Celebrating 40!

In my struggle to acknowledge this milestone in chronological years, I can't help but wonder why this moment--my moment, has become an inner conflict.

I've come to realize that in a perfect world, a woman reaching so called middle age should have "bragging rights". These rights bare accomplishments, accommodations, and accolades, and abundant life.

In my world---I have designed my consciousness to dance with the tune of society's mainstream mayhem. For years, I have aligned myself to the world's exterior. I now face the cold hard fact that my penalty could have been the loss of my soul.

With my new era comes change, reclamation, and rebirth.

• I promise to reclaim my soul and make it once again my own.
• I promise to give my soul a voice and voice what is in my soul---thanks India!
• I promise to forge and maintain a relationship with myself in order to give a loving "me" to another.
• I promise to dream.
• I promise to slow down and listen, sit still and be, and live for tomorrow instead of today.
• I promise to live fearlessly.
• I promise to be FREE!!

I will be able to design my own set of "bragging rights"---my promises kept in a mahogany box near my bed, are gentle steps I will will take to become the "me" I want to become....

LOOK OUT WORLD...HERE COMES 40!

I am,

Daquan