The answer to this is a hopeful "no" for many of you as I have decided to revisit this blog with a new purpose in mind. For a year or two, I have been writing about money. How to save it. Where to get it. How to stretch. From whom to hide it. The history of financial success and enterprise amongst our people.
I have learned a lot from all of you and I am hoping that you picked up a couple of things from me because I have been inspired to change. A new turn in my personal development. During this bend of my journey, I am hoping to use this space as a virtual empowerment club. A safe-space where we can dream really big (or small), but absolutely and always meaningfully about what we want out of life-- whether it be financial, personal, health-related, and professional.
If you want to do any of these things with me, please write your name next to the number! Please also generate your list, so I can write my name next to ours!
You'll Have Enough Time to Sleep When You're Dead!
1. Get a Brazilian wax.
2. Play mass in somebody's Caribbean
3.Write and publish children's books.
4. Be in love.
5.Write and direct a small play.
6. Have my own home and entertain guests there.
7.Become fluent in Kreyol and Spanish.
8. Open an all-girls school.
9.Become a millionaire through saving and investment.
10. Be interviewed on television.
11. Learn the damn turns in salsa without getting dizzy.
12. Have a ladies' night once a month
13. Have a small exhibition of my photography.
14. Sleep in a tent in the woods for a night.
15. Go to a Beres Hammond concert
16.Be a good friend/confidant.
17. Have thighs of steel (think a not-to-so-diesel-Serena)
18. Become a vegetarian.
19. Go to strip-club
20.Go to London
21. Bed-n-breakfast in the mountain here or abroad.
22. Do a colonic.
23. Fast for 7 days.
24.Meet Michelle Obama and have lunch with her.
25. Visit all of the hubs on blackness throughout Latin America
26. Learn to drive on the highways with confidence.
27. Take a cooking class.
28. Learn Swedish ( or somebody else's) massage.
29. Pose nude for an art class (after #17)
30.Take pictures of black folk in the South and interview them about their lives.
31. Do a family tree project.
If you want to do any of these things with me, please write your name next to the number! Please also generate your list, so I can write my name next to ours!
You'll Have Enough Time to Sleep When You're Dead!
1. Get a Brazilian wax.
2. Play mass in somebody's Caribbean
3.Write and publish children's books.
4. Be in love.
5.Write and direct a small play.
6. Have my own home and entertain guests there.
7.Become fluent in Kreyol and Spanish.
8. Open an all-girls school.
9.Become a millionaire through saving and investment.
10. Be interviewed on television.
11. Learn the damn turns in salsa without getting dizzy.
12. Have a ladies' night once a month
13. Have a small exhibition of my photography.
14. Sleep in a tent in the woods for a night.
15. Go to a Beres Hammond concert
16.Be a good friend/confidant.
17. Have thighs of steel (think a not-to-so-diesel-Serena)
18. Become a vegetarian.
19. Go to strip-club
20.Go to London
21. Bed-n-breakfast in the mountain here or abroad.
22. Do a colonic.
23. Fast for 7 days.
24.Meet Michelle Obama and have lunch with her.
25. Visit all of the hubs on blackness throughout Latin America
26. Learn to drive on the highways with confidence.
27. Take a cooking class.
28. Learn Swedish ( or somebody else's) massage.
29. Pose nude for an art class (after #17)
30.Take pictures of black folk in the South and interview them about their lives.
31. Do a family tree project.
32. Learn to say "yes" even though I am scared.
33. Learn when to say "no" when I really need it.
34. Take classes in Caribbean, African, Afro-Latino and African-American women's lit.
35. Open up a UPS store.
36. Have a flea-market stall.
37. Get a black belt in Tae Kwon Do
38. Go to Hot Yoga classes.
39. Wear a really ugly wig and pick-up random men in a bar for kicks.
It's a Living, Breathing Document
Just start writing. Nothing is too insignificant. Let's share our lists and our support to actualize as many of these dreams as we can.
