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To Thine Own Self Be True… Blah, Blah, Blah…

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Happy Friday Night Love and Light to you!

The entire theme for this week has been about SELF-awareness. I’ve been gob-smacked on a daily basis about this concept of being true to oneself. Gaaaah! Who has that kind of time? I mean, we’ve all got roles to play, right? Some of us have so many roles to play, keeping count of which character we’re supposed to be at which time requires a scheduleembeddedin our schedule, yes?We wear so many faces cause the world requires such things from us to fit...

How to Have ALL the Answers. Seriously.

Oop.

Happy Friday Night Love and Light to you!

The whole concept behind Friday Night LOVE + Light and consequently, #SuperheroSchool is to persistently find our way as close to awesome as possible. It’s a little bit like staring into the sun. The concept itself hurts the eyes if it happens to be high noon and you’vedecidedlyforgotten your sun shades. People have gone blind doing such things. Allegedly.

And yet, there are folk who daily stare directly into the sun (safely at sunrise and sunset wh...

The Power of Perseverence

FYI.

Happy Friday Night Love and Light to you!

I’ve been up for uh… I think 21 hours. Does it count if I took a cat nap at like 4pm yesterday? Anyway. A sista, lova, gurlfriend has probably reacheddeliriumby now, so I’m not entirely sure how powerful or prophetic tonight’s Friday Night Love +/- Light is going to be. But I can chat briefly about the power ofperseverance.

With all that’s going on in the world– the violence, the death, the unrest, the ignorance, the truly insane way that people som...

American History Y (revisited)

…The face of Trayvon becomes an eerie foreshadowing of a global nation that refuses to learn from its considerable mistakes. Universal law is clear. Until we learn the lesson life is trying to teach us, the lesson will repeat until we do.

Note: I wrote this piece shortly after Trayvon Martin was killed. When you think about it, it wasn’t that long ago. For some reason, I was looking for an explanation for why so many (we’ll call them uninitiated) people who happen to not be of color (although,...

Stay Rising GOOD People.

This is Times Square.

Happy Friday (sortof) Night Love and Light to you! Welcome to another winning week of awesome!

Wow. This week has been a doozy. I’m exhausted, truly. If you’ve been paying any amount of attention to the happenings in Ferguson, Missouri, you know exactly to what I’m referring. This is the first time in a long time that I can say, with some amount of emphasis, that I’m infinitely proud of humans on this planet. Some humans.

I applaud the people who have shown up in Fergus...

An Open Letter to that Officer Who Killed Michael Brown

Welcome to Ferguson.

An Open Letter to that Officer Who Killed Michael Brown (and ALL the officers with Black and Brown Body Counts):

I’ve always been confused about why folk can put sooooooo much effort into covering up or justifying their fuckery, but never nearly as much effort into not doing fuckery to start. To knowing what fuckery actually is–and not doing it. It’s easier, isn’t it? To have a sense of humanity? It’s easier to believe that all lives have value and to act accordingly? It’s...

What is Peace?

What does peace look like? Feel like? Taste like?

How does it feel in your hands?

Can you crumble it like a cookie?

Mold it like dough?

Squeeze it like fruit?

Mash it like fingers?

Put it up to your nose. What does it smell like?

Nothing? Something?

What does peace look like?

Can you walk up to it on the street?

Can you push it? Fake it? Can you put in on your dresser and stare at it until you get tired of it?

Can you bring it somewhere?

Can you take it from someone?

What does peace feel like?

Can you wrap...

Love Honest.

I mean. Is there any other way? Apparently, yes. Womp.

Happy Friday (sortof) Night Love and Light to you! Welcome to another winning week of awesome!

Mercury isn’t retrograde, thank Gawd, but I was thinking… I had a boyfriend once named, uh, “Wagner”. Why Wagner? Because I honestly feel like I should have dated a guy named Wagner at some point in my life. Certainly a guy named Wagner would be my type, right? But alas, I’ve never even met a guy named Wagner, let a lone dated one. And yet I have...

Your Law, Your Life. Still.

Give (inner) Peace a Chance…

Happy Friday (Saturday) Night (Super Early Morning) Love and Light to you! Welcome to another winning week of awesome!

I wasn’t looking for today’s topic. I totally wasn’t. I had a dozen or so topics planned out for the coming weeks during my vision session and consequent editorial schedule. I have successfully made my life neat, clean and orderly. And yet, I still have this yummy feeling that my life is a bit of a renegade dance. I’ve decided my schedule is more li...

All Things Made New

This is the look you give after you ride that wave. #YO

Happy Friday (Saturday) Night (Super Early Morning) Love and Light to you! Welcome to another winning week of awesome!

I’d like to take this brief moment in time to say thank you. Thank you sooooooo abundantly for being a part of my journey. As you may have gathered by now, my family and I have been going through a lot. By this point, most of it is about healing. Contrary to popular belief, healing is hard work. It takes just as much effor...