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Hope is this thing Hope is this thing birds do in mud puddles. I feel the edge of the pin I stand on. Jump forward or fall back. Backwards is yesterday and forwards are tomorrows. I don't remember in my 20's being around in tomorrows of my 30's.

Still smell the gas of the old stoves in forgotten homes on the edge of door hinges....
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I read so many of these and didn't think it was for me but then it hit me...I do have a girl gang.

We call our selves a band but none of us make music. They are some of the coolest women I have ever known.They inspire me to be fearless and would kick anyone's ass who would disrespect them. They have also taught me
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Here in DC, there are a lot of young girls vanishing. We as a community feel like they are being stolen. The girls faces in the painting are the girls who wake up with one of their friends gone forever. They are the birds on the wire, watching the city under them as they sleep. They are colored rage, love, hope, fear, heart, need and...
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I loved making this one.

Are there any questions you have about me or my podcast I could answer on my podcast? I'm looking for ideas for the show tomorrow.

The best parts of me sing into the canvas in these. It chips at my heart sometimes. I want to feel lost in these deeply in the dark Winters. I can't avoid my memories in these brush strokes. They are not swords fighting off dragons but the rain on a mountain.

"this conqueror-image, a great many unadmitted despairs and confusions" James Baldwin.