Blax Hx 2023: In the Name

There is power in your name. Study its history, its origin. Love on it. Write it down, ball up the paper, see how it unfolds. No matter how many hard or soft covers beckon its beginning and end; no matter how many faces they give it, there it is. Etched inside. Parting red seas. A water mark that recedes and washes ashore. Again. There is power in The Name – inherited or gifted. So keep going. Keep being planted. And rise again. And walk again. And cry again. And have joy. Again.

🌹- What is a thorny rose, if not judgement? If not a scented resurrection? If called by any other name, would it not rise again? #MAHism2023

Blax Hx 2023: Prince of ☮️

And we must learn to release the grip around our enemy’s necks. Free our hands for something…more. Forgive our dreams for being nightmares (at times). Give a fist bump to the things you once thought were ruining your life. Ride in cars with tax collectors, realtors, and practitioners. Ask the great Prince of Peace to take the wheel (of fortune; of misfortune). Get dog tired of the spinning. For none of it is ours to grip, to hold, [I 🙏🏽 the Lord my soul…] to keep 🤲🏽.

We made a game out of the word ‘Jeopardy’ and we’ve been spinning ever since. #MAHism2023
ˈjepərdē – exposure to danger or peril, loss; vulnerability; insecurity; a thirst for peace unquenched by riding in cars 🚗 with you and you and you and me.

Blax Hx 2023: Care FULL

Careful with your voice. It carries a vibration. Different than sketching words onto lined canvases.
When you speak it is a forced-feeding of sorts. It is your self outside of itself.
Walking beside another. Braiding her hair. Shaving his beard. Coming closer and closer to orifices that don’t belong to the original speaker. Being chewed, swallowed. Digested. Coming out another’s end – looking nothing like it did before.
Careful. With your voice.

The crushing. The press. Shows how you’ve been careLESS. The pouring. The pull. Proves the purpose of CareFULL. And I thank God that there is still more love, more grace, more forgiveness in the bottle. #MAHism2023

Blax Hx 2023: Broken Cages

Once we realize how imprisoned we are…. Only then can we appreciate broken cages Can we admit to the ache in our wings Can we recognize the great importance of a call(in’), its song, and its flight