July 2010
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“When I say, ‘I love you,’ it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have...”
– - Joss Whedon (via teachingliteracy)
Dope.
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Day 5-- Your Dreams
How do I know you exist anymore? I used to have you so often, and so vividly, I felt like I could touch you. Taste you. We were inseparable. I promise, there were times when I’d experience you that I thought I could take over the world.
But lately, you’ve become more of a blur. As in, I know you still come around, but not nearly as often, and on those occasions that you do, I rarely...
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Day 4-- Your Sibling
Dear Sibling,
Hey man. I don’t think I’ve ever written to you before. Which makes no sense whatsoever. It’s not like I don’t miss you, because I do. There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t think about you for some reason. I could be thinking back to the 70s when you would come by with your perfect afro, digging in the scene with your gangsta lean. Or the...
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Day 3-- Your Parents
Dear Mom:
I’m sorry I never got the chance to know you. Every once in a while I think about what it would’ve been like to grow up with you as a mother. What it would’ve been like to be your son. I think about what it must’ve been like for you to have a baby you probably weren’t prepared for by a man you weren’t married to. I wonder if you cried when you found...
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Day 2-- Your Crush
Dear Crush,
Yes, I like you, but what you are reminds me of what you’ll eventually do to my heart—crush it. Mind you, not necessarily because of something you’ll do—trust me, I do pretty well stomping on my heart on my own—but because it seems to be the natural order of things. I’ll like you, you won’t like me back, and then we’re stuck in some sort...
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“He was just about done packing all of his things when he stopped in his tracks,...”
– ‘Five Pack’, February 2010
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“It’s just a whole different feeling when you got money in your pocket. You...”
– Hakim, on Pay Day.
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Day 1 -- Your Best Friend(s)
To The Two of You,
For more than 30 years, we’ve been rocking with the ease of a hammock posted on the porch of a Mediterranean villa. It’s always been what it is—easy. Steady. And like that hammock, while the waves have crashed below us, we’ve always been able to rise above. We’re good like that. Which makes me proud that we’re still rocking steady today.
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