Let’s March- slowly tho

Dark and light

Awake in the quiet minutes to midnight on the eve of March second

All is what is

February my love – thank you

Light and dark

Value and tone

Rinsed brushes – working late nights and early mornings

Shushing babies and challenging them to listen during the day – distractions be damned we can focus little loves- and we do

Watching the sky’s changing colors as the sun sets i whisper all the reasons i am grateful – especially on the draining days

Hasheesh warns against burnout and suggests finding balance

Done

Dark and light

All is what it is

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Well hello February

Silences pervades as love persists

Embracing change is imperative

Change exists within daily patterns –

The ability to discern the nuances of the mundane

Perceiving the pattern and evolving it – even slightly

Feeding the love we have been blessed with

The chance to breathe in another season

Gratitude grows in the pervading silence

Change is evolution

Change is growth

Life -life is change

Speed and pace don’t mean too much as rhythm reigns supreme

Silences pervades as love persists…

Photos all my own.

Here’s to LOVE

Happy New Year – or as my Earth angel says Happy Now Here.

May God hear, bless, and amplify your intentions to the highest good.

I have been in a season of silence. A lot of listening and engaging with folks who love me as is, people who see me. Thank you and I see you all too. Connecting with people who speak to me in ways that amplify my journey and brighten my light has been transformative. It is healing and I am deeply grateful.

Cultivating an understating of what love is makes it easier to identify where it isn’t- who it isn’t and what it isn’t. Love does not always come from the places you think it will or from who you expect it. I have had to sit with that- the dark and light of knowing that you must go where the love is. Love of self and self reflection make the awareness of the hard truths of love and life easier to process. I know where to go to get the real good shit- that gooood love and I know where not to go as well. Balance. It is what it is.

I start with God’s love and self love.

So here’s to a year of more love – that good good – that we communicate well, show up show out love – that responsive let’s go get a coffee love, that we booked our tickets love, that belly laugh for ten minutes love, that gentle correction love, that knowledge sharing love, that whatchu reading love, that let’s go for a walk love, that 5 hour conversation love, that I love yo style love, that yassss love, that long hug love, that it’s okay to cry for a moment love, that sitting in beautiful silence love, that ancestor love, that we don’t raise our voices love, that we call each other babe not bitch love, that God love, that say it to your face love, that respectful love, that anti-materialism love, that disagree, talk it out, and elevate love, that pull up on Saturdays via Zoom love, that praying for you love, that thankful love, that healing deep love.

Here’s to love – infinitely and long past 2023.

Happy Now Here.

Falling for fall

drawing my dreams among the fallen leaves

sinking slightly into the earth that cradles me

am i the architect of my tomorrow?

engineering without fearing

knowing God is hearing the desires of my heart that i express in this here art

adding her own divine designs

Co-creation

enriched by the seconds, minutes, hours spent in this slightly tamed nature that nurtures us

i put my pencil down and look around as leaves continue to fall for fall

seasons change as do i

drawing my dreams among the fallen leaves

slightly sinking into the earth that cradles me

https://music.apple.com/us/album/lil-healer-feat-quinn-barlow/1534776511?i=1534776938

Photo: Coyote Cyris

Author’s note: happy 1st birthday to Xavier Omär‘s album if You Feel

UNchanging value

strong black woman, bright streak of independence

same black woman sometimes feels weak and dependent

her value does not change as her emotions do

understand this

Don’t put more on her plate because of her race or the alleged pace you and that society you belong to believe she should be / could be running at

and if you can’t find empathy and understanding for her

keep

it

pushing

Please.

She does not have time for anymore negativity or foolishness

God sent her here on a mission

and she does not need your permission for…

anything

Understand that, simple human made of the same dust as she

Strong black woman with a dark streak of independence

Same black woman sometimes feels weak and dependent

Her value never changes

Priceless

Beautiful Photo: via Unsplash; photographer: Jessica Felicio

https://unsplash.com/@jekafe/portfolio

Take a listen:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/leave-me-alone-a-colors-show/1544476570?i=1544476572

https://music.apple.com/us/album/peng-black-girls-remix-a-colors-show-feat-jorja-smith/1544810035?i=1544810036