As soon as doubt stops by, I give it something to do. I don’t waste time wondering if I can. I get to doing something.
Doubt will always come calling when you endeavour to do something with your life.
When doubt stops round, beloveds, give it something to do.
Work on your dream.
Exercise.
Read.
Write.
Sing.
Visit someone who could use some company.
Do the neighbor’s yard.
Phone a friend.
Do NOT entertain doubt/fear. All that does is multiply them and imprisons you.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Don’t let your percieved limitations limit you. Find a way. Make a way. Show us the way. You know more than you give yourself credit for. We all NEED your you! As only YOU can be. Come on out of hiding and allow the world to experience the great like known as you.
There will always be something to overcome. It’s called life being life.
The older I grow, the more I realize that lamenting THIS. THAT and the OTHER THING, really is a huge waste of life and time.
Best to just deal with them. Head on. With integrity. Then, keep it moving.
Does it really matter whose fault it was? Not really. He messed up. You messed up. They messed up. We messed up.
Let’s fix our messes and decide to stop being so messy. We all have opinions about everything, it seems. In my opinion, I think we should all take a seat, shut up, and listen to someone.
Whatever you are currently fighting/struggling/dealing with, beloveds, remember you are much more than your struggles.
Your struggles do not define you. Your struggles do not signal how things shall be. Your struggles are just that: Struggles. Period.
Your struggles do not mean you will always struggle. You will have another THIS to decide what to do with after you have dealt with THAT…lol.
Trying to figure out why THIS or THAT happened is like trying to figure out why Cassandra can not figure out how to make a decent pan of brownies(more on THAT saga soon…smh).
I was sooooooooo angry 😡 with life after the tornado 🌪.
HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO ME FOR NO REASON?! I’M A GOOD PERSON! I WORK HARD. I CARE ABOUT THE WORLD. HOW COULD YOU HAVE ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME?!!!
I’m no longer angry. I don’t have time to be. I still have some sad days. I can’t be 💯 with my friends and family and admit how terribly hurt I was and am to have to go through this alone and at my age.
I don’t want to have to deal with THIS. Not now. I would have rather kept dealing with THAT other thing I thought was so terribly hard.
I’m trying to find some uplifting words in here. Somewhere. Maybe that’s the whole point: There will ALWAYS be a THIS. And, THIS may never make sense or be pleasant.
That said, we CAN make it through THIS. Whatever THIS may be.
Be encouraged. You got this. As do I.
hanging in there with you, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: This too shall pass. No matter what you are facing, KNOW you shall get through THIS.
Scuze me, beloveds, I am trying to get some act right so I can turn my DAMNED 🍋 LEMONS INTO UPLIFTING LEMONADE FOR YOU. OMG!!!
*Cassandra stops 😡 pouting long enough to tell her mournful, terribly sad and awfully what in the fresh hell tale*.
*Cassandra thinks she is being really dramatic about this*
*Cassandra becomes angry with reasonable Cassandra, and they get into a terribly entertaining fight*
*Tired of fighting, Cassandra shares her sad, sad, terrible tale*:
I was in the mood for 🥣 cereal. Golden Grahams to be precise. I decided to do an emergency order and ordered some cereal, some 🥪 sandwich fixings and odds and ends and breathlessly awaited my order.
A while later, the 🚪 doorbell rings. Okay, I don’t have a doorbell, and they left the order without knocking, but still…
I fling the door open to find everything but the Golden Grahams!!! Or, so I thought.
I call the store. Calmly 😡 mad. The store was NOT helpful. Rude, in fact.
I had to tell act right to STAY on the high road. In truth, I dearly wanted to use the low road. I chose the high road.
I told myself to just make sandwiches 🥪 after remembering the sandwich fixings.
Dramatically, I pulled out turkey, cheese, and reach for the buns, and there were no buns!! They forgot the buns and canned goods as well!!!! OMG!!!
I wanted to act a fool. I didn’t. In the end, I found some old buns and made some sandwiches. I ordered more cereal. I got on with my life.
Life is short, beloveds. Things happen. Inconvenient things. Frustrating things. Things that will make the way a bit longer.
That’s okay. Roll with the punches. Go another way. Try something different. Make a new plan. Refurbish the old one.
I used this situation to make ME better. I chose not to be angry with the driver. I chose not to be angry with the store. I chose not to be angry.
I chose to laugh. I chose to get on with my evening. In the past, I would have spent the rest of the evening stewing. I would have gone to bed hungry. I would have played the martyr and not fixed something else to eat.
I am growing. Slowly. I am learning. Slowly. I am hungry…lol.
I’m fixing to enjoy some sammiches. Who wants to join me?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: It’s not what happens to us that counts. It’s what happens IN us as we choose to respond in ways that uplifts us and others. Keep on being the awesome folk you are. I love me some you.
It’s easy to FEEL left out. This 🌎 is a big place. Yet, it’s smaller than any of us know.
I have been asking God and Life WHY I was spared from the 🌪 tornado that was trying desperately to destroy everything around me? I have not been given that answer.
Maybe, just maybe, I was left here to keep sharing this ridiculous blog, with MY stupid words with whomever is bored/ridiculous enough to swing by and be told they are loved…by a stranger?!😳🤔
Until I find out why, beloveds, I am going to keep on doing and being my why. Why? Because someone needs to KNOW they are loved and not alone.
SOMEONE needs to hold the door 🚪 open and welcome folk to come in.
Come on in, beloveds. LIVE! Life is waiting for YOU. Life is waiting to act on your behalf.
What are you dreaming of? What do you hope to do? Get started. Today. You can do it. You CAN. You WILL!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I’m 56 and FINALLY launching out. Who is coming with me? Let’s go!!
Stop taking yourself so lightly. Stop dismissing your gifts. Stop dismissing the still, small voice that is whispering for you to try. Just try.
You were and are not on the outside looking in. Dive in. Enjoy your life. Embrace the hard.
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….
