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Today’s meditation:
Crying spells are cathartic.
Watercolor, ink on paper, 11” x 15”

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2021-01-26

Happy I create paintings that map out our emotional experiences and headspaces.

👩🏾‍🎨: https://t.co/nCOGN06vHj
💃🏿: https://t.co/sSSYSHyJ0N
🛍: https://t.co/F78eMUitea

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2021-01-12

Reflection 30: You are, I am, and we are
Making connections
Internet strangers
In an unprecedented time.
In other words, hello.

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2020-08-01

Reflection 25: It is darkest before an implosion. Chronic Anger pools in your abdomen, inflames your kidneys, liver. Don’t let the rage outlast its day’s battle and purpose—Even for righteous indignation.



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2020-08-01

Reflection no. 23: Discard the defeatist thinking and framing, the stories you inherited from your parents’ pain.
Who are you left with?
This is the process of introspection.


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2020-08-01

Reflection 20: This is a mechanism.
We create these for defense, and offense, to cope within our environment. Extensions of ego.
In this uncertain reality...are you checking your mechanisms? How do they serve you?

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2020-07-28

Reflection 18: The shore and the fork yield epiphany.

🎶The sea doesn't just exists.
Grays everything, crushes everything
Cleans everything, takes everything from me🎶

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2020-07-27

Reflection 16: Pay attention to what the heart speaks in whispers. Whatever you encounter that resonates and echoes in the chambers of your heart may ring as truth.

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2020-07-26

Reflection 13: My heart & mind, soul, body, are intrinsically interconnected. All are full. All must be examined closely, with a fine toothed comb.


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2020-07-24

Reflection no. 12: The ways my anxiety keeps spiking up, whew. There’s so much to worry, obsess, overthink or overreact to, right now.

Grant me the patience to grow into this new pace.


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2020-07-22

Reflection no. 6: Silence can calm the internal whirlwind of thoughts and emotions. Now is turbulence; next, I can seek and embrace peace.

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2020-07-10

Reflection no. 4: I accept that my thoughts meander because I am connecting the dots. It all comes full circle eventually.
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2020-07-07