The story of a lifetime, is our own.
Presenting the trailer for a forthcoming docu-series, exploring my history, memory and identity.
0C3ANS
Where there is water there is change. There will be a flood and there will be a drought again and again for many times over. The river will rise and the river will fall. Be ye not in opposition.
This year of life has unveiled a series of intense and unexpected upheavals. The pain is unprecedented but the possibility of such isn’t. Our world has always and will continue to hang in a delicate balance between creation and destruction, loss and gain, success and failure-life and death. Be ye not in opposition. The peaks maybe where you learn to fly but the valleys are where you learn to swim.
M0UNTAiNS
In the valley. In a place where I can look up a see my shadow and my light on either side of me. These windows to the soul are so open now. I see the bad habits, the innate natural silver linings, the fear responses, and the pure joy coming off of me like steam from a warm head on a cold morning. Observing my progress with more gentle whimsy and less fury these days. Accountability feels good. Patience feels good. Calm within oneself when one can create it feels good. When you know the destination, the distance doesn’t intimidate you. If you’re in the valley, you can see the mountains. You can see the top. You know where to go.
M00NS
I live in Brooklyn, New York now.
I came to start a new job, leaving behind Columbus, Ohio, the place I’ve called home for more than two decades.
New York already feels like home or at least a familiar territory. Despite having this feeling, I never imagined myself here exactly.
The months preceding my move were full of some of the most intense personal and professional upheavals I’ve ever experienced.
I’m still sorting through those moments but I can say that being here is good medicine for the process. What I do know is that my being here is a product of growth and that what I experience here will further that growth.
As I gaze down at the streets and people below me from rooftops or when I walk alongside a speeding train- I can feel a certain closeness to and distance from myself. I think it’s an awareness of the unknown. Beyond me and within me there is more to come.