I didn't get a chance to take a decent photo of RuPaul (and I'm not about to post anything subpar of Ru!) but I did get to meet him. I felt like I was in the midst of a very special human, an absolute light, and an individual capable of seeing the true beauty in everyone. Today during his Q+A, a sequined boy stood up and asked, "Even though you seem to have everything and are successful, you probably have to work hard to not get overwhelmed. How do you keep yourself happy?"

The answer was long, floral, poetic, and beautiful. But in essence, RuPaul's personal requirements are: daily practice of meditation, yoga, and prayer. When describing meditation, he related it to floating above the planet and seeing everything from far away - an experience I often have while in meditation. The entire practice of gratitude was clarified through a metaphor. Ru said, "it's as if you're babysitting the most beautiful child. And you know who that child is?" Of course we do.

He talked about the consumerist culture that we live in, and in order to live in it, we have to buy things. Lots of things. Things we don't need. "You won't be clean unless you're Zestfully clean, isn't that right!" He said. And though color and creativity and music and joy involves buying things, his point was this: most of the world will take advantage of the fact that you don't feel whole. You'll feed bad, awful in fact. "How do you offset that?" He asked.

"You have to remember that you are made of the power that started the universe."