love uppercuts to the future
Hey buds,
Wanted to share a few bits of feelings from the past few days. Wishing you all the most fabulous weekends and time with yourselves and your people (this includes pets, don’t worry)!
++n
Last week
To be this pissed about the genocide happening and that our supposedly best choice for a president supports it. To be this scared about where all this is headed while recognizing its rare effects on this body.
To be this hyped about making music and writing. About being more challenged at work than ever, about elevating at school and somehow finding time for it all.
To hear audio or a bombing on a football field while eating lunch over freezing AC.
To enjoy what we have in respect to those without—without overdoing the privilege or forgetting to be grateful.
To live all this with love and grasping for peace and gratitude for everyone questioning and surviving and being tormented, detained, and desperately seeking something better.
Laughing with friends to feel the lightness and magic we are out here to feel.
To be here for it all can be hard so I wanted to acknowledge that, share my experience, and possibly connect with yall feeling similar. How are you?
LOVE
This morning
Coming off of a brilliant local rap show last night thanks to the twelvotwo crew and celebrating the release of RND1 and REY’s new record
Watching the slow moving and powerful Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell this morning (it’s on Kanopy!)
Vibing to a freshly opened copy of the new Jimetta Rose and the Voices of Creation LP: Things Are Getting Better
Grateful for Jessica Mullen’s mediation for pulling me out of it yesterday b4 the show
I can feel how things are bigger and that we can work and hope for more and move in inspiration and joy.
That these forces are so much bigger than the hate and constantly updated news cycle that had me spinning this week. It doesn’t change what’s happening if I were to tune in right now. Doesn’t make it less scary to real. But it might set me up to be more prepared to move forward how I think I can add the most to this moment and moments to come.
Now
That the answers are here within our life and in our many forms of community and I’m here and want to check in with all of you and want you to check in with me and let’s share resources and pain and the happiest moments of joy we get to tap into to.
♻️ Here for it ALL 🔊💜
++n