Kitty Gems

13/02/2023

MAYA ANGELOU - STILL I RISE

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still, I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got
gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with
your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with
your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've
got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s
shame,
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted
in pain,
I rise
I'm a black ocean,
leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling
I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights
of terror and fear,
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s
wondrously clear,
I rise
Bringing the gifts that
my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope
of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."

☀️ Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

07/02/2023

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."

Embrace the change. It's inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection. 💕💕💕

Also Read: https://www.actbiggy.com/beautiful-final-moments-of-the-grandparents-60-year-relationship-are-captured-by-a-woman/

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06/08/2022

A most uplifting story Eileen

One evening my mother made dinner after a hard day's work. She put a plate of eggs, salad and burnt toast in front of my father...
I immediately noticed, the burnt toast.... And, I was waiting to see if he was going to complain about it, but my father started to eat them, smiling and asked me how I spent my day at school...
My mom apologized to my dad for the burnt toast. I will never forget his response to her: "Honey, I love burnt toast!"
Later when I went to bed and my dad came over to kiss me goodnight, I asked him if he really liked the burnt toast?
He hugged me and said, "Your mother has had a difficult day and she is really tired. She went out of her way to prepare this meal for us, why blame her and hurt her. Burnt toast never hurt anyone; but words can be very painful!"
We have to know how to appreciate what others do for us, even if it's not perfect, because it's the intention to do well that counts, and no one is perfect...

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06/08/2022

✍️When a man can't impregnate a woman,the family advises them to adopt but when a woman Is barren or has difficulty in bearing a child, everyone around the man advise him to get another girl pregnant or better still, marry another wife...

✍️You see, women tolerate a whole lot of stuff more than we do ..
I think, most of the things we throw at these girls are things we can't stand ourselves..
Most of the things they endure and put up with are things we will never put up with as guys..
Consistently bleeding for 4 days and switching in between moods and still manage to stay sane is something that I can't comprehend..
She doesn't mind going hungry just so her children could eat..

✍️Most times she gives up on her dreams so that her husband can live his..
She doesn't have a life of her own as her children sees her as a Demigod and always run to her when they are in distress..
Her hair keeps smelling because junior keeps peeing on her and she barely has time to think or breath..

✍️The children always want to be close to her because most dads prefer to be close to their laptops..
She may be the weaker vessel in strength, but she sure has a mind that is stronger than Samson’s...

✍️So when you hit your wife, you are simply hitting a god who sacrificed her happiness so you can be the man you have always wanted to be..
Woman! Thou art blessed!!

🤲❗YOU SHALL ALL REAP THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOUR .🙏🙏

06/08/2022

30/07/2022

By Ben Jennings

30/07/2022

Awesome 🥰 Mama

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