Hey fam,
I’m dropping this quick note to share my reflections on the importance of love, especially today, and some exciting news about a grant I received for a project I’m passionate about. I’ve also dropped a super short meditation in there. I’m eager to reconnect with all of you out there in the world. Sending much love your way. xo
Grant Announcement linked below.
VOICE NOTE
See Ai transcript below Ai message summary.
Ai SUMMARY
In a heartfelt voice note shared on Valentine’s Day, Olori Lolade Siyonbola delves into the essential nature of love as a transformative and healing force in today’s world. With a deep sense of urgency, she articulates the collective need for genuine love, contrasting the widespread normalization of fear and trauma with the intrinsic human capacity for love and compassion.
Siyonbola reflects on the power of love as the fundamental force behind creation and manifestation, suggesting that everything from new life to the spaces we inhabit is birthed from acts of love. She challenges her listeners to reevaluate their understanding and experience of love in a society where fear often overshadows our deeper connections.
Expanding the conversation to self-love, Siyonbola invites her audience to contemplate the ways they nurture their own sense of love and appreciation. She shares her personal practices aimed at creating an uplifting environment, emphasizing the importance of beauty, cleanliness, and small joys in fostering a sense of well-being.
The note transitions into a guided meditation, encouraging listeners to recharge and find peace within, grounding the message in a moment of collective reflection on joy and peace.
Concluding with exciting news of her selection as one of the twelve artists for a project funded by the Mellon Foundation and the New Haven Arts Council, Siyonbola expresses her gratitude and excitement for the future, inviting her audience to engage with her upcoming work and reflect on their own creative and restorative practices.
EXCITING NEWS!
Awardee Announcement-New Haven Artists Corps
Ai TRANSCRIPT
00:01
Hello, beloved. How you doing tonight?
00:06
Love.
00:11
Love is an urgent need.
00:17
The urgent need for love is medicine.
00:24
Love as medicine is in dire need, is an urgent need.
00:28
I don’t know say how it makes sense to you, but, um, we are in desperate need of love.
00:35
We are in desperate need of love.
00:38
We are in desperate need of love.
00:43
In this time, my people, we are in desperate need of love.
00:49
And I don’t even know if enough of us know what that is and how it feels, because we are so bonded to trauma that we live in fear.
01:03
So many of us live in fear, and we’ve been programmed to normalize that ship.
01:07
But that’s the opposite of who we are.
01:10
Do they say fear is the opposite of love?
01:14
So I, you know, it’s, I’m laying here on valentine’s Day, and I’m just like, wow, like, nick isney, love so bad.
01:22
And, um, spill is lit. I tell you. Get on. Spill.
01:27
Find me. I’m at a lorry Lala day. If you need to invite, let me know.
01:31
I send you one spill. Is, that is that shit right now?
01:35
But, um, folks are on still talking about getting pregnant and, and I’m just realizing again that, you know, it’s only in love, that creation happens.
01:48
You know, that things that are manifested or manifest in love, love is the force of creation.
01:54
Love is the force of life.
01:56
That is how we exist. Because love exists. There’s a love, there’s a desire, there’s a passion for something.
02:04
And so we create from that, you know, and that’s why babies are born, and that’s why houses are created and houses are born.
02:13
That’s why plants are created. Like everything comes from love, and we’re so fearful that we don’t even understand how to receive it.
02:23
We’ve been hurt so much.
02:26
So my point is just, um, I wanna talk about how we love ourselves.
02:32
You know, like, how do you love yourself? Like, how do you make yourself feel loved, cherished, chosen, chosen, appreciated.
02:40
What is that practice like for you?
02:44
How are you ensuring that you are being your best friend?
02:49
I’m asking myself that every day, so I invite you to ask that, and I would love to hear from you, like, what is your practice?
02:58
How do you ensure that you pour into your cup every single day?
03:03
What gives you that high, vibrational uplift?
03:08
You know, for me, I do my best to make my every surrounding uplifting.
03:15
It’s a process. you know, I’m in a space where, um, I have to change a few things to make it really my own.
