Dear Alessia 120221

Happy four months on planet earth!You’ve gone a long way and so have weThe winds of change are among us Your mama is in the bathtub washing youAnd we’ve said our morning prayers And set our intentions for the day. We are unified on our mission to surviveAnd we have only a month or so […]

Dear Alessia 120121

And just like that it’s December And you are almost four monthsThe time is flying like lightning across a desert skyLife moves at a pace that’s hard to fathomAnd your evolution is a wonder to behold You saw snow for the first timeAs your mama and me went on long walks through our new landscape […]

Dear Alessia 112921

We’re up here in the mountains HighlandsAnd the snow fell for the first time last night in your life yesterdayIn the other room I can hear you make your wake up noisesAnd your mama talking to you in Russian She brought you inTo gather the bouncy chair which calms you downI came over to say […]

Dear Alessia 111921

I lost a friend todayMick was special He liked doing big breaths before wielding his cameraBreathwork And standing on his headOr am I making that up?I interviewed him twice for my podcastAnd got photographed by him as well I remember being excited the first time I was set to have that happenAnd we took glammed […]

Dear Alessia 111621

Waking up listening to a sermonShifting the mind towards the light We played the airplane gameWhere you’re mama holds youAnd moves you in a way where you can pretend you’re flying through the air I put hands up like you could bump into themBut just at the last moment I open them upLike a portal […]

Dear Alessia 111321

Waking up here alone at 612 amYou your mama are sleeping at your grandmas in the city And I plan on taking advantage of the morning by painting after I write you I’m motivated these days Housed in the opportunities floating around us Like dust in sun beam windowYou grab for them allBut never quite […]

Dear Alessia 110921

The losses in this life can gang up on you and stalk you like a pack of junkyard dogsIf you allow them to enter into your heartOr if Once they enter You allow them to simply languish thereLike a poisonous drip from some demented sphere Always life is a challenge to arrive in the momentTo […]

Dear Alessia 110821

There are days when you’re lost and confusedWhen your mistakes gang up on you Or all you can see is your failures an inability to move forwardDays when you’re weakAnd fear uncertainty and doubtAre the benchmarks you follow It’s hard to write on days like theseCause what can you contribute?What can you addBut the power […]

Dear Alessia 110421

It’s amazing how the spirit revitalizesWhen you align yourself Under the weightOf sending praise to Jesus Christ. These times have shifted our focus nowAnd now we knowThe score of spiritual warfareWhen you are in a cataclysmic event such as thisWhen society is swallowing itself wholeWhile following in lockstep the greed Of corporations and the politicians […]

Dear Alessia 110321

Many are the plans In the mind of a man But it’s the purpose of the lord That will stand You turned three months yesterdayAnd you are as big as a one year old (At least if we believe in the sizing charts of kids clothing manufacturers and diaper brands) We went upstate and hiked […]