The Upgrade Experience

"The supreme end of education is expert DISCERNMENT in all things... The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, & to prefer the good & the genuine to the bad & the counterfeit." - Unknown I can't say it enough: DISCERNMENT IS KEY... Believe THAT... Discernment is the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure... Being able to look beyond and really SEE things and people for what & who they really are... This quality is key for survival in this world... Without it, we're just wandering around blindly, accepting any and EVERYTHING into our lives... I wouldn't DARE front like I'm the #1 authority on discernment... It's a subject that God continues to school me in DAILY... Ohhhhhhhh, when I look back over my life!!!!! Lawd, have mercy... LoL... I have accepted (AND participated in) a LOTTA foolery over the years... I have allowed people into my life who had NO business being in m

  "When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless.  But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishmnet that comes from knowing you are working to make things better." I hear people say time and time again, "Oh, I just feel so overwhelmed!!!!"  You know that feeling when you have sooooooooooo much stuff to do, but you just don't know where to begin.  Being overwhelmed is NO joke. My friend Twyla and I used to say all the time that we felt "underwhelmed"... We'd laugh about it at the time,but in reality the feeling was all-consuming...  It was knowing that we had so many thing to get done, whether in our personal life or career, but we didn't have the energy or motivation to do a damned thing... That's a terrib;e, terrible feeling... See, when your underwhelmed, all you want to do is tuck under some covers and zone OUT...  You don't want to deal with ANYTHING or ANYONE...  But what is that attitude going

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” - Catherine Ponder I have been lying to myself... BOLD-FACED lying, at that... That is NOT what's hot... Things happen to us in this life... Sometimes, REALLY jacked up things happen to us in this life... But hey, that's the breaks... We have to take it all in stride...  The hardest thing is for someone to wrong us, we get upset, and say that we've forgiven them or whatnot... Yea, it SOUNDS good, but our actions tell a different story. While I've been notorious for being the "Queen of Detachment", I'm also good at being the "Queen of Acting Out"... Hell, I'm getting too old for that foolery...  See, something can happen to me & I'll say I'm fine... But AFTER the fact, I do some crazy shit without even realizing until later WHY I