Another month, another issue. This feels like a dream come true. With every issue comes a new set of hurdles, both personal and business. The biggest challenge in life for me, is to learn when to let go and when to walk away. There comes a time in relationships, and in life, where you must let go of the things you love the most, you must set them free and let them fly. All the while having faith that they will turn out just the way they should.

Someone told me once that I can have all the things I want, just not all at the same time. If that is indeed true I am unsure. I do know that in times where I experience great emotional loss – there has always been a great blessing around the corner in the making. So maybe it is true, I can’t have all the things I want at the same time. One thing is for certain to set something or someone free is the greatest freedom you can allow yourself, the greatest sense of liberation and love. Attaining that place of setting free means that you are now free with the thought that you love so much that you can let go, float to fly to your highest height. Carrying in your heart the comfort of knowing that you love instead of hate, that you trust and have faith, instead of doubting and second guessing. Believing deep in your heart that as long as you continue to be Free, to Float and to Fly you will get to exactly where you need and want to be. Who knows, maybe we can have all the things we want at the same time.

I will end my letter this month with some inspirational words I read this week from Dr. Maya Angelou

“Love Liberates I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates.

Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego.

Love liberates. It doesn’t bind.

Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town.

I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go. —” Dr. Maya Angelou

Free. Float. Fly.  – Jess

Responsibilities, ambitions, and fears can consume us, leaving us little or no room to breathe and just be. Structure or a routine help cope with the weight of it all but the required rigidness doesn’t always allow for a spontaneous sigh. You just keep moving in order to keep afloat.

The pressure I put on myself is overwhelming and restricting.  But I recently realized that when I free myself from the pressure, impossible things happen. Only then do you act not to keep up but to float in your heart’s desires.

Our desires have different faces; maybe flying with us to Paris is one of them? Free yourself from the impossible, float in your heart’s desires and fly with us to Paris.

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 back yard.

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.

When chasing your dreams, I have learned the most important lesson EARLY ! You cannot be afraid of failure. I struggled with this a lot as I was so afraid to fail that I made myself anxious with the thought of failing. Somehow, I associated failing with negativity. With time, I came to learn that failure is only negative if you look at it that way. When you muster up the courage to undertake something, you have to be willing to fail, if only to learn from it and get back up again. It’s inevitable. Failure can be very positive if you chose to see it in that light. With every failure, there is a lesson to be learned. There is an opportunity to grow and to improve. Just like Dr. Maya Angelou demonstrates in this quote, if you learn to see your failures as an opportunity to grow, then you have never failed.

Very great quote !!!

Alone by Dr. Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires 
With money they can’t use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They’ve got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I’ll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
‘Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Phenomenal Woman by Dr. Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.