You imbibe your associations. Those people you closely connect with ... the conversations you have... all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely.....

and I pondered this curiously crazy lifeand the things I failed to grasp as a girlbut thought I understood nowas a softer , wiser womanI thought about life and death...I thought about tonight's dinner menu too...

A whipping tongue scathingly lashes a false sense of power failing to reflect that a tongue portrays the character of its possessor!

I am a Woman!I have learnt to live with being Sore!And I have leaked my sorenessinto my prayers pure.For I have carried the soreness of this ancient Dirge,But my soreness has formed a chrysalis...And a Tiger Butterfly is about to emerge!(Excerpt from the poem: 'You are a Woman! You must learn to live with being Sore!)

Life is not something we put on the back burner hoping to get to live further down the line

LOVE what you're doing ... and KEEP doing it with LOVE!

Aloof? Aloof you say?I'm so sorry if I made you feel that way.It's really not my intention,Though the reaction is of my own invention.You see, long ago I built a wall,A defence mechanism as I recall.So for me to grow close, is still very hard,After losing that important trust card.

A good way to ascertain what matters to you is to imagine the following: You wake up in the morning to the realisation that you have but a day to live. How would you want to spend that day? Who would you want to spend that time with?

We cannot give to others what is lacking within us