08/03/2026
It’s my birthday. Lately the muse has been pulling pearls of the most gorgeous poetry from me— much of it in Spanish, in love letters with God, life, myself, the beloved
She seduces me in the spaces of the liminal, she finds her way to me through the cracks of the sidewalks + the crooked smile of the garbage man + the way dying bees keep finding their way to me in their last moments
But she refuses to unfurl onto the page of an essay. An email. A public display of affection
She’s been private + possessive of my creativity lately.
Like there are things she wants to create simply for the sake of creating, in the privacy between the shadows of my soul + the tip of my tongue
She doesn’t want to produce. To monetize. To optimize
She wants to linger in the languid, luscious love letters that have nowhere to be + nowhere to go, but simply unfurl as an extension of creation for creation’s sake
I’ve been changing faster than I can keep up with. It’s a bit of a destabilizing place to create + share publicly from– while simultaneously being a rich homecoming, feeling more myself than ever
It’s been a tough lesson around right timing. Flow over force
Maintaining consistency around quality + honesty, rather than quantity + frequency
I’ve gotten intimate with the particularities of my neurodivergence + cyclical nature
I’ve been burning scripts about productivity + success that were never mine
I canceled my US tour due to health issues. I haven’t published anything for 2 months, after months of bursting with inspiration + creation
At first I saw this as a problem, perhaps a failure
But it’s just the cycles; the relationship of integrity I’ve been cultivating with my body + my muse
I’m past the point of performing aliveness for productivity’s sake, for “being consistent” through a metric that means nothing to me
I won’t promise you consistency in quantitative terms. But I promise to show up from an honest pulse of aliveness + inspiration
This isn’t a declaration of rebirth or re-entry into public creation in a way that doesn’t ring true in my bones right now
Just a declaration of honesty, of “hey, here’s me as I am right now.” [cont’d👇🏽)