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Merry Christmas! to you and your families I honestly had this plan to share something inspirational, to impart you with a positive message of love, kindness, gratitude, generosity and just the art of being an awesome human being in general. But truth be told this message is being currently preached and regurgitated over and over and over again that i'll be surprise if you haven't heard a version of it before. Today's Christmas was honestly like a regular day for me. I didn't do anything I wouldn't have typically done on a lazy Sunday with no work lol. I worked out. Did some runs around the fields and also some stairs workouts.  I ate. Some good food/some bad food .  Drank some coffee and basically lounged all day.  I swear in another lifetime I am a cat because I have perfected the art of solo lounging at home. If I must impart some type of wisdom it will be this 2 things 1. Buy a gratitude journal and everyday find something positive ...

If you're looking for a Hollywood blockbuster story line , with a somewhat happy ending despite the sad reality of slavery, this is not the novel for you. This book is raw. It does not sugar coat the slave experience or how expendable their lives where. I took me more than a month to read this book because it was emotionally tough to get through the chapters. I had to put it down several times and walk away from it but I think that's the whole point. That this was a horrible time in american history and not some far fetched horror movie. If you have any compassion in you, it's suppose to make you feel that sad. Even though on one end it's a work of fiction, it is still a very fair depiction of what the slaves went through. Somewhere in America, someone's great grand relatives went through this and this may as well have been their biography. This story has no happy ending and in reality when you look at the black american experience today and what's...

Location : Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center Greenfield, New Hampshire A weekend retreat to disconnect from my busy life and be intentional about seeking God and one on one time with the Holy Spirit. Psalms 46: 10  Be Still and Know that I am GOD "The  Christian retreat  can be  defined  in the most simplest of terms as a definite time (from a few hours in length to a month) spent away from one's normal life for the purpose of reconnecting, usually in prayer, with God" Psalm 23: 1-6 The Good Shepherd Mathew 11 : 28 - 30 "Come to Me, all of you who are weary, and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" Hosea 2: 14 - 23 " Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her vineya...

Is millet making a come back  as the next "fad" grain in the west? It had made an appearance a couple of years ago but not an overwhelming one.  I say that because while it will be considered a "new" hype thing in america , its a very common staple in other parts of the world. I grew up eating millet fufu every day in the far north province of cameroon and it's still one of my favourite carbohydrates staples outside of rice. Nothing can deliver me from the love of jellof. It will be interesting to see the western take on millet.  How it's going to be "re branded"...  As a granule topping for yogurt?  a healthy cereal?  a healthy cereal bar?  a powder that can be used to make a power morning shake? millet fruit salad anyone? millet pasta? millet cookies? millet flavoured water? I just finished a box of millet cereal and had mixed feelings about it. Millet has a distinct taste and the challenge will be to find ingred...

Why am I talking about ELLE magazine?  After all this is not a fashion blog! Well, because they did a bomb-di-gitty awesome job in their Beauty Body Segment In this segment of the USA edition of the magazine, they provide a pretty good summary about some of the latest cool exercise and wellness body performance tests in the market. If you're a wellness junky like me, this section is for you.  From blood tests (InsideTracker & WellnessFx) to genetic code assessments (FitnessGenes, 23andME, DNAFit, ORIGNN3N) , you get comprehensive information about your body that will allow you to make a more educative decision about your wellness plan or lifestyle. ORIGN3N is based in Boston so guess what will be on my 2017 to do list? Stopping by the lab to see what's going on in this fantastic machine that my body is. I hope I don't find out that I've basically been wasting my whole life running when I should've been doing another sport.  Regardless ...