Opened Contra this morning and… TOP 5%. WHAT?! 🤯✨

We honestly didn't expect to wake up to this.

Thank you for every upgoat, like, comment, and follow. You helped us get here. ❤️

Let's see how far we can take this. 🚀 @Contra HQ

🐐 + 💬 = ❤️

Wow, it's amazing 👏

when's the last time you asked for something and got more than you asked for? i'll go first!

"she's tiny, but she's a spitfire!"

that's what Linda Nell Cooper, the chairman of our theater department and the director of the show i was in, said about me after that day. here's what she was talking about. we were doing Parade at Liberty University, and felt like nobody knew about it. our department had been having the same frustrating conversation for a while: convocation announcements didn't really make room for theater shows. my professor brought it up in class. i sat in those complicated conversations. everyone agreed it was a problem, and nobody had a way in. then i ended up in a meeting with David Nassar, our campus pastor, about something completely unrelated. when we finished, i had a window to ask one question, so i asked it: who's the right person to talk to about getting our show into the convocation announcements? he didn't give me a name. he said, "you can come up and do the announcement yourself."

i said, "huh?" he said, "come tomorrow. you'll be backstage, have breakfast with us, do the announcement, and then stay on stage with us for convocation." the guest that day was Tasha Cobbs! (i was & am i fan of her music so WHAT a treat to meet her like huh? 😭) so the next...