My Song

Living Out My Purpose

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I’m Not Okay and It’s Okay Stop....Deep Breaths...Release....Exhale...One step....then two...and before you know it... you've made it through another day.

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Live Free!

It’s interesting how I feel freer and more liberated than any other time in my life.  This is ironic because due to the global pandemic I am living the most restricted. The times we are living in can make you feel quite the opposite of free and liberated.  But I have learned that true freedom and liberation begins and ends with the way I think and the things I say to myself.  When I am free in my…

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The Awakening

What a year this has been.  If you recall, my New Year blog entry talked about allowing this year to bring you 2020 vision…clarity into your life.  I think it is safe to say that many of us were not expecting clarity and vision to present itself in the form of a global pandemic.  The global pandemic of 2020 has exposed many things about the current state of our world.  For some, this revelation…

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Bre 

I imagine that being one of her nick names

Bre, I see family and friends celebrating accomplishments, you know for gettin that certificate for EMT

Bright hopes for a future and maybe also a wedding ring to be

Married with children

Home ownership

Safe neighborhood

You know free

But yea just a ways down they plannin this drug raid

Strappin themselves up fully geared in armor

Because they goin to…

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Happy 4th of July 

Started thinking about the lyrics from “My Shot” you know from the popular musical Hamilton

Started thinking how true the lyrics are to the birth of this country

I mean not in a glorified kind of way

Or the “pull yourself up from the bootstrap” kind of way

Neither in an inspirational kind of way

How the Hamilton play depicted

But kinda more like…

I’m not throwing away my shot…

Will slaughter the…

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This Country

This country ‘tis of thee

This country of my ancestors’ black bodies

This country land of the free

This country of hypocrisy

This country land of liberty

This country of inequalities

This country home of the brave

This country of police brutality

This country land of pilgrim’s pride

This country of white supremacy

Author of liberty, to thee I sing

This country never belonged to me

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Can you hear? A mighty rushing wind Can you hear East, West North, South Can you hear A harmony of sound Can you hear It’s calling Loud Louder Can you hear A crescendo Can you hear it now A mighty rushing wind Demanding change

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The Basement

  A while ago I blogged about finally completing my manuscript of my first book. Sometime after that I blogged sharing the difficulty of typing the manuscript to have the book published. I shared my struggles and pains that came from the tedious task. But after years of typing and stopping and typing and stopping; I’ve finally completed my journey. My book “The Basement” is finally published.

I’ve…

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20/20 Vision

This year I choose to see.  I choose to see everything that is around me globally.  I choose to see not just with my eyes but with my ears, hands, legs, heart, mind, and spirit. I choose to learn about others by listening and accept diversity in its truest spirit. I choose to use my hands and voice to advocate for the oppress and most vulnerable in our society.  I choose to walk in someone…

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Love is Christmas In my older years I have come to appreciate the more meaningful things in life.  We can become blinded by the commercialism of the holiday.  

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The American Dream

I finally took the leap. I’ve left my 9-5 job and now pursuing my ultimate dreams.  I have to be honest; it was a fearful process; it wasn’t as easy to walk away like I thought it would be.  I mean in the past there have been times I’ve chosen to leave a job to stay at home with our children when they were younger; but our children are older, two are adults out the house.  So, to make the…

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My Birthday Poem

Black skin round hips

Love that comes from deep within

Birthed from pain and struggle

Fought to be seen and heard

Curves, big lips, and crown of locks

Standing upon my ancestors

History of courage and perseverance

Bold and fierce with purpose

Walking in my divine truth

Loving EVERYTHANG that makes me

A Beautiful Black Girl Who Rocks!!!

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Keeping It Real

“It was the truth I chose to omit from my life” A scene in the movie Black Panther that many perhaps bypassed…but those words lingered in my ears. “It was the truth I chose to omit from my life.” I had to ask myself…or there any truths I am choosing to omit? Are there parts of me that I’ve made excuses for so long that I can no longer see the truth? Hard questions lead to growth, and growth leads…

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Gone to Long As I was scrolling through old Instagram pics reminiscing about the past...I thought about the fact that I haven't posted on my blog for almost a year.

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#knowyourhistory #voicesofapeopleshistory #knowledgeispower #educateyourmind #teachyourchildrenourhistory

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We’re at our closest to perfect when we’re living most fully as the "one-of-a-kind" God made, not when we’re conforming into the sameness the world around us wants to prescribe #authenticity #individual #unique #idancetomyownbeat ❤️#soulsunday #soulfood

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When Pain Wakes You Up

I awaken the other day in physical pain and exhausted from another sleepless night due to experiencing a bad flare up with my illness (interstitial cystitis). I asked myself what do you do when you wake in pain? We tend to think of morning rising as a new day, recharged, rebooted to face another day. But what do you do when that morning rising brings nothing mentioned above? When your morning…

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