just in case you forgot 🌸💐 (at Washington D.C.)
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CLAIRTY: 2020 Vision Board party hosted with @zari_thegiant was the ultimate success! Nothing like creating a beautiful container with your dear friends — Hope to see you at the next one 🌸😘✨🙏🏾
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#VisionBoardParty #2020Clarity #RiseAndRoot
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I live for elegance, mystery and sophisticaton but I also live for rawness, audacious sense of living and passionate unrefinement of feeling
‘O my Rab, I am in need of whatever goodness you grant me.’
face paint fun ✨🧚🏽♀️
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last night, @thearielaqua hosted a writing tribe commune and graciously hosted fellow creators to come together in a sacred space to create from our hearts in a small and intimate way.
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she passed around a cup with words on them and i shared a piece of paper with another writer. one single sheet with the word “Passion” scribbled across it.
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so i just flowed, let my hand go and this is the result of 10 minutes of writing - what a wonder in such a short amount of time!
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the link of the entire free write is in my bio, i hope you enjoy!
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art by @angelicaalzona ✨
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I re-blogged this in 2013
and bought a copy of the book in 2019
time is a spiral.
CROWNED —
when folk ask me what i’ve been up to all 2019, i really can’t give a straight forward answer because it just depends on your vantage point. one thing is for certain is that i have been discovering an even deeper well of self love. sure, i can purchase a candle which will fill my space with aroma but i’ve taken 2019 to explore *RADICAL* self love. asking myself:
- can i love myself even when i feel unloveable?
- can i love myself through grief and depression?
- can i find love in moments where i do not feel successful?
- can i love myself even when i’m still at the junction of growth & it’s not pretty?
2019 answered a yes. and it was a bellowing YES that started with my world opening up to new possibilities and relationships to support the breadth of the love i’d discovered for myself, my universe and my community.
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I copped @shavonnebee’s “Busy Loving Myself” from @redwandboutique as a way to commemorate this year’s growth groove. i also danced in my room and twirled around, pants-less to celebrate a year of growth, amazing friends and the vitality to continuously love myself through it all. when they ask you “whatchu been up to?” and notice your hair has grown, intellect is bussin and your skin has glown and yes that ass is sittin, let them know you’ve been busy loving yourself 🥰
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What will always remain is this gentleness so why not answer the call to it? I think somewhere they want me to believe life is this toiling but I refuse.
Weekend mood: free-flowing
birds fly so high
@WeHeartIt /keepcalmimhere/collections/91963387-books-coffee-work
dancing flame.
talks of brevity where i am finding the language of grace to describe what is explosive to some; chaotic to many but how do you find the wording to place a stirring that never stops. how can i convey that still waters are my home; a resting place i come to eternally but not until i get my garments a little dirty; not until i ruffle a few feathers and surely not until i watch a burning furry signaling what’s to come in its place. i am positively, hopefully and entirely enamoured by the construct of constructing. building a new and connecting dots for worlds we have yet to see. the midwife to what was forgotten because it simply felt impossible. that is what i do and do best — hop upon my flying disc and whisk myself away to do the work. to fashion something out of nothing and then, and only then can a sanctuary serve me. a resting place is just what it is when every waking moment is declared holy. what’s sacred to an altar? the answer is everything and i am finding the wording to string together daily to position myself to this. what is boundless cannot be contained. this is a declaration to what is eternally free in you and me.
Amel Larrieux - Berries and Cream
Lost in a daydream.
look mama, i’m published!
so thankful to be part of this anthology published by @indiebluwritersnetwork —
“smitten” is an anthology of artfully crafted poetry by women, for women —
this poem is about one woman, or all women we know. the women who stand as the muses for the worlds we are creating. i was raised in a community of women raising other women in their reflection & these lines honor the inner flame they passed onto me. these lines recognize the beauty of black women, with coils grazing heaven’s crescent & highlights the communal love we so often share.
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to purchase & support small, independent publishing houses, and budding poets as myself — the link to the entire anthology is in my bio. if you would like a copy of my poem, feel free to dm me & i will email you!
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#writing #poetry #smitten #indiebluepublishing #woman #publishedwriter #blackpoets #poetsofinstagram #printneverdies
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an ode to, the listener the bystander:
life is more than just sensibility, ethics and logical decision making, which everyone could make use of but, it’s the things which light your fire and spark your inhibitions so that they are burned down to the ground faster than an oak to a flame that matter most. those things which rip you apart, cause you to break and suffer and become happier and stronger than ever, those things are worth more than anything. the happiest people know happiness because they have known the darkness and love themselves and life for it. the love affair that you start to develop with your own life is the sweetest, stickiest, guiltless, indulgent, passionate and never ending romance you will ever encounter. if you learn to love yourself, you will never get sick of yourself but you will learn to handle yourself with care. if you wine and dine yourself, treat yourself, spoil yourself, understand, trust, believe, uplift, support and overcome and remain honest to yourself, then you will be able to indulge and reflect this inner light to the rest of the world which so desperately needs it. this is me trying to capture my life instead of letting senseless things like the past or uncertainty of the future dictate my now, i will revel and immerse myself in the present as to enjoy it more. i want to spend my right now’s reading all of the books i told myself i would do in due time, buy the things i said are for later, speak the words that seem to cower the second they tip toe across my tongue. i want to live so fully and in the now that i can’t fathom how the next moment could even amount to the beauty of current one. i will create an adventurous and peaceful existence for myself because i have granted myself the power to do so and i have been fueled by my existence - the parts of it that have been both good and bad to get here and i am so glad for the journey. i will write fervently because that’s what i aspire to be. i will write and stretch my inspiration to the tips of my limbs until i am beckoned by the weight of the words to dance and groove, desire pens to accompany me. sail with them, build with them, and undo them as to douse and soil pages with my thoughts. i will love those who need it most in my life unapologetically because they are owed this and i will smile as hard as i can so that my heart my find peace and i will be lovely in my demeanor because my soul deserves me to be. i will make this day, the day that it was meant to be. With the good graces of God above and those who love me most, i will live.
I wrote this 6 years ago and who would’ve known I needed this, today.