Grace

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 

and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi, Indian politician

RSVP TODAY for the IAAVS Social Hour at One Ninety One Club

If you have not RSVP’d for the I Am A Visual Statement (IAAVS) Social Hour on Friday, November 20, 2009 from 5:00-7:00pm at the exclusive One Ninety One Club in Downtown Atlanta, hurry and RSVP today via email to: info@iaavs.com and include your first and last name, contact information, number of guests, and how you found out about our event (IAAVS Blog, Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook, Evite, email from Natasha Foreman or Markesia Thomas Akinbami).  Don’t forget that parking, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails are complimentary from 5:00-7:00pm.

If you need directions to the club or additional information regarding parking please indicate this in your email and a representative from our office will respond immediately with the details. We hope to see you on the 20^th!

I Wasn't Lucky...I Deserved It!

“I wasn’t lucky. I deserved it”

-Margaret Thatcher

“Understand that the great things that happen to you aren’t given to you because of something called luck. You deserved it…you earned it…it was meant for you to have it. So refrain from saying, “I don’t know I guess I’m just lucky…” and simply say with a smile, “I deserved it”.” 

-Natasha Foreman (reflection on quote by Margaret Thatcher)

© 2009 Natasha Foreman

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; 

knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose”

-Margaret Thatcher

Facing Life's Daily Challenges

We all face challenges in life, some of us fall into valleys while others struggle to climb up to the mountain top…the difference between the person in the valley and the one climbing the side of the mountain is perseverance. Both people must look up and not look down in order to continue pulling themselves up to the next level. If you continue to focus on how far you must go to reach your goal you only find your journey extending farther beyond your expectations. 

We must focus on how far we have come to get to this point and celebrate those small and large victories for what they are…victories. You made it another day and no matter what you’re going through you must realize and believe that IT IS a blessing! You must continue to have courage to continue to fight and grow; and faith that it can and will be done. I hope that all of my sisters young and old remember in times of turmoil, heartache and grief that, “…this too shall pass…” 

- Natasha Foreman

©2009 Natasha Foreman

Inspirational Quote from Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows”

-Helen Keller

Still I'll Rise!

You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou, Poet and Educator

No matter what you have gone through...you have endured...and you too can rise above it all and become a better, stronger, and wiser person...stand up and rise!

Natasha Foreman, Director of Change (reflecting on Maya Angelou's quote and her poem Still I Rise) 

IAAVS is Hosting Another Social Hour November 20th at 191 Club

We're back! Friday, November 20, 2009 I Am A Visual Statement, Inc. (IAAVS) will be hosting our second Social Hour at the exclusive One Ninety One Club in Downtown Atlanta. Our event is from 5:00-7:00pm and there will be plenty of complimentary house cocktails and tasty hors d'oeuvres to choose from. Guests have the opportunity to purchase our designer tees, speak with our Director of Possibilities, Markesia Thomas Akinbami and our Director of Change, Natasha Foreman; while learning more about I Am A Visual Statement and the charities we support.

We invite you to bring your friends, family and/or spouse...anyone who would be interested in purchasing a tee and helping our movement of possibility and change for women and girls worldwide!

Parking is complimentary for the first two hours. To RSVP please email info@iaavs.com and include your full name, the number of guests, and that you learned about the event from our IAAVS blog! 

If you need directions or information about parking please inquire about this information in your email and a representative from our office will confirm receipt of your email and respond with the appropriate information. 

We look forward to seeing each of you there on the 20th...rain, sleet or snow!!

You Have to Believe!

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,"I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt, activist You Learn by Living

 

Inspiration to Draw From...

Never give up, for that is just the place and time 

that the tide will turn.

 Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer

I decided it is better to scream. 

Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer, Hope Against Hope