Starting a garden with the 5th graders at the kids’ school. I don’t know much about gardening but I know it’ll be fun and the kids’ will learn a ton!
My volunteering duties cranked up full blast this year and it is all culminating in this garden project. I’m so proud of the work I have done this year for the GATE program in the face of more and more budget cuts. GATE has increased its value so much this year since I took over as a lead parent volunteer. Truly a testament to the power of parents in public education.
Imani’s first band performance!!
Laila plays soccer! Wow. It’s her first time. She’s a great goalie already at 4 years old. But I’m totally biased lol. And of course she has pink soccer socks, pink soccer shorts, pink shoes, and a pink sports bag. Still a girly girl. Gotta love it smh.
“I’m a trader who likes to focus on the future not the past. That’s why I don’t like lagging indicators.” —
from the incomparable @50Pips (Twitter / @dennisgjones: Comment heard today:”I’m a …)
YES! INDEED!
“my personal friendship and loyalty is built on trust and a long term arc of honesty, not transactional results” —
Brad Feld (Cancer)
I think all traders, entrepreneurs, and investors all struggle with this in relationships where money becomes involved. This is my hope always with my closest and dearest friends and family. Well put Brad.
How to Invest on the Nigerian Stock Exchange -
Now to start
An infographic depicting the percentage share of formal firms that are owned by women in Africa.
Data from the World Bank.
via afrographique:
This will only increase. And its velocity will surprise many.
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Great founders fail, and weak ones grow to be great. Impenetrable markets open up, and large markets vanish. Defensible technologies get defeated, and no technology edge produces razor sharp results. Rocketship growth runs out of fuel, and tortoises beat hares.
There really is no formula.
Which is infuriating to some. And a career long challenge to others.
” —BRYCE DOT VC: The Agony of Being Correct
I am the latter. Which are you?
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via almuntadatrust:
Good ole Twitter :)
All men will hate you because of me. (Luke 21:17)
Oh my.. :) this is cute ^^ loooll
My first Whitney post since her passing. I’ve missed her voice for a long time. But she is special because she was my first pop icon, Queen was brown brown. Brown like me. And she sweat like my Aunties when they party on down. Yes. Being brown girl in a private elementary school in America in the late 1980s was made cool by Whitney Houston. Her music was so apart of the music video rotation, on all the radio stations. A definite soundtrack to my childhood that puts a smile on my face every time lol. RIP Whitney Houston.
(Source: mercuryz, via keepmjjalive)
PASTEL 2012 - via CHICTOPIA
Super cute! So me.
(via bettyada)
Artist and writer Austin Kleon on 10 things he wishes he’d known starting out, which no one tells young creators.
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