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How to heal fully and properly.
Something Different
Well first off, I’ve never painted a thing in my life. Okay, that's not completely true, but like a serious thing, a good thing, a thing that people would buy -until now. On August 11, 2019, I was cleaning out a closet in the house that I was renting with my ill mother. Life was rough as we knew it. I fumbled upon a paint set, a cheap-y paint set of just a few acrylic colors and some paint brushes along with an empty canvas. My mother always liked to try new hobbies. In fact, she would jump from one obsession to the next. If she would find an interest in something, she would obsess over it and dream it to the top. It went from sewing, to learning how to play the violin, to the piano, then guitar- pretty much any instrument. The list would go on, drawing, writing, cochetting, etc.
By Natasha Collazo5 years ago in Motivation
Off To The Top
I grew up in Los Angeles, California, where there was always a beach nearby. I think because I grew up always going to the beach, I enjoyed it, but never appreciated it that much. L.A. can be a busy place, and with the traffic, the noise, the many people on the beach entertaining hoping to get discovered, it’s easy to get distracted from nature’s beauty.
By Jazmine Ramzy5 years ago in Motivation
Remembering Slim
Prologue Remembering Slim is the heartwarming tale of a bittersweet conversation in class. It is a picture book manuscript aimed at 4-8 year olds and the intellectual property of C.L.E Webster if you would like to represent this book please get in touch.
By C.L.E Webster5 years ago in Motivation
What Are The Advantages Of Doing Exercises Daily
Helps prevent falls in older adults According to CDC, physical activity (including several types such as aerobics, balance training and muscle strengthening) can help reduce the risk of falls and injury from falls, particularly in older adults. Helps prevent osteoporosis Exercise can improve bone health and treat or prevent the disease. Helpful sleep exercises can help people sleep better, and the benefits start early.
By Bishnu Bhandari5 years ago in Motivation
How to take care of elderly people in COVID?
The COVID pandemic has taught us a lot of lessons. In the middle of the mayhem, some of us are at peace because we are there with our families or loved ones to fight it together. But there are also some people who are helpless and financially weak. A lot of poor elderly mothers in our community live all alone after being abandoned by their family members. We need to care for them too!
By Yoganandatrust5 years ago in Motivation
Getting to Know Me
I recently had a call with my coach about how to handle the next steps when it came to this blog. I love writing this blog but felt like I was running out of topics to cover. Over the last six months or so, I have talked about different types of loss and grief, from the loss of a pet to the loss of a relationship. I provided tips on how to prepare, process, and endure through these different situations. And how you can support someone going through these situations. We all experience loss in some form, and I wanted to give my readers some advice they could use when the time came.
By Cathy Impavido5 years ago in Motivation
Commonsense Vs Greed
The most successful people in business didn't implement only the practical and theories they learned in business school or college. They also implement many things they learn from humans' actions, choices, decisions, and many things life taught them. They add wisdom, understanding, kindness, discretion, compassion, and commonsense, among other things.
By Annelise Lords 5 years ago in Motivation
How To: Throw a Truly Excellent Pity Party
Every now and then, I think a little self-pity goes a long way. Sure, no one likes a miserable sad sack 24 hours a day, but every now and then doesn't it feel good to just... wallow for a second? Maybe you just lost your job, your boyfriend, or a pet. Maybe you've been working too hard and you're getting burnt out. Or, hey, maybe it's just been one of those days.
