LIVE STREAM FOR BOOK CHECK-IN #1 !!

Join me March, 31st, 2016 @ 14:00 EDT to see how my process has been going for the publishing of my first collective of work ! Just press play below to join the stream.




I Will Answer The Following Questions:
- How has the process been going ?
- What's left to do ?
- What and who do I need ?
- How far am I with the selection ?


If you have any other questions for me you can comment below & I'll try to answer them on Thursday in my Live Stream/ Hangout !

Remember to use the hashtag #pebbleswroteit with your comments & questions so I know they are directed at me. Thank you so much !

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

Why I Advice Every Adult ..

Why I Advice Every Adult To Watch Pixar's "Inside Out"

Alright, before I get into my poetic interpretation and probably state what you may or may not be expecting. I want to first of all respect your intelligence with regards to what you may have read by top critics about the movie in all it's entirety. 

This movie is targeted at families but more at the kids in the family who will enjoy this movie on what I would like to call a 'superficial level', teenagers might give it a chance if their inner child is still alive, and adults may or may not be able to assimilate the deeper levels of the movie because of excited kids or it's just another trip to the movies to treat the kids. But in the case that you are a parent that tries to understand the movies that your kids watch and why they may love it, you may be able to delve into aspects of this movie that can offer a lesson to young and old alike.

I advice that adults and parents watch this movie and watch it by yourself so you can really break it down and understand it for yourself.  

Now what did I take from it, what did Pebble$ take from Inside Out. I watched this movie for the first time 3 weeks ago and I was cracking up, there were some points where the emotions were absolutely hilarious and I know I communicate with myself like that sometimes, especially when I'm thinking out loud and someone catches me. Then you get to that point where they ask who you were talking to and you can't say yourself because some folks just DON'T understand. 

Second Phase, Main Focus ...
Joy should be in the driving seat of emotions a majority of the time, I feel it is able to balance out the rest of our emotions which gives us the right to be sad, angry, digusted/envious and fearful; but those shouldn't rule the steps we take. We must be able to step back and assess a situation before going forth with a decision otherwise we end up looking foolish. Talking about foolishness, this movie helped me to understand the phrase "anger rests in the bosom of a fool" which was perfectly displayed by anger in the moments Riley closes her laptop on her friend and in the exchanges between Riley and her father at the dinner table. The driver's seat being occupied by anger in Riley's actions and her father's response shows us how anger can hinder common sense and us taking time to think through our decisions. Next time you want to let out all kinds of steam and fire from your ears and out the top of your head, remember to be slow to anger so you don't end up looking fooolish (and no my spelling of foolish here is not a typo :D).

Next is Digust.
Digust doubles up as envy as well, and at some points made decisions based on not wanting to try options presented, so kind of worked side by side with fear.. she also displayed pride which shows us that when pride, gets in the way of our actions we don't take that step or talk to those people who can actually help us or push us to do better. Digust when displaying pride or envy, acted on behalf of fear - pride is just confident fear displayed with the hope of covering for shortcomings an individual may not even have. Digust allowed Riley to think of all the ways that other people's opinions and expectations might work against what she actually wanted to do instead of realizing the amazing memories and experiences where people have just loved her for being herself.

Fear, everybody knows about fear it needs no introduction or explanation. My first blog post of 2016 talked about it and we face it daily, monthly, throughout the year - whether it's a new decision, a new environment or just having to face ourselves. Riley was scared to move into that new house, that new school and that new class when she was asked to introduce herself. There are some fears that help you to fight to achieve or overcome something but there's also that crippling type of fear which helps you to do nothing. The kind that says "Well, I'm not moving so I won't have to go into the midst of all those new people, what if they don't like me, what if they judge me. What if I don't do well there then it would have been a big mistake." Alright scaredy-cat when you're done doing ballroom with all your fears and assumptions let me know when we can do business and move on.. the point I'm making with Fear is you either decide to overcome it by yourself or look for others who will encourage you through it, ain't nothing wrong with a little fear until you allow it to hold you in the same spot to the point where you've wasted years and precious time. 

