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Meet Yourself Where You Started, But Stronger 📌 I self-studied and freelanced through a pandemic. Somehow dragged myself through this treachery, collected new stories and scars, and lived to laugh another day. The results are in and it’s a win. God finally remembered my address. #MolisanaStates #TasteLetsTravel (at Times Square, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlkfbzJZVP/?igshid=e82qketun4l3

Dancing In September • “It's been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will, It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die, 'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky.”-Sam Cook • #molisanastates #waybackwednesday #washingtondc (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEo_fappJi5/?igshid=kh38bsej3vl9

Take Me Back To Brunch Tuesday • Take me back to a gripping read, perfectly poached eggs and baby potatoes at @thestgregoryhotel on a Tuesday morning in Spring • “Women shouldn’t judge one another’s lives, if we haven’t been through one another’s fires.” - @lisadtaddeo , Three Women • #MolisanaStates #StGregoryHotel #WashingtonDC (at The St. Gregory Hotel Dupont Circle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUYCU-J8sd/?igshid=1oe6ahjdkdc4j

August, Please Be Good To Me • “But for now, we are young. Let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we see.” • When the year began, I prayed to make it to June. I have arrived here on the wings of my grandmother’s prayers, and I pray that we have the fortitude to endure further. There is so much beauty, hope and laughter on the other side. Let’s get there, if we can. • #molisanastates #washingtondc #tasteletstravel (at The Mall, Washington DC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDYBrJFJT8W/?igshid=1x4go7s8xb280

August, Please Be Good To Me • “Let is lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we see.” • When the year began, I prayed to make it to June. I have arrived here on the wings of my grandmother’s prayers, and I pray that we have the fortitude to endure further. There is so much beauty, hope and laughter on the other side. Let’s get there, if we can. • #molisanastates #washingtondc #tasteletstravel (at The Mall, Washington DC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDYBrJFJT8W/?igshid=7pf2yaocaulk

To Be Read in The Morning and at Night | “My love Has told me That he needs me. That's why I take good care of myself Watch out where I'm going and Fear that any drop of rain Might kill me.”-Bertolt Brecht | #molisanastates #staysafe #washingtondc (at Georgetown, DC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCNEwAfpwcV/?igshid=16ov3io1xu42d

To Walk Freely At Night | “Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”-Sylvia Plath | #MolisanaStates #NewYork #SayHerName (at 7th Avenue New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCB6qulJYUU/?igshid=1tvscnihkdhmb

We Shall Overcome | There was empathy in the words: “you should see the exact spot Dr. King stood on when he gave The Dream Speech.” In solidarity with our friends and compatriots, I continue to wish you “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” We shall overcome. Let freedom ring! We continue to center you and your decades-long struggle. Our black lives matter. May your efforts yield justice and freedom. The Dream Speech, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/i-have-dream-address-delivered-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom | #MolisanaStates #WashingtonDC (at Lincoln Memorial) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9vuc5J5ti/?igshid=1pddn5kzt7op2