Twilight Hour
Twilight is like an empty womb, resting from hours upon hours of pushing. Finally we pause, lie in wait for darkness— for the evening’s full permission to be still and rest. She is the one singing us to sleep, beckoning gently, unlike the heavy midnight hour … who shushes quiet fiercely, closing lids fighting sleep
Where did O&W go?
Like most creative people, over time I began to crave solace and the time to actually learn or make something new.
It was time to be quiet, to let the cool, dark evening envelop me, and watch for what could be made in silence.
The Unstaged Life
I can only imagine the strangeness of knowing you don’t know something… and eventually you just accept what is.
I sat with her, in the second sanctuary of the day. So still, stiller than any stillness I’ve known. Like all the air was sucked out of the room and filled with “being”.
An honest perspective on Colorism— and other bi-racial things.
Rarely am I met with balance, thus, rarely do I discuss race. More often than not my experience is invalidated by one side or the other. I must pick a side, even though I am genetically equal parts.
Commencement
An immersive, in person art exhibition. Part 3/3 of Undergrad: A series on ending well.
UNDERGRAD: A series on ending well.
You know that feeling when you graduate? That’s where I feel Older & Wiser Co. arrived in 2023.
Equinox Event 3.19.23.
The Equinox invites us consider this changing season as more than simply “new beginnings”. Spring is not just longer days, new life and fresh beginnings…
Valentine’s 2023: Generational Love
Her hands were my favorite home to visit– worn and full of something intangible, Mystery brimming from her fingertips; a residue of all she’d held. Her story was wrapped up not in words, but in wrinkled, worn, paper thin skin.
