Category: Poetry

Use the time you have.

What the what the!?

System issues.

Again.

I had to take the rest of the day off from work.

I used that time wisely. I took a nap.😊🥰😆

I decided to stop wasting my time. I got up and started writing. I started walking towards my dream.

Get up beloveds. When life gives you some free time don’t waste it sleeping. Get up and live. Keep moving towards your dreams.

I am doing my level best to use the time I have wisely. I don’t know how much time I have left. I choose to lose that time encouraging you. Encouraging me.

I’m pretty tired. I would like to rest just a bit. I would like to experience what my dreams are like in real time. I would love to be sitting by the ocean. Maybe one day. Until that day comes…

living while waiting,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Just sitting here listening to my favorite music. What if these artists had stayed sleeping?! Get up now, beloveds. We got thangs to do! Remember you are love and not alone.

It’s not about the cost. It’s about paying the price.

I needed a phone. The phone I paid eight hundred for was on the fritz. I bought the refurbished version and paid a hundred and fifty three dollar for that.

I needed a phone. Still. Phooey.

My internet provider offered me a new phone plan and a cheap phone for fifty dollars. I looked at the cheap price and dismissed it out of hand. Ha!

I needed a phone. Still. Phooey.

I bought the fifty dollar phone.

I love my fifty dollar phone.

Who knew?

Life did. Why It kept prompting me to get the 50 dollar phone. Smart one, that I am, I chose the more expensive route. Smh.

I don’t know why we keep falling for the foolishness. That because it is extra expensive and pretty it has to be the right thing. Ha!

Maybe because we don’t often feel as if we are enough. We think we have to have expensive things to make us more worthy.

I’m glad I have learned that I am wonderful just because I was born. So are you.

Back to my cheap phone. I love it. It does everything I have needed and more.

You are everything and more. Your model is what the world needs. The package you were born in is what the world needs. Everything you need is already inside you. Keep being the precious thing called you.

What price are you willing to pay to have your dreams come true? Make a new dreams come true will cost you everything. Are you willing to pay the price? Are you willing to count the cost?

I’m willing to pay the price for the rest of my life if needed. The cost is well worth it. I am worth it. So are you. Getting there is no longer my aim. All I am concerned about is my try.

Keep going.

You CAN.

You WILL!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Don’t let the darkness scare you.

Don’t let the darkness scare you. Be encouraged. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0F_NXku9_l/?igshid=NmJiYWZiY2E0Mg==

Keep going.

Be encouraged.

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going…

Yyyyyyaaaaaaasss!

YYYYYAAAAAASSSSSSAA!!

Dance with me!

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Celebrate your try!!

Look at you!

I see you!

You are:

Living.

Loving.

Giving.

The Universe sees you!

Go on head, with your bad self!

Strut your stuff!

You have told hard ha!

Say that!

Keep telling fear to kick rocks!

YYYAAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!

Forget about the outcome. Keep focusing on your try. Celebrate you and your try. Most have already given up. You are fighting. Still.

celebrating you,

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is not about collecting the biggest and the most toys. Enjoy your life. Enjoy creating moments. Keep loving a world who could care less about you. You will gain so much more than you could ever give. I know I have.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend. If not what in the world are you waiting for? Get out there and live. You can live right there from your living room!

Someone is waiting for your hello. I know I have been. There has been so much love shown in the responses it has touched my heart. It has almost made me want to stop tossing water balloons at folks. Okay so no but I still love you all.🥰😆

Remember that you are loved and not alone. Sometime we just need to hear those words. Me and my twin tell each other we love each other every day. I try to reach her every night to tell her and hear the same from her. I cherish those words. I cherish her. I love you my dear twin.

Keep taking one step at a time. Your steps will lead to greatness. Your steps will lead you back to you. Ah. Aha!

I no longer care if I stand out.

Do I stand out?

I don’t know.

I no longer care.

I used to care. A lot. I used to wonder how God was going to get my words to stand out amidst the crowds.

I understand now that is not necessary. All I have to do is just continue to be me. Then me I was born to be.

My words will get to where they need to get to…

Eventually.

In the meantime, my words are changing the most important person:

Me!

Words have been important to me for fifty five years. Sharing those words have been important to me for fifty five years.

Why?

I have been asking myself that very question for fifty five years.

I ask no more. I just share them now. They will find themselves where they need to be. It’s not my job to wonder where they go. I raised my babies. It’s time for them to live the way they need to live.

Go dear words. Speak to those who will listen.

I have other words to speak. I have other lives to touch in my own small way. My way. My poper does not have to be large. Just mine.

