Clevers Place

I want to add these two…

Lepidolite: Transition & Change

Black Tourmaline: Grouding & Balance

Educate yourself on crystals on how they work and how they can benefit you.

This is science…not spookism

Pulling from the "Afrofuturistic" vision of her hit album Dirty Computer, the short fiction collection features stories by Monáe and an array of "talented female and non-binary writers." The Memory Librarian will be published by Harper Voyager Books on April 19, 2022.

[...]

In the collection of stories, Monáe and the other writers build on the album's "Afrofuturistic world" by "exploring how different threads of liberation — queerness, race, gender plurality, and love — become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape…and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms," according to the press release.

---

feel. soul. desire.

feel (v.) "to touch or have a sensory experience of; perceive, "have a mental perception"

soul (n.) "instinctive quality felt by black persons as an attribute"

desire (n.) "a craving or yearning; sensual appetite, physical desire, lust"

Not just sexual gratification.

The intent to heal.

The intent to be present and vulnerable.

The intent to express love and make space for exploring.