What’s Up?

What’s Up? If you’re reading this I miss you. And it’s been awhile since we’ve seen each other. I have been by my lonely during my home life. However, Summer teaching Practicum was a rocket of fun. It taught me much about educating as well as reaffirming who I am.

My teaching organization is incredible… To make an impact during such a tumultuous times is a blessing. It’s interesting we all seek to impact children and create a brighter future for us and them, but how differently we would like to achieve that future is eye opening. Our diversity and complexity is a great source of power. Relational power is what we are taught. To Empower through sharing power, as opposed to employing dominant power and having dominion over others. I have had to address my beliefs so that I may continue to be a great leader to these kids, its exhilarating. There are parts of me I have left behind so that I may grow into who I would like to be. There are other parts of me that I know resolutely benefit humanity and education, I speak from those places proudly. Because at the end of the day, I am not an educator for myself but for the people.

What I do for myself is what brings me to Atlanta. Rippity Rap Rapping. I have been at it since a kiddo with no plans of stopping. As I’m settling in, I have been experimenting on some beats from the homie, Zan Dretti. I am playing, it’s about how I play on the playground at the end of the day. It’s an expression from my unique universal view point. I’ve three weeks off in between my teaching organization and school orientation. I am spending it to help transition my mind. If you know me personally you know the accrual of shadows has been quite straining on my psyche. And that I have been suffering out of desperation for something to workout greatly. Well truthfully, something has.

Now, in the throes of success I would like to achieve some practiced and well deserved peace. I do not have to want for my basics to be covered. They simply are. It is a culmination of five years of collaborative work with my love. We are blessed to have boons that we have hoped and toiled for. In my mind it is hard to let go of the terror and panic of the last three years. Life has worn on my brain greater than I typically admit. But here on the page I give it to you all. It’s the place where it’s easiest for me to be honest. I still wrestle with the dissatisfaction of where my music career is. Even with so much work and dedication it still doesn’t supply me with the resources to solely do it. However, my primary goal is to impact the world, and through educating I do that. Which brings me tranquility, hope, and great literature to inform my art practice.

I am well, but if you’re reading this, you are a loved one from my life that I miss deeply. Thank you for being you, I pray that your path is what you continue to walk and you are doing your best to be kind to yourself. - Jules