Tag Archives: Encouragement

Apr9

The Haiti Artist Collective

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TOMS has collaborated with The Haiti Artist Collective to create limited edition, hand painted shoes that benefit the cause of creating sustainable jobs there. Such a great concept. I love the tropical green ones in the middle!

ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
In a country with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world*, we’re creating sustainable jobs with creative solutions.

TOMS has committed to create jobs through shoe production in Haiti and to help establish and support a responsible shoe industry in the country. As a locally staffed and operated facility, we can economically empower individuals while giving big businesses a footprint to work in Haiti in the future.

Haiti Artist Collective Shoes | TOMS.com
The Haiti Artist Collective commissions local artists to create limited edition, hand-painted TOMS Shoes, providing sustainable jobs in a country with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world.
WWW.TOMS.COM

Credit: Afrobella via TOMS

Apr8

Why failing is (kind of) a good thing

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I am such a fan of Christian Mihai and this post will help you understand why I feel this way. People are often so afraid of failure that they are forced to accept a life of mediocrity. We need to embrace our missteps to learn and to fortify our self esteem. We fortify our self esteem through personal success and realizing goals which, believe me, take a fair amount of failures. Courage…

Apr8

Who Is Your Competition?

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Your Competition

Apr5

You Are Amazing!

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Happy Saturday to all! It’s the weekend and we should take time to reboot and recharge. I will be searching for chocolate ideas so stay tuned…

You are Amazing

Mar30

Sunday Reflections

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Proverbs 18:21

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

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Mar28

Friday Fact

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Mar27

Over The Hump Old School Sound Check-Heatwave

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Happy Thursday #musicfriendsofTenaciousM!

Heatwave is an international funk/disco band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton, Swiss Mario Mantese, Czechoslovak Ernest “Bilbo” Berger, Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter. They were known for their successful songs “Boogie Nights”, “Always and Forever”, and “The Groove Line”.Credit: Wikipedia

Mar26

ODE TO T.Z.

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Standards High!

This is a poem for sad women.
It belongs to that ubiquitous, yet peculiar sect of
women who are destined to lack necessary
qualities which reap lives of gaiety and
terminal bliss.

Those who nurtured us should have warned
that women of talent encounter
ice walls which melt only for coquettish smiles.
At best, we could have known to conceal
our natural resources.

Mar24

NINA’S PEDICURE

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I let the nails grow and petrify
over the toes of an old lady.
Nina, whom I love to care for
says it takes podiatry now.
Using water will clean the tool
but cannot sharpen.
That takes metal-hard strength.
Water seams weak to me,
yet it is strong enough to soften and
make a file unneeded.
Her skin has wrinkled so it must be ready.
The water proves itself and
erodes neglect that stiffens nature.
Smoothes aging lines that go deep
like basement rock
Boars through without fizz or drill
And lets me trim and buff and
Polish eight – blood red.
I leave the big toes clean to see my work
And gain some balance.

Mar24

Word Jones

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Most writers will relate to the compulsion that can occur when you are writing. It can be ceaseless, day or night, you think of a line and have to write it down before the idea escapes you. It’s our addiction of sorts…

Word Jones

Nose open inhaling time
Your head and hands make contact and
Ignite the smoking mind
With a need
You deal a line to whomever wants a hit

Waking words inject rhyme
Trip in waiting rooms where
Junkies have no sleep lines to trace
Thoughts will always find you-
They clasp creative veins and constrict
Normal flow outside the high place