08/10/2026
Friday, we closed out the 4th and final sold-out Atlanta show, and when I say the culmination of the energy from each show reminded me of how beautiful peopleโs souls really are, I mean that with everything in me.
Atlanta was the beginning. The first place I walked onto a stage with this show and trusted that what lived inside of me would find the people it was meant to reach. I could have never imagined that one night would turn into another, and another, and anotherโฆ four sold-out experiences filled with people who came with their own stories, their own healing, their own laughter, their own grief, their own love, and we kept meeting each other right there in the middle of it all.
What you see on that stage is poetry, storytelling, laughter and conversation, but what I experience from where I stand is human connection. I see the tears, I hear the reflections, strangers laugh together, hug each other, reach for one another, and for a few hours whatever existed outside of that room seems to disappear.
The room was FULLโฆ.
Full of love, vulnerability, people willing to feel something, and reminders that no matter how disconnected this world can sometimes make us feel, there are still spaces where we can look across a room at someone we have never met and recognize a little bit of ourselves in them.
I have tried to find adequate words for what Atlanta has given me through these four shows, and gratitude still feels like the closest one.
Thank you for trusting me with your stories.
Thank you for every hug, every tear, every laugh, every hand raised, every person who traveled, every person who brought somebody they loved, every person who came alone and left feeling like they had been sitting with family.
I donโt take one seat, one person, one prayer, or one moment of it for granted.
Atlanta, you were the beginning of something I didnโt know how to imagine โฆ.
And babyโฆ look at what God did with the beginning. โค๏ธ
Thank you to each person who met me with HELP ๐ฉท
Teresa-Michelle W. Jackson, Jamel Moore, Virtuously Styled (Kisha), Lord Vizion, Mikhayla Smith, She Pharaoh , Poet, Author, Host , ATL Performer ๐คโจ , DJ Naturel, and Ercmy Tillmon
