We should totally listen to kids when they say they have to go (pee) and stop the foolishness about making them hold it. Holding it is torture.
Love Letter #82 | New Year, Same Leaf
We’ve seemed to fall into the trap of the acceptance of an abrupt end. There’s no opportunity to gather ourselves or the crumbs from the bread of the previous year to make something else in the new year.
Guest Blog Post | Chicken Batty Out A Door
Present your best self
This version of yourself could only be 10% on a given day if that’s all can do – that’s okay.
Give the best of that 10%. However, work towards improving on it to get to 100%.
Guest Blog Post| Don’t Allow the Bugs of Life to Deprive you of your Bloom | (Tackling Fear and Anxiety)
99% of the time, our fears are irrational and there is a way out. We just need to step away from the dark clouds.
Separate the facts from the imaginary ‘what ifs’ we conjure by the second that cause us to sink in a deep dark hole.
Guest Blog Post | Emotionally Immature Parents: Lets Talk About it
Seeing our parents as flawed is often a challenging concept to grasp.
Guest Blog Post | My First Heartbreak As a New Mom
You have to be patient, especially in a situation where you have no control.
Love Letter #81 | Put them Under Curfew
How you may or may not adhere to the rules of an 8:00 pm to 5:00 am (the following day) nation-wide curfew, is an indication of how you’d operate for the proverbial curfews in your life or in the lives of those whose lives you impact.
Work from Home | Striking the Balance when Working from Home
Self-preservation is necessary when working from home. It should be mandatory and set high on everyone’s priority list.
Work from Home | My neighbour cut his lawn
You have the power over how you complete your tasks for work. Are you seriously gonna allow a lawnmower and a weedwhacker to negatively impact your work?
I doubt it.
You know you have these tasks to complete and so you will find a way to get it done despite the noise around you.
Work from Home Week #…🤷🏿♀️| Barking Dogs
Learn to bend and not break. Learn to pivot when your situation takes a sudden turn.
Love Letter #80 | There was a Worm in my Apple
Learn to pivot. Find another fruit if the one you bit into has worms in it.
You can also stick it out, remove the worm and keep it moving.
You can also bite around the worm while consciously trying not to bite into it.
Or, you may enjoy the fruit despite the fact that a worm is there.
Are you flexible enough to pivot?
Love Letter #79 | She Assaulted my hair
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its colour and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
– Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
Work from Home Week #… I forgot | I Started doses of Vitamin ‘C’
Liken your crayons and colouring books to the act of adding light or colour back into your life. The paper is the canvas and it can represent you. Each colour stroke on paper is the ray of light that you need or want in life.
Work from Home Week 3 | The Light Went Out
Sometimes we lose ‘power’ in our lives as an indication that we need to pause or slow down.
Work from Home Week 2 | The Internet Went Down
Sometimes we need to tether ourselves to others in order to be functional. Replace all the inanimate objects and replay the scenario with people who sometimes lose their way and need some help by way of other people. Other people help those in need by just facilitating a tethering process.
Work from Home Week 1 | No Peeing in the Office Bathroom?
In some weird way, holding your pee is like holding toxic energy inside. It’s like hating on others without purposely seeking some kind of resolve. It’s like getting upset and staying upset and not unpacking and expressing your feelings.
Love Letter #78 | Rearranging the Linen in the Linen Closet
How we navigate life has changed forever. We have to, now, rearrange our ideas and perceptions of what normal is.
Our habits will change and so will our behaviours.
It matters not if we are ready. But how soon will we adapt?
Love Letter #77 | The Confidently Insecure Black Girl
We all wear a mask to the party. Less often than naught do we actually remove the mask or even the entire outfit and show our bare, vulnerable self. So never assume that the person who presents to you reveals their everything at all times.
Love Letter #76 | The Garbage Truck Broke Down Outside my House
Garbage trucks smell beacuse of the fusion of waste that goes in them. They’re not cleaned as often as they should be and if they are cleaned frequently, it’s not a proper clean.
Never. And, I mean never allow yourself or the vessel you use to dispose of your figurative garbage to stay filthy.
Love Letter #75| I Almost Pooped My Pants
Life comes at you fast. You have to be flexible enough to find solutions to emerging problems. Just like clenched cheeks and squeezed big toes, you must be able to contract and relax accordingly. Relaxing in grave situations might not be the wisest decision and contracting at the right time can offer the ultimate relief. Strike that balance.