03:23
But I’ve done a lot. And I love, I love it.
03:27
I love what I’ve done here. And, um, you know, that is a big part of my medicine is the beauty, you know, is, is cleanliness, is softness, is sweetness, you know, it’s beautiful sense like rose as burning on my altar right this minute is candles.
03:44
You know, it’s, it’s, um, I’m gonna call on Christmas lights, but I know there’s a proper term for them, you know.
03:52
It’s just little things that just make you feel like a girl.
03:55
Just made me feel like a no princess, a queen at times, you know.
04:01
So I invite you on this day that celebrates love and centers love as commercial that is, as it has become.
04:10
I invite you to uncommercialize and make it about yourself. Make it about love.
04:15
Make it about radiating who you are, your highest self.
04:20
Let’s meditate. We’re going to do a quick meditation.
04:23
We’re going to do a quick meditation. I want you to recharge yourself.
04:28
You be, charge yourself.
04:31
Take a deep breath.
04:35
Hold it.
04:38
At least three amount.
04:50
Fill up your belly, fill up your chest, and hold it.
04:55
Release through your mouth.
05:02
Has he been here? Hold it.
05:11
Hold at least three mouth.
05:19
How about that for global like meditation?
05:24
Just relax.
05:26
Just.
05:47
What does it feel like if it was music? What would it sound like if it was art?
05:54
What would it look like?
05:56
How would you channel, depict the capture? What is the feeling in your body right now?
06:09
Hi, mom.
06:11
This is your house.
06:14
Thank you, your Lemon. Thank you. Sorry, that’s not see with that, thank you, ben.
06:24
Um, I just want you to reflect on doing a recording.
06:30
Um, what feels good, what feels good for you? What gives you that sense of just peace and grace and light lifeness?
06:41
What gives you peace?
06:43
Hold on to that this moment. Just allow it to elevating and body in your spirit.
06:51
What gives you peace? What gives you joy.
06:58
Feel it.
07:10
I love you, and I wish for you the manifestation of your deepest joy.
07:17
And I hope we get to connect very soon. I wanna let you know as well that I’ve been selected as one of the twelve artists in New Haven.
07:31
Funded by the Melon Foundation in the New Haven Arts Council, to tell stories, um, that connect New Haven nights and that create a new future in the city.
07:42
And I’m, I’m super excited, like I can’t even contain myself.
07:46
Okay, right.
07:48
So.
07:51
Invite you to learn more about the artist court. There’s a lot of amazing projects.
07:56
Like, I’m really honored to be amongst these folks. I’m super like, I’m just like, shocked that they chose me.
08:02
Because I’m like, there’s a lot of really amazing artists here.
08:06
There’s a lot of really incredible things happening. So I am super honored.
08:09
Um, so if you wanna stay tuned with what’s happening with the artist core, with my project, the project is called New World Haven.
08:18
I’m so happy that I can actually talk about it now.
08:20
Um, new World Haven is, there’s gonna be some game change in shit.
08:27
My leg game changed. Okay, okay. Shout out to Adrian Jefferson, who supported my application.
08:36
Shout out to if I’m Michelle Guardine, founder of Elm City Lit First, adrian is the Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of New Haven.
08:45
I’m just like beyond floor that these people like, talk to me and support my work.
08:50
I’m so and she’s just amazing. Black women here.
08:53
Shout out to Lauren of Possible Futures. Shout out to the Alicia of Bloom.
09:01
Oh. Shout out to everybody who’s been supportive. Shout out to my folks at Make Even just New Haven has just been such love and I just, I love it here.
09:10
You may have been counting song as my pieces, less than 10 min.
09:15
I’m glad for that.
09:17
I’m gonna do a quick um ai summary, and I’ll drop it on the portal.
09:23
I would love to hear from you. What are you working on?
09:26
What are you manifesting as you rest tonight? Just take some deep breath and feel what is happening in your body.
09:36
That is the first step to charging your body.
09:38
It’s a powerful tool to get used, to replain your energy, and to create your future.
09:44
All right, I love you.
