No video can ever do justice to the set design and immersive experience created by @ye and Aus Taylor. Aside from the moving planet stage that used lighting and smoke to viscerally resemble nebulae and cosmic precipitation, they used the negative space of the stadium that made us feel like floating galactic stars, witnessing his single testimony from where we sat in the universe.
The meaning of his songs meant EVERYTHING.
As an unapologetic FAN of Kanye West for over 20 years, I stand by the fact that he is the greatest living artist of our generation. Name ONE artist who can do what he does. Fuck your politics. Just, Art as Expression that presents as evocative, life-transformative and delectably liberating.
You can’t.
“Now I speak from the heart, yall all frontin, everybody feel a way about K, but at least yall *FEEL somethin*”
Thank you Ye, for giving us one of the most inspiring and HEALING nights I have ever experienced. Just thankful to witness the divinity in you, that you never gave up on.
#ye #kanyewest #kanye #sofistadium #bully
I finished chemotherapy. I “rang the bell”, but instead of a bell, they had a mini Chinese gong that I struck with a mini mallet which was funny in the moment. That video is a portrait of sacred joy, but I hid it in the basement of my phone because anything having to do with chemo gives me visceral nausea. The doctors are saying I’m cancer free -with conditions; conditions that are honestly too exhausting to even process after the actual. waking. horror. of the past 5 months.
So I am simultaneously more relieved to be done with the past than my soul can currently fathom, while constantly disassociating from how devastated and terrified I still, truly am.
People keep repeating, “You’re so strong. You’re so brave.”
I know they mean well. But being brave is a choice. And I don’t feel like I’m choosing anything. No one would ever choose this. This is not bravery.
I spent my birthday bathed in raw beauty and wellness luxury on a rare summer day gifted to us in the middle of winter. I was surrounded by the women who have held me when I haven’t been able to hold myself. Their sisterhood has been my sanctuary.
These photos capture our bond and their layer cake of goodness towards me. But they are also a capsule of melancholy. I felt misplaced amidst the beauty of both my girlfriends in glowy health and the lovely amenities that I couldn’t fully immerse in because I have mangled breasts, a scalp-exposed balding head and skin that screams the story of being poisoned and sucked dry of its youth.
I guess I’m just here to say, that on this birthday, I don’t feel the need to proclaim that I’m “staying positive” or that “being grateful” is the moral of my birthday story.
The real moral, is that grieving eyes and a bleeding heart can still remain wide open. On this birthday, I am witnessing and letting myself be witnessed- for both my beauty and my mangled. For both my gratitude and my devastation. For both my hopefulness and my horror.
On this birthday, I don’t want to force meaning or “celebrate resilience”- I want to honor wholeness by owning the whole truth.
And for the first time maybe that actually feels, like bravery. ❤️🩹
The purpose of this video is not to reach everyone - but to simply reach those who may be in genuine resonance. All credit to @meg_pagani for the words she reached me with, shared in this video. I am linking in the comments, her original video that moved me more than anything since living through this chapter of chemotherapy. Thank you for sharing words that made me feel seen psychologically, energetically, spiritually and cellularly. I only hope to contribute the same to the field. I am not only thankful, I am willing.🫀#onward #cancer #breastcancer #chemotherapy #chemo
We were just women on the Island of Women, but Isla Mujeres is not just any paradise. It is a sacred sanctuary where Mayan women made pilgrimage by canoe to the Temple of Ixchel- Goddess of the Moon, Fertility and Love. It is said that the waters (which are the color of Heaven) hold Divine Feminine Code and are known for their purifying, cleansing and healing powers. It is where you can visibly gaze upon sacred geometry etched into the sea, where the air is heavy with incense from centuries past and where time dissolves into prayer.
