Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Welcome to the world, Nana! Already, there is so much magic within and around you. Sister, I am in awe of what your mind, body and spirit have made. 🇿🇼🇬🇭💛
Said the last slide out loud, to be silly, and then realized I believed it. Amazing how when we place things out of our heads and into our voices, they can so quickly become truer or falser. Sometimes I realize how little I believe my insecurities when I let them out of the swirl of my mind and into the space around me. I often laugh at how ridiculous some of my thoughts are, after speaking them aloud. In other moments, I cry self realizations and apologies. I guess some thoughts are so loud because they wanna be let out, to sink heavily into the ground or dissolve effervescently into the atmosphere. 🌞
Said the last slide out loud, to be silly, and then realized I believed it. Amazing how when we place things out of our heads and into our voices, they can so quickly become truer or falser. Sometimes I realize how little I believe my insecurities when I let them out of the swirl of my mind and into the space around me. I often laugh at how ridiculous some of my thoughts are, after speaking them aloud. In other moments, I cry self realizations and apologies. I guess some thoughts are so loud because they wanna be let out, to sink heavily into the ground or dissolve effervescently into the atmosphere. 🌞
Said the last slide out loud, to be silly, and then realized I believed it. Amazing how when we place things out of our heads and into our voices, they can so quickly become truer or falser. Sometimes I realize how little I believe my insecurities when I let them out of the swirl of my mind and into the space around me. I often laugh at how ridiculous some of my thoughts are, after speaking them aloud. In other moments, I cry self realizations and apologies. I guess some thoughts are so loud because they wanna be let out, to sink heavily into the ground or dissolve effervescently into the atmosphere. 🌞
If god is everything The river and the stars The blood inside our veins The metal of our cars If everything is one Time and infinity Then maybe I’m praying To me ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One form of prayer, to me, is conversing with my ancestors. I hold myself while I talk to them because they are, after all, what I’m made of. Other ways I pray include writing, singing, dancing, resting, complimenting nature and making love to myself. But the most common way I pray is by simply saying thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I’m so grateful to be alive. How do you pray? What do you pray to, if you pray?
Before I knew it, today’s poem became a mini song. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I been running around this town Feeling lost, feeling found I been trynna figure it out Why up is up, why down is down Every time I learn a lesson Life throws me a brand new question Maybe questions are the answers to life ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I been loving and letting go It gets so ugly, gets so beautiful I been loving and loving whole Won’t let heartbreak make me cynical Every time I learn a lesson Life throws me a brand new question Maybe questions are the answers to life
I have always believed that something missing from many feminists’ agendas is the desire to love and nurture boys so that they grow into men who don’t hurt women. And to love and nurture men from the inside out. To help those who are struggling realize there is more to them — more to life — than seeking power. To seek power is to constantly feel powerless, because no person can control everyone and everything around them. Some of us are really out here playing our governments’ video games — harming, exhausting and alienating ourselves and others on the system’s behalf, thinking it’s what “strong” people do. I hurt for anyone hurting, and it hurts me to see so many men living in pain, and then projecting that pain onto others. I have no space in my life for sexism, mysoginy and violence, but I do have space in my heart for any person who is trying not to be a product of a sexist, mysoginistic and violent ecosystem. I have just as much space for those who have always been good as I do for those who have learned, or are learning, to be good. In truth, we are all born, and all relearning, to be good. We are all born soft, and are still soft beneath the hard shells we form in response to our surroundings. Softness, to me, is the greatest form of maturity, strength and fearlessness that a person can possess. Softness is where love, fulfillment, creativity and connection thrive. Softness is where pain is acknowledged and wounds are healed. Softness is where growth happens and life truly changes for the better, in all ways. Bell Hooks’ “The Will To Change” is a phenomenal book for any person to read, but I deeply, urgently, lovingly want to recommend it to men — particularly if you feel pressured to play tough, chained to the concepts of power and perception, or confused by, scared or avoidant of your emotions. I also want to recommend this book to non-men who harbor fear or frustration towards men. Our fear and frustration are justified, but they are not the total solution. This book is really helping me turn thought into practice. I hope it helps you too, if you’re open to being helped. (P.S. The audiobook is only 6 hours if time is something you feel short on.)
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Note to self and my beloveds. 22nd of June, 2022.
Oh…do you not hug and kiss your home hello? So then, how do you greet it? These walls hold, protect, love and inspire me. It only makes sense to greet them, no matter how little or how much time I’ve been gone. Then I wipe each kiss and handprint off knowing, in no time, there’ll be another.
Oh…do you not hug and kiss your home hello? So then, how do you greet it? These walls hold, protect, love and inspire me. It only makes sense to greet them, no matter how little or how much time I’ve been gone. Then I wipe each kiss and handprint off knowing, in no time, there’ll be another.
I can’t wait to see y’all soon! 💛 Where: Denver, @theums When: July 31st, 7:30pm, Underground Stage
