What's today but yesterday's tomorrow?

What is my relationship to myself as the creator of my reality?  This question came up this morning in a mindful meeting led by a dear friend who is a health, fitness, and wellness guide. I’m grateful for those in my life who call me to consider broad questions and life themes such as these. You can keep up with her via her instagram if health and wellness are on your mind too. I journaled for…

Imagination is a powerful tool. I think that I had forgotten this somewhere along my way, but I was reminded in an imagination session that I attended a few weeks ago (now months ago as I’m revisiting this draft) in which we imagined a world without police. A world without police seems impossible when I look through the lens of my indoctrinated mind (the one that is so influenced by white…

have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.

(Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?)

The last part is in parentheses because the TV shows and movies generally…

Remember why you came here in the first place.

That whisper in your ear that dared you to imagine that this is a place you should be.

That pull that couldn’t be ignored.

And you’re here now, don’t forget.

To breath life into this space.

To ground yourself in that curiosity that sparked your desire to begin.

On this journey in which you have no visualization of the end. Why do…

This is your reminder to exhale.

Your reminder to unclench your jaw.

Take a moment, notice where you feel tense, and ask yourself, what are you bracing for?

I’ve started to become more aware of the moments when my body is in defense. When I suddenly notice that my jaw has been locked all day. When I realize that my hands were in fists, or my shoulders were nearly up to my ears with how…

Do not be alarmed by the length of this post, it’s mostly pictures.

If you gloss over all of this in it’s entirety, I recommend you at least read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. And pick up something by Roxane Gay. And please, dear god, don’t give J*ff B*zos (CEO of your favorite monopoly of an online marketplace) any more money.

I…

I consider myself a fairly private, relatively reserved, and sometimes quiet person depending on the context, so I’m just as surprised as some of you may be that I’m finding comfort by sharing my thoughts, sometimes vulnerable and quite personal thoughts, with you online. You’re of course getting a filtered view, but as I’m learning to listen and follow where I feel I’m being called, I’m noticing…

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Oh boy, where do we begin?

My mind is always racing, so this moment that I’m taking to write something down is in many ways the same. The racing, the anxiety, the worry is always constant to some degree, but the topic for the most part is where I observe the greatest shifts. My therapist and I have…

Where does your inspiration come from?

And when it’s gone, how do you get it back?

I’ve been feeling exceptionally uninspired recently, as you may have noted from the gap in my writing. Even as I write this, I’m having an incredible urge to stop.

Maybe what I’m really lacking is momentum.

As artists, dancers, writers, academics, “intellectuals” (I have thoughts on this term that I may…