Take a minute and paint a picture in your mind’s eye. Summertime. You’ve just spent the the weekend becoming more of who you are. Physically, you feel your feet wisp through 2 foot high grasses as you follow a group of another half dosen humans down a hill through a wooded trail, barefoot. As the sky changes it’s outfit from pinks to orangish blue, most of us walk along and listen to the birds morning songs in scattered silences. Content and smiling on the inside. Awol stops and recites poetry. Everyone circles around to listen. For a moment, It feels home but you’re in a place with people you’ve never met. We continue down to the river, meanwhile - Andrew is encouraging all of us to take a turn to read & breathe into the moment around us with the exhales of deeper meaning. We’ve arrived at the river, and...
Read moreTake a minute and paint a picture in your mind’s eye. Summertime. You’ve just spent the the weekend becoming more of who you are.
Physically, you feel your feet wisp through 2 foot high grasses as you follow a group of another half dosen humans down a hill through a wooded trail, barefoot. As the sky changes it’s outfit from pinks to orangish blue, most of us walk along and listen to the birds morning songs in scattered silences. Content and smiling on the inside.
Awol stops and recites poetry. Everyone circles around to listen. For a moment, It feels home but you’re in a place with people you’ve never met.
We continue down to the river, meanwhile - Andrew is encouraging all of us to take a turn to read & breathe into the moment around us with the exhales of deeper meaning.
We’ve arrived at the river, and a few of us strip down to jump in a small watering hole that naturally formed along the bank. The rest of us strip down the cages around our spirits and share with eachother. Some recited with words and some spoke with dance, song, stories.
At this point in time,
I hadn’t even hear any of Andrew’s music. A week later I went to his album release in Baltimore. Fuckin here for it.
It’s a gift to realize how important it is to have those kind of people like Drew smash into your reality.
To wake up and revive the dead parts of us that bring us closer together. Now, without somebody like AWALL, I'm not sure if I'd be as happy and motivated and optimistic as I am today.
Thanks for teaching me that Dreaming is better done while we’re awake. And for being a friend, top tier listener, and the one who reminded me to never lose the drive to seek a higher version of ourselves.
~Stay grateful homies
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