ART/LIFE I might invite you to join me in this dance. Glass half empty, yes, I said half empty. This dance is…This dance is nothing, really. Except everything. This dance is life. This dance is meaningless and it is all the meanings. I might invite you to join me in...
ART/LIFE I’ll give you a hint: it’s not getting an MFA (though that can be great for a person in the right mindset and with the right intentions). The most important thing a working artist can do is their inner work. That’s the truth. First off, your inner work...
ART/LIFE You’re not hiding anymore. That was my first (or one of my first, I don’t always catch the first one) thoughts when I woke up this morning. You’re not hiding anymore and you can’t go back to hiding. There are a number of things moving and shifting and...
ART // LIFE My last post was at the end of February. That is a long time in body-years considering that our bodies completely renew every cell every seven. It is no surprise then, that my body has taken me through a major transformation since the dead of winter. I’ve...
ART/LIFE Practicing humility today, from my bed, throat coated in mucus. Yes, a pretty picture of humility. I feel excited about life and also close to the bottom of a long-denied void. I feel/see/taste my six-year-old self telling me things. There I am, sitting for...
Lots of feelings watching Adele up there holding the Grammy for album of the year, acknowledging that her working inspiration, Beyonce, is sitting right in front of her. In the history of the Grammys, three black women have taken home Album of the Year: Natalie Cole...