I'm a big kid at heart so you can only imagine that I'm looking forward to seeing Zootopia ! Click away from this post knowing that, from every decision you consciously make to those things you do everyday without noticing - these emotions may in one way or another shape the results you see. Seek to balance things out, don't live systematically.. SWITCH it up ! Kids can teach you so much and life can bring you to the point where you understand the once misunderstood. Those people you avoid might just be the best people for that stage in your journey and those options might teach or equip you with something so immeasurable.   

Have A Great Week Ahead & Enjoy Easter !

Last note, check-in with me March 31, 2016 for the First Check-in on my book the details can be found on my Google+ page.

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

Own , Your Own Stripes

" Better to be caught in patchwork than to be found thinking it might work ! "

The world will always tell you what it wants to hear

It will grasp your hands waiting for you to run

It will draw you in and show plastic concern

Take a note for yourself, to be self-assured before you enter

The world will persecute you for the crime you never knew you committed 

She will tell you all kinds of events that shaped the circumstance

He will try to hold you to time points you never took part in 

Why should I believe any of this, is what you will question

Please laugh at yourself, being framed for a case placed before a jury 

Who are uninformed on the integrity that brought you to where you are

Please laugh on my behalf that even those closest to you 

Had to ask if the same you being served up for execution 

Was not the same one at the family barbecue serving flavors 

Through wings that could make a newborn question baby food
The world will teach you more and more about what you do not need
With the intention to 'unknowingly' equip you with what you will never use
She will feed you fat from the bowls of ignorance 
So that society can come in and incur the degeneration of your consciousness
The next device used is a smokescreen of destroyed morales
To leave you brain dead
He will tell you to forget your mother and father, you were not born of them
The keys they placed in your hands are now property of our governments
Care to trade your life for a walk spent in finding yourself
When yourself was long defined in the self-assurance I told you to 
Grab hold of before you enter
Tell the world to hold back, your name is not Jimmy and you don't love John
Tell the world you are perfectly pleased with your birth 
You are not attempting to cut and paste yourself into a reintroduction
With no further words uttered, drop your dime and leave !

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

Next Lifetime...? Still Workin On It .

Dear Next Lifetime Gentleman,

Don't be coming when I've been accounted for

I've been too far tying bows and ribbons

Making poetic justice and displays of my affection 

I'm taken by a decision to make what needs to happen now, happen now

I probably hibernated when you needed me but 

Hibernation was my preservation for consecration 

I'm not looking to step back 

What is done, is done 

I can't go to F5 keys or press back buttons

My cursor has moved on to make a new chapter in my book

Move on without me, she's out there somewhere 

You'll find her.. just keep walking 

For footsteps will lead her path closer to yours

I cannot take credit for the discovery you made on your own 

Just thank her later for giving a chance 

I didn't want you to stop vows for, forever

On promises you were to keep never

I found a settlement and place of residence 

I didn't have to settle for

Sitting on back-burners catching cold

With foggy clouds and misty windows

Waiting for the winds and tides to roll my way
Forever in a day I accounted for every second lost 
Thinking that you would disprove the disconnect 
Of emotions, body, soul and mind

x..Connected sound on the cloud ..x


I want to publish a book, it will be a collective of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it !

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

She's Planning To Publish? HELP!

Welcome in world, this post is all about my desire and plans to publish my first book - a collective of all my work from age 8 when my writing journey started to Summer 2015. Below you can find my most recent YouTube upload on the matter and some suggestions I need you to submit via comment on either this post, Facebook, Google+ , Twitter or Youtube.

Click those cursors on She's Planning To Publish? HELP!  and check out the video on my YouTube Channel too.  

This project is a coming out of my shell, homage to childhood Pebble$ and her growth through the years type project. What started as a class competition (my poem was published in the book from that competition), with the encouragement of an elementary school teacher developed further with her telling me to keep going after the competition, to continue writing and to never stop. I thought she was just doing her job but it happens that I took her advice and I'm still writing. I have embraced my privilege as a Writer & Poet which allows expression of things that would otherwise seem odd in normal conversation and to give a voice to my motionless words placed on paper, backs of receipts and notepads.