I no longer care if I stand out. I’m just doing my best to stand. For something. For love. For you.

Be encouraged.

standing,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t let this world fool you into thinking you have to have a massive pulpit to make an impact. You don’t. You make an impact just by being you. You make an impact on those around you. Good and bad. Your actions or lack thereof are making an impact.

Speak. In your own words. Don’t worry about who will listen and who won’t. Don’t worry about the outcome. Speak in love. Speak in truth. Speak in integrity.

Be encouraged. Remember you are loved and not alone. Love someone starting with you. I promise God and mom that I will tell somebody. I love them every single day. I’m telling you. I love you and care about your life, beloveds. Be well.

The Universe made me kind. How cruel.

I have been pondering Silent Knight’s words about kindness. Ow. He is sooooooooo right.

I have been pondering Valencia’s words about making sense of the nonsense that goes on in our heads.

I have been pondering S Kumar wonderful responses to my sad the other day.

I have been pondering the words of the bloggers I admire and respect.

So kind. Yet, I wonder how many of them, how many of you, have been reciprocated, in kind?

Kindness for kindness? Often, no.

I don’t even know what I am trying to say. Do you?

Let me know.

As for me and my house…

I choose to be kind.

I choose to be.

I choose.

I am.

Ah.

Aha!

keep being kind,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you world. Loved back or not. Ha!

Happy tears.

I am content.

Ah.

Aha!

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s important to embrace where you ARE. NOT where you were hoping to be. You are:

Here.

Now.

Right now.

Enjoy your lives, beloveds. Even the hard parts. Even the lonely parts. Training was a beast yesterday. System issues. Got chewed out, rightly so, because I had NO clue what I was doing. Yet, today, I KNOW I gave my all. That’s enough.

I embrace today. I miss my mom. I shall have ☕ coffee and a laugh with her soon. I embrace my lonely. She is awfully lonely today. I shall listen to her quiet.

Listen to your quiet. Quiet does NOT mean you are not moving forward. You are growing. Sometimes, growth requires stillness. Ah. Can you feel the silence? Listen with me.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Who are you without…?

Who are you without…

Him/her/they?

Who are you without…

This/that/the other?

What are you…

Without a cause?

What are you…

Without a fight?

Whose are you…

Without a gift?

Whose are you…

Without a check book?

Are you:

Somebody?

Somebody, worth knowing?

Somebody, worthy?

Ah.

Aha!

It’s important to know why you do what you do. It’s important to know who you are. It’s important to know whose you are.

It’s crucial that you know that you don’t have to come bearing gifts to be loved. It’s imperative to know you don’t have to work yourself to death to be loved. It’s amazing to know that you don’t have to…

You don’t have to!

Ah.

Aha!

Life wants you to come just as you are. God wants you to come just as you are. The Universe wants you to come just as you are!

You are:

Enough.

Much more than enough.

Everything!

Lift up your head. Stop trying to validate your existence. You are NOT a parking spot you know.

Be encouraged. You are love and you are not alone.

here,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Wow. How you need a note after THAT is beyond me. Okay, here:

Hhmmm.

*scratches head*

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♥ Heart check Friday.

Hey there.

It’s Doctor C. Conducting my heart check. How are you? YOU?

If you don’t know, you are much too busy.

I hope you take care of yourself today.

This has been a long week. Training is almost over.

Speaking of over, the weekend is here. It’s time to let the worries of the week go.

The team I was rooting for lost. It was their loss. In times past, I would have been upset all day because they lost. I would have seen their loss as mine. Now it’s their loss.

Too often, folk allow themselves to align with a particular group and there. I didn’t even become that of the group. Their life is no longer their own. Now, their thoughts must align with that of the group. Otherwise, they feel ostracized.

Keeping you. You don’t need to align with any particular group. Find your own path. Your path may lead you to others. Your pass may leave me alone. Either way, walk your path.

Have an awesome day.

too tired to come up with an inspirational note to remind folk they are loved and NOT alone,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, so didn’t you catch my clever note up above? Smh. Since you are here, take this…

♥️☕️🤓

The quiet is not so quiet.

The quiet is not so quiet.

Is the quiet mocks me.

The quiet asks me where is my symphony.

I don’t know, I reply.

The quiet asked me where is my song.

I know not, I say.

The quiet asks me what will I do with the silence.

I shall rejoice.

I shall sing.

Here.

Now.

In the silence.

I shall listen to all that the quiet shall say to me.

Be still.

Listen.

The quiet is not so quiet.

listening,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t be afraid when life gets quiet. This is when life speaks the loudest. Speak. We are listening…

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU