What went well?

• I survived the pandemic healthy and relatively happy.
• I moved a lot. I ran over 100 miles this year and got an exercise bike.
• I watched more movies made by women of color than ever before!
• I wrote 4 scripts from scratch.
• I was a semi-finalist for the Austin Revolution Film Festival for my feature Parallel.
• I got into painting!

What didn’t go well?

• We lived through a global pandemic and a very stressful election.
• I didn’t watch many movies through the year. I’m chalking this up to depression.
• While the swings were not as wide, the depression did linger. I chalk that up to this year.
• I lost some muscle definition due to not having access to the gym.
• I didn’t direct anything.

Some cold hard stats:

• Miles run: 140.4
• Miles biked: 75.7
• Number of medals: 5
• Number of paintings done: 8
• Number of movies watched total: 57
  • Number by white men: 32
  • Number by men of color: 10
  • Number by white women: 4
  • Number by women of color: 11
• Number of books read: 12

Favorites:

• Top three books:
  • 1. Dear Girls
  • 2. Atomic Habits
  • 3. Lovecraft Country
• Top three movies:
  • 1. The Forty Year Old Version
  • 2. Miss Juneteenth
  • 3. Da 5 Bloods

What is 2021 going to be about?

It’s going to be the Year of being in the avatar state

I am striving to stripe out more things that are not serving me and get into an amazing flow.