🔥 When Fire Enters the Circle — Reflection

If you missed the session (or want a grounding reference), here are the core takeaways (and one page image for reference) from the conversation with Akua Naru and James Weeks:

✨ Key Takeaways

This year’s guiding theme: Becoming Light Again

→ Releasing what weighs us down emotionally, spiritually, and financially.

Art + purpose: Akua shared how her life’s work centers Black women’s interiority, love, and truth—art as a vehicle for healing, remembrance, and transformation.

Love is the core:

“What’s the point without love?”

Divine timing is real: Akua spoke to the truth that not everything unfolds when we want it to—but when it’s ready. What feels delayed may actually be preparing us, not denying us. Trusting timing is part of staying light.

Faith over certainty: The film project (Becoming Light Again) is moving forward without full funding yet—a reminder to step forward with who and what is already present.

Community is the strategy:

Freedom, healing, and sustainability are created inside the communities we build and nurture.

Grace matters: Especially when juggling life, creativity, and care—grace is not weakness; it’s wisdom.

🧠 Practical Guidance for 2026

Don’t believe everything you think

One foot after another (small steps compound)

Do it now (don’t let tasks pile up)

Go get the goal — and don’t come back without it

💬 Quotes to Sit With

“Don’t believe everything you think.”

“Trust the timing.”

“Do it now.”