Serious Sundays

Back to Sanity

Typed (Written) By: Jasmine G.

I was watching an episode of the Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotbe from September 2011 when school was starting back and they were describing how it is back to sanity for so many parents. It is amazing how parents have to juggle their career as well as caring for their dependents that may or may not be their child. In many mothers cases the center of their Universe seems to be their child which isn’t such a bad thing, but can turn out to be detrimental in the long run. Everyone knows a mother whose only pride and joy out of life seems to be their children. When a mother or parent really has no interests of their owns or have not grasped living out their own dream they easily set themselves up to be taken advantage of.

Mother’s who seemingly enjoy everything about the “motherhood” role often end up living vicariously through their children because they have not found anything to develop their own personal growth. It’s just a fact that when you become a mother or at least a decent one that your wants and needs are no longer number one of the to-do list. For those women who have decided that more than one or two children would be substantial, than they can forget about even being on some type of to-do list because they just about counted themselves out. Once a woman chooses to live a life of being a mother of two kids or more then it just comes with the territory that she will be bitter after realizing all her hopes and dream will not be fulfilled. During a conversation I had with someone, they stated a very true point of once you have a child you basically are leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Although, someone’s child may not be a carbon copy of them you really have to come to the conclusion that with some people it would be unnecessary to leave too much of them and their genes behind on the earth. The ultimate instigators would be mothers or at least the ones who decide having more than two children is going to be glorious, and for some reason end up miserable because motherhood is not all it has cracked up to be. Due to the fact that a lot of mother’s end up having no life of their own they are always pushing the envelope, getting in their way or even in their own child’s way. The line of separation for being able to clearly guide someone and hinder them is very thin. With any relationship you can’t spread yourself to thin because you make it so easy for someone to take you for granted.

My make-up work from a recent photo shoot with Nanichi Jewelry line taken in “Malcolm X” park in Washington, D.C. I got the chance to work with a great model and now she is no longer a virgin to photo shoots. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon in the Columbia Heights neighborhood with trees, benches, a fountain and cascading looking pool or man-made pond to view on the location of the photo shoot.

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leftcoastjane:

Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use theirposition as mothers to influence society in fighting for an end to all wars. She called for women to stand up against the unjust violence of war through their roles as wife and mother, to protest the futility of their sons killing other mothers’ sons.

Howe wrote:

 Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed …to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy! :oD

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Spirit Hauntings

    When I look up I don’t see the roof,  and not even the sky when I happen to be outside. All I seem to see is you, your face that I’ve always treasured and always wanted to smile. 

But it’s never came through and never will. You should never say never, but in this case it’s never (Never Ever) because when I look out you are already gone and all that lives is just a spirit.

You ask me how this is so?

The answer is, How this is so cause when I’m looking around all I see is black & gray; feeling so down and out.

Things just are dead and it surrounds me.

But luckily when I look down and all I see is the sky I know life still exists. Of course, most important is when I look inside is that I see your spirit and during those times you will always be alive.

onlinecounsellingcollege:

Millions of people across the world are diagnosed as suffering from mental illness. And though most of those are disorders are common and well-known (such as depression, anxiety and phobias) there are also some unusual and bizarre disorders. For example:

1. Stockholm Syndrome – Typically…

taostillness:

Earth Day, Protect Our Earth, Protect Our Heart.