You deserve self-care
You are deserving of rest and self-care without having to “achieve” anything first. You deserve rest of all kinds. You are worthy of releasing your burdens, switching off your phone, reducing stimulation, saying no to social engagements, taking a few days off work — and yes, good sleep too. And you deserve that held-by-the-Divine spiritual type of rest.
Your rest & recovery.. is an act of revolution. Your ancestors didn’t have such a luxury. And no, that doesn’t mean you should work harder becasue they did. It means that you can take rest when you need it as a way to honor them as well as yourself. You do not need to earn rest. You simply deserve to take it when you need it.
Sweet Sunday Blessings, Sis.
Be good to you.
pgp464: Namün – bodyscapes in the dark
a Pangea’s Garden interlude… You never know when inspiration is going to hit you. For example there was that...
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BleuRose…grinning from ear to ear
BleuRose kept saying how cold it was! Grinning from ear to ear, playfully strutting like a peacock, she appeared...
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Chadoe… the green wall interlude
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pgp208: The Nature Stroll Series
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pgp396: Hennessy and cigarettes…
momentary captures by deauhhan featuring models KamarahNoel and KristoffBrown no more words. deauhhan doesn’t talk much. loved this set from...
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pgp251: Behind the Scenes with Sincere
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Nubién…an Urbanista at the Farm
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Sekhmet… Newport100s
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Nubién’s Q&A…
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20 Questions with Chadoe
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Raine’s Nature Part 2: The Lake
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pgp464: Namün – bodyscapes in the dark
a Pangea’s Garden interlude… You never know when inspiration is going to hit you. For example there was that...
Lookbook: Inspiration by Liberation
the words of Liberation: I ingest only TRUTH, therefore I speak LIFE. I’ve been disconnected from the Matrix and have had to leave many behind..yet my journey is far from over..I dont exist to find my purpose..I AM PURPOSE.. I am so pleased to have an opportunity to share...
pgp343: FELA’s Beauty, a Pangea Meet&Greet
Over the summer we hosted a group photoshoot that carried the theme, FELA’s Beauty, and we featured images from the event HERE. Pangea has a history of creatives who, on occasion, have created captures with this cultural aesthetic in mind and in this case, photographers Lori Branch, Bobby Williams,...
What’s Going On? Can you be pro-black and date outside your race?
We posed this question to all of you our on Instagram and Facebook as a result of some actions happening at the time in the Garden and were quite surprised by the controversy it posed. Pangea’s Garden celebrates the beauty of BLACK women, BLACK people and BLACK love. The...
420: A KinkySmoke Social Interlude…
Have you ever been in a smoke session and it got kinky? Kinky hotboxing can happen when you invite that one crush you had for a while. No one can ever turn down a hotboxing experience with a beautiful Earth Sister. You both are in a small and intimate...
Sunday night in the Garden… prelude to Apache
When we speak of “the culture that cultivates an afrosensual aesthetic” do you know what we mean? As we go into the new week, the cultivators on the Garden feel the need to share more of the culture of the Garden. For example, we will showcase several efforts in...
Sunday in the Garden
There is so much beauty in the world… Going into this week we have a lot look forward. Fashion model Errika, the Earth Angel make an appearance in the Pangea’s Garden Project with images of her own beauty and thoughts on Fashion culture, music and and the struggle to...
Esperanza Spalding … SHE is hot!
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Patchouli oil botanicals and dark temptation incense spice the air as YEME and TREE posed and played. Neon blue and yellow lights danced off the firetruck red couch and the brick walls to find space on the body parts not hidden behind hands that grabbed chests, breasts, ass and cock....
pgp105: Thoughts behind Shells…
So I’m at Apache Cafe and Lounge and I am talking to some of the patrons about the portal and the types of images I think we should capture. Artistic…sexy…provocative, most of the things we say are typically used for almost every other venue that focuses on creating beautiful...
RaeOfLite… a babbling brook communion
When earthSista RaeOfLite stepped from the sun-drenched wooden gazebo that stretched across a small lake to bridge that reached back to land, she ducked down into all of the over growth and found a small babbling brook to wade in. Under the shade of brush and branch, the breeze...
Sunset’s Soundcheck: Jose James
Jose James is a jazz/soul singer with a soft baritone and a heart that you can hear through his music. Minneapolis-born and bred, James has released three albums, and each one has given listeners a different perspective on who he is as an artist and as a human being....
pgp244: The Floacist’s “Let Me”
The video for ‘Let Me’ is the first video that I have created with my continual flow of creative integrity and purpose not being interrupted along the journey from studio to visual. This art peace is the art of my heart! – The Floacist The Floacist is Natalie Stewart...
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