Readings By Simone Aide-Mémoire
A SERIES OF LOVE LETTERS TO MY SPIRITUAL SISTER
RISIKAT IYABO OKEDEYI
My Beloved Kat,
 
I don't even know where to start with this. I’m still trying to settle with seeing you on the other side, struggling, with writing a tribute on your passing. I struggle with you talking to me as spirit. You behaving as if you are still here and all is normal! Giving me instructions with deadlines. It's as if nothing has changed: calling me out on my shit, setting me straight and sealing it with, “I love you.”
 
Some days are easier than others. In between, I still have to sit and be still when a memory of you pops in. I let the tears flow and take a deep breath and ground myself.
 
I'm going to end here. My love letters to you might be a series. I have so much to say, but it all can’t come out at once. Four  years of friendship and the impact you have had on me feels like it has been forty years.
 
I love and miss you.
Simone
MOTHER HAS RETURNED: RISIKAT OKEDEYI MEMORIAL SERVICE
Graphics for Risikat: Hadiya Williams
SACRED CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR ANCESTORS
MAY 2 - 6, 2024
BARBADOS
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This year's ancestral experience slated for 2-6 May 2024 in Barbados, is a tribute to our Ancestral Mothers. It is important to venerate the body, soul and spirit which has given breath, carried and brought life into this world. The force of creation, sustainer of life and existence.
 
On the last day of the ancestral experience, I lead participants to the ocean.The Atlantic Ocean washes upon the East Coast of the island. You can sail from this shore over the Atlantic, where the currents take you straight home to Africa, without once seeing or touching  land mass.
 
Here, I take a private moment with my Ancestors and the water spirits. I encourage participants to use kinetic energy to connect. The current of the water, blowing of the wind, light from the sun and grounding in the sand, are all portals that are used to speak, listen and feel the spirits.
 
This, is the Sacred Conversations. 
 
SACRED CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR ANCESTORS SPRING 2022 
LIME & LEMON CLEANSING BATH
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Lemon and lime bath is good for its purifying energy, its juice is good to help keep the body and home free of negative influences. Perfect for any time of year, bathing in citrus can relax, restore, strengthen, or purify, depending on what you need most. 
 
This bath warms up and relaxes tense or sore muscles. It pulls harmful toxins out of your body through your skin and uplifts your spirits, mainly through the scent. It also can be used as a floor and wall wash. Add a teaspoon of salt to aid in removing negative energy.
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