Footprints!
I came home one day excited to tell my husband that I had been inspired to start creating blogs! I could not come through the door good enough before I started babbling on about my idea to write and inspire others. I wanted to give others something to relate to in a world that makes people feel as if they have to measure their standards of themselves based off someone else’s standard. I think we all know people like that or have met people of such! Some it’s not their fault because mainstream media plays a huge part in that aspect of programming.
I wanted to make my blogs an extension of Our Essence of Serenity…Our Essence of Serenity has many different factors and I want to feel relatable. My idea to start blogging shocked me in a sense that I am a very private person, but I know I have something to offer because I follow the beat of my own drum.
So…let me back track to tell you exactly how this idea about blogging came about..It was my mama’s birthday (yes I call her mama lol..not mother, mom, or etc..she is either ‘mama’ or I call her ‘ma’…something about the word mama touches my soul) and I wanted to express soul felt wishes to her through texting, on her birthday, followed by a surprise visit to her job with cupcakes and flowers. I wanted her to feel special and to know that I love her dearly! She was shocked and told me how my words touched her so much that she was on the verge of becoming emotional while reading them. I had done what I set out to do! I wanted her to know exactly what she meant to me as well as give her words of encouragement while embarking on a new chapter in her life. Which brings me back to my blogging idea that I proposed to my husband. I have been writing for years and was inspired as a young child after reading the acknowledgment section of an MC Hammer cassette lol…my parents had that cassette for years prior to me actually reading it..timing has it’s own time…after reading it, I set at the foot of my parents bed and wrote my first poem and shared it with my mama. Afterwards I started writing poems daily. My mama was so proud of my poems that she would take them to work and hang them on the door of her office and that made me feel official lol! She said that her staff could not believe that someone my age could write the things that I was writing and express them in the way that they were being expressed. She would constantly tell me that I needed to write a book one day because I had the gift of writing. Eventually she stopped saying so because I would say “I know”, but did not act on pursuing writing. By that time I had not wrote a poem in years. Life happens and we get uninspired. However, I knew that from a young age I had a gift for writing when it came from the heart!
Recently my husband surprised me with our new website and he said that he wanted to make sure that it offered a section for my blogs…I hugged and kissed him numerous times and thanked him numerous times..he had been secretly working on our website! So one day he came into our bedroom and had me to follow him into our office and he pulled up the website and I was fighting back that ‘ugly girl cry’ lol…I felt it coming on because my eyes began to water and my lips did a tremble lol...I was so excited and it meant the world that he wanted to make sure that our website would allow me to pursue something that I knew was waiting to burst out of me..so here I am..so in the words of the song ‘I was Here’ by Beyonce, ‘I wanna leave my footprints on the sands of time’…..consider this blog an introduction to why there will be many more blogs to come from me..talk to you soon!
-Shana
