Essence Fest Excursion: A trip I considered skipping turned into a adventure I’ll never for get.
She asked me to take a picture of my Outkast shirt, while Pj Morton preformed his bounce version of ‘New Orleans Girl’ live. That led to my impromptu role as a tour guide in a city I was just barely familiar with for the remainder of that weekend.
Leaving the Essence festival campus we visited Studio BE, a shrine dedicated to self love and self-image empowerment. There we met my friend Patrick, he gave the authentic tour to the city. As a result we drove to Algiers to Exhibit BE. 2 years prior at that very site, on Martin Luther King day, I dropped everything I was doing including taking off of work to witness the fruits of a communities’ labor, passion, and love come to life. Where I witnessed my best-friend earn his first spot in a major art show. Where I saw Erykah Badu for free.
Mankaprr.. her presence was as strong as her name & as beautiful as her sincerity. Her adventitious spirit to trust a complete stranger(s) to lead her throughout New Orleans. Our conversations, of Top 5 favorite Michael Jackson songs to the industrialization of charter schools, came comfortably. Something clicked between us. Not in a romantic way, but in a way that God provides what you need in people for a specific reason & season, the affirmation to follow the passion that you can’t escape from. Thank you, for helping me find what I've been missing for months, the spark to start the life God has for me.
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