Hey Reader!

Y'ALL. What a year this week has been! I turned 41 on Monday and I am IN MY CAPRICORN BAG. 🐐♑️

They say Capricorns are born old because we carry the wisdom of the universe. We are the GOATs for a reason. So this birthday? I honored the little girl in me who didn't get enough chances to PLAY. I built LEGO roses. I ate cake. I did whatever I wanted.

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My phone blew up with love from y'all and I felt so seen. Thank you to everyone who took time to wish me well. I'm feeling grateful, grounded, and ready for this year.

But fam… the world had other plans for this week. 😔

Let's talk about it. 👇🏾

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RANT

Do not let them gaslight you.

This week, the government looked us square in the face and told us to stop believing our own eyes. Multiple times.

On Wednesday, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman named Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. She was 37 years old. A mother of three. Video from multiple angles captured what happened. And within HOURS, Homeland Security and Kristy Noem’s ol’ tethered face called it "an act of domestic terrorism" blaming the woman who was murdered. Said she attacked officers and tried to ram them with her vehicle. Like… IKYFL with your “racism rots you from the inside out” face.

But WE HAVE THE VIDEO. 👀

Then on Tuesday, the White House published an ENTIRE WEBSITE rewriting the history of the insurrection that happened on January 6, 2021. You know, the day we all watched a violent mob storm the Capitol in real time on live television. The day people died. The day they tried to stop the certification of an election.

Five years later, they're trying to tell us it didn't happen the way we SAW it happen. 😡

George Orwell was spot on in 1984 when he said:

This is not fiction anymore. This is happening RIGHT NOW. In real time. They are telling us not to believe what we literally watched with our own eyes.

Do not allow yourself to be gaslit. We saw what we saw. Whether it was January 6th, 2021 or January 7th, 2026 in Minnesota or all of the other times they’ve tried to gaslight us. WE SAW WHAT WE SAW. 🗣️

We MUST refuse to let ourselves be propagandized by Satan’s minions who are now running this country into the ground. Once we start denying what we know to be true is when we have lost.

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REFLECTION

Your soul chose this moment. Now what?

I've been thinking about something that either comforts me or makes me wanna fight my own spirit. Depends on the day. 😅

They say our souls chose this moment. That we are here, right now, in this specific time in history, on purpose. That before we got here, our souls looked at everything that was coming and said, "Yeah. That one. Put me there. I volunteer as tribute."

And if that's true? DAMB. My soul ain't have to do all that. 😩 Like I wanna fight my highest self and be like WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US, SIS?? 😭😭😭

There were other timelines available. Other moments in history. And my soul said, "Nah, give me 2026. Give me the gaslighting government. Give me the AI deep fakes. Give me the whole circus. I will go for that."

And I signed the contract that Sky Daddy presented. Did I read the fine print?!? Cuz ain’t no wayyy. Whyyy would I even dare?

Anyway, here's where I've landed.

Last year, Isabel Wilkerson asked a question in her commencement speech at Wellesley College that keeps echoing in my spirit:

“Why did all that we are seeing have to happen on our watch? Why now? And why us?”

And then she answered it:

"We are not in the situation we're facing because we can't handle it. We are in the situation that we are facing precisely because we can."

Read that again. 👀

We are not here because we’re weak. We are here because we are strong enough. For reasons only the universe understands, we are exactly where we’re supposed to be in the long flow of human existence.

We might need to reframe it from being a burden and see it as an assignment. Maybe we’re here because we are the right ones to build the actual world we wanna see. Maybe WE are the changemakers for such a time as this.

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​Reader, you're not here by accident. And you're not here to just… exist through it. You're definitely not here to disassociate (although you can play the Sims for 5 hours at a time from time to time like I do). 🙅🏾‍♀️

I know the temptation. To numb out. To scroll until your eyes hurt. To binge one more episode so you don’t have to sit with the weight of what’s happening. But checking out completely is not why your soul signed up for this moment.

We are not in the situation we're facing because we can't handle it. We are here precisely because we can.

So what is your assignment?

I don’t know exactly what it looks like. But I do know this: stop doubting the thing you keep feeling pulled toward. That nudge. That idea. That life. That truth you’re supposed to tell. That thing you keep circling back to even when the world feels like it’s on fire.

If your soul chose this moment, it chose it because you have something to contribute. Something to create. Something to leave behind.

The chaos is real.

But so is your assignment.💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

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RECOMMENDATION

Your assignment might be a book. Let me help you write it.

Sometimes when things feel this chaotic, our dreams get quiet. We put them on the back burner because survival feels like enough.

I saw someone say recently that creating art feels inappropriate right now. And I couldn't disagree more. Creating art is most URGENT right now.

Toni Morrison said it best:

"This is precisely when artists go to work. There's no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."

I shared more about why this matters so much right now in this video. But the short version is: we need your stories. Now more than ever.

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What truth have you been witnessing that others are trying to make you doubt? How are you staying grounded?

Hit reply. I want to hear from you.

With truth and purpose,

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P.S. For those who need a little help with your nervous system tonight (or any time), you can hit PLAY on this playlist and let it run in the background while you do whatever. I sometimes play it when I'm sleeping. Sound frequency can help you regulate. I'm using all the tools I can get nowadays. 💛

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