The Woman

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Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan- The Divine Value of the Woman

First let me begin with this: There is so much about my life that a lot of people don’t know. A lot of my views are from personal experiences and what I’ve gotten from things that have happened in my life over the years.

Though I’m not a Muslim and I don’t practice Islam, there is an abundant amount of information that is useful for both black women and men. It causes you to do your own research and question things that you have been taught about your culture.

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Remembering

Ten years go today and remember it like It was yesterday. My youngest son had just started Pre-K and the teacher must have been about 8 years younger than me. She had been saying that my son was continuously disrupting her class and by this time I had to go in front of a panel which included  psychologist. They wanted to "label" my son, at 4 years old as a child with Anger Management.

Stimulating Conversation

I really am going to truly start making a better effort to blog more, personally and professionally. My life is so busy that I really have to start taking an hour or two out of my day, before I go to sleep to make it happen.

As you know I just celebrated my 38th birthday. The past two months have been nothing but valleys for me. But I know my blessings are coming behind the storm.

One of my birthday celebrations consisted of a stimulating evening of some of my female associates, friends, and business associates. We had wine, food, massages, conversation and some bonding.

The room consisted of women from different age groups, industries, marital statuses, some are single mothers, new mothers, etc. It was very refreshing to be in a room of women, who are different but alike in so many ways.

My New Year!!!

Today is my 38th birthday! Happy Birthday to me!

For the past few weeks I’ve been having more down days than up days, but I know that God isn’t going to put anything on me that I can’t handle, and everything happens for a reason. That’s my motto I live by.

I have been through so many things in my 38 years and I’m at a point that I’m not happy about everything that has happened, but I’m thankful, because those things have made me the woman, mom, daughter, and wife that I am today.

I’ve made a conscious decision that instead of celebrating New Years on Jan. 1, that my birthday will be my New Year’s celebration. I live from year to year from the date I was born so that will be my New Year.

I am creating a “bucket list” in the next few weeks. My friend and I were discussing it on our way back from our beach trip for her birthday this past Saturday. I’ve always called it my list of things I want to do before I die. But apparently there’s a movie call “The Bucket List” where you do all the things you want before you kick the bucket. Whatever it’s called, I’m going to create one. I will post it when it’s complete.

My bucket list will be done in one year intervals. I’m actually excited about my list and even more excited about putting it into action.

Self evaluation is going to be one of  my daily priorities. Everyday, I’m going to try my best to make sure I’m doing what makes me happy. If I’m happy those around me and in my circle will be happy.

Looking forward to my New Year! So Happy New Year to me!

~Daphne S. Ali- The Kismet Diva

Perception

I have been doing something a little different on FB and twitter than I have in the past. I’ve been stating my views on certain topics lately. Yesterday it was a little sisterly advice on relationships, this morning it’s been about “titles” and “perception”
I decided to make this post about the perception because I’ve been getting a lot of feedback on facebook on twitter.
Remember, these are my views on issues that may or may not effect me but since this is America and we have freedom of speech, I will use that.
I was watching the new series with my son, starring Raven Samone “State of Georgia”. This was my first time watching it.
I immediately noticed how much weight Raven Samone had lost, and also noticed that it looks like she had a breast reduction.
Being a plus size woman, I can’t help but wonder what message young girls who are fans of Raven Samone are getting from her weight loss. Is that little voice saying to them, it’s not okay to be plus size? You have to be skinny to be healthy or beautiful?

My life

This blog is going to be a little more up close and personal for me.

With everything that I do, I tend to not be able to vent, state my point of view, or elaborate on certain things that I would like to. So here is where I’ll do that.

I’ll share a lot of my daily events, thoughts and more.

But I’ll also recollect on things that happened to me throughout the years from time to time.

Some days will be beautiful, some topics will be ugly, and sometimes the cry will be pain and other times it will be joy!

Thank you and welcome to my Beautiful Ugly Cry!

~ Daphne