Greetings beautiful people…first and foremost - I hope you all are still at home safe, healthy, and in good spirits. I can’t believe it’s already been about 6/7 weeks of quarantining. How are ya’ll really holding up? In full transparency, I feel like just this week that I’m actually finding some balance and motivation to do anything besides streaming Netflix/Amazon Prime. Truthfully, the pressure (via social media) to “create during this (down) time” was extremely unsettling and it had a temporary crippling effect on me where I ultimately didn’t want to create anything. Thankfully that feeling has passed. I think my turning point was when I shifted my focus from output to input and I gave myself the permission (and grace) to take in information…like watching a bunch of documentaries (hence “streaming Netflix/Amazon Prime) and not worrying about doing anything other than being present.

Long story short - there’s no right/wrong way to get through this. We’re all doing our best. With that being said...I'm sending everyone some love and light. Take care of yourselves and honor your feelings. Big Love to you all!

Now if you recently subscribed and this is your 1st time receiving this newsIetter, I want to give you a brief welcome and also bring you up to speed on what exactly this newsletter is; so basically I started this newsletter January of last year (2019) to send out only ONE email on the 21st of every month and each email consisted of a few shared images of my film photography (I started shooting with film at the beginning of the year and I've been using this newsletter as an opportunity to share/document my journey), a curated music playlist of 21 of my favorite songs of the moment, and updates and/or invites to any happenings that may be occurring in between newsletters.

For the people who's already been here with me - I'm sure you all remember in January's newsletter when I introduced my new 21 Questions series - well here's the third installment featuring my favorite person in the world...Eubie Peal! I can't even take full credit for this one though - a very wise woman suggested that I feature "Nana" (instead of her lol) by saying that it's "the content that people want to see" and because I'm for the people... here it is ahahahaha!

Be sure to zoom in.

Just like all the other times, as a token of my appreciation, I also curated another lil’ playlist compiled of 21 (this time I added 10 extra songs as a "Stay Home" bonus) of my current favorite tunes (of the moment) that I invite you to vibe out to! I hope you enjoy and I’ll be checking back in on the 21st of next month. Hopefully we'll have better news by then. Peace and love ya'll!

- Lorenzo

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