"Always
remember you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to
reach for the stars to change the world"
I use to carry a Louie Vuitton
travel bag with me while I was going back and forth to Atlanta spending time
with my declining mother.
It was a very very dark period in my life. I was
suffocating. Trapped. Scared. I found myself financially,
emotionally and spiritually broke.
I had gone tough a few years of chronic loss and I began to
feel hopeless. I did not see anyone around me who offered a light in what
had become a dark tunnel. I began a search for people who against all
odds, without a life raft changed the course of their lives and others.
I needed to carry hope with me and
that was the ideas to create the Tombstone Collection. The first handbag
I had ever made or considered making. In my own snarky way I thought why
carry a logo? why not carry something equally beautiful, sophisticated but with
a beautiful message. Make words into the logo, into a pattern that read
up close provoked new thoughts and ideas.
Well, there are so many people that
made me rethink my perspective but one of the people who stirred awe in me and
began a return to light was Harriet Tubman. Unlike me she literally was
trapped. Uneducated. A slave. If she could save herself and
so many others I could. We all could because none of us are getting out
of here alive.
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