Just to be a Creature

Monday, September 10th, 2018 For Gibson I used to burn sage. Now I ask people, kindly, if they would mind putting it out…so I can breathe.  So I don’t have the leave the space we are in together… I think about the elegance of it all.  The perfection...

When I Let Go…

Friday, August 6th, 2018 I dreamt about my grandmother’s house again. The small home that seems to sprawl in my mind…the drawers and cupboards spilling their contents out if even slightly provoked. The entire building felt like a time capsule, since it was hard for my...

When You Speak Your Truth

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 “If someone backs away when you speak your truth…let them.” ~ Jennifer Posada “some people, when they hear your story, contract. others, upon hearing your story, expand. and this is how you know.” ~ nayyirah...

Better

Monday, March 12th, 2018 If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill… – Rumi The winter that I was seventeen was strange and long…as the season went on the tendrils of darkness reached further into my friends and I’s hearts, but even then I knew...

To the Great Below…

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 “From the great above, She turned her ear to the great below…” ~from translations of the myth of Goddess Innana When I was a little girl, where I’d visit my grandmother in the South, there were abandoned railroad...

My Great Undoing

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 It wasn’t new… I had been undone so many times before.  My dress rehearsals were profound and comprehensive.  They were shows unto their own, not mere shells of the one to come.  But there is something to be said for my great...

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