I make them as needed and one of the things I’ve noticed since my arrival in California they are needed more often. I am more flexible at 51 than I was at 31. I was fully prepared that this would be the last week doing something, turns out I have to do it more and the pivot is harsh. I got this though.

I have to adjust and admit that I create content. That’s the word even though I don’t feel like a content creator. I am just expanding my base so when I pull the trigger in May things move faster.

Before May arrives though March 20 arrives and that pivot is low key exciting. As much fun as the last 5 months have been I am looking forward to the price increase I shall earn that day.

During BHM they have drug the Black woman DA through the mud because she had the audacity to build a case against a traitor and date a married man. Whew chile.

Fani hit back harder than they did yesterday and yes I understand she will be judged much more harshly by society in general it doesn’t make her wrong. It also is the blueprint and I am excited to watch myself and others build on it.

I have 2 projects I have to begin but I am putting them off until after the weekend at least. I want 72 more hours of Black Girl joy before revisiting the grind.

They sent the lease renewal notice and I countered. Last year when I countered, it resulted in a $0 increase. This year I am only looking at a $10 increase but I plan to also get a new washer/dryer out of the renewal also. I note this here as a reminder that I can do anything, even that which should not be done. I watched Move In Day about a ?week? ago and I still chuckle at my arrival at the leasing office. I chuckled for more than one reason, but the chuckle that I am writing about was the hand up when it was clear that their approach was not direct enough. They wanted to have a conversation outside the door to the help and I was having zero parts of that. In hindsight, that was a clue – or should have been to me – that what was asked of me was counter to who I am. I don’t regret the journey though because without it I am still on Delancey St. I am not here at my desk in California.

I could expand on how the race of the help likely triggered that reaction, but it ain’t about them. I did a lot those first few weeks. I’ve done even MORE in the 2 years since. I will be doing more bigger and bolder after this. Stay back there in mediocrity and manipulation. I am going…..forward.