Dreams, Milestones and the Celebration of Friends

Today is as good a day as any to man­i­fest some dreams.

I awoke this morn­ing out of a dream about the real­iza­tion of dreams and imme­di­ately thanked God for the abil­ity to dream and then I thanked him for YOU. You see my dream was a win­dow into yours and with that I know there is always a door—an oppor­tu­nity if you will and a will to explore. There was the very styl­ish, smell-good mother in my church who has always wanted to open a bou­tique (I saw it with fan­tas­tic bolts of cobalt blue fab­ric and noth­ing on any Parisian street could com­pare). Her dreams linked seam­lessly as dreams are wont to do to my mother’s secretly shared vision for a “shop” back home called “Pins & Things” (she’s so cute) and then I saw his din­ner the­ater come into fruition. It was all there for the tak­ing, but I know first­hand how easy it is to back­burner dreams, make excuses and place them on a shelf–a place where no dreams has ever thrived, much less arrived.

The fol­low­ing passion-preneurs (love that hyphen­ated bit of love­li­ness) have all tapped into their dreams and are mark­ing mile­stones. They are each one:

• LIVING and breath­ing their art and invit­ing you to sam­ple and share in that pas­sion­ate fruit and,
• Mak­ing BOLD strides into their own dream­scapes by giv­ing them a more expan­sive pub­lic voice and platform

Bri­anna McCarthy & Her Girls!

The artist, the woman, the pas­sion fruit lover (yes and still very much my girl crush out of Trinidad) is hav­ing her very 1st ever sam­ple sale run­ning through this week­end. Yay!

RSVP and VIEW the invi­ta­tion HERE!

VIEW and pre-order the art­work HERE!

LIME (below) is my favorite

CHEERS to you Bri­anna McCarthy!

Melissa Still­man is Liv­ing a Lucky Life!

“Until finally, we come to the sweet, often quiet ones…” That lit­tle quote describes my friend and fel­low writer, Melissa Still­man quite aptly.  You’ve read her right here and you should also know she is a con­sul­tant and a cohort in some piv­otal things DASHEEN and all things girly.

Melissa is ready to lay claim to her dream of becom­ing a free­lance Beauty/Fashion/Lifestyle Edi­tor. She has entered The Search for the New Lucky Lifestyle Con­trib­u­tor!

The fol­low­ing was a slice of her INVITATION to friends (and you):

A mag­a­zine I’ve been read­ing since it launched in 2000–Lucky–is hav­ing a con­test to find their next (free­lance) lifestyle con­trib­u­tor. Win­ning would be a dream come true!

As you have time this week, would you please click on the link below to view my entry and vote for it? The num­ber of votes I have plays into whether I’ll make it to the next round. The girl in the lead has 450 votes–help me catch up by cast­ing your vote and invit­ing friends to this vot­ing “party.”

You do have to com­plete a two-screen reg­is­tra­tion in order to vote, but it would mean so much to me. Thank you!

Vot­ing ends Fri­day at 11:59 p.m.

The things I love about Melissa in this challenge:

1. She is so her­self on the page and for me that makes her ACCESSIBLE

2. I absolutely learned some­thing about enter­tain­ing  and being a host­ess which makes her INSPIRING, and

3. Win or win, she is absolutely liv­ing a LUCKY LIFE and I for one can’t wait to read all about it in a forth­com­ing blog, mys­tery novel, and/or Lucky Mag­a­zine near you.

I invite you to read the arti­cle that brought this photo to light and if you believe in dreams, cheer Melissa on with your vote!

Go Melissa, GO!

ABOUT THE WRITER

Hi there, I’m Tynisha Leon, founder and Editor-in-Chief of DASHEEN mag­a­zine — the online des­ti­na­tion where cul­ture feeds imag­i­na­tion! I am a cul­tural war­rior first and fore­most; and for me that sim­ply means that I am a light bearer for all things intrin­si­cally cul­tural and Caribbean. If you seek to inno­vate, pro­mote and/or con­tribute to posi­tioning a Caribbean peo­ple and gen­er­a­tion most pos­i­tively then link me! Bless!