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Describe yourself as a tree

If I Were A Tree

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything

~Pink

I would say a willow and I think Pink says it really well. The strength and resolve of the Willow to survive by bending describes me well enough. Willow has extremely strong and well developed root. It is often larger than the stem. There is more to me than you see, just like the tree. Raindrops that are falling to the ground from the drooping branches of willow resemble tears. That is how weeping willow got its name. I tend to be emotional and cry a lot! Willow’s ability to absorb shock without splintering is why it is still to make cricket bats and stumps. The bark is fibrous and pliable – ideal for making rope. Willow is well-known for its use in making wicker. An overall useful and resourceful tree and I think I am pretty much that as well!!

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How are you changing the world?

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” 

Neil Postman

I change the world with raising honest, compassionate, hard working, ethical and loving children into the world as grown men and woman who are honest, compassionate, hard working, ethical and have hearts that love.

My greatest accomplishment are my children. I have watched them grow into mature adults with great pride.

Myself

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What is your favorite part about yourself?

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn
I believe happy girls are the prettiest
Smile!

My favorite part of me is my……, hmmm….I like that I make people smile. That I am usually always with a smile. I genuinely like people, I love my job and I am learning to love myself more every day. I also like that I stay positive.

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

― Mark Twain

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Write about a dream you remember

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

Any dream I wake up and remember, I will quickly write down. I learned a couple years ago, my strange, wild dreams, dreams that make no sense, they come true. I will write them down so people around me will believe that I did in fact, have a dream I am living out. I don’t understand why I dream like I do and why they come true and there are some lessons I guess I have learned. Listen to myself! Wait! I still don’t listen to myself, my heart, or my gut.

I know there’s not lot of meat here to go by, your probably as bored reading this as I am writing it. I apologize. My head and heart are some other place and I can’t quite get the words to come, or the story to tell.

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Write about something that makes you feel strong.

My first response to this prompt was more along the lines of inner strength. When I asked that question to my boyfriend, he asked me what kind of strong are you talking about? “physical or mental”? Well, that got me to thinking. Huh! Your right!

There are four pillars of strength

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Emotional
  • Spiritual

Well, when I work out and eat right I feel physically strong.I have a bad knee right now, so I feel strong more like the other day. My boyfriend and I always grocery shop together, we had finished and were loading it in the truck when I remembered something I needed to make him chili that night. My boyfriend was busy loading the groceries into the car, so I seized the moment and took off to get the items so I turned around and wheeled myself in. I had to go up a hill and the exertion got my blood running and I felt strong!

Mentally strong? I am very disciplined I guess I’d say. Self motivation has never been a problem. Even mentally strong I still believe has more sub categories than this example.

Emotional strength? I do not think I have anything to add here! I am so NOT strong in my emotions. LOL

Spiritually strong? I am strong in this area. I don’t want to sound moralistic or holier-than-thou. If you are interested in more of my spirituality, you can look at my page https://afterbella75.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/today-i-am-choosing-to-like-myself/ This page is dedicated to my testimony.

#Bloganuary

Write about something that makes you feel strong.

My first response to this prompt was more along the lines of inner strength. When I asked that question to my boyfriend, he asked me what kind of strong are you talking about? “physical or mental”? Well, that got me to thinking. Huh! Your right!

There are four pillars of strength

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Emotional
  • Spiritual

Well, when I work out and eat right I feel physically strong.I have a bad knee right now, so I feel strong more like the other day. My boyfriend and I always grocery shop together, we had finished and were loading it in the truck when I remembered something I needed to make him chili that night. My boyfriend was busy loading the groceries into the car, so I seized the moment and took off to get the items so I turned around and wheeled myself in. I had to go up a hill and the exertion got my blood running and I felt strong!

Mentally strong? I am very disciplined I guess I’d say. Self motivation has never been a problem. Even mentally strong I still believe has more sub categories than this example.

Emotional strength? I do not think I have anything to add here! I am so NOT strong in my emotions. LOL

Spiritually strong? I am strong in this area. I don’t want to sound moralistic or holier-than-thou. If you are interested in more of my spirituality, you can look at my page https://afterbella75.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/today-i-am-choosing-to-like-myself/ This page is dedicated to my testimony.

Words Are Only A Whisper

Don’t say it with words, say it with your life! That about sums up any excuse to preach at me about anything. Show me what life can be like. Show me what you mean, live out your example. So when I see how you live, listen to how you talk and I think your way is better than mine and I see a difference in you than I’d like to see in my life, I’ll come ask you. Believe me, I won’t hesitate to talk to you, hear you out and believe what you have to say. We all want something better.. At least I do. So, show me!

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What is your favorite quote and why

Outlaw

My All Time Favorite??

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.“

Nelson Mandela

The Nelson Mandela quote is hands down, the best quote, the best words even! I had these words running across my mind back when I was a fugitive on the run from the law, you can be sure!

The Henry Thomas Buckle quote is the second best, such a big truth behind such a little quote!

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.”

— Henry Thomas Buckle 

Justice is a whore that won’t let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.

Karl Kraus (1874-1936)

“A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime.”
― Harshit Walia

I love outlaw quotes! Any, all, good or bad, I love them all! A few comforted me while I was without family, a fugitive and on the run myself. I identified with several quotes, they gave me amusement I guess you’d say.

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”

― G.K. Chesterton

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.— Tom Robbins

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”

― Ayn Rand

“Lie, it is the American way.”
― Steven Magee

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

-Tupac Shakur

“Good. Illegal is always faster.”

― Eoin Colfer

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

― Aristotle