6/14/2016 10 Comments Happy Because It's Thursday!The smooth sounds of an R&B song filled my white Toyota Highlander as I made my way home late one evening recently. As I cruised the Lodge Freeway and listened to the music and the beat I was reminded of the days that I luxuriated in the pleasure of these sensual sounds mingled with the pleasing tunes.
I was also reminded of my old patterns of thinking.
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5/12/2015 0 Comments Is He The One?? (Part Ten)Okay. I’m back. Trying to tell you how this all went down. . .
. . . Where shall I begin? You would think that it’d be a simple story to write considering that I know how it ends. There’s so much to say but the only way to tell it is by, well. . .writing. 4/23/2014 0 Comments Trust Your Intentions! (Part 8)4/22/2014 1 Comment Almost Too Late. . . (Part 6)So we fast forward the story here about 3 years . . . to the exact date of Wednesday, September 23, 2008. . . .
So one evening while blubbering to my mother about my heart troubles in her bedroom, she looked at me and said, “I think that you need to write some things down” and she handed me a book entitled Write it Down, Make It Happen . So I read it and intrigued, I began to write on the flicker of hope that what this author Henriette Anne Klauser promised actually worked and wonder of all wonders and to my delight – It did!
11/30/2013 0 Comments The Beginning (Part 1)Hey There!
So – here it is. . .my story. . .the story of learning to live and how I learned to be happy and not only what caused me to get there but how I maintain my happiness (and sanity lol) on a daily basis. Not to overwhelm you, the story will be issued in installments that I will post on a very frequent basis. The first post is written below. I hope that you enjoy. Chris It has been said that you should start a story with the day that everything changed. For me, there is no mistaking when my life took a turn for the worse. . . . 10/26/2013 0 Comments This Is Me. . .Staring at myself in the mirror, I sighed and took a good look. A young African American female stood there with dark brown curls highlighted honey blond, a curvy figure and shapely hips. Taking a deep breath I thought to myself and said, “This is me.”
Not as though I was seeing myself for the first time but as though for the first time I was finally accepting myself. One thing that I’ve long struggled with is making decisions. Sure, the small everyday decisions are not the problem (i.e. What will I wear today? What do I want to eat? What will I start on first when I arrive to work?) But the decisions I’m speaking of are the LIFE decisions - the BIG ones. (choosing a life partner, a career choice and even sometimes yes, buying a car). What I’ve wrestled with is making a decision and sticking with it. Ultimately, I have struggled with commitment.
9/10/2013 You Gotta Get it Wrong to Get it Right!There's a funny thing about not being perfect and that is the fact that you have to work through all the mess. What mess? The mess we make in attempting something new. The "mess" we make in being ourselves. The mess we make in doing. Maybe that’s why a lot of us don’t do – because it is messy and we don’t want anyone to get the perception that we’re not perfect. Where did we get this perception that we are or “should be” perfect? Maybe it comes from the concept of growing up. . . .
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