Life As An Art Form

Quips & Commentaries in Prose and Poetry

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H E A V Y What have you been taught about love, and why haven’t you loved and loved fully? What pain have you inflicted on others simply to protect your neck? What role do you play in the erasure and silence of others only because of your cowardice? In the name of your “beliefs,” who have you harmed in your “loving”? Life is heavy, but so is love. It is time we sit the baggage down, inspect, and unpack it all. 😘Love is accountable, always requiring that we unpack the ways we’ve harmed and the ways we love. Love requires that we unlearn some of the ill shit we’ve learned and become in the process. Love is recognizing the seedy and vile ways in which we’ve both “loved” and withheld love from any humanity that does not mirror our own. Love is finally owning up to the emotional and physical violence we’ve inflicted on others and helping others to do the same so we can move forward in love for real, for real. Love requires all of this. If we don’t ever unburden ourselves, then we are never ever truly free. Never. Now, that is some heaviness. #RealHealing #liberation #WhatAreYouReading #books #Heavy #KieseLaymon #love #GreatReads #BlackMen #Vulnerability #loving #RealLove #PersonalNarratives #AmericanMemoir #black

F I N D Y O U R S E L F: apart from my #RedBoots 😉 i believe that #literature is the only thing that will truly save us. Seems we’ve grown weary of listening to and beholding each other. How then can we find the divinity in anyone, let alone ourselves? Our attentiveness is anything but present. Solitude? What’s that? We live lives possessed by noise and distractions and scrolling and feeds and knee-jerk reactions and comments and pseudo analysis. We insufficiently contemplate and introspect. In saunters literature with its quiet urgency and confident invocation - inviting us to deal with our deepest selves, our most pressing anxieties, fears, and convictions. Ah, such radical and transformative power is found between the words and pages. Language both rescues and implores. Ridiculously beautiful, language forces us to be transparent with our most intimate selves.... but only if we dare. 😘 I believe this with every nerve and sinew of my being, so much so that I’ve committed the rest of my life to #writing the #stories, sharing the #narratives, healing myself, ourselves. #WritingHealing #WhatAreYouReading #TransparentTalks #CandidConversations #amwriting #StealingMySaturdays #Saturday #Solitude

S E E I N G R E D: These #boots make me feel like such a #BadAss 💕💕 these boots are meant for walking. Somebody wrote a song about it 😉 Stepping into #2019 #LikeWhoa #RedBoots #SexyLady I might wear them all year. #CurrentMood #WritingBoots #boots #bootseason #cowgirl #RideOrDie

once upon a time I loved Sundays from service to sweet afternoon naps from lovemaking to dinner prep from open-road drives to catching up with girlfriends a phone call even a blog post maybe yarning a poem crafting a character nursing a glass of red wine Sunday musing Stealing back my #Sundays one #QuietWord at a time. —- #FreedomAintFree #ToniMorrison #GodHelpTheChild #books #goodreads #novel #amreading the second thing I love the most; the first is #writing #WriterFirst #Writer #Reader #Poet #Sundays #MyMentalHealthMatters #LovingMe #SelfCareBestCare #Author #Publisher #BusinessWoman #LifeOnPurpose #intention #purpose #writersofinstagram

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