Bethann Hardison

Bethann Hardison Instagram – Looking back to move forward…
Because this year and next I will be doing just that as I develop my documentary and author my memoir of sort. This is a big feat to accomplish but in every instance I have a great supportive team of talented others who surround me.
It’s time…
I know…if you never knew, I had 21 years of dread lock growth for those who didn’t know me then. This is a memorable image of me shot by Torkil Gudnason for an Italian magazine edited by former model Donna Jordan. Later we got permission to use this image for an Interview Magazine feature under the then EID Ingrid Sischy.
My personal story is large in a simple way but woven through many moments and people. I look back and think, how many, many wonderful moments for a latch key kid from Bedford Stuyvesant.
Now that I have purpose to look back and recall, I too am amazed at the life I have lived and enjoyed. Remembering all who loved me and enjoyed who I was, encouraging me to accept, believe, and step further.
And I did. Sometimes I had to be encourage to step into the unknown.
And it was never a mistake, I gained every time. There are many stories to share. I too cannot believe who or what, when I start to open my memory lane. No doubt its a story to share as so many of you have begged me to do, to compose all that others could read and know. Perhaps this will allow me do more then one, perhaps this will take me on further to fulfill something more.
I am grateful that at this age I have still the faculties and physical strength to keep this movement in motion.
Grateful for so many believing and needing me to give as I continue to receive.
I will keep this precious audience connected as I embark on this story telling journey.
I spent his birthday evening with my son Kadeem for what we deem as “our birth day” on Saturday and it was a great gift as I am usually at distance.
I walked away inspired…
Now I am ready to embrace what for long I feared I personally couldn’t do.
Once you decide to get out of your own way…it’s the beginning of the win.
@torkilgudnasonstudio @kadeemhardison | Posted on 26/Jul/2021 20:45:19