(Supreme by Zebra)

The Whole Thing

So as I am getting closer to 30 (yaaay!!!) I am learning more and more about myself and the completely complex person that I am. There are goals that I had when I was younger, that I do not have anymore and there are goals that I have now that I never thought I would have. However, with each goal that is set and reach and each new revelation I am beginning to become more and more comfortable with who I am as a whole person. I still think the 20's totally sucked because there is a lot of insecurity and in my case a lot of pain and heartbreak. I don't ever want to have to relive the things that I have had to in the past 7 almost 8 years. I want to learn from them and move on. It has shown me however, that I am an extremely strong and proud black woman who doesn't take any stuff, but will give you the shirt off her back if you ask her. Now, I very well may have been that way before, but I never really looked inward to realize that that is really who I am. In my art blog http://amaraart.blogspot.com I talk about who I am and how proud I am of that. Each day is a new day of understanding and there are some things that I see that I don't particularly like and I am working on the self improvement for myself and not to please one or many other people. I want to be in a nice space and I really believe that I am very close to that. I have had some hardknocks that I wasn't really prepared for, or so I thought. Faith has brought me through things that I know others would have taken their lives for, but I have known for some time that I am blessed and there are people around me that show me that blessing everyday. Especially those of you who read my blogs as many of you are my friends and family. Those of you who just happened upon my blog through whatever means, thank you as well your comments and your support through my trying times have been a blessing and if I have not said that yet I am definitely saying it now. If you get a chance to check out my art blog please feel free to leave comments. That is really where I bear my soul, in a spoken word type format. I have worked through many a problem on that blog and it helps me heal. I am thinking of beginning to put some of my creative writing on a new blog, I will let you know if that is the case until then I am going to continue on my journey of self-actualization.

(Freedom Dance by Laurie Cooper)

Ms. Denva soon to be Ms. Georgia :-)