Your blood and death 🩸
A newsletter about your future.
What’s up man.
Today we’re going to discuss blood and death. Specifically your blood and death.
In 2023 I saw a lot of people die, more than ever before in my life. My grandmother in law, my father, my friend’s baby son, my aunt, then my brother in law.
One after another they died, and smack in the middle of it all my first daughter was born, the one and only Charlotte Dream Johnson.
Like most of you death is not new for me. All of my grandparents are long dead, and I watched my best friend slowly die of bone cancer when I was barely out of high school. I’ve lost other friends since then too, and a handful of speakers from The 21 Convention have died.
Even with those prior experiences 2023 was a lot to take in. I’m still processing.
The death of my aunt hit me especially hard. She was a sweet woman who was kind to me and siblings our entire lives.
I was the only family seeing everyday at the end of her life. She never married and had no children (she was a les…
