Who knows? Maybe I will!

doing the dumb thing,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Do the dumb thing with me, beloveds. Who knows what dreams we can make come true? I’m finally ready to find out. Okay, maybe not ready but willing…lol. Let’s go peeps! We got thangs to do.

One step

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

I have never felt more.

I have never felt more…

Alive.

I have never felt…

Alone.

I have never felt more…

???

I have never felt…

Felt?

Felt?!

I am:

Alive.

Alone.

At home.

Ah.

Aha!

Keep living, beloveds. Don’t be afraid to be alone with you. So many hide beneath distraction. In hopes of hiding from themselves.

Life is short. I’m doing my best to live in the moment.

I give myself permission to feel, to dream, to live…

For me!

feeling more,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t fall for the okie doke in believing you have to come last. You don’t. Your needs matter. Yes, keep doing for others. Just don’t leave you out of the equation. You matter.

Time to focus on you.

It’s time, beloveds.

Time we focus on us.

Time for us to focus on our dreams.

We have done enough fretting about what we don’t have. We have done quite enough worrying on why the hard has been so hard.

Time for us to refocus. It’s our time. Time to do the things we have been putting off. Time to start some new and positive habits. Time to plant. Time to reap our harvest(s).

It’s Fri-yay. The work has been done, for the week. Time to focus on refilling our hearts and minds.

We have done enough, don’t you think, of carrying on about all the hard? Let’s enjoy us some us.

Speaking of which, I have some fantastic double chocolate pound cake. Who has the coffee/tea and other snacks?

focusing on me,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have been enjoying myself. I have turned off the phone and spent hours hollering at the television. Awesome. Be sure to get some you time in there, beloveds. You are NOT the savior of the world. Speaking of which, Jesus said to say ‘hey’…lol. I have been praying for each and every one of my fellow loud ones.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

My Daily Prompt.

I’m new at this blogging thing.

Yes, I know, beloveds, I have been blogging for a few years, now. Still, I know little. I know nothing, really.

My heart does not care. Nope. Nary, a whit. Blog, she says. Write, she entreats. Share, she whispers.

I blog.

I write.

I share.

I tag.

I categorize.

Mind you, beloveds, I have NO idea what happens by selecting tags/categories. I just know that in doing so, a newbie or two or three happens to happen by the blog.

One day, don’t ask me why, I selected ‘Daily Prompt’. I had noticed it in some other blogs I enjoy. Zero idea what it meant but slapped on my page. Then, I saw an uncategorized option. I used to never hit that. Yet, I did, one day. To my astonishment, a few trickled in.

So, now, I slap this. I try, that. I have no idea what is successful. Still, I try. In times past, I used to only want to try things I was good at. Ha!

It was only after being put into terribly hard/new challenges, at work, that I found I was still enough. Mistakes, and all. Dumb feeling, and all. Little to no progress, and all.

Through it all, I found, well, ME. I found my try WAS enough. I found, beloveds, I was enough. God, had been telling me this, for years. The Universe, had been telling me this, for years. Life, had been telling me this, for years.

I had been afraid to listen. I had been afraid, to look up. Afraid I would see:

Disappointment.

Disapproval.

Dismissal.

One day, I had failed. And, failed. And, failed. So much so I cried. And, cried. And, cried. I felt like such a FAILURE!. Until, I heard:

God: Look up. Look at Me.

Me: I’m afraid, God. What if, You are disappointed with me. IN me? My heart, could not bear that.

The Universe: Look up. Look at Me.

Me: I’m afraid, Universe. What if, You disapprove of ME? My spirit, could not stand that.

Life: Look up. Look at Me.

Me: I’m afraid, Life. What if, You dismiss me? My efforts?

LOOK UP!

One day, I found the courage to look up. Gazing back at me was…

Love.

Love?

LOVE!

Yes, God loved me. Always. No matter what. I was much more than my try. I was much more than what I did. I was much more than what I gave.

Now, I spend as many days as I can, letting folks know they are enough. I had a true friend, years ago, who kept telling me I was enough. I didn’t believe her. Not at first. I HAD to give. I HAD to do. I HAD to serve. To be loved. To be cherished. To be seen. To be heard.

Yes, I loved doing all those things because I was born to serve, to give, to love. I love doing those things. Still, my heart was trapped in the prison of ‘paying rent’ as I call it. Paying rent, to the universe so I could, perhaps, swallow a bit of air and receive a few scraps of life. Smh.

Now, I know. Now, I see. Now, I do. The best I can. It’s all that I can do.

My Daily Prompt:

Try.

Live.

Love.

Say.

Life is short. Keep on living and doing even when you don’t know what the fresh hell you are doing. You don’t have to know exactly where you are going. Not, now. Just keep going. As best you can.

Keep on doing your own daily prompt(s). Get in your me time. You are important. Your dreams are important. They are.

Be encouraged, beloveds.

Remember:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

being about being about it,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is short. Enjoy your life. Embrace what happens therein. I am enjoying with you. Lemme know how you are.

Comfort: Uh, oh! Lays have returned.

Yikes!

Egads!

