headshots:
(v:) blunt force trauma to the skull.
(n:) things we do for Assistantships, Auditions, and LinkedIn.
hair/mua/stylist: @victoriaiwilliamssoprano
photographer: @35mmpapi
literally since 1992. 🦅❣️
i don’t remember what not having you in my life feels like, and i pray i never learn.
may you always be as sweet and consistent as Pi!
to my dad:
happy birthday, my guy.
every year i say it, and every year i mean it:
you really wild as shit for dying on your birthday.
it baffles me that you worked until your last scheduled day off. so i just wanted you to know: i’m going to ALL of my jobs today, i didn’t call out from a single one. and please know this is exactly what makes people assume i’m Jamaican or Haitian and not a “regular Black.”
and if you were still here, i would’ve said this to you personally and not on the web.
i wish you could see i put on my decent shoes for the day.
thank you for choosing me to be your daughter.
i love you for the rest of this life and the next one if i have it.
thoughts on this Elevated Easter Sunday:
• we stan a lunar calendar directed worship tradition around here.
• luxury flowers cost that much because they cost so much to grow and keep alive. boutique arrangements cost that much because those blooms are very delicate and tedious to put together. but the irony of floral arranging is giving life and beauty to already dead things. dying has never looked so pretty.
• “said i wasn’t gon’ tell nobody but i couldn’t keep it to myself what the Lord has done for me.” (so scroll through the whole post so it doesn’t look like i buried the lede.)
• life is wicked. gotta be more wicked than life.
• Bernie said it best: “it is trash.”
• my birthday is a sacred time and it should be spent in a sacred space (that’s why we don’t drink cola in their bathroom).
• getting back on stage reprogrammed me on a molecular level. having music written specifically for my voice altered my brain chemistry and gave me tunnel vision.
• strength is subjective. resilience is a scam.
• resourcefulness is a skill. that’s why i will always bust my ass for a softer life.
• a former director once told me “if you ever think you gave a perfect performance, you need to raise your standards.” so, we continue to raise the bar.
• i know its Easter, but word to the Muslimah who told me at the beginning of Ramadan “may your every inshallah become alhumduillah.” may the God of all bless her on earth and in paradise.
• let me not ever forget the yearly shoutout to Judas Iscariot for being on his job. Black Jesus paid it all- including my rent- and i gotta be grateful to that specific disciple for making it possible.
• good, bad, or indifferent: God really is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Allahu Akbar.
your cousins really are your first friends.
some time > no time.
and we really had a time last night. ♥️
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super blessed to have these ones as my family. infinitely thankful they’ve always been my friends. 🫶🏽
