03 Wednesday May 2017
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CHOOSE LIFE
THE JEWELS’ ANGELS FOUNDATION, INC.
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright February 2017
13 Thursday Apr 2017
Posted in Poems, Quote of the Day
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STRENGTH
THE JEWELS’ ANGELS FOUNDATION, INC.
Strength is the ability to never give up,
Hopelessness is the determination to do so.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright May 13, 2017
01 Saturday Apr 2017
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HOPE
The Jewels Angels’ Foundation, Inc.
You’re not alone in this life’s journey.
http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright March 2017
23 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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ANGELS
Angels are all around us, with the reminder of…
a simple thought,
a shiver down our spine,
a song,
a poem,
a kind word,
a rainbow,
a hummingbird,
a butterfly,
a thoughtful gesture,
a memory.
Why are they here, but to remind us that we are not alone.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright March 23, 2017
12 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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THE MASK
People are always asking me, “How are you?”
What am I supposed to say when I don’t even know how I am.
How am I supposed to be?
How do they want me to be? That is more like it…how would you like me to be?
I get up every morning, with struggle, but I do it because I know that is what is expected of me.
I go to work and try to be the super star everyone has always expected from me…hell, I even expected it from me. Lack of ambition and drive were never a weakness to me.
I put on my make-up, wash my hair, and put on the warrior face everyday. “How are you, they ask?” “I’m okay and how are you.” I respond.
I act as they wish me to act…
But they don’t see the demons in my head at night, once the sun sets behind the sky. The overwhelming loneliness that has become my life. My new life.
I’m supposed to find a different life they tell me, my old life is gone and I will never be the same, especially after losing a child to suicide…this is what the experts tell me.
But the thing is, I don’t want a new life…I liked my old life. I miss my old life and all the little things I took for granted.
I miss cooking dinner at night while Jewels did her homework.
I miss getting take-out at Miguel’s Jr. on Tuesday nights.
I miss hugging her.
I miss smelling her.
I miss her laugh.
I miss her burps.
I miss her kind soul, when she would get mad at me for being mean.
I miss her messy room.
I miss the towels on the floor.
I miss her beside me while I drove her to school.
I miss my best friend.
I miss my daughter.
I miss her…
If you know someone who is thinking of suicide, talk to them, comfort them and let them know that they are not alone, help is everywhere, they don’t really want to die, they just want the pain to end.
Call: 1-800-273-TALK
Go to: suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright: March 12, 2017
29 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in POEMS By Jewels
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NINE LIVES
I just found this poem Jewels wrote, she wrote last February 2016. I think it’s probably one of the saddest of them all, but such a great insight into the mind of someone suffering from depression:
JCW
02/19/16
NINE LIVES
One:
Full of happiness
Giggles and laughter
Innocence is not lost
Two:
A new friend today
I am still young
Pure like clouds
Three:
Adolescence
Not all is happy
My smile is still big
Four:
You fill me with joy
Pure joy
I am happy
Five:
Gone, just like that.
I’m so confused-
Why am I getting so many chances?
Six:
Torn, ripped
Broken and bruised
Innocence is lost
Seven:
Happiness is gone
Let me give up
I’m so, so tired.
Eight:
Shaking, like I’m freezing
Can’t do this much longer.
Why’s life unfair?
Nine:
Damaged.
Nothing but bad memories.
I miss life one.
FINALLY, I AM DEAD.
23 Monday Jan 2017
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Depression is Deceiving…
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ALWAYS IN MEMORY OF JEWELS
It’s a smile
A kind word
A caring gesture
An unspoken compliment
A deceiver
Depression is silent.
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photographer By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright January 23, 2017
01 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in POEMS By Jewels
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I Said I Did
By: JCW
11/26/2016
you said you were fine,
When I asked if you were okay.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you were cold,
When I asked why you always wore jackets.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you were sick,
When I asked why you went to a hospital.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you cared,
When I asked if you did.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
Now you’re gone,
Dead for good.
I knew I shouldn’t have believed you.
I SHOULDN’T OF SAID I DID.
18 Sunday Dec 2016
Posted in Authors of the Week
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INSIDE THE MIND OF A 14-YEAR OLD – DEPRESSION KILLS
JCW 11/26/2016
DAYDREAMS
I like to imagine a different world,
one where I can smile
One where I won’t be curled
up in bed for a long while
This place is happy and has rainbows
filled with flowers and blue skies
Sun so bright, it glows
there are no questions or whys
And I like to think I’m happy
an environment I can’t be sad
No movies or books would be sappy
cause all I’ll be is glad.
Sadly this new world isn’t real
I am stuck behind a wall, unable to heal
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright December 18, 2016
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in Authors of the Week
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Author, Death, Depression, Life, Poems, Teen Suicide, Writer
The Coffin
Oh how life hurts and death falls
Life is too fast
She now wears deaths shawl
And an old man in a somber cast
She passed with relief
Because the old man knew she wouldn’t last
Her life crumpled like a dead leaf
Oh how life goes so fast
Said the old man in disbelief…
The coffin was as silent as its past
The man was in grief
He was in a somber cast
Written By: JCW
Copyright November 3, 2016
Ask Ms Mandi 
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