Posts

Be creative and action oriented

Image
 For the past few months, I have been involved in a political organization called Cleveland Votes and within that organization, there is a program called More Than My Art which is a program that allows people to brainstorm creative and unique ways to vote. At the end of the program, every participant has to create a creative asset that lures people into voting, and the tagline if you can call it that, is midterm elections. Recently, I helped out with a participant's creative asset and one of the stations I had to manage was community building with arts & crafts which basically was how do people define their communities and how does it look from their perspectives using crafts. I created my community and for mine, I was thinking that community doesn't have to be a specific place, it can be a spiritual journey or a spiritual being that can be your community. Down below, this is what I created. The words that I wrote below the cross are words that encompass my spiritual journe...
Post a Comment
Read more

Choose You

Image
 My definition of choosing you is to choose thyself FIRST without anybody's judgement or fear of being ridiculed. I truly believe that you have to be your own cheerleader, your parents are going to be there with you, hopefully but I think it's ultimately up to you to have that confidence and to have that drive whatever that drive entails. Maybe it's easier said than done to choose yourself but I don't think it's impossible.       When I was growing up, I didn't know how to choose myself! I was trying to figure me out and the figuring took along time but eventually I figured myself out. God, family and friends made me realize my potential. Everyday I'm choosing myself even if I'm not realizing it. I can't go in the directions that my parents or anybody else wants me to go, I have to choose my journey and destinations and that all trickles down to choosing me and I'm glad as FUCK I'm choosing me. I'm a praying man and lately, I've been ...
Post a Comment
Read more

My Thoughts (WrestleMania Day 1 & 2)

Image
  I'm almost a week late but I think WrestleMania should've been a bit better in my opinion.  I think the matches were short minus a couple and the creative strategy was a bit lacking in one match. I believe day 2 was better than day 1. I would like to break down a few matches into detail, and the breakdown of the matches will be listed below.  Becky Lynch vs AJ Lee (Intercontinental Championship)- In this match, Becky kept messing with the referee, Jessika Carr to win the title against AJ. I thought the match was creative with a lot of twists and turns but the twists and turns stopped suddenly and thus the creativity stopped. I would've wished Becky could've continued messing with the referee with more twists and turns that eventually leading to AJ retaining the title.  Women's Tag Team Match- (Bayley & Lyra, Nia Jax & Lash Legend, Paige & Bella twin, Charlotte & Alexa) This match was really good and when Paige came out, I was shocked but in a good ...
Post a Comment
Read more

I had to go through the darkness to see the light

This past Tuesday, I saw a movie entitled Reminders of Him and the movie was good. This movie makes me think of these words: joy,  gratitude, friendship, trauma and resiliency.  I'm pretty sure there are a few more words that could describe this movie, but these words say it all I believe. You guys can see the movie yourselves to judge yourself. Life will have joyous occasions and life will also have some shitty moments. Alot of times, I want to seek balance and more often than not, the universe doesn't do balance and I think sometimes being unbalanced is good because if life was balanced all the time, it wouldn't be room for improvement. I just pray to God and I TRY to have faith on a constant basis. When I pray to God, everything that I prayed for worked out and the blessings still come thru, in His own timing though.      For the ones who don't know need to get hip immediately (LOL) but I have a spoken word album out. The words that I used to describe the mov...
Post a Comment
Read more

Deepen my creative palette

Image
I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY SPOKEN WORD ALBUM IS OUT, I AM SO PUMPED . The album was set to be release on the 27th of January, but it was on platforms a few days later because some clearance issues arose but all is done now and everybody can enjoy listening at their leisure. I don't want to be cocky or have a bigger head than I already have (LOL) but this spoken word album is pretty DAMN GOOD!! I could've been hung up on some minor mistakes that happened on this album, but I decided to not dwell on those minor mistakes and instead focus on the positive influence that I have on myself making this album and hopefully having a bigger influence on others when they hear this album. I just want to spread PEACE & LOVE, that's ALL I want to do. Spreading PEACE & LOVE throughout the nations and maybe by people listening to my album or certain songs, they will be healed from within, maybe not cured from their dilemmas but hopefully a temporary tranquility will enter their ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Not for just one day, but ALL days

Image
 I know Thanksgiving has passed but I think WE all should be thankful for everyday life.  It's for damn sure; I'm going to be thankful because I have gone thru a lot to not be thankful. Everybody goes through ups and downs, and trials and tribulations in life BUT that doesn't mean there aren't cracks of joy in life. I think I'm very in tuned with my emotions in my adult life and that's one great thing I'm thankful for. Waking up each morning is a huge blessing from God and I'm thankful for that. Lately, I did something that might've been questionable but at the end of the day, I'm thankful for the receiver and I'm also thankful for the feelings behind the situation even if the action was wrong. Of course, I'm thankful for many things but if I wrote on how much I'm thankful for, it will be a manuscript, LOL. Just be THANKFUL!!    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRwds8nEXon/?igsh=MW9oOTR0bmE4M3BpOQ==
Post a Comment
Read more

The Dream

Image
 Last night I saw a one man act play entitled The End of Black Excellence at the Cleveland Public Theatre with my sister and mother. The play is broken into four parts and the play is though provoking and vibrant in regards of visual effects and storytelling. I would rate this play 10/10 even though I'm not a theatre critic. The director shared his opening thoughts about the play and he questioned who defines excellence? The actor also shared his thoughts too and he questioned is living as himself good enough? I'm going to tell you guys what I thought and hopefully you can develop your own thought process when you see it in person ( https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2025-2026/the-end-of-black-excellence/ ).      The African American community has been through turmoil after turmoil and history has shown that in major ways and frankly, the black population has been on the lower stick ever since ever. The End of Black Excellence explores the highs and lo...
2 comments
Read more