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I love solo road trips as they give me time to think and notice how i'm interacting with the world around me
i meet people when i travel alone, which wouldn't happen if i were focused on my travel companions...that freedom allows me to connect freely with other beings who recognize me
like the Senegalese man I met on the subway in Montreal and had two lovely dates with...the language barrier made our interactions equally fun and frustrating but Google Translate was a blessing...he was kind, generous, goofy, funny, patient. we don't need anything from each other but good company...so simple.
and the Turkish man who i met and had a brief lunch with at an outdoor cafe on Queen St in Toronto...we talked about our shared approach to being alive in the world, and how our inner child is our true self, and how parents unintentionally (or not) disrupt children's ability to stay connected to their true selves...and how we are powerful and in control of our lives in ways we fail to recognize..and how home is wherever we are in the moment, and how animals are always true to themselves and present in every single moment no matter what...we laughed, drank margaritas, danced on the sidewalk to whatever was playing on the restaurant playlist then parted ways.
and the Ukranian woman i met in Buffalo who was running the film festival that showed my short film...she let me stay in her empty downstairs apt for two nights, having never met me before..she had that Shimmy energy (if you've never met okp Shimmy, i'm sad for you)..spiritual, kind, a lover of people and nature... we talked about the beauty of rituals and how to create your own without feeling pressure to do what others do...about independent filmmaking, art, shrooms, photography, indigineous cultures, how Black cultural imprints show up throughout the world...we talked about how we don't like this country and want to renounce our citizenship to some other place...how this world we live in is so much an elaborate fantasy that belies the beauty and truth of our existence...we ate Pho in Buffalo at Pho Daddy and it was amazing
these people keep finding me and i find them.
life is dope.
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"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
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