Sunshine and Olly

by Jonathan Blaustein

Hi, everyone.

I haven’t forgotten you.

I know it’s the biggest gap between weekday posts, (since I launched the blog,) but there’s a good reason for it.

Finally, some good news!

I’m currently in Tulsa, OK, for the biggest photo assignment of my career.

Something I’d been working on for months finally came to fruition!

While I’ve obviously used Sunshine and Olly to help process my pain, and understand the world, I don’t want to suggest I see the world through gray-colored glasses.

Quite the opposite!

I’m a hopeful, optimistic, positive person.

Which is why I’ve been fighting so hard to overcome trauma, and find more joy for my family.

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I can’t share details about the shoot, but the subject that brought me to Tulsa is about as positive as it gets.

The best of the best.

So of course I (randomly) end up staying in the heart of Greenwood, the historic Black Wall Street district that was attacked in the worse Race Massacre this country has seen.

(Beyond what America did to its indigenous population, obviously.)

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I don’t want to turn a positive piece into a downer.

Really, I don’t.

The message today is that good things CAN happen, if you persist, stay open, and keep spreading the positive energy.

Look for ways to support others, as you seek support yourself.

That’s why I’m here.

But since I can also report that a baseball/soccer stadium sponsored by a casino, and a host of fancy lofts, were built upon stolen Black land, because I’ve now seen it with my own eyes?

Gotta share that too.

Catch you next week, when I’ll be back home and settled again.

Stay cool out there!

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