Thendara's Blog

The odds and ends in the creative  world of Thendara M Kida-Gee.

Some light in the midst of a societal fog also political action anyone???

well well well …here we are in the beginning of August in America, in Washington…. I don’t know what to say this year ? so it goes and well it goes a way none of us knows. to be precise. I have been having some good experiences amongst the isolation and was happy to have had so many far away friends list last year and hope son some may come again. unkown unknowns. I had a great opportunity in spring with the organization ArtistsUp who provide scholarship opportunities for artists to receive mentorship via mentorly Amazing I had a brilliant experience with my two mentors and now feel a lot firmer in pathways of pursuit. Thank you to : Minh Carrico and Humaira Abid for helping me see things from different perspectives as well as inspiring next steps. It hasn’t been familiar since college to spend time speaking with someone detached from me and it was a really great start to a non starter of a spring. Since then I have been applying and applying and making and thinking and crying quite a lot but in a cleansing way vs a deeper sadness. So much…

Been doing a lot of distance political organizing, assisting in a variety of ways from text banking to letter writing, postcard writing, phone banking and I made the big decision to adopt. I’ve adopted a swing state! I adopted North Carolina and you should too !!! head over to Crooked Medias Adopt a state program and sign up now!!! We need you and you and you and you….all ya!