RedFlagMagazine

What do you do for a living?

I serve people with tools that I use to serve myself. Part of that is running a nonprofit healing and yoga space (Naam Yoga Miami).

What do you do to feel alive?

Dance, sing, and breath.

A lesson you learned from your mother:

To laugh and love God – two of the most important things in my life actually

A lesson you learned from your father:

To be creative and to focus on yourself – to work on yourself. He taught me that you can create anything out of nothing. I’ve seen him do it over and over.

What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?

The most beautiful thing I’ve seen today is a woman surrender to healing – she kept fighting and fighting it then finally surrendered. The next thing would be you.

What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?

My sense of humor.

What’s a thought you would like to never have again?

That life is pointless. There was one time in my life when I was in a dark place and I didn’t see any point to it. I was like “This makes no sense. Is there a reset button that won’t hurt?”

If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?

A boat – so I can travel the majority of the earth and hold people. At first I was thinking a skyscraper – it can hold so many people, but it doesn’t move. I would need to move.

When do you feel most loved?

You know when I feel most loved? When I’m eating something or when I’m being fed. My friends are here from Mexico and his girlfriend has been cooking for us – she just feeds me and takes care of me. I just feel nourished.

If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?

Giving my daughter away on her wedding day – after I ridicule her husband for a while – and just watching both my children step into their next phase.

What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?

Separation – I think it’s the biggest joke in the world. That people don’t feel connected to each other is destroying the fabric of our world.

What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?

I was living in Oakland with my father and he didn’t come home for 3 days. I was like 5 or 6 at the time and I just had to live each day on my own. I was so scared. I cried myself to sleep each night and didn’t know what the next day would hold, but I held it together. To this day I don’t know why that happened. After that he took me back to live with my mom. He probably knew he was out of control. That was probably the scariest day of his life too.