I want to include work from my start around 8 in my #youngwrittenpebbles years and to take you on a journey with my transition from a poetry competition submission to embraced blogger, writer and poet of all things to do with life experiences, laughter, motivation and imagination/creativity.

" I am a beautiful soul all by myself and writing helped me to develop and nurture that. " - Pebble$ x



I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

Chew On A Lima Bean Some Time ?!

Hey World,

Welcome to 2016. My name is Pebble$ but today I want to awaken and embrace my inner Camilla Cream.

I want to make it a habit to listen to kids stories throughout 2016, I need to nurture my inner child and creativity.

I want to thank Camilla Cream for teaching me that in my 2016, I should continue not to care whether people like what I like, THAT AIN'T NONE OF MY BUSINESS ! If you're looking to help build me you are more than welcome to come into my space as for all that other pettiness take a ticket, park your mouth and take several seats. You have an opinion, yes it is very much respected but don't dump truck negativity into my pool of kindness.

Through life we compromise ourselves at one interval or another whether by going forward with that action or for a second thinking it through in our minds. Unlike Camilla Cream, we are lucky enough not to be punished by the presence of stripes BUT the absence of those stripes have kept us in unhappiness trying to please others when our first happy customer of any opinion should be ourselves. Take the step outside of your sadness and make yourself happy by going through with a decision that your heart and mind follow, NOT anybody else's but YOURS. 

Camilla Cream also shows us what we do to ourselves every time we decide to suppress the desire for what we really want and place the wants of others in higher priority - through the scene in class when they were saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Do you notice that every time somebody said what they wanted to see it appeared on Camilla's skin NOT their own skin ? She wanted to please others with her outfit so much that when it came to really pleasing them through the polka-dots, checkerboard and breaking out in stars that appeared on her skin she realized how humiliating it was and, how no joy can be derived from such requests.

Looking at this instance, it's funny how what others do causes you the problems and even though you're trying to satisfy them you have to deal with the problem. STOP! being somebody's experimental model with negativity being spoken into your cloud with words that can break you to a point where you're not sure if repair is even possible.

You must realize that people cannot simply request of you to be any other way than being yourself and expect you to still be the same person, it's impossible! You also cannot expect to please others and think that you will be happy with such decisions. Every pattern that Camilla broke out in represents every form of silenced rebellion your true self makes when you decide that your life is meant to be lived for somebody else or some other people. When you silence these parts of your true self, you constantly kill off a little bit of yourself and a part of you goes into hibernation. Be careful :

When you get to that point in life where you constantly find yourself living to please others, start to worry and hope that you get the opportunity to ask for those Lima beans AND to be asked the question of: "Is there anything I can get you, sweetheart?"

Whether you're a kid or a teenager or an adult, Camilla Cream takes one for the team so you don't have to make such mistakes. 

For teenagers the lima beans of your life might be your hair, your style, your values, your likes, your dislikes - which may be affected by your peers who don't agree with your choices but, whoever made them the decision-makers of your life needs to be put in check. Most likely the person who gave them that authority is you, it doesn't matter if you've already given them that position, take it back ! Take back the controls from their hands and hold onto those things in your youth while you can - there's a possibility you will see changes in your self-esteem (positive of course) once you do what brings you joy and makes you feel more like yourself. 

For the adults out there your lima beans face you more every single day. You have values, morals, work ethics, drive, visions, ways of life and many more things which you cannot allow another individual to suppress. You have come too far in this life from your days as a kid and your high school days as a teenager, for you to allow another simple being dictate the script on how you run YOUR business. Don't compromise who you are to gain people's favor because you will lose those people once you get tired of the compromise - 

you build on compromise, you'll be broken and destroyed on compromise !

In any situation in life you need to have some good people, the good counsel that surrounds you - you should only have a few in this circle who will bring you back to yourself when you lose your main focus and tell you the truth. Don't limit yourself from reaching a greater height just because your wants and desires don't fit in with the lower standards of the world.

