WordPress has changed how things look. I like things to be familiar. I like things how I like things. I’m having to teach myself to embrace change and not throw too many temper tantrums when they happen.
I have to admit, the changes are working for my good. initially I thought they would make things harder or take longer. I am finding they are making things. easier to do and. the experience better.
As things change in your life beloved. don’t think of change as bad. All things change. Things were never meant to be permanent.
I have been enjoying this new me. 56 sure looks good on me!
Enjoy the changes in yourself. At least, the changes are making you more interesting!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Embracing change at any age can be difficult. be encouraged. Be patient with yourself. You are doing all that you know. Let this be enough. You are right now. You are a magnificent You are wonderful. You are amazing. You are brilliant. You are successful. You are a person of integrity. You are a person full of love. Be who you are….
Yesterday, I had chili for breakfast. Today, I’m having tacos for breakfast. How great is that?!
Sis thinks I eat in ridiculous combinations. I ask her who made folk the food police on what we should and should not be eating? Or, WHEN we should be eating, said “acceptable” food products?
I have been enjoying my weird. my weird has been especially weird lately.
Life is short. Get your weird on!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Rejoice in 2025. You spent too much of 2024 being all sad and wondering what the world is going on. Do something completely ridiculous. do something that will make you laugh out loud in the middle of doing the ridiculous. invite someone into your ridiculousness. Share all of you. You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be yourself. So go on. Be yourself.
I’m getting up early. I’m getting in my hydration and nourishment.
I’m loving myself. I’m loving others.
I’m reframing my past. Yes, I have gone through some tough times, but everything was not bad. My family did the best they could with what they had. I’m moving on with a brilliant future and a wonderful present.
I have spent a wonderful day, letting folks know that they were loved and not alone. How great is that?
I have not wasted one moment worrying about bills and how I’m going to make it. I will make it some kind of way. In the meantime, I’m enjoying my life and everything that happens within it.
I can’t believe January is almost over with already. I have enjoyed every minute of it. I suggest you do the same. Be encouraged.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I have so much joy in my heart right now. I have no room for fear or doubt. Feels good….
Why must I always be the one to take the high road.
I don’t HAVE to.
I CHOOSE to.
Why should I be the only one trying?
I don’t HAVE to.
I CHOOSE to.
Will you be one? Will you choose to?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: You don’t have to be one. Choose to be one. Choose to be one who will love and care. We will leave apathy behind. WE will leave darkness behind. We will leave hopelessness behind. In their place, we shall sow love, joy, hope and as much care as the 🌎 world can stand. Folk are waiting. Who is with me
Vertigo has been kicking my tail lately. It has come roaring back into my life in the last few days.
My vertical has not been this bad and almost a year. I think the universe gave me a reprieve because of the tornado. Or, I was too busy being scared half to death because I didn’t have a job and trying to find one. I didn’t have time to focus on having vertigo.
I don’t let it bother me. I take my time. I live my life. I take care of myself the best I can.
Don’t allow your limitations to put a limit on what you can achieve throughout the day. Do what you can. Be patient with yourself. Be extra understanding when you’re going through tough times.
I don’t know when it became acceptable for everyone to be so hard on each other. Let’s cut each other some slack. We’re all doing the best we can with what we know.
Stop limiting how far you can go. Just go. As far as you can. As best you can.
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
My goal for 2025 is to use my storms, from 2024, to help someone get through their storm in 2025.
Storms come.
Storms are terrifying.
Storms are life changing.
That said, we can be a beacon in the storm.
I’m doing my best to encourage others as I continue to fight my way through my own storms. I’m trying my best to bin example for others. Maybe if folks see me going through my own storm, they will have the courage and tenacity to continue working their way through their own.
I figure I may as well use my storms for a positive purpose. I’m done lamenting all the losses through the storms. I’m digging out all of the joy and lessons from each and every storm I have gone through these past years. I have much to share with others. I hope they can use the lessons I have learned.
The world needs your story. Share yourself. We need your life lessons.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I redoubled my efforts today. Life is short….
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.
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