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Today is my birthday 🎂
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Here’s to my 28th here
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Restoration ✨ blessed & Highly favored

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Solidarity Healing September & Black Healing October Beloved Community!!!! Thank you so much for desiring to be a part of the Black Healing October & Solidarity Healing September Magic!!!! We are so excited to create two months full of healing performances and sacred conversations that bring our communities together and steward the collective heal...

Since I’ve been reborn, I’m asking myself “what do I do? (like/want/need)



Watching myself grow. Meeting myself again and again.



Art by me. Photo by

Older Black woman walks in, wearing all black. Black dress. Black hat. Black jacket with black lace sleeves. We all tell her she looks beautiful. She’s heading to a funeral.



I want to take a moment to acknowledge that I don’t acknowledge the murders.



I don’t know the victims names, but I know there are victims. See I rather be deeply embedded into my defense mechanisms that weighed down with every detail or every story.



I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge. And offer this prayer.



To the bodies who have loss their life, and their souls that have left this realm, I give you my thanks. I give you my love. I pray for your peace and for a powerful peace to surround your loved ones. I welcome you into the ancestor realm, may you live on forever and ever. Thank you for your life on this plane. Today and always, we honor you. Asé

Last week, explored my anger with my therapist. That’s gonna be an exciting exploration...


So, I have been being “punished” since I was a child. So of course, I learned that punishment is a way to teach a lesson AND some people deserved to be punished.


So when I was mean to people, I always thought about how much they “deserved it.”


I would feel all stormy inside: sorrow because I was mean and nasty but justified because I could rationalize why


I get riled up, loud, and I love to curse. That’s just some basics about me as a human being.


AND BEING MEAN IS A CHOICE


I’m learning to identify when I’m being mean and why. Today I was mean because I was too afraid to say what I wanted to someone. I was mean because I didn’t breathe. And I was mean because I needed to get some of my frustration out somehow.


And I recognize that if I had slowed down. Taken time to myself. That could’ve been avoided. In fact, I could’ve communicated what I did in a kind way and still say everything I needed and wanted to say.


Honest over harmony but who says we can’t have both???

When’s the last time you looked at life from a different perspective?



I think we all need to internalize the fact that no one had life figured out.



But who is handling life in a way you respect and admire? Maybe you try to handle your life like them.

We’re all just brainstorming here


📸 x