The Purpose of "The Cadence"

The world around us can feel so daunting, sometimes. In a world polluted by bad news and evil doings, we must strive to not only identify the sunshine glimmering through the seemingly obsolete darkness, but we must capture that illumination and augment that hope into fervent actions.

This is a multi-purposed platform, as I am a multi-faceted person.

I’ve often been told I am an old soul, my favorite compliment came from my old Econ professor at GSU, Dr. Barilla.

When I was 3 years old I vividly - not vaguely - recall thinking to myself how we must be inside a stage, like actors and actresses in a TV box, for someone else’s amusement.

When I was 6 years old, my ex-step father asked me what I wanted to be, and delighted he asked, I promptly declared I wanted to be an artist. I learned the word “posthumous” that day, “You won’t see a check until your dead. Ought to pick something else.” Frustrated, but not defeated, I enthused, “Well I will be a teacher then!” Again he hammered me down a notch, “Ha, well they don’t hardly make nothing either.”

It was, therefore, instilled in me to put my passions aside, to make way for a profession which would pay handsomely. Work ethic was esteemed in my family.

I did all the things I was supposed to do.

I checked all the boxes that my mother told me to check.

I got my degree, landed a corporate role as a chemist.

Alas, I found myself lonely. I found myself unfulfilled. I found myself hungry for more.

I don’t want to be just a chemist. Or just a teacher. Or just an artist. Or just an activist. Or just a producer. Or just a model. I want to be all of those things. I want to embark on all the paths which ignite my fire.

Consider The Cadence a realm where I leave cookie crumbs to muse over. Consider these crumbs as seedlings even, which might sprought with the right opportunity.

The true purpose is to offer a transparency in which light can transcend unto you, and where positivity can radiate, beaming and spilling into your soul.

The true purpose is to spill my energy into your fire, so that together we create an energy source so mighty, that our voices and our art permeate through borders, that we breathe life back into the fallen, that we remove any blindfolds, so that our fire may burn bold, so that we break the ordinary mold, so that we motivate and uphold.