Thank you so much to @lam_lifestyle_travel@karrueche@ruechibeauty and @impressionislamujeres for creating the most lushly peaceful and gorgeously abundant experience centered in wellness and “for the love of self care”. The women that were drawn to this communion were brilliant, gorgeous, deep diving souls who were both professionally and spiritually evolved. The connections we made were rooted in RESONANCE and the laughter was LIMITLESS. I am so beyond grateful to have met this many empowering women in one place and get to EAT, LAUGH and Love on OURSELVES in paradise. THANK YOU!!! ♥️🫀♥️
After 16 yrs in the entertainment Industry, 2024 was the year that my heart & soul said: “ENOUGH. DO AS WE SAY📢” lol. Yes, we need to earn a living, support ourselves and those who depend on us, but there is another call to serve, a summons to serve spiritual enlargement. More than ever, our world is in need of understanding, healing and connection. I am humbled for the opportunity to pursue a Masters (onto a Doctorate🤞🏽) in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University and hope to never stop being a student of learning how to improve the mental and emotional health of humanity. The last slide is the last paragraph from my Statement of Purpose- #iykyk🫀
Lastly, if you’re thinking of making a life change to pursue a new dream- YOU ALREADY HAVE THE POWER. As long as you take the steps to make it happen, it is already Yours.💯✊🏽♥️
“And I began to wonder…. what would I teach her, where would I take her, how would I love her, if she knew the heartbreak of a mother’s abandonment, but I, was her rescue?”
The hands, heart, movers, makers and frequency creators of Rema’s homecoming show in Benin, Nigeria.
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#rema #benin #benincity #nigeria #edostate #edo #lagos #afrobeats #music #africa #african #westafrica
Had the honor of witnessing the creative direction planning for @heisrema ’s Homecoming show in Benin City, led by the most inspiring human I’ve met this year, Creative Director @scrdofme .👑 We are unanimously empowered by him for connecting so many like-minded creatives from all over Africa, Europe and the U.S. in none other than Nigeria.🇳🇬 I also cannot thank my sister @fixmoeti enough for diving into this adventure with me NO questions asked. I LOVE YOU forever more deeply than anyone could ever comprehend - you are everyone’s safe place!!🫀Thank you to @iamenotie as well for showing us the history and pride of Benin 🏆 I will NEVER forget Nigeria- but most of all, I will ALWAYS cherish the exceptionally brilliant citizens of the world I’ve met here from all over the planet. The are no words for the human awe I found in all of you. ♥️
In 2020, I produced a 14 video docu-series to reveal the deepest traumas -yet, the audacity to overcome- of humans from all over the world who were locked down during COVID. I wanted to put something into the world to spread the simple message that, “You, are not alone.” 4 years later, it almost seems like we’ve learned: Nothing. And by we, I mean humanity. I’ve drowned in chronic depression before and after Covid, and have continued to be shell-shocked at the atrocity, negligence and narcissism I relentlessly witness in this nasty, deceitful actual hell on earth we call our world. However, out of what can often feel like systemic hopelessness, there are true Healers who have both emerged and persevered through the mass control. There are true Thought Leaders that never went anywhere and continue to shout the goodness of Truth directly into the face of corrupt powers that be. In the most diabolical depths of darkness, there is LIGHT. From the first day I laid eyes on Fikile Moeti, she has been my light. Her words in this video, still ring piercingly true. After years of ignoring my entire affiliation to the docu-series because of painful memories attached to my abandonment of it, I realized today how relevant the stories still are to all that I still need to learn and most of all- apply. (Please forgive the production value- all interviews were done over Zoom due to lock down and I was literally teaching myself how to edit in Premiere for the first time as the series progressed). But my heart and all those who told their story for me, are there for the taking. This reminded me that we must never stop giving our heart for what we believe in. Without heart, we are just unconscious minds and lost souls. Never give up. Whether we feel it or not, we are all #InThisTogether for both the heartache of fear and grief to the elation of courage and triumph. Honesty is King. How will you choose to show up in that truth? At least for now, I pledge, to simply be Willing, thanks to all those who -never- gave up, on me. #Onward
