Category Archives: Greatness

Buddah Desmond’s New Poetry Collection, Coming Up From the Downside: Finding Joy in Our Song, is Out Now!

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The celebration continues! Happy to announce that my latest poetry collection, Coming Up From the Downside: Finding Joy in Our Song, is out now!

Coming Up From the Downside is about adversity, healing, resilience, and faith. It’s about overcoming pain, loss, depression, health issues, and heartbreak to get to real love and the joy that sustains us through it all. It’s the third and final book in what I’m calling “The Home Within” trilogy, which was preceded by 2020’s From The Inside Out: A Poetry Collection and 2023’s Everything I Miss(ed) At Home.

The vast majority of the poems in this book were written in the thick of the pandemic. One of the bleakest periods that completely changed my life, and the lives of so many others. It was a season that kept giving lesson after lesson after lesson in the midst of getting up from the downside.

Coming Up From the Downside was published by Liquid Cat Publishing. The cover was designed Black Author Brand. Extremely grateful to my publisher’s team and the Black Author Brand team for their love, support, encouragement, guidance, and great work throughout this process!

And thank you so much for all who’ve supported me along the way. Words aren’t enough to express my gratitude.

Coming Up From the Downside: Finding Joy in Our Song is available for purchase at Amazon. Get into it!

Much Love + Many Blessings! ~ Buddah Desmond

Don’t Let Perfection Ruin Your Quest for Greatness

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Image courtesy of the Glamour site.
“Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.” ~ Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae, the beautiful, extraordinary singer, songwriter, and entertainer, uttered the words above while accepting the Young, Gifted, and Black Award at this year’s Black Girls Rock! awards show.  Monae’s powerful words are the just the source of inspiration many of us need as we move through this life.  
 
On our quest to achieve our dreams, or simply on the quest to bettering ourselves, we often think we have to be perfect in everything we do.  We virtually kill ourselves striving for perfection (or succumbing to perfection’s tainted appeal), when we don’t need to.  When we realize we are fine just the way we are, greatness is a given.  Greatness will ooze from our pores, because we’re honoring our authentic selves and simply letting it flow (just the way it was intended).  
 
We don’t have to be something we’re not or play into an unrealistic fantasy of ourselves to move forward.  Just be yourself.  “Embrace what makes you unique,” Monae said, “even if it makes others uncomfortable.”  Thank you Janelle Monae, for this, and thank you for sharing your light with the world!