Gratitude & Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Existence…The All That Is…Olodumare…Life…

I am grateful to my ori for continuously making the choice to be here. I get to show up to fulfill the destiny that it chose.

I am grateful to my Ancestors—individual, collective, human, non-human. Everything that came before and clear a way for me.

I am grateful for family, friends, community members, colleagues and contemporaries. I am because of you, and your love, support and reflections in all other ways help me curate and cultivate every version of myself that is birthed in every moment.

I am grateful for my teachers, elders, mentors, and guides May I ground deeper into humility and the recognition that I am barely scratching the air above the surface of all the wisdom around us.

I am grateful for Lela Woodward (The Brand Lela, Inc.) for her project management work, brand consultation, and multi-faceted guidance through my process of re-imagining and focusing my brand. Her expertise, care, and desire to support practitioners and business owners like me has been a tremendous blessing!

I am grateful for Vanessa Marquez (Studio 6 de Oro | Jaguar Haus), the designer of this website. Her intuition, skill, generosity, and willingness to surrender to Spirit in general and when it comes to her design work is inspiring. I wanted my new website to not only reflect beauty and multi-dimensionality, but to be a virtual representation of the metamorphosis I have been experiencing. I was different, and so it needed to be. And Vanessa delivered 110%!

I am grateful for all of the visual artists who captured still or motion pictures of me that participate in the beauty of the site: Acid Smile Studios, Bobby Gordon, Cayetano González, Donna K. Williams (rest in peace) Farah Sosa, Jan Schoof, Jigme Tenzin Salto, John Simmons, Katya Quinonez, Matt Polizzi, Yolanda Richards-Albert, and William Greenblatt.