July 18 Full Moon

I am on my way to New York and am still in disbelief that I'm actually pulling this off. I left my house today with a backpack and a purse with the no intention of returning until the first week of October. There are going to be challenges and laughs and disappointments and I am soooooooo excited. I am overwhelmed with all of the support and the people I am already connected with in New York. My ideas and questions are constantly being refined from the reading I am doing and the podcasts I am listening to. It seems there is a huge gap in the archiving of cooperative work and would be an easy place to fill in the movement but I have to do it in a way that resonates. So far burial, the body, and CD recordings have been the most resonant but the immense amount of documents to be saved still needs to be considered. Maybe I could create/offer an archiving package where I preserve a piece of their work or offer guidelines to archive their work. My head is still in one or two many places but I recently read that as you start to walk on the way, the way appears. So I will continue to read, to hone, and to harness this statement. I. am. so. grateful. I don't know how many times I've said that but it is my constant emotion. It's my Jordan year! Nothing but swish.

Later that day

I realize I am not really, truly trying to present my best self in this work and in the things I say I want to do. Another exercise I am going to do is write down what I want people to say when my name is brought up in a conversation where I am not present. What are the words they will use to describe the work I am doing? I am still riding on autopilot Malikia out of pure habit. Not many things in my life have resonated to a point that I really tried. I mean where I really dissect, train, fail, and do it again. I am excited to embark on that process.

-MJ