Happy New Year!!

As we get ready to welcome a New Year complete with new resolutions, wishes, desires and dreams, I am still in the same place I was in 2017, this year, and will be in 2019. That means that those resolutions I made back in 2017 have not all been realized as yet, and so I will continue to work on them until they do. Great things require great patience and great effort, so I am cool with taking my time until I get "there".

For me, 2018 was truly a year of healing and I learned so much along the way. It was a year which presented me with as much joy as it had sorrows, and I keep reminding myself that THAT is what #Balance is all about. I am so thankful I made it through 2018 lighter and brighter, and I am so thankful for so many things I experienced this year. This year has truly tested my strength, vulnerability, will, love, bravery and passion and so...

I’m. Still. Thankful.

For the highs and lows

For the passion and pain

For the sleepless nights and sunny days

For the tears and laughter

For the hope and despair

For the love and heartbreak

For the travels and discoveries

For the solitude and times with beautiful people

For the mistakes and lessons

For the strength and moments of weakness

For the perseverance and roadblocks

For the efforts and moments of resignation

For the expectations and disappointments

For the bravery and vulnerability

For the days, the afternoons, the nights, the early mornings, the months, the hours, the minutes, the seconds...for this year which taught me so much about ME.

As you get ready to close the chapter on 2018, I hope you will use the tough times to be stronger in the year to come. I hope you will also rejoice in the great times and be thankful that life was still kind to you (despite your experiences).

I wish for you all the intangible gifts that all the money in the world can never buy like unconditional love, health, peace of mind, joy, a forgiving and giving heart, and a generous spirit.

Happy Last Day of 2018.

Happy Kwanzaa #Kuumba (Creativity).

Happy 2019 when it comes.

Love, Light, and #Imani (Faith),

Rosie Peppy Park e

Creative & Executive Director

The Give Black Foundation & Peppy Entertainment and Promotions