To end this post today here's a little something I want you to remember:

" Just for your information there is no psychologist, therapist, yoga instructor, doctor, lawyer, teacher etc. etc. in this life that can solve the problems for which you already have the solutions for. None of those folks can fix what you need to fix for yourself, none of them and I mean none of them have lived life as YOU so therefore cannot identify what sits at the core of your compass for living. Whatever is the equivalent of lima beans in your life will more times than ever be the solution to your problem - identify, value and embrace your lima bean of life ! "

Everybody needs to chew on some Lima Beans some time and swallow that bitter truth. A word of encouragement never hurt nobody !

This post was inspired by "A Bad Case Of Stripes" By David Shannon .

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt

Risk It & Be Renewed

I think today is a good day for us to talk about RISKS. 

I have learned the vital approach of independence in taking risks. I take a simple example which I have learned from, which is Noah. Noah took risks at intervals through his journey, Noah did things that people wouldn't do, he didn't listen to the critics when they 

were telling him not to build the boat. He didn't listen to people who were wondering how he would be on an ark with all those animals, animals probably considered to be wild and dangerous. There could have been some scorpions, some pythons, cobras, 

some elephants, lions it must have been a whole lot of different animals that he had on that ark; and he had to take those risks because he had been given an instruction. 

Sometimes in life it may not necessarily be an instruction but maybe a dream, vision or a plan you have in life for a day or for a week or session. Don't let the critics or people who don't believe in that dream, or don't know about that dream affect the way that YOU 

perceive it, the way that YOU want to plan those things out. Many a time, there are people who don't want to believe in our 

dreams because it's beyond the scope of what they could dream for themselves so to them IT IS a threat. It may even be people who don't understand our drive and why we strive for things.. but you know WHAT?! it's not really your job to always have to educate them. Sometimes that takes a lot of energy, energy you should not have to waste, so you just have to give it what you got and 

all that you can give is what you have. I think taking a risk is being able to bounce back from so many challenges and times when people said things were impossible to stand back and just be able to say "You know what there's no harm in trying", if you 

don't try then you'll probably never know that you can be amazing at that thing or change the perception about it.

I want to encourage you all today, don't let anybody use where you used to be to determine where you're going or where you 
can be. Don't let people define your current situation by things you've been through or things that you have done that were not 
so sensible or whatever. Take that risk today, sometimes it is best for you to break out of a norm, sometimes an athlete finds himself 
in a difficult position where he feels 'I run this race this way but it's not going the way I intended'. You just have to take the risk to 
run the race differently, you have to think of all the techniques you've learned and select a different one & that might be the 
one that allows you to see that greater thing at the end - where you're going in essence.

For most of us we're holding back too much and feel like, let me just have my voice in my little community.. nope I won't stress myself and go into a bigger community because they might not accept me, they might not listen, they won't comfort me like 
my little community. That's so wrong, that's us human beings not wanting to take the risk. I as Pebble$ have to challenge 
myself to do this, if I'm not already becoming confident in doing things differently. Something that confirmed that for me 
was listening to Jade of LipsticknCurls. She was talking about how she always doesn't do things the way that people do it, 
she doesn't do all these tags and other videos you might see others do. 

Also listening to some young folks recently, with them discussing about failure I was really touched because I've had some failures 
in my life and I would not be here today if I didn't decide to bounce back from them. I've had times when I failed myself, at the 
age of 6 when I told myself I couldn't get a college degree but I'm on my way to achieving some of the greatest qualifications in 
my life. Then to think that I have the audacity to dream in the midst of all I've been through is amazing. Those times have been
filled with some of the most daunting risks that I have had to take but guess who didn't allow anybody's thoughts stop those 
steps from being taken, ME.

Always let the ME which is YOU, as an individual take the boldest steps.

Be confident to take those risks. Failure might have bitten your behind once, but don't let it hit you like it released venom and paralyzed you. Failure might have succeeded in knocking you down but it will not succeed in knocking you out, dust yourself off! 
Don't let the world measure you by how many times you got knocked down but rather by the times you stood up and said 'I will 
try again!' You may not necessarily try that thing again but something that's going to help you to move forward in trying again.

This Is What I Need You To Do. 

1. Be willing to take some risks

2. Break out of the norm

3. Don't do things on common ground

4. If it's suffocating you or stopping you from being where you're supposed to be, risk it and leave that thing!

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it !

      Copyright © 2016 PebblesWroteIt