Surround yourself with good people they said, people that inspire you, move you, make you better. Put yourself in situations you can grow in, spaces you can roam in, and don’t look back.
(IG won’t let me get all y’all, but I love all y’all.)
Here’s to those folks in 2024.
Proofs of life/feeding the algo.
If anyone told me that I’d be doing this much in the past three months, I’d shrug and say “could go worse”.
Some feelings ensued, some business was done, began learning to work smarter not harder, my cousins taught me some new game that’s like roulette except it’s money or booze, and a dang dog got my attention.
All in all, not bad.
“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.”
This loss is devastating to say the least. I keep looking for and at words and have nothing but love, gratitude, and adoration for being able to exist at the same time as her. She just taught us so much about ourselves and our capacity to love and be loved, to not rely on colonial patriarchy as masculinity. It informs every try I make in my work. This one hurts.
Rest in Power, bell hooks.
