Top Artifacts

My top artifacts are mainly pictures of me. Not going to lie. But the reasons aren’t completely just about me. We are going to go from bottom to top of my fav archives.

Archive 5

This picture represents the colors and how they make me feel. We all tend to attach emotions and feelings to colors. Like black is supposed to be depressing or negative, and white is purity, green is earthy and yellow makes you feel sunny. Well for me I love all the colors and they do represent moods, and it is also a good way to express yourself. If you are feeling spicy and want to be the center of attention, a vibrant color like deep purple or red will get the job done. This picture is just how the colors feel to me. They are just blending together and setting my soul right.

Archive 4

This picture deals with nonverbal communication. During this video I learned that I am always an Alpha. It is in my body language and how I present myself. It is definitely in my face. I have all my expressions on my face, there is no dialing back! I really represent “actions speak louder than words”. I love this photo because this is my natural look. There is nothing here but a normal, everyday look, but people always seem to think they did something when I look at them. Ha!! That I do enjoy.

Archive 3

This photo deals with emotions and self-construal. You know how men always tell a woman to smile, because for some reason they equate smiling with happiness, well this is me being happy. I don’t smile just to smile. My happiness is in me being content with myself, and me knowing that I have moved on to a better stage of my life. Smiling does not equate being happy, in most cases smiling is just a front. This picture is me on a new journey in my career. Cutting out a lot of stress and starting to live free at 40.

Archive 2

This is a representation of my spirituality and my reaching out to my ancestors. For me finding peace in myself is connecting myself to my homeland. Being Black in America is difficult a you know nothing of your past, or your real history. So we have to search, and through this class it made me respect other cultures even more than I already do. I love when people can blend their culture into a new life. This has been a 30 year process that is only unlocking more and more, and it is bringing me into my culture so much more. This course in Cross Culture Psychology is teaching me some new information that makes unlocking my history very worthwhile.

Archive 1

Family. This woman is my world, and all of my family makes me happy. My family consists of blood and friends who I have known for decades. These are the people who make me happy, who bring in extra happiness to my world. This is my top picture, because my life revolves around the happiness of me and them, and how me changing my life and recognizing and living my dream, makes it better for them as well. I share the wealth with those closest to me.