To thine own SELF be true

It's almost time to ring in the New Year. I am thankful for the love, laughter and joy in my life. I'm grateful for my trials for they showed me how resilient I truly am. I appreciate all the genuine people in my life. The family members that really love my kids and I. The friends both old and new that encourage, motivate and uplift me. This year I learned that God is The Redeemer. He will make a way. He makes no mistakes. He KNOWS what He is doing.

I am forty years old now. I have an adult son and a toddler. I am blessed beyond measure. I'm focusing on my children and myself. I'm going to achieve ALL of my dreams regardless of who does or doesn't support me. I'm going to invest in Jermaine's future. I'm going to take care of MYSELF more. I get so stressed out over the behavior of others. I ALREADY raised one Prince. I wasn't perfect but I did the best I could. I ALWAYS have to be on point because people only care about themselves. I'm FINE with that. In my old age I'm learning to invest ALL my time, resources and energy into my kids. We GOOD over here.

In conclusion don't beat yourself up over ANYTHING. I used to be so materialistic. Time is the most valuable THING on earth. I refuse to spend it dwelling on ANYTHING that doesn't foster my growth. Very FEW people will reciprocate what you did for them. That's why when you do things you must do it from the kindness of your heart. God sees you and that's the ONLY thing that matters. To thine OWN self be TRUE.

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Turning the Page

Mommy and her friends at Russo’s on the Bay at a Post office reunion. Uncle Goode sent me this and boy oh boy was I startled this morning. I see her life as a testament that you reap what you sow. It takes under ten seconds to tell anyone what you do for a living. My Mother worked in the Post office her entire career. After a brief stint as a teenager with Auntie Helen at ironically the phone company. Choosing a federal job over the BANK! She was hired on the SPOT as a woman of color because she was a mathematical genius. Courtney inherited that trait for her. She was seventeen years old. Tour 1 like a FOOL (11pm-7am)she would say. After she began working in the Vault 7am-3pm after almost thirty years of the night shift. She was in the vault in the Post Office at JFK in NYC on September 11, 2001. She was concerned about me getting home newly hearing impaired at MetroTech downtown Brooklyn. I love EVERYTHING about you Ma but the BEST thing was you were so GENUINE...

Fan Clubs

Kim’s Korner Everyone has FANS that are OBSESSED with THEM OK! I LOVE Jay-Z from the BEGINNING called him HOV and Everything! Aunt Audrey was so mad 🤣🕊️I am LOYAL to THAT Man! He’s a BUSINESS MAN 💪🏾🐐I WATCH what I SAY too because the Bey or Bee Hive is CRAZY they will be online calling me all kinds of MUTE WHALES🤣🤣🤣🤣 SHE cannot control them or tell them to STOP 🤣🤣🤣🤣Chris Brown loyalists don’t GIVE AF about NOTHING but HIM🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯 But Nicki Minaj BARBZ y’all do THE MOST! Funny thing is I BET they are the most law abiding, good credit having, nicest people in the world. The bartender at a party I planned is one. He was so nice and dope! Like one she KNOWS 💯That Woman can say James Evans (“ the Father on Good Times”)deserved to DIE 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀and her FANS will find 182 reasons to support HER! Never seen an episode in their LIVES. I used to go to the Co-op Mall in Rochdale with Aunt Colette six times a day. Nana was in OTB and she was going to get me a...

Betty Baisley

As I write but more importantly LIVE I THANK y’all for letting me sit in the front of the bus and listen to music with y’all when I stilll could hear. Papa used to turn the music up real loud for me too on the way to his customers to make his deliveries. For keeping me in Ms, Goldstein’s class knowing I may have needed a different environment. For coming to my first day of Junior High school (albeit afterschool WHO does that?) For pressing my hair SO GOOD the first day of Martin. For telling me that Brooklyn Tech was a memory (I got waitlisted and didn’t want to go to Summer School to get in because I didn’t want to go there and NANA and GRANNY knew it! ) To not beat myself up over it. (Mommy is STILL MAD in Heaven❤️) To standing outside Martin with Aunt Colette and Mommy because the girls didn’t like me but the boys did! The most important lesson I learned was to put ME FIRST! NANA you loved us ALL independently and individually. You made sure we had toiletries, pens ...

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