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Family is…Everything

Family is everything, it means everything to us, we work hard to provide for our family, I don’t know where I’d be without my family, these phrases… they sound familiar, no?

We’ve all said any one of these things at the very least once in our lives, but I am confident many, many times over, some of us everyday, others of us weekly, some during family gatherings, but lastly and no less poignant…

your vision will become clear when you look into your heart…

January 17th 2015: New year, New me – Vow vs Resolution

I am happily anti-resolution’ist’. I have no goal to lose 15lbs, or to start a new regimen, or cook more meals for me and my extremely picky 4yr old, or have another baby, or start a new career. I have, however, vowed that  this year I tear down my mental walls and open the door to my heart. A vow, you see  is much different than a…

I Am Not Afraid to Die on a Treadmill

I wanted this to be a longer  more focused and complete post but, WordPress is pressing my nerves. It did not save my latest, completed draft. 2nd time this has happened… anyway, I am going to try and remember as much as I wrote. I started the last post with this youtube video of an interview of Will Smith with Tavis Smiley, in which Smith says “the difference between me and them is I am not…

29…

This was me shook about turning 29!!

  First off I want to thank the most high for guiding and protecting through to another year on this earth and most importantly another year with my Bazil. In this week leading up to my birthday I have been granted the gift of seeing my son make it to Kindergarten, many people don’t get this far…

Woman, The Album About Nothing, and Coming Home

These 3 albums have been my feel good trio for the past couple weeks, Jill just dropped Woman at the end of July and Wale’s album came at the end of June and ohhh Mr. Leon Bridges, his voice drips with love and smells like honeysuckle. He sings and your transported to a rocking chair on a southern veranda with the feel of warm breeze on your skin. They all have in common the two things that for…

The Inevitable End of Summer

These are the last days my mind gets to be my own. The last days I get to be inside my head with my own thoughts good bad or indifferent; when compiled minutes of my brain aren’t dedicated to “what’s a good bedtime?” ” ways to get him used to 8:30pm bedtime” “was it 3 blue folders 4 red folders 2 green folders, or was it 3 of each color, shit! And of course I’ve already lost the damn ‘supplies’…

I have been reading through the ‘Memos’ for android, ‘Notes’ for iphone app on my phone. Like many people its where I store great quotes, or literature that I’ve read that I want to share with someone, along with my grocery list and reminders, voice memos, thoughts, poems, just lots of things. So I am just sharing a very short poem, I don’t professionally write anything let alone poems so there’s…

I came across Jun Takahashi I think on Tumblr… He had these Sith and Jedi shirts,pictures below that I had to have. I google imaged the photo and immediately found him. Although fairly new to the success of his label, Takahashi has been designing UNDER COVER since the 90s as a student at Bunka Academy of Fashion in Japan. Check it!

The 12:27, Me, and the Most High

God is with you all the time, He is the space between, the everything in nothing, the nothing in everything, the perfect in the imperfect, the moon, the trees, the stars in the sky, He is you and He is I. But every so often, with all the connections to the Most High, we lose him. (more…)

Ms.Dolezal and High Yellow Journalism

  Here I am trying to gain an understanding of the insane spike of blatant hate crimes that have been committed against black people since Obama’s been president, yes I said it, since this man has been in office there has been a heightened spate of outright racism and hate that I have not seen in all of my life. And here comes Ms. Rachel Dolezal with the media perfectly squared kerchief tucked…

One thing you should know about I and I is that when I find quality music, or quality anything for that matter I become completely obsessed.

This young Swedish raised artiste has become my new ck perfume. I have been listening to her all day, and will hopefully make it out to see her tomorrow night. She’s playing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. (more…)

See It Love It Buy It Art

After painting my living room a wondiferous powder pink, as you all know it is my absolute favorite color, snagging my room and board sectional for a whopping $350 and my cushy Moroccan inspired rug, I’m ready for some artwork! And bookcases although sadly I’ve had dismal luck in finding the perfect set, Urban Outfitters may have saved my life, fingers crossed! I came across three artist that I…

Damsel in Distress Syndrome, and Why We Still Believe It, Part 1

The idea that a woman needs to be ‘saved’, rescued or whisked away by a man is an idea I constantly struggle with. To be fair, yes I understand that in some cases a man will be stronger than me therefore being able to rescue me from lets say, an 80lbs boulder that’s fallen on the my foot. But to feel that I need him to 1) be saved from being unmarried and alone and 2) that because he saved me…

 “Design should be alluring without giving up function, and every statement in a space should give weight to both.”

  I came upon Mr. Caleb Anderson while at work today. My job is to call designers and make sure their received our emails, but I can never call without first researching who they are provided they have a website, and so this afternoon I happened upon this wonderful man and his…