December 14 2024
Paint n Sip at INOVA last night with authentic tacos to kick off the event. Me and two neighbors were representing Gen X. I’m thankful to my community for hosting these, as it’s such a relaxed and fun way to get to know your neighbors! 🖤🎉🖤
December 14 2024
NCED holiday lunch yesterday. Baked potato bar with loads of desserts. So good! I work with some pretty amazing folks, always doing wonderful things for the disability community. Did you know that everyone who works at NCED either has a disability or has a loved one with a disability? “Nothing About Us, Without Us”! 🖤✊🏻🖤 Had to have a lil photo session with the coolest coat I’ve ever owned. 🌸🐍🌸
December 12 2024
Monday Night Poetry this past Monday. I deeply miss being able to go every Monday. But that’ll resume now until January 22nd. I love that I can be my no-filter-self with my poetry friends. I love y’all! 🖤💋🖤
December 7 2024
Where I’ve been all day today and likely all day tomorrow. I’ve written about 1,000 words of my literary analysis of The Poet X. Halfway there! I’ve put it in conversation with Audre Lorde’s, Poetry is Not a Luxury and Theoretical Foundations for Social Justice by Lee Anne Bell. Along with inserting myself into the analysis. The professor encouraged me to write a non traditional analysis. She gets me. 🔥🔥🔥
November 30 2024
I laughed so hard. True story of the struggle. 😂😂😂
I be like. Let me restart this convo exactly where we left off 2 years ago. Smooth! 😁🤣😁
November 28 2024
Happy day of gathering to y’all. Sending love. 🖤✊🏻🖤
We laughed, talked, ate, and laughed some more. Good times. 🖤🍁🖤
November 27 2024
Hear that? That’s the sweet, delicious sound of respite. Quiet. Serene.
Lillian is at The Romano Duo’s place, giving me respite. Thank you Romano Duo!!
We’re nearing the end of this semester. I’ve got 3 weeks remaining. Pretty much finished with new material. These 3 weeks will be turning in final projects and presentations, and final exams. Then a month long break. I’m pretty sure group projects were invented as a method of torture for neurodivergent folks. And tests and quizzes?? Those are absolute worthless as a learning tool (for me anyway). I do the same thing I did in high school. Memorize for the test, and then forget. One professor has done away with tests, focusing simply on doing the work. This has been my favorite class and the one I’ve learned the most. Literary analysis. For the entire semester we have read and analyzed text. Culminating in a full blown literary analysis and mock school board meeting happening next week.
November 24 2024
Last week … in clouds.
November 24 2024
Monday Night Poetry – Fundraiser for Eddy House and good times! 🖤🎉🖤
November 23 2024
Another I’m late posting. We celebrated Thomas’s 19th birthday last weekend (actual birthday is November 13th).
Thomas Darnell,
To say that I am deeply proud to be your mom is truly an understatement. I am inspired by you, your intelligence, your empathy, your fortitude, your use of critical thinking. You help to enlighten me in regard to world matters, our country, and interpersonal relationships. You have been the catalyst for uncovering subconscious beliefs and thoughts so that I could unlearn them. I thank you for this.
I am your number 1 fan. I know I don’t always have the words to help, but I am forever here to listen and to hold space for you. Loving and supporting you for eternity.
Love,
Mom
Camilla
(Yes, we had FOUR different cheesecakes!! Apparently, cheesecakes for an eternity, too!)
