Poetry and short stories with a few daily quotes here and there!
What details of your life could you pay more attention to?
Details of my life could I pay more attention to?
When I pray and how often I talk to God, I try to focus on my mind, soul, and body so that I am genuinely taking care of my mental and physical health, not just when I’m off work but when I’m working, too. Try to be more present in what makes me happy and well before burnout.
What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
#1 priority tomorrow? Um, coming home after work is eating a good breakfast and sleeping well to have an excellent night at work.
What’s the trait you value most about yourself?
Trait I value the most about myself? My kindness
I like being kind and helping when I can.
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
To consider just three jobs to pursue if money didn’t matter.
1. Full-time author
2. Abstract artist
3. Professional reader
Um, maybe one day!
What could you do more of?
Could I do more of?
More traveling
Spending more time with my family and friends
More Reading
More writing
More living
More marketing and selling my books
More Making abstract art
More taking time to relax and slow down.
More time to do all the things I love without having to do the things I’m tired of doing.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Piece of advice I’ve ever received?
Commit to your greatness now! Don’t wait to be happy or wait until you have what you need to be happy about.
This still rings true as everything I still want to do is within my reach and I choose to be happy with the peaceful, stressful life I live for I am blessed now and whatever comes next I know I can handle it.
For the moments of happiness I have now, I can’t get back if I wait for joy to come to me, for nothing in life is granted.
I would rather live a life of no regrets for my opinion of my life is all that matters.
What things give you energy?
In my life give me energy?
God
Sleep
Food and water
The sun
Exercise
Meditation
Music
Writing
Reading
Movies
All these things help me have the energy to get through my day when it’s great and when it’s not so great.
What’s your all-time favorite album?
Think I have an all-time favorite album?
Right now, I am enjoying Teddy Swims’s new album.
And I mean, I like all the songs, and that’s probably why I don’t have a favorite all-time album. For me, that means all songs have me hooked, and I can’t remember the last one since 2015, Alessia Cara’s “know-it-all” deluxe album.
Maybe one day I will find that album, but not today, I guess!
What would your life be like without music?
My life be like without music?
It would be silent and bland, as I love listening to music.
Music is beautiful, natural, and powerful. It can be therapeutic during difficult situations in life.
I know the sound is all around, but when you hear a song being sung and the lyrics are how you feel or want to feel, it’s like getting the answers to a prayer.
You feel like you are not alone, and sometimes you calm down, and music can do that.
God gave some of us the gift of singing, and when a song relates and heals and makes you stop and think. You realize there is more to life.
I don’t know where or how my life would be without God and music, and I don’t want to know.
I’m grateful for music and all those who love it and share it!
How do you celebrate holidays?
Celebrate holidays?
I celebrate them with my family and our dog.
For Thanksgiving, we cook some food the night before, so Thanksgiving day isn’t too tiring. Double ovens do help.
As the food cook, we would watch the parade; it hasn’t been the same since COVID-19.
Then, after the parade, we went off to do our own thing and finish up anything that needed to be cooked.
Then, around 3 or 4 pm, we will eat and then rest, then come back for dessert a little later. Of course, now that I work nights, I sleep through everything, wake up to eat, and then go off to work; I go a couple of hours later.
But my favorite holiday is Christmas because leading the way to the big day are holiday movies. I may be addicted to them as I anticipate the time of year when they announce Hallmark Christmas movies, and I make sure I watch them or record them since I still have to work.
I know Christmas isn’t about the presents, so I celebrate Christmas for Jesus and enjoy the days off with my family.
The holidays always bring around this magical feeling. At least Christmas does, and every year, it sucks me in.