There’s been a lot to write about in the last couple of months.

Time needed to be taken to sit down again to do it with a sound mind and spirit, because as I’ve always done, topics still range from personal to international, often comparing multiple worlds to each other.

Admittedly, I’ve become more comfortable being on video with my views on specific matters.

Doesn’t mean I don’t write what I can even in small quotes, but thanks to my series, it made sense to show my face more often. My way of saying that it’s more than a performance piece.

In-between the points of expressing views in a straight or humorous way, therapy and counseling sessions, and sharing thoughts with trusted people, there’s the mental rest stops I must remind myself of.   

It’s important to stay informed without the risk of being inflamed.

For all of us, anxiety and all its other emotional threats have a history of causing mental and physical problems. The world’s state is enough to have them sit and fester in any of us.

Even with the best self-regulation tactics, they can slip in without warning based on how deep the matter is for you.

It does not mean to stop your ways of facing those emotional gusts before they become storms.

Without question, I’ve had plenty of emotional storms to face in financial, social, and racial levels, but I love that I’ve continued to make the time to calm them with old and new artwork, media edits, and making myself and others laugh.

That last one matters the most, mostly because of two quotes that have made the rounds more than before. “Joy is contagious,” and “joy is resistance.”  

Making the time to write like this, again, I will claim both.

– Kingston Priest