A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION
Hi, Y’all,
It has been a year of personal, expressive, and permanent transformation for me. For most of this year, I have been feeling, well…locked up. With the Groundhog’s Day-like repetition, I keep forgetting to look at the beautiful and amazing things that have still occurred this year. Maybe this has happened with you too, has the seeming-less endless timespans of a year made you forget some extraordinary parts? It literally took a Facebook memory to jolt my mind of just what I’ve done in a year. You see this time last year I had a friend and tattoo artist visiting from Australia and I was giving her the grand Los Angeles tour. I fondly recall memories of her telling me that in Australia toilet paper was flying off the shelves and people were getting into literal brawls over it. We were discussing how absurd this behavior was. This was right before all the same madness started here but that’s another story.
The point of this story is that she is a talented tattoo artist and she did some incredible work on me, giving new life to the lady on my back (you know that tattoo, you see in my article photo above). It’s funny that I could forget an entire day of tattooing. My tattoo story for the year doesn’t end there, in the span of exactly 1 year and 11 days, I have added an additional two more new pieces to my body. I’m currently laying in bed recovering from the latest one from my left wrist to my left ankle. I promise to show you pictures when I’m healed. For me, tattoos are a part of my self-expression, a piece of art that has always belonged to me and just wasn’t there yet.
So in this year where I’ve been dwelling on the feelings of being trapped, I somehow have managed to underrate and overlook the incredible ways in which I’ve got to expand. How much I’ve been blessed to be a more expressive version of myself. The pure serendipity that it took for these things to occur. I won’t bore you with all the details but there was definitely some magic that occurred when the tattoo artist I had booked in Europe, originally in June of 2020, showed up recently in LA. So I’m finally reflecting on the good bits of this past year and the personal transformations I got to make. I hope y’all out there have had some good bits, some ways to express yourselves, and some personal transformation this year.
I’m still missing the days of traveling to an event or festival where I truly get to be my wild and slightly off-putting self. There is nothing better than going to a place and surrounding yourself with other folks just like you, at least in most ways. The normal day-to-day life is not where I get to express myself, I mean it’s not like I go to the grocery store in a corset, I could but it wouldn’t be that much fun. It does feel like things are on their way back, that one day soon I’ll get to play dress-up again and wear leather crop with booty shorts, preferably while strolling down Bourbon St at Naughty N’awlins. Maybe, I’ll see you guys there and I’ll show you my new ink.
In the meantime, I suggest reflecting on the good moments and looking past the day-to-day.
Much Love,
Minx🖤💋
Minx’s Monthly Mind Expansion:
March’s Recommend Reading:
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
I’ll be honest with y’all I haven’t read this book in a long while, I just download the audiobook for a re-listen. The reason this book came to mind is that it was one of the first books given to me on self-growth, thanks to my grandfather, he was a wise man. It was then that I realized that life was going to be about transitions and how you grow from them. This read may help you to reflect on this year. I couldn’t have said it better than the Amazon.com review “Peck was courageous enough to suggest that "life is difficult" and personal growth is a "complex, arduous and lifelong task."