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Grateful to @CultureStrike and @thesoniag for a fantastic #ArtistPowerSummit on Saturday. Excited to continue growing and creating in community 🌿💜🎨
Excited to be in LA leading a workshop @culturestrike #artistpowersummit tomorrow.
Dreaming is part of the creative process. So is downtime. In an age where input is constant, and constant output is expected, unplugging to dream is as radical as it is necessary. Sometimes I don’t have anything to say. I sit down to write and nothing I connect with really comes. During those times, I know that I am simply being asked to fill my container. That I am in a stage of receiving. In my many years as a creative person, I’ve found the most profound downloads occur when I make time to empty- of expectations, action, and force- in order to tap in to the deeper space of quiet where dreaming takes place. This doesn’t mean my creative process stops. I still show up to the page in all the ways I can. We learn from nature that even when the land is bare, there is a deeper process being nurtured below the surface. Help facilitate it by making time to wander- outside and in the depths of your mind- undisturbed.
Los Angeles ✨ I'm really excited to share new poems and stories on 9/15 during 'Sundays' at The Standard in West Hollywood. It will be my first time backed by a band, which should be fantastic. Doors at 8PM. Thank you to the Angel @josephmatick for including me.
LA fam, I am coming back on the 11th for a conference and will be there for a while. I'm looking to hold space with folks while I'm in town. I've been in solitude lately and haven't shared my work in community for a few months. Would anyone want to attend a magical night of poems and maybe some music? Down for it to be a collaboration of some sort as well. I've been feeling for our earth and also our people. Been seeing and hearing a bunch of folks talking about feeling heavy with it all. Would love to transmute that energy together. Cry and laugh and hold each other in a safe and beautiful container. If anyone has a place willing to host or a community that is already gathering that this can be integrated into, that would be amazing. If folks have sounds, medicine and crafts to share, let me know as well! Sending love to everyone. Additional and unrelated note to my friends- I'm wanting to go on some nature trips so if folks wanna load up a car to big sur or some deserted beach oasis link me✨💜✨ #sacredspace #heartcentered #healingspace #sistercircle #losangelesevents #losangelescreatives
From the proposed telescope in Mauna Kea to the fire in the Brazilian Amazon. The Sioux at Standing Rock to Jamaican residents protesting mining in Trelawny. The Earth and its keepers are speaking. We are being asked to listen. Art is a powerful tool in this global movement for land sovereignty. Artists are essential in the fight for the dignity of our land (and any agenda, really). This has always been known, which is why millions are spent on entertainment as the leading export in the States. If you research American history, much of the reason we are in the place we’re in is that people got really good at creating illusions through campaigns and propaganda. Isn’t that indicative of the power of art? The global perception of what the world thinks the United States is was formed and is sustained currently because of music and film (although things are changing rapidly as people are beginning to see much clearer on a global scale). It is important for us to continue the paradigm shifting work. I speak to so many young people who are more politically savvy than I was at their age. Who use language I didn’t have access to. This is due to the artists’ role in making awareness valuable. There are so many people playing huge roles in making nature interesting to people who may have been detached at a time. Who are creating a change in narrative about what kind of faces are seen enjoying and relating to the natural world (@JessXSnow and @Sontenish are a couple of my favorites doing so in film. @lowleaf makes music with plants. @hawanemusic stepping forward as a voice for what’s happening in Hawaii. And so many other people who I know and don’t know. Tag them if you feel inspired to do so!). Sometimes, I read these news articles and get so sad, I don’t know what to do. But every day I am reminded that everything we make is impactful. And I see from even pop culture that the counter culture plays a huge role in what is ‘trendy” hence why all the house wives of Atlanta look like Brooklyn Bohemians these days. It’s important to create now with intention directed towards the future we intend to build together, and the planet we will pass on to our descendants.
So grateful for all the women in the world wearing, reading, sharing my work. I've been in creation mode and more is coming soon. Pictured here, the most magical mama daughter duo @mobrowne @amaresymone ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Truly feeling the loss of this legend. He brought so many sonic blessings to my life with such humility and grace. Going out for vegan Ethiopian food in your honor. Rest easy Ras G🚀🚀🚀
 
 
 
 
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