What is justice? It certainly is a fleeting concept, especially in this country. I will never stop asking the difficult questions, I will never stop trying to help heal humanity by doing my part. I will never stop loving because it’s all we have.
Read MoreI don’t understand why society says we have to be this or that, or why it has to be black or white. What is wrong with grey? I’m not great at living in the greys of life but I do appreciate them, and dare I say it, I am growing fond of the grey. It means that the best is still yet to come and I can yell “plot twist” and re-write my story at any given moment.
Read MoreI just have to be better about recognizing when to Eb and when to let it flow. But hooray for living, hooray for being able to experience this, all of this! The pain that leads us to a deeper appreciation for life, to be present and just enjoy it.
Read MoreDespite all that I have been through I am almost certain that there will be other obstacles for me to overcome and I GET TO experience it all. It’s a privilege to be alive and I’m HERE for it!
Read MoreI don’t know how we got to this notion of having to have it all figured out in T-minus 30 seconds. Some of the precedents we model our lives after are a bit unrealistic when we should model our lives on what works for us, not society or an entity. All I know is, that whatever comes, I am so ready for it!
Read MoreIt would be easy to shrink back in fear or act out of temporary emotion, which usually our default as humans is anger. Still, I will always advocate for finding the love, no matter how hard it gets. Now perhaps more than ever in today’s crazy world, we must always find the love. Love for ourselves first, and then love for others.
Read MoreThere was a moment this evening as I re-visited my old neighborhood, one of my old favorite restaurants too, and well, if I’m being honest it felt like I was really visiting older versions of myself when I realized, I really am growing. Perhaps above all else I am healing and to think it all began when I was living in Harlem.
Read MoreIt’s not your fault. You were doing the best that you could with the circumstances of life that were dealt to you. You are precious, you were and are perfect just the way God made you. You are light, you are love and you are life itself regardless of your mistakes.
Read MoreI have learned above all else it’s about patience. Patience with the process and yourself. And even patience with healing. In the words of Jacob Riis, “When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at a rock, perhaps a hundred without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
Read MoreWe’ve made progress, yes, but we have work to do! And in the words of a woman, I so greatly admire, Ms. Jennifer Lopez and of course one of the world’s most beautiful women is Latina like me, “Let’s Get Loud…Ain't nobody gotta tell ya what you gotta do. If you wanna live your life, live it all the way and don't you waste it…LET’S GET LOUD!”
Read MoreWhoever may be reading this, I see you and I get you my brother/sister/friend (whichever label works for you, ps: I hate labels) and we’re in this together. I’ve reached the point of my life where yes I want to be challenged and questioned. I want to stare my fears in the face and do things that scare me, why? Because it’s the only way out or the only way in which (I have found) that we grow.
Read MoreEven if you don’t know how it will all work out, I promise you it will. If we haven’t been listening to what Journey has been singing about these years, never stop believing. Never stop believing that it can STILL happen
Read MoreI promise that everything you could ever want is on the other side of this. I also need to remind myself of this too. More than anything you MUST stay in love, love with life, in love with yourself! Yes, it is the harder choice and it is easier to abandon ship and run away from the pain, run away from the difficulty or run away from confronting yourself. But why not upgrade? Why not choose differently?
Read MoreAnd at this moment, when I think about life’s unknowns or how much I want to be reactive to certain things, it serves me no good. I could instead spend that energy on things that are working out, the things that are going right in my life. For if we search for what we’re looking for, we usually find that we have MORE than enough. I choose to surround myself with those that want to be surrounded by me.
Read MoreIt’s going to work out, it always gets better and you’ll get to where you need to be in due time. TRUST that. I don’t know who I’m writing for but there will come a day when you’ll look back and realize that your dreams are no longer dreams, in fact, they will become reality. What are you speaking over yourself?
Read MoreThis stops now. Let people be who they are, you can either accept it or not, but DON’T you dare dim someone else’s light just because you can’t handle it. If something irks you about them, then perhaps look inside and figure out what needs to change within. Often there is our answer when something bothers us. I’ve also learned that how people meet us is in direct correlation to how much they’ve met or dealt with themselves.
Read MoreI’m happy going through my day-to-day. Wrong. If I’m not being challenged or things to change often, I get bored and fast. It occurred to me a while ago, that those years without acting were years where my life felt grey. The arts color my world. Is life easy? Ha. Absolutely not, but a life that is made easy all the time I’m convinced is not a life worth living.
Read MoreThe truth is, we’re stronger than we think we are. We’re braver than we think we are and more importantly, we are beautiful human beings worthy of love. I will say that true love and wholeness begin with loving yourself first.
Read MoreWhere is the fun in knowing it all, or doing it all by ourselves? Do you know how much pressure that adds? An unnecessary amount. We cannot face today’s battles with yesterday’s mindset.
Read MoreI have learned that sometimes God or the universe leaves out all the details on purpose. If we knew everything we would never need faith. I’ve also mentioned this before in previous blogs where I beg the question, “how boring would life be if we always knew what was coming?”.
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