The Culture You Feel
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Tricky Sol

41 minutes ago4 min read

Never In Vain: What The Clark Sisters Taught Us About Building A Life That Lasts

There is a kind of legacy that doesn't announce itself with fanfare. The Clark Sisters built that kind—the kind that lives inside the way other people sound, move, and understand what it means to give everything to something that matters. Five sisters from Detroit who refused to shrink, turned reggae grooves into gospel anthems, and proved that legacy isn't built in moments of fame. It's built in the dailiness of devotion.

Tricky Sol

1 day ago9 min read

You Belong Anywhere You Want to Be

At five years old, Tina Knowles heard: "You don't belong here." Her first teacher looked at this pretty, poor Black child and decided to break her spirit. Decades later, while creating iconic costumes now in the Smithsonian, fashion insiders told her the same thing. But Tina transformed that wound into wisdom: "You deserve to be anywhere you want to be...you got to welcome yourself." This is what it looks like when someone decides the wound stops with them—and builds a legacy

Tricky Sol

2 days ago6 min read

ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU...

Halle's "because i love you" captures something we don't talk about enough: when love becomes permission for chaos. Watching Olivia and Fitz spiral through Scandal, I see it clearly now—their chemistry wasn't the problem. The problem was letting "I love you" excuse their worst behavior instead of inspiring their best. Real legacy means asking: what am I doing because I love you? Testing patience or protecting peace? Proving you'll stay or proving I'm worth staying for?

Tricky Sol

3 days ago7 min read

Your Life, Your Rules

It's 2026, and despite the chaos, I'm optimistic. Not because everything's perfect, but because we still hold the most radical power there is: the power to decide who we're going to be. Most of us live on autopilot, following scripts we never agreed to. But what if you stopped and asked yourself Olivia Pope's question: "What do you want?" Not what you're supposed to want—what do YOU actually want? This is your life. Your rules. Time to claim it.

Tricky Sol

Jan 44 min read

It's Tiiiiiime to Falalalala

The holiday magic you're missing? It was never December itself—it was your parents' labor. Someone stayed up wrapping gifts, building atmosphere, generating that warm frequency. We absorbed it as ambiance. Then we became adults, and nobody handed us the script for creating it ourselves.

Tricky Sol

Dec 14, 20254 min read

Cycle Three: Your Mind Is the Last to Know

I'll be honest; this cycle looked different. Not because the ideas weren't there, but because I've been figuring out what this blog wants to be in real-time. These are personal excavations shaped into something universal. The thread? Your body knows before your brain does. Intelligence lives there first.

Tricky Sol

Dec 7, 20255 min read

Walk, Walk, and Walk

I thought my walking practice began in 2019 when panic attacks consumed me. But a Thanksgiving morning walk surfaced an earlier memory: middle school, 6:30 AM weekends, walking alone. Not from crisis, but instinct. My body knew something before my mind had any framework for it. That's where it started—with embodied wisdom I'd somehow forgotten.

Tricky Sol

Nov 30, 202511 min read

The Energy Never Dies

Through meditation, a truth emerged: I am the amalgamation of energies from my ancestors. The universe confirmed it through JoJo, Kamala's coconut tree, and thermodynamics. When energy only transforms—never vanishes—we glimpse something profound: our DNA carries ancestral stories, unfinished missions waiting to emerge.

Tricky Sol

Nov 23, 20259 min read

Someone Worth Having Faith In

When Zohran Mamdani responded to Cuomo's attacks with 'What I don't have in experience I make up for in integrity,' I knew I'd witnessed something rare—a politician who actually answers questions, has a strategic plan grounded in precedent, and understands that well done is better than well said. NYC's first Muslim and Asian-American mayor isn't just making promises; he's offering lifelines in a landscape of economic anxiety

Tricky Sol

Nov 9, 20257 min read

Fragility of the Mind

I used to think my brain could handle anything—doom-scrolling at midnight, absorbing everyone's drama while ignoring my own mental health. Then I realized my mind had become a digital hoarder, running Windows 98 software while trying to process global catastrophes and celebrity gossip simultaneously. Turns out, my brain's fragility wasn't a bug; it was a feature that needed protection.

Tricky Sol

Sep 21, 20253 min read

The Greatest Heist in Cultural History

Every time someone strums a banjo in Nashville or a rock guitar screams through stadium speakers, you're hearing the echo of the greatest heist in cultural history. From the banjo's African origins to rock and roll's Black pioneers, American music was built by Black hands—but the wealth it generated was systematically diverted elsewhere. Recognition without reparation is just another form of exploitation.

MUSIC

Tricky Sol

Aug 31, 20253 min read

A Dinosaur's Mystique Comes From Not Moving

We've turned dinosaurs into content machines—CGI spectacles, video game bosses, breakfast cereal mascots. But a former assassin standing in a museum understood what we've forgotten: a dinosaur's mystique comes from not moving. In our rush to resurrect them through technology, we're murdering the very thing that made them magical: their profound, mysterious stillness.

Tricky Sol

Aug 24, 20254 min read

Your Lifeblood Runs to Rhythm

Before there were words, there was rhythm. Before cave paintings, there were bone flutes. Music didn't happen to us—music made us. That unconscious head nod when the bass drops isn't a casual response; it's evidence of the invisible river flowing through you, connecting you to humanity's oldest technology for creating meaning, building community, and conjuring the spirit that makes us most fully human.

MUSIC

Tricky Sol

Aug 17, 20254 min read

Cycle Two - The Oscillation Principle: How Everything Sacred Is Also Profane

We're taught to think in straight lines—progress, growth, liberation—as if you level up and never look back. But that's not how anything actually works. Everything that matters oscillates: sacred and profane, creation and destruction, the versions of yourself you're becoming and leaving behind.