Willie Lee Kinard III

2025, I'm weary. Please sit down.

I want to produce more music & sing more in 2026. I got to compose a bit on a friend's rock song this spring & I got to come out of my shell working on it. Ending CHOIR BOY brought back my inner musician in ways I forgot I had. I learned to trust my voice & artistry this year.

Ariana might just get that Oscar for this one, ain't gone hold you.

I’ve effectively reached a level of aging that I didn’t think was possible—I found that I have a gray eyelash 🫠

Resisting the urge to be petty. But I kinda wanna be lol

Random, but whatever happened to Paloma Diamond???

Like she said the rent too high & folks making the block hot

November clearly had somewhere to be.

The way it picks up after the first season >>>>>

But it's so good though!

At all.

Alysia Nicole Harris, you will forever have my heart for this poem 😮‍💨

"Become dust with me, insignificant and everywhere / For I will love you, even after your marrow has become a whisper / Your bones, nothing but the snickering of gravel / With the sunk and the spaces that are shadows"

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

O, hoodoo. Dropped a fork while washing dishes & immediately sucked my teeth, asking "Now, what man tryna be over here in my business?"

Couldn't help but laugh realizing how much I sounded like my mama & how not 15 minutes later, my bestfriend hmu saying he 'round the corner, barely working today 😂

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Don't confuse momentum with alignment.

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Maybe it’s the Aries Rising that won’t give up or maybe it’s Maybelline, but I’m glad for my choices & glad I’m still trying. I’ve wanted to quit a lot but Spirit’s insisted on slowing down & refocusing. Revisioning, even. Resting & meditating on what I want the cards to hold for me. Dreaming again.

I finished my third year as an English professor. I recorded & put out my first song feature. I acted & sang in my first theater play after my first audition in 15 years. I found a muse & picked up a pencil to draw again. I dated & had a good run after being single for 8 years. I’m proud of me.

With the Dickensian ass year that I’ve had, I’m really glad I’ve made it this far. My wins have felt much smaller & more private but I’m glad for them & the things I’ve accomplished in spite of circumstances, burnout & worse. Albeit a lil more stressed & single again, I’m proud of myself for trying.

It’s the little ways you come back to yourself after chaotic moments that make you really savor your life & ability to heal. The mundanity of restarting your skin routine, the shift to citrus & peppermint tea that reminds of your childhood winters, the names omitted your mouth says again with ease.

I wish more folks understood this.

I am still 600 dollars away. I am so close. Please help me out and donate!

This part.

Toni Morrison was so right about evil being boring. Weather channel music & folks starving, dying. Weather don’t even be right. It’s baffling.

Oh she DEFINITELY is watching Interview With the Vampire this season 😮‍💨🙌🏾

K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack might just get me out of this funk today.

First Sunday playing D’Angelo with him amongst the ancestors.

Bless you, Michael Eugene Archer. Thank you for your work.