I do not typically see myself as a leader. It has been engrained in my brain since I was a child, and supported with authority when I was fifteen years old. The fact I survived a stabbing at sixteen gave reason to believe I have a purpose, one could say.

After getting through my teen years alive and independent as an airbrush artist, I started a magazine and published a poetry book with poems I wrote at age nineteen into a book I named All About U.

This is a book I have a limited amount of copies still for sale and has been republished here and there. The journey I have enjoyed taking with these original poems are to see them become songs that I featured in on in the year 2018 with ICT – Makavenna on SoundCloud.

I honestly thought that the ICT (Inspired Creative Thinkers) Music Movement was over. As a matter of fact, I was working on a final album where I was going to lay some of my unreleased poems onto beats with a title I gave it as My Final Words. I am not planning my death or anything foolish like that. I love life and everything in it. I am healthy, wealthy, wise and young with a wonderful family and wonderful adventures. All my projects have a much greater significance that I feel I had started when I started writing those poems. I had an idea long before I had a family to pass down these lessons I had learned in form of rap music, which I was persistent in the genre at the time. I also wanted to tie the music and poetry with artwork framed into canvases that would have secret knowledge, wisdom and information to be obtained for future generations along with wealth.

So do I see myself as a leader?

I lead my own path following my own fantasies

Painting pictures teaching with my masterpiece

Pay attention before it becomes too late

My Only Words of Wisdom are learn from my mistakes!

ICT – Makavenna “Words of Wisdom (Learn From My Mistakes)

I do not think it matters to be called a leader to me. I am working on generational wealth, health and abundance to pass down. If you have ever read Rich Dad, Poor Dad the author specifies having multiple streams of income. And I believe that is what I have been working on, to have something to pass down to my kids, grand kids, and great great great grand kids.

Money is not wealth. It is a form of energy exchange. So just passing down money has its limitations. I feel we as humans go through cycles in life and at moments we feel alone or lost and like no one understands what we are going through. Everyone else makes it seem easy to do the right thing and follow the rules. I have been through many things and survived many challenges and near death experiences but I am still here and I have a desire to share my life stories for anyone who has had a similar experience or feeling and felt alone. I want to tell those people that they are not alone. So that is what I reflect in my stories, poetry and my music.

I talk to my daughter and give her as much of my knowledge directly in person the best I can now. But we all have ADHD and need all teaching techniques to soak in the information and understand it well. Given that has been a pattern with my daughter and I, and I do not know how any descendants will choose to learn, I felt it prudent to share these works in several forms. For the reader who likes it in detail, for the one who likes reading it in poetic rhyming form or for the one who would like to hear it with music in the background.

This is my mission, my goal

Every song I have written with ICT – Makavenna aka #PearlsBeauty has a message to convey and touches on a topic that might help someone feel a little better or less alone. I think many have powerful lessons learned and it is music so some are just for fun and entertainment. I appreciate anyone who listens to our music which we worked through all the channels to get it monetized as we do with our writing on this blog. I am not seeing the immediate money on this. Instead I am creating several streams of income and tying them together as best as I can. I am still strategizing how to create NFTs for several projects I make. Steps. We are getting there.

We can now use our own music on our own advertising in social media and our own media prints. We use our own artwork on the music covers displaying and advertising our work as well. And we share it with readers on WordPress. I watch Tatianna Pearl and Baby Pearl grow, and raise them to think like leaders, however, we all choose our path along with a divine design with the universe.

All that truly matters is that we enjoy life and family. We help each other and stick together through good times and bad times. That we help as many as we can as well and create a better future for following generations. But to be called a leader, well that is just someone doing something for a more narcissistic reason I believe. Like being a president of a country just to say I did it, I was the president regardless of what happened to the country. No bueno! I feel I need to think more on the lines of teaching the youth to lead themselves and not be dependant on someone making decisions for them. After all, they will be leading our futures. Our future needs to be nurtured not tortured.

Thank you all for sharing great masterpieces, I take the time to read as many as I can that attract my attention. And thank you all who have been attracted to our blog of Airbrushes & Airplanes.

#AlexAirbrushLuna