By Christina King5 years ago in Motivation
Grandma’s story’s
My grandmother told me always to wear a hat when you work in the sun because when she was about 12 years of age she almost died from heat stroke. She told me the story about how she crossed into America from Mexico with her father when she was about 12 but her mother gave birth to her brother and her mother didn’t make it across she actually died giving birth and they had to bury her in Mexico it was right at the exact time they were going to cross. My grandmother told me that she kind of hated her brother and blamed him for her mothers death but that my great grandfather always read the Bible and always believed in god and his love cured that. She knew that he was hurt because sometimes she would catch him crying but he never tried to show it. I don’t know the exact year that this all happened but there were no cars she told me that her father had known somebody that went to work on a plantation so they were headed that way. When they got there they shared a shed 10‘ x 10‘ with three other families it was just for sleeping so most of the time she was outside she took care of her brother and eventually she started working with her father picking cotton. The days were long and hot they work when the sun came up and they stop working with the sun went down and they were trying to save enough money to go to a better place where they heard it was better work picking fruits and vegetables. One day was so hot she was out there picking cotton and she started to feel dizzy, started to lose her balance, started to see purple and red spots and eventually she passed out because of the heat. She wasn’t wearing a hat, she wasn’t wearing anything over her head. The other workers and her father carried her to a bed in the shed and eventually they got the owner of the plantation to send a doctor and when the doctor came she said that her brain had boiled inside her head due to the heat. The doctor didn’t think she was going to make it, she fell into a coma. My grandmother said for 6 weeks she was in a coma but every morning and every night she can hear her father praying and reading the Bible to her. Until one day she woke up out of the coma and her father cried saying thank God I knew that you would come back to me my daughter, praise god! After that he didn’t want to work in the fields but she knew that it was just him working so eventually she convinced him and he told her always wear a hat or a cachucha, something covering up your head. Later on her father had made enough money to go to a better plantation where they treated the workers better and it was more pay and he actually knew one of the managers a friend of his, the first friend that told him about the first plantation that they went to work at. This story was about a widowed white lady that her husband just recently died. Although my grandmother never said her name the foreman that answered to her was my great grandmothers fathers best friend he spoke English and Spanish at this time my grandmother and my great grandfather we’re learning English. On this plantation there was always big thunderstorms and sometimes tornadoes one had come through and tore up a bunch of the crops in the mills where they store the food. The next day after a big storm my grandmother and her father went to the main house and saw them throwing a bunch of the food in the river because it was damage from the storm. Then my grandmother’s father asked his friend the manager to ask the lady if they can have some other the bags of food and God would bless her. When she heard this she got angry and went and stood in front of his face and said you people are “always begging” your people are meant to be lower than me who is your God he’s not real why am I rich and you’re poor. Then to show how rich she was she took off a diamond ring and she said see this diamond ring is worth more than you’ll ever be and she threw it into the river and said tell your God to bring it back to me if he’s real and if he exist and then she told her manager shoot anyone trying to take any of the food out of the river. My grandmother said she was always behind her father and even though she was mad he didn’t get mad because at dinner time he prayed for the lady and my grandmother was upset because of this. Then my great-grandfather had met another worker that he knew that said there’s a better ranch where they send your kids to school to learn and it pays more and the bosses loves all people. So they moved and it was true grandmother and her brother started going to school and her father became a manager and one day he ran into his friend that was manager at the widows ranch and they hugged and said praise God you’re doing fine my friend and the manager from the widows ranch said did you hear about the lady. My grandmother was always behind her father so she heard everything he said a great storm came and took down the all the mills and took out all the fields of food and it became so bad that she had to start selling off the land to pay the workers one day the fishers brought in some fish to the maids one of the maids cut open a fish and there was a diamond ring in it and they knew it was a ladies ring so they took it straight to her She said look what I found for you thinking she would be pleased. She remembered what she said about god and she got angry and threw it out the window and cursed god at that time another maid was cleaning up outside and found the ring and went and put it on the ladies dresser and again the lady saw the ring on her dresser and got angry and screamed and threw it. He said he watched her as great worry came over her he had to tell her he was leaving for a better job offer but she was going crazy so it took a while. Then he went to tell her as she was rocking in the rocking chair smoking cigarette after cigarette. He told her also god bless you after he said good bye and she attacked him. Then the day came that she lost everything he got word from another worker that the last I saw of her she was barefooted in the streets begging for food because she had lost everything. These are a few bed time stories that my grandmother told me to wear a hat in the sun to believe god and always share food with people that are hungry and in need because god will bless you.
By Joseph Samuel5 years ago in Motivation
The little match girl
The little match girl is not what you typically choose as a bedtime story. The ending can be heart wrenching depending on the emotional and mind state you currently are. I like to frame it in a different direction regardless of the ending. I even give the girl a name because to me this story is about Hope and Faith. In all honesty it depends on the day and the season when I change the character’s name reflecting what I need the most in the specific moment. Here is my retelling:
By Alexandra Garcia (She/Her)5 years ago in Motivation
