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Plant More Seeds

Nurture something. Water it. Watch it grow. Watch it low-key die after a missed watering, and fill your heart with joy when you successfully nurse it back to life. Let it teach you patience. Let it soothe your soul. And as with all life, it may die on your watch, but recognize the beauty in feeling loss and learning to let go of it.

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A Truly Beautiful Thing Happened Recently, And I Want To Talk About It...

As an avid TikTok watcher while folding my laundry, washing dishes, and prepping meals, I was severely heartbroken when TikTok went dark. My free entertainment and education were gone. My beautiful community of strangers was suddenly taken away. And even though it is back up and running at the time of my writing this, a part of it died, and we may not get it back.

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The Best Advice I've Ever Received

Want to know the best advice I’ve ever received? I was sitting on my stoop in Harlem one day when a friend of a friend passed by and stopped for a spliff and a brief chat—the magical NYC summer afternoons of fairytales. I no longer live there, but it was definitely a time… Regardless, this gentle human dropped the best knowledge for all creatives willing to hear it and process it to the fullest extent.

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DEAR DIARYDanielle Helena
The hardest thing I've ever had to do is say goodbye to you...

How the hell do I gather the strength to say goodbye to you? How the hell do I come to terms with the fact that our journey together is over? There is no blog, no book, no podcast, and no conversation with friends and family that can properly prepare a person to say goodbye to their most constant companion. My guy. My main man. My Trav. 

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