Beyond This Virtual MVMNT

By Christine Joy Ferrer (AKA Tine)

I am that Eye

I believe that we are all born to create. And once we allow our spirit to channel the creative life force within us—that energy, that Aṣẹ (ashe)—the ideas will flow, and then it’s up to us to apply and manifest. During this quarantine, I've come out the shower with an idea. Or, been woken up in the wee hours in the morning with more ideas I write down. I've cried. released. meditated. danced. processed. sat. repeated. breathed. still working through things. In the midst of everything, I am deeply grateful. In this storm. I stand in the middle, because I am that eye. The world needs what I carry. The world needs what YOU carry.

First Week of Corona

I have been playing this card game with friends a lot recently that I purchased called, “We’re Not Really Strangers.” One of questions on the card was When was the last time you surprised yourself? And honestly, it was producing these “Virtual MVMNT Videos” on the ridiculous two-day deadline that I set for myself. And I did it for ME. It was the first week of Corona, and I was hanging out with my good friend, Tiombe and playing with her daughters when boom the idea for it came to me. The next day, I brainstormed my video ideas for a few hours in the morning, filmed myself in the afternoon, then worked with the kiddos that evening to make 18 videos (YES, 18). I did minor video editing, uploaded it all to YouTube (which took almost all night); designed the look and feel of my webpage, after writing the content to market these videos (thank God I already made my own website); made additional content for those social media blasts and sent out emails to get paid AND serve the community. Phew!

Gotta Come Together

Life is ever changing, moving forward and never back. Everything affects EVERY THING. Someone recently told me that life after Corona will never be the same. Let's face it, we won't go back to "normal." We can’t. So we just gotta come together with our teammate(s), prep the best we can and only think of moving forward and on to what's next. It will be a world not without struggle, but it will be a world of infinite possibilities. Let’s take the time to re-access, and really let go of whatever it is that is holding us back. It sure as hell won't be easy.

So sting like bee, fight like a panther and flow like water. Let’s weave our story like a spider, harness the energy of a hummingbird, fly swift like a butterfly and listen through the darkness like a bat.

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Christine Joy Ferrer (AKA Tine)

Multimedia Producer + Designer, Cultural Movement Arts Practitioner and Educator

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