SoberAF

Today, I celebrate 4 years of continuous sobriety. I am filled with gratitude. 🙏🏾 #RecoveryPosse

Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.

@JeffABrightwell I worked on this! 💙

Moving along on the new University of Memphus student housing on the Park Avenue Campus! Going to look great when it opens this fall!

@iky_fwjett Rehab and a 12 step program can help whenever you are ready. But only you will know when you’re ready. We love you.

I started doing cocaine about 7 or 8 months ago. It started off at festivals with my friends or nightclubs, but I’m now doing it daily for the past 3 weeks or so. I knew from the second I used cocaine that it was my drug of choice. I smoke weed daily, I’ve used MDMA, ketamine, 4MMC and a few others, but none ever clicked with me the same way cocaine did. I work full time and have a good relationship with my family and friends, and I don’t know where this addiction has come from. When I’m not high I don’t crave it, but the second I do a little line or bump, I can’t stop. I’m doing about a gram daily, sometimes more, sometimes less. It’s not really affecting my life too much—I still go to work, I still see my friends and my family, and no one knows about my addiction. My biggest problem is nighttime, where I can’t put down the bag. I work a manual labour job with an early start, so it’s not at all sustainable to be taking cocaine late at night. It’s currently 3am as I’m writing this, and I’m up for work in about 2 hours. I feel like I’m losing control of my life, but at the same time I feel happy throughout the day when I’m not using—but also empty. I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s like one minute I’m inside my head thinking about how much I hate this drug, what it’s doing to me, and how much I want to stop. Then the next minute I’m happy, joking around, full of energy. Then I switch up again and start thinking about railing a fat line when I get home. I don’t know what to do, how to break this addiction, or how to feel about it. I don’t know how to stop justifying it and telling myself every night that it’s my last time, and then going straight back to it the next day. I’m using about a quarter ounce a week, and if I go out to party on the weekend, I’ll easily go through a 3.5 throughout the night. I don’t know what to do. It’s fucking me up, and I’m just stuck in this vicious cycle with no way out.

@CaptLowry This brings back memories of taking Hwy 61 through Tunica and Lula to get to Helena, Arkansas as a child. The Delta is my ancestral home. 💙

DOWN in THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA I was down there to the little town of Merigold last week to give a talk. I LOVE the Delta and her people. They treated me GREAT! (The most SOUTHERN place on earth!) Cotton, crop dusters, bugs!, The River, tamales, Catfish!, that Delta accent - think Shelby Foote, Morgan Freeman, Blues music, it is FLAT!, dusty roads, the place seems EMPTY to city folk and to yankees, Pretty women!, the HEAT in Summer, and the wind in the Winter, Bobby Gentry - Ode to Bille Joe, nice people, Muddy Waters, corn, Ducks!, the Delta State Fighting Okra!, more pretty women, The Delta Blues Museum, The Witch of Yazoo, small black churches out in the cotton fields, Lanterns on the Levee, Cypress trees lining the creeks, The Lady in RED - they woke her up!, the Delta Chinese, W. C. Handy, THE Grammy museum, did I mention it is FLAT?, Robert Johnson and his deal with the devil, If you drive around after midnight on the small roads - you WILL believe the devil could be out there somewhere!, Juke Joints, Pecans, The Teddy Bear at Onward, If you mess with someone's wife - you can die barking like a dog!, Doe's Eat Place (my mouth is drooling), B B King, The Yazoo River, Willie Morris, "Where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog", FLAT as a pool table!, many of my friends, and even MORE pretty women! Everybody ought to drive it at least once.....and then go BACK! Please take me with you. My bags are already packed! 😀🥸😜😎😎😃

@TMZ Love Mayor Freddie!

Nashville Mayor Not Focused on Moving Grizzlies to City After Draymond Green’s Request tmz.me/awHZBfW

@DragonflyJonez And don’t forget about the rich legacy of gospel music in Memphis. My people can SING.

I wrote about the musical connection between Clarksdale, MS (the setting of Sinners) and Memphis. And how Memphis is perhaps the most impactful city in the history of black music. And how Coogler discussed on a Breakfast Club interview how the tragic passing of Memphis’s own Young Dolph’s played a part in him creating Sinners

Sinners has wrapped up its theatrical and award show run. And what a run it was. I wrote a collection of six essays on it. 9500 words 🫠 With illustrations provided by @/bigsamart1 on IG. Available to read for subscribers of the Jenkins and Jonez Patreon Patreon.com/jenkinsandjonez

@inlew_of I got $1000 back from TX 🙌🏾

yall better check your state, or any state that you lived in Unclaimed Property site. Im getting $611 back from the state of Texas

@duffthebrand And her TONE! It’s really one of one!

When they sing acapella, I always close my eyes and listen to what Michelle does. She’s the bridge and the anchor.

@Beyyhoneyy It will always be Crazy In Love for me. Her first time performing the song live AND first time performing as a solo artist. To see it in real time…you just KNEW.

which of Beyoncé BET performance was your favorite?

@LoJoMedia @mistergeezy It’s the way she’s cackling in the video for me.

Hall of Famer Dwight Howard in attendance for the Lakers vs. Knicks. #Lakeshow

@inlew_of And if I say it was really Keenan…

Shawn ate all of them up

@urban_elegance Growing locs

If I were a woman this would be the moment in my life where I’d cut all my hair off and rock a cute pixie cut. Not sure what the male version of this would be.

Documentation is key!!! 📣📣📣

Your fear does not disqualify you from the journey. It confirms that you are walking beyond the known.

@SymoneBeez And if I told you I order it straight from the Avon website in the original flavor then what?

My mother in law just gave me a bottle I didn't even know Avon was still in business lol

And on that same night… While Whitney was singing with Kirk Franklin & the Family, GREGORY HINES unexpectedly jumped on stage, totally improvised some of his best dance moves, and walked off like it was nothing.

Y'all should have voted for Kamala

@SoTheyCallMeDJ That’s the part no one talks about.

I didn't realize giving up alcohol was going to make me this antisocial

I’m literally in love with @NaomiSharon’s music. 😍😍