My Search for a Purpose

Hello and Welcome to Another Blogpost! First, and foremost, an overview of the past two months of my life! (The past two months, because in my last post I did not include an update for April.) April So the beginning of the month of April was a little bit rough because I was dealing with a Student Conduct hearing related to my use of amplified sound during a rally against injustice lead by NoNames4Justice. The hearing was long and the conversations I had afterward were longer. Three people I want to especially thank during that time are one of the hearing officers, Troy Hendricks, for his patience and support through the process; Alexa Erb, for being the best human on the face of the Earth; and Daphne Wells for trying her best to explain everything  This hearing ended with me being found not responsible, but I incurred no  sanctions other than a written warning about further disruption on campus.  The weeks, in my mind, seem to blend together- I went to the gym o...

Greetings. I know that this blog post was made two weeks after it was supposed be out, but yknow life happens sometimes. I was busy trying to get ready for graduation and survive the end of my senior year and also I've felt super not the best for a while. Originally I was going to have this blog post be "Jamal" the conclusion to my name exploration series, a part of my exploration of self series. My first name means beautiful or handsome... I'm not feeling very beautiful right now, so I'm going to hold off on it for after I'm officially done with school. It will probably end up being my June blog post. I have a post planned for the end of May and it makes more sense to release that instead of "Jamal" at that point. I'll save my life update for then, one because I know this post is going to be particularly long, and two, because I don't have the capacity right now to think about all that I did in April. This post is called "Dear Whi...

Hello and Welcome back to your regularly scheduled blog post by none other than Jamal Davis Neal, Jr. :) (If you missed my last post,  my brain is a clementine , feel free to read it to see what was going on in my brain on March 6th!) My friends Mikasi, Joyce, Liz, RiRi, and I at the Ben & Jerry's Factory Also- sorry that this post is a week and change late. You know what they say! Depression doesn't work on your time, just whenever it wants to rear itself :) My mental and emotional capacity has been lacking lately and I'm just generally not as enthused or emotionally invested in much right now at all. I'm exhausted and not sure what will aid in a healing process that I need. We shalllll see! Also just a warning that this post is longer than usual. I'm covering a whole history of my religious journey and it takes more energy, time, and material than I've previously presented in blog posts before. Anyways, per usual- an update on this past month of my ...