meaning of finery

After the battle of Verti?res, Dessalines has declared Haiti?s independence on January 1, 1804. After winning the Independence war, Dessalines met with all the heroic leaders and called upon Boirond-Tonnerre to publish the Declaration of Independence in the newly Republic, that has been then changed from French Saint-Domingue to Haiti. A few lines of Haiti?s Declaration of Independence by Boiron Tonnerre follow: ?In order to write the Declaration of our Independence, we need to contain the skin of an White man (Frenchman) for parchment, his skull for inkstand, his blood for ink along with a bayonet for pen?. Dessalines was then chosen by way of a council of generals (blacks and mulattos) to imagine the office of Governor-General. Nine months later, he proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques 1er in September 1804 and ruled Haiti until his assassination on October 17, 1806. There is another way of looking at it. The wisest among us would not use the word fear but would replace it with more acceptable notion and words such as ‘cautious’ and ‘wary’. Either way, fear defines most, if not everything that we do in life. Or should we say that fear starts to control us, our feelings and our thoughts? Mine was at the bathroom the morning I got the email from Escape Adulthood speaker and expert Jason Kotecki and his wife, Kim, informing me that I was chosen as THE Adultitis Fighter of the Month. I had NO idea what that meant so I visited their site and found blogs from others who had been chosen in prior months. These everyone was amazingly awesome! They lived lives that I aspired to get like. Why had they chosen ME to get in this elite circle?