I have found that Lay’s have somehow made their way back onto my shopping list. Crap!

I KNEW beloveds I should have told Doritoes to kick rocks. But, I told myself I would stop at JUST Doritoes. Crappppppp, Ccccaaasssaannndra!

Now, I have to fight with bad habits. Again! Crap!!!

I promised myself I would no longer allow hard, pain and grief to give myself permission to hide in food and other things that do not serve me well. Crap!!

I have learned, though, not to best myself up when I have found myself wanting to hide in old habits.

Be encouraged. Change takes time. Life hurts at times. At times, it seems easier to give in to the distractions, to the seeming comfort of food or in the arms of folks who do not serve us well.

We can do this thing called life. Let’s all say a collective ‘ow, God’ and keep it moving…

Ow!!!

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

Life is good. Even when it is lonesome and hard.

hopeful/joyful/abitsad,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: My heart is ready for Spring! Let’s go, Universe! We got things to do!

Be encouraged. Try. One step. Just one. Then, Try another. You got it! I see you!

You are loved and not alone.

Real talk: If folk threaten to walk away, wish them well and let them.

Ah, beloveds. Life has been cutting up, today. ALL day.

I have been fighting, all day, with:

Missing mom.

Missing mom.

Missing mom.

Which, makes the day(s) especially tough to get through. I HATE days like today. Not the day, itself. Just the fight from having to keep on fighting. Just the stress from doing my best not to stress. Just the frustration from not allowing myself to remain frustrated due to happenings and happenstance.

I have been thinking about Justin. ALL day. Wondering if he is hanging in there. Hang in there, Justin!

I have been thinking about Britta and her lichen. I HAVE to get to her blog, tomorrow, and catch up.

I have been thinking about Silent Knight. ALL day. Wondering what he has been wondering about as not able to get to his blog in the past week. Ack!

I turned off my phone, beloveds, this past Saturday. Even, my writing phone. Yeppers. I told myself that I HAD to decompress. I have been running on empty, for weeks. For months.

I told my friends/fam I was going to go MIA. They said they understood. Ha! Soon as I made my declaration, my phone blew up with texts and calls that HAD to be taken.

Yet, for the first time, ever(!), I listened to my heart and told myself to turn off the phone. To rest. And, to not feel guilty/bad because I NEEDED a break. A friend texted and said they ‘had’ to talk to me. Right then. Immediately. I had nothing. So, I said nothing.

Today, I was confronted with my meanness in having chosen me. I was advised that this person could ‘leave just as well as they stayed’. Simply because I was not available in the instant required.

I replied:

“I wish you well. I shall keep you in prayer. You shall NOT hold our friendship hostage. You may have it”.

Care is a two way street, beloveds. STOP giving your care away to folks who place conditions upon your love and your heart. Wish them well and keep it moving. LET them go. You are:

Amazing.

Awesome.

Amazingly awesome.

There will be plenty who will love you. In the meantime, keep on loving this hard headed world. Folk need what you have. Be encouraged.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

caring anywho,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Your life is precious. You matter. Please KNOW this. You matter. Be encouraged. I love me some you.

Heart ♥ check Friday.

What a delicious week!

I have taken the last five days just for ME.

I:

Turned off the phone.

Gave ALL my cares to God.

Delighted myself with whatever I decided was delightful. Turns out all I really needed and wanted was a few days filled with quiet and plenty of coffee and chicken strips.

Now, it’s Friday. One more work day to go then a weekend of rinse and repeat.

For the first time in a very long time, I let it be okay that I rested from telling the world that it’s okay to rest…lol.

It’s okay, NOT to have to do it all, all at once. It only took 50 years to discover this amazing fact.🥰😁

Take care of yourselves, beloveds. There is no one else like you! Let someone know they are loved. Starting with you.

How’s your ♥ heart? Asking for A Friend.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: This is your time. Make the most of it…

Fear, you ain’t nothin’ but much ado about nothin’.

Fear, I see you.

Stalkin’ me.

Tryna tell me what and who I will be.

I ain’t sweatin’ you, fear.

You ’bout nothing.

Much ado about nothin’.

Go way from me, fear. You not welcome hear. I got thangs to do!

Yea, boy, I got thangs to do.

I admit it, fear. I WAS afraid. Note, fear, the op’ word is WAS!

Was!!

Ha!

I stand, now, fear.

On:

Faith.

Love.

Hope.

Joy.

Laughter.

Gumption.

I got YOU, fear, on the run.

I be runnin’ thangs, now, fear.

Yasssssssss, fear, go ‘way now, from me.

You are much ado about nothin’.

laughing at fear,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, beloveds, you just HAVE to let fear know who is the boss, in your life. Don’t fret. Don’t worry. Keep on walking by faith. Keep on doing all that you know to do. Keep on loving. Keep on hoping. Keep on betting on you!

Your life is far from over. What appears to be your ending is just a new beginning.

Laugh. Live. Love. Sing. Write. Dance. Do. Don’t. It’s YOUR choice. There are NO victims around here.

Be encouraged and know you are loved and not alone. Love someone. Starting with you.