Sweetlena

03/26/2025

BAHIA!

07/13/2024

Lecture et détente au bord du lac O'Brien dans le magnifique parc de la Gatineau 📚🏞️ Profiter de la nature tout en découvrant "Mes rituels naturo" de est une expérience revitalisante. Merci d'améliorer mon bien-être au quotidien! 🌸🌿

02/02/2024

05/11/2022

"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."-𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘻 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯⁣
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02/14/2022

February is 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions made by Black heroes throughout history.⁣
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In recent years, it's also become a time to⁣
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Black History Month affords us the chance to challenge what we learned in history, dig deeper, and find out the actual events of the past that were not taught in schools.👌🏻⁣
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✔️It allows us to learn about, celebrate, and honor Black leaders. Many of these leaders endured sacrifice and suffering and must be honored. ⁣
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While those who contributed in the name of science, innovation, and economy were silently ignored, Black History Month celebrates and puts their achievements into the proper context.⁣
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02/04/2022

"There is no real social revolution until women are liberated."-𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘐𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘢⁣
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01/30/2022

With a striking yet elegant Bogolan fabric design, this culinary work of art transcends everyday cutlery set function, taking us back to one of the oldest constitutions of civilization!⁣⁣
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Emphasizing the hallmarks of environmental protection, the abolition of slave-raiding, social peace in diversity, food security, sanctity of human life, regional integrity, education, and freedom of expression and enterprise, the revolutionary 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐤𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐠𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 fostered tranquility and social stability throughout the ancient Mali Empire. ⁣⁣
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▪️Notably giving equal rights to women and slaves, this charter, now included in the UNESCO list of Intangible 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 was undoubtedly way ahead of its time – 7 centuries before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! ⁣⁣
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That’s what makes this cutlery set STAND OUT and an absolute must-have!😍⁣
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Head to our website to learn more or place an order.👉🏻https://bit.ly/3L6AftM
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01/26/2022

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:⁣
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✔️6000-4000 BCE - Spread of agriculture across Africa ⁣
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✔️Around 2,500 BC -Construction of the pyramids ⁣
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✔️750-664 BCE -Nubian Pharaohs rule the entire Nile Valley during the 25 Dynasty ⁣
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✔️500 BCE - Beginning of the trans-Saharan salt and gold trade in West Africa⁣
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✔️500 BCE - Axum emerges in Northeastern Africa and became Ethiopia⁣
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✔️500 BCE - Bantu-speakers arrive in what ⁣
is now South Africa with iron and domesticated cattle.⁣
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✔️500 BCE - Ancient Nok culture emerges in what is now Nigeria. ⁣
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✔️Circa 3000 BCE - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite⁣
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01/24/2022

"𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘞𝘈𝘠."⁣
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Getting lost is an uncommon opportunity to benefit from hands-on learning of the practical real-world lessons. ⁣
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Being lost can teach you more than what you can learn in a classroom.⁣
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Five reasons getting lost can be a good thing⁣
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1. You will learn to trust a higher power as well as yourself and find what was lost inside you. ⁣
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2. You will become more resourceful by letting people inside learning it is never too late to find your way out.⁣
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3. You will have a new perspective on your life and the lives of others. ⁣
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4. You will learn to truly listen to your inner voice, your internal spirit and other people. ⁣
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5. You will find a new adventure, a good story and learn an important lesson. ⁣
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01/21/2022

“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.”- 𝘋𝘳. 𝘔𝘢𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯-𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘵⁣
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01/19/2022

Here at 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐚 we place 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 at the heart of our values and partner with talented designers driven by original projects.👌🏻⁣⁣⁣
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For us unity is the first condition to flourish and historical alliances through time have demonstrated it. ⁣⁣⁣
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This is reflected in the creation of our products where, like nickel and chrome, African design is perfectly combined with tableware.⁣⁣⁣
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⁣Explore our 𝐔𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 by visiting our website.👉🏻https://sweetlena.com
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01/17/2022

Food is comfort, yes, but food is also political. What we eat — and how we eat — has the ability to interrogate local food systems, inform us of the histories of foodways that have existed for decades or centuries, and answer long-held questions about how and what we’ve come to be. ⁣

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𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫⁣
Butler’s cooking and baking is representative of a blend of many influences, particularly regional ingredients and Southwestern cooking techniques. ⁣
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𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬⁣
⁣A catering pioneer in her own right, North Carolina native Cleo Johns created a lasting legacy in the Northeast. Her business, Cleo’s La Cuisine, routinely catered to up to seven events a day with anywhere from 30 to 4,000 people. ⁣
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𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬 ‘𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲’ 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨⁣
⁣Her frosted plum cake is what earned her the everlasting title of “Pastry Queen of Rhode Island,” as the story goes. ⁣
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𝐂𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡⁣
⁣Often credited with being the connoisseur of cooking turtles, Cuffy Cockroach was known for cooking turtle soup in Newport, Rhode Island, a long way from his home in the Guinea Coast. ⁣
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𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 𝐌𝐜𝐀𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫⁣
⁣The story, life and culinary achievements of Daisy McAfee Bonner exist in the same plane as countless other free and enslaved African Americans who have quietly cooked for presidents for decades.
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𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥⁣
⁣On 5th Avenue North near Nashville’s Art District in Tennessee, there’s a historical marker memorializing the legacy of Sarah Estell, who was a free Black woman and culinary entrepreneur. Ice cream was Estell’s claim to fame. Between the 1840s and the 1860s, when ice became widely available on the east coast thanks to new trade routes opening up, Estell used the new resource to her advantage.
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