Happy July

 

Joy fills my heart for all the good things I have encountered along the way to this moment and through the year that got me to the first of this new month.

 

Unbelievably fast, we rifle through the pages of this annual book and wonder if the speed of it all is actually cynically fictitious.

Learning however how to maneuver my way down the path as I connect more intimately with my maturing life and my purpose.

You know that as I enter in the new, I can’t deny the unfiltered inspiration I experience, the more comfortable I get with being me and with all of my natural elements.

 

And if you are around, come and hang with me as they close Newkirk Avenue to cars and make it a pedestrian fun zone for a day on July 12th, 2026. My band and I, Us3, will be performing live from 4-6 at the Flatbush Development Corporations Open Streets Event in front of 1616 Newkirk Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Hope you will feel the urge to come out and see us performing live music. Hope to see you there!  

A Writer Writing

A new month is upon us, and the truth about it is that we have been blessed to see another month. We are well into 2026. Thank God for the January that he brought us through. We survived the frigid temperatures and the days that came to greet us with open arms. 

I am on a new reading challenge that I joined, where I committed to read 100 books this year. I read four this month already and am on my fifth one, ironically, which is a book of inspiration for writers entitled "1000 Words: A Writer's Guide To Staying Creative, Focused, And Productive All Year Round," by Jami Attenberg. 

This book encourages writers to write 1000 words every day, and one of the things I put to paper was an acrostic poem for the February that is about to embrace us:

Frozen days that have not changed since December

Every day seems colder now than I could ever remember

 

But hope stands tall when the new month comes to play

Ready or not, February swings into bat and comes in to stay

 

Under the frigid temperatures that linger in the air is what we ride

A handful of salt we scatter all around us to not slip and to not slide

 

Running to love because God up above saw it fit to keep us and to bless us

Yes to living life as if it were golden and we leave our lives in his hands and trust

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I don't know about you but, I am grateful to have been kept and am beyond grateful for God's grace that got me through January in its entirety 

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If you liked that poem and are interested in checking out some of my other poetic pieces, please support my creative endeavors by investing in one of my poetry books:

Pulchritudinous: The Poetry Collection

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And Then There Was the Music

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Songs For My Mother

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Songs for My Father

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