It took me a while to integrate the feeling of GRATITUDE. My life as yours without doubt is not easy, more than often we just want to quit and run away but we don’t…Day after day the wheel changes for the best i believe because our experience and our wisdom grows. I am a better person today than i was yesterday. I am more compassionate, tolerant, open minded than i was last year. Today I LOVE MYSELF with all my demons and flaws. I could have choose the path of bitterness or anger because being grateful for what we have instead of what we think we should have is definitely not an easy one! I know what is to love and being loved. I know how to give and receive I know when to listen and when to speak I know that i know nothing…used to said Jean Gabin because despite my wanting some people will love me others don’t some will stay with me forever others only for a dinner but i feel grateful to be able to connect… …
Thoughts…
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” – Robert Francis Kennedy “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — Frank Outlaw. Love it…given yesterday by a friend had to share it with you Have a good week Xo
Are you open?
Just finished two extraordinaries books “The Help” Kathryn Stockett and “Shanghai girls” Lisa See. Both about discrimination and injustice and how women fight back, never giving up their dreams and their ability to give no matter what. We are transported back in the sixties, Mississipi, how black women cooked, cleaned and raised little white children and have their own private toilets because of the diseases they might carry for example or others discriminations each one worse than the others. “Shanghai girls” is the beautiful story of two sisters back in the sixties too, who after their father lost his fortune were sold and went living in chinatown Los Angeles and couldn’t get out of it no matter what. I am fortunate to have been raised by a french mother and a portuguese father both open to the world. I remember the parties in our house where my father was at the time responsible for black and arab countries. I remember mom wearing the traditional boubou offered to her by the Senegal’s ambassador. I knew from childhood that we are equals …
2011…you go girl!
Between Christmas and New Eve time stands still, there are always a lot of joy and gratitude in the air. It’s a moment of peace where families and friends get together, share, exchange, bounds become more profound each year. It’s a moment to remember with tenderness the ones that are no longer but will remain forever in our hearts. It’s a time of rest where the worries lay aside, where we take good resolutions hoping that this year maybe we can keep some of them…..for a month at least! December is a blessed month for me, preparing with love and care the presents, forseeing their happiness, knowing that mom is cooking delicious meals that i won’t find anywhere in the world. It’s a moment to remember those who are alone or like this year who have their flights cancelled and couldn’t make it to their destination. It’s a moment to make amend. I cherish the dream that next year will be better that the crisis will pass that abundance will return that we have learned the lessons out of it. …
