YOU are BlackLight!

We looked up today and noticed that our BlackLight family has expanded and that we have all grown in ways that we couldn't possibly have imagined when we first came together a little over a year ago. We have become both teachers and students and learned how to deal with unexplained disappointment and unexpected joy. We have been LIVING! The young ones (3-6 year olds) in our movement classes keep us humble and remind us how to laugh at ourselves. The older additions to the BlackLight fam in our intermediate classes show us how high we can FLY when we just let go a little bit and trust the journey. 

After this summer, much will change in our lives. Some of us are moving on to other cities, some of us are starting college, some of us are charting new paths that combine work and school in innovative and exciting ways. We haven't talked much about what these new avenues mean for BlackLight and what geographic distance will do to our ties. How will we continue our work together apart? 

Toddra reminds us, always, that BlackLight IS EVERYWHERE. While BlackLight is in each one of us it does not belong to just any one of us. You claim BlackLight any time you are living in joy, reaching out to others, noticing things that need your care and attention, responding to your community, making art, raising your voice, expressing your truth, LOVING, LOVING, LOVING, LOVING. 

So, as we grow and find new communities to engage with and be challenged by, the rays of BlackLight's love just reach out farther, burn brighter. So look for BlackLight Fisk, BlackLight Oakland College, BlackLight Newark, BlackLight Wayne State, BlackLight (your community here). 

We LOVE you,

BlackLight