Questions from Damone

🌼🌸 Spring has Sprung! 🌸🌼

Can you believe it’s been a whole year since everything shut down? I mean... WHAT A YEAR! At times It seemed like the ball of gloom was literally chasing us down, and backing us into a corner. Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse, we would turn on the news, or check into our social media and there it was... more darkness.

Spring is a yearly reminder that just because things get dark, dry, cold and brittle, they eventually begin to gain color, hydration and warmth, and will bloom again in time.

2020 was no joke! I even heard someone say, “The pandemic has been so long, I got into and back outta shape.” I thought to myself recently, we haven’t even begun to experience the after effects psychologically that are surely around the corner, affecting each of us differently.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not adding another year to my age for 2020. That birthday didn’t count!

Slowly but surely, we seem to be coming out of the fog and back to a sense of some type of normalcy (whatever that means). Here in Los Angeles, we’ve been able to keep the Salon open since February. I don’t foresee another shut down, and now restaurants, gyms, theaters, etc. are opening at 25% capacity.

I always have my hand on the pulse of what’s going on by dealing with so many different clients daily, of every race, religion, social status and the like. We’ve reached a point where more people have been vaccinated that come in than have not. Myself included (Pfizer).

What I know for sure is that we can’t allow ourselves to go back to how things were before. We need to slow down and play just as hard as we work. They say history repeats itself, and we are about to enter our version of “the roaring twenties.”

What are you gonna do to honor your growth? What are you gonna do to give thanks to the Universe that you came through on the other side? What are you going to say to your loved ones, knowing that tomorrow is not promised for any of us? What does your personal future look like?

I’m taking deep breaths and remembering how important it is to exhale. I’m not allowing stress to become my friend. I’m reminding myself that my body is a temple and I need to honor it. I’m saying thank you to my higher power every morning the moment I open my eyes. And I’m staying in the present & remembering that love is all that really matters. 

May you continue to blossom just like the flowers around you,
Damone Roberts