Lessons In Love PArt XI: Love

“… Love is my permission to be who I am”
- Chrisette Michelle

Now getting into the meat of the series, this particular post will be a 3 parter. In my experience I often found myself asking where is love? Something that is supposedly ever-present seemed at times very absent. And I found myself trying to conform [...]

Lessons In Love Part 4.5 The Family Of 1

This is a very profound piece by Ms. Lauryn Hill called  ”Oh Jerusalem” From the Unplugged Album. It’s is pure lyrics genius and she uses straight up bibicical scripture in the song in a poetic from. But the song it self is extremely criptic exspectial it you are not fimilar with the scriptures. I myself [...]

Lessons In Love Part IV: Friends & Family

“Love it will come find you just to remind you of who you are…. Friends sometimes will blind you, sneak up behind you; can’t give enough.” 
                            -Alicia Keys ‘The Thing About Love”
 
As I delve farther into adulthood and my beliefs and opinions become more [...]

Lessons In Love Part I: Live, Learn, Love, Then Live Again

STEP 1: To live and live actually you must have a realization of self. Like my grandmother and Ms. Lauryn Hill once told me “stop your compromising and live” that is, stop compromising yourself and live. The real you is more interesting than the fake somebody else.
So often we give watered down versions of ourselves [...]