What Else Are Women For?
“The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois
Read MoreBenefit of the doubt doesn’t apply when it comes to the appeasing of lingering feelings. What I’ve realized is that my friends had emotions tied into previous relationships, just as I had emotions. Closure is finding the ending. And that ending can sound like Adele’s Someone Like You or it sounds like Never Someone Like Me.
Read MoreThere is a quote that reads…
“It is the character of very few Wo/Men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered”
I’ve been holding court with The Key and she has been trying to reconcile envy and jealousy in her relationship categories: Love, Work, Family and Friendships.
Read MoreI Am (rather I can be) laid back and unruffled. I try not to take anything too personal; I also try to avoid absorbing others negativity. Statistics have shown that 63.48% of the time when others are upset with you it has very little to do with you. I watched Ted Lasso S03 EP9 this morning. Isaac charges into the stands after a fan screams derogatory language towards him…
Read More"Working has taught me how to be more respectful of other working people."
Read MoreBy Joi Tramuel
#BlackLivesMatter
Even under Proposition 215
Legalize it! That’s the chatter.
Every state patiently waiting their turn.
First a little oil then progress to medical conditions and terms.
You people can’t wait to open a dispensary! ...
Read MoreThey both show up when you least expect it. I have a young child at home so I try to be really careful about what we watch on television. Youtube has been my prefered source for watching videos because I can have better control over what he sees. Or so I thought. One evening, I entered asearch for one of our favorites,“Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear.” Several really cute and appropriate versions popped up. As my son and I were scrolling for THE ONE, there, mixed in for no apparent reason, were videos of women holding teddy bears, dressed in teddies, or AS teddies, and clearly not what a child should see.
Read MoreWhen white people go to Mars, I’m gonna be dancing in the street!
When white people go to Mars, we will finally be free!
When white people go to Mars, another pale face I will not see!
When white people go to Mars, don’t let them come back for free!
The first chilly morning of the Autumn season makes me reflect on all those summer days cruising (on foot) through the park to see who was playing ball. Remember the old folks used a term… “courting”? That term came from the days when one would sit in the courtyard of a southern home with an intended “sweetie”. Well, I guess the basketball court was a version of that.
Read MoreAlways remember that nothing is worth more the this day.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow and learn to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble be dreading tomorrow.Read More
“What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? … Work and love.”
“It is a tremendous gift when we are able to be fully present for another human being in times of pain and suffering without moving to fix or solve or push away the emotion.”
“Like the Land O’ Lakes butter has the Indian girl sitting holding a box and a picture of her on it holding a box, with a picture of her on it holding a box, with a picture of her on it holding a box. You ever notice that?”
“When you have been wounded it does not give you permission to hurt others. To be healed, you must name the hurt, aim the hurt sharing in a safe environment, and then tame it by embracing forgiveness. ”
"How did people with $$ become the experts on how to live or enjoy life? Why are you listening so intently on what they say? The ppl in Hollywood are miserable...without the spotlight/money/make-up...what do they have? If you want advice on contentment, relationships, or love...you'd better dust off that Bible..."
M. Harrell
“accept who you really are, your esteem shouldn’t be a mystiquerepeating the same tired letdowns to whom you care not reach
returning it in a spirit of mutual honesty not an option but a must”
“call me a liar for generously spreading the basis of trust”
The CG Chronicles – @MelzieC
Read more: Call Me A Liar
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