The StarsNotes

Hi SOUL Hi! Lovianhal!
How you? I’m glad you’re here. I’m here too! I love you.

So what had happened was…

I had not intended that today would be the first day we’ve moved The StarsNotes over to here to Substack. I had intended to do this whole thing of uploading older posts first, but I was bulljanking. And we’ll suppose it never would have happened at all had I not been locked out of my previous newsletter interface today. And since I am already running late with writing and posting for varying reasons, I thought I’d just go with the flow of progression. Using inconvenience as a propellant forward. If you’re new to the Starsnotes, welcome. Hi Soul Hi! We are so glad you are here. The StarsNotes are my weekly musings that I use as the jump off discussion we have every week on The Envy McKee Show— which airs Fridays from 7-10ET on WURD Radio in Philly. And also FacebookLive and Twitch. We’ll get into where you can read the 200 or so other StarsNotes later, but for now, let’s vibe like you’ve been here the whole time. K.

3000 Years of Longing

You ever see 3000 Years of Longing? Starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton? It’s a story about how a Jinn—a mystical ancient being with unimaginable magical powers was relegated to being a “genie in a bottle” with a “master” to grant wishes for. Ie—someone without any power who gets the being with all the power what to do. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. How the unimaginable power and beauty of Blk people was captured and confined. Curated even, for unseasoned gazes.

How Sway?

Is always the question. Never why. We know why. The why is everywhere we look.

How you get a Jinn—probably the most powerful being on the planet–in a bottle?

A Time Was Had…

With that in mind, I’m pretty clear I am actively working on my memoirs and a documentary or docuseries about my life as a twenty year Philadelphian radio broadcaster. If you follow me on socials, maybe you’ve seen my ongoing “A Time Was Had” instagram docu-series (in consciousness)— which are essentially a bunch of gorgeous phone dumps. Moments in time that I experienced fully and captured my unique vantage point with my camera phone that, maybe, I intended to post, but never did.

Moments from my travels.

Art that took my breath away in museums and galleries around the country.

Photos from my radio career.

Adventures I’ve had at concerts…

Chile, looking back on all of the memories I now have the opportunity to curate and add music soundtrack too, like a collage or a living quilt of my life has been boundlessly beautiful. And cathartic for this part of my journey where I’m discovering who I am now with my teen in her second year of college, divorce final and a life to re-imagine in real time. Looking back into these fabulous moments has sparked something in me I struggle sometimes to express in words. It’s like I’m seeing myself and my talent with fresh eyes. It’s like, a part of me that was always there, that I couldn’t see in its fullness is now blinking at me with both eyes like, Sis.

Meanwhile, part of the reason these photos and videos have been in phone purgatory for over a decade is that I used to want to jump head first into new things like my life was on fire. I might have had the mind to capture things for the Harriet Tubman’s interwebs in general or “the gram” specifically prior to setting out on a particular adventure, but then the moment is over. A time was had. And I move on to the next thing.

I think what has changed is how many people— close people— in my life have passed on to the ancestor realm. I do not think of my mortality in any meaningful way, but I have started to think about what I want to leave behind when my time comes. I don’t so much care what will people say about me (I’m a Sag, draw your own conclusions) as much as, what if my life were a museum and I can curate the art and artifacts in it any way I want. What’s going in?

I’m pretty clear this sentiment came from a conversation we had on TEMS (The Envy McKee Show) earlier this month where Kitakiya, who’ll be on the show tonight —asked the Deans in the room “what if your life is already a masterpiece?”

What if? That question again.

So. Anyway. At the same time as I have been on this rediscovery journey about what my gifts, talents and capacities are now and what I think my “Third Act” is going to look like in coming months and years;

I’ve also been thinking about all the things that are going on in the world. And how my art and my personal vision for myself is designed to contribute to a kind and just society that works for everyone. Does it? Will it?

And then… it literally dropped in my mind out of nowhere.

How

a

Being

more

powerful

than

any

other

in

the

universe

gets trapped in a bottle

with a master to grant wishes to.

In the movie it was magic and manipulation.

In our world, it was and continues to be violence and marketing… and after 3000 years of longing, WE forgot.

We do have much to talk through tonight on TEMS as we continue our month-long discussion about BEing HEIR— Happily Elevated, Illuminated, Regal.

Oneika Mays—Dean of Joyful Revolution
Jason Benefield—Dean of Peaceful Life Navigation
Kitakiya— Dean of Art, Artistry and Creative Expression
Dr. Fearless—Dean of African Diasporic Studies
Michael Shawn-Dean of Humor +Social Etiquette
Eisha Mason—Dean of Radical Spiritual Connection

Of course, Jordan is in the WuWu Metaphysical Studio with me, so Join us tonight 7-10p on WURD! Bring a journal, pen and 3 frens…

#starfolku #starpeopleish #comegetfree

It is always wise to understand those who have a hold on you.
–The Djinn
3000 Years of Longing

You can listen live with this link and/or on the WURD App. We ARE Live on the FB Live OR Twitch too tonight!

Per usual, in EVERY single thing we do, the intention is transformation. And well moisturized legs.

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Pssst! This month our #shiftprompt is:

The Art BEing HEIR
Acronym:
Happily
Elevated
Illuminated
Regal


(We are HEIRs to our wildest dreams in consciousness lived in form…)
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The WuWu Metaphysical studio begins Friday night at 7p EST on WURD 96.1FM Philly + The FB LIVE (worldwide). See you then yes? Oh! Bring a joural, a pen and 3 frens! WuWu is best done together.

#comegetfree

Lovianhal,
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