i was in a brownstone in brooklyn with this sweet older black couple. he says to me, with this twinkle in his eye, ‘come down and see what i have’. […]
Year: 2013
a poem on purpose
(written by hand on plane, transcribed with a cacophony of frog songs all around me) i am often now looking into beauty wherever i am seeing a falling down around […]
notes from BALLE talk
i spoke today at the annual gathering of the business alliance for local living economies. the theme for this session was changing the story. fran korten facilitated, with gar alperovitz, […]
it’s a yes
this is just a little one, a request for your prayers/wishes/love/thoughts/having-my-back/futuring. however you call in good for others, call it in for me. there are some blessings afoot in my […]
wild seed dinner, albuquerque nm
on june 3 we had an octavia butler dinner in albuquerque, an intimate event, just three of us (myself, host andrea quijada, and ob lover elena letourneau). this format made […]
say it out loud
lately i’ve felt like god-is-change is saying to me something like ‘you can have what you want, everything you want, but you have to say it out loud.’ today i […]
short music recommendations
she, alice smith – because you like sangin’, and original songs, and songs about all the different aspects of love and heartbreak. because alice is on par with the best […]
‘let it cut more deep’
Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart […]
Landed
a four blog day, that’s what it is. I am in Minnesota. they got this place in the fall. driving up tonight to the sound of frogs, green catching the […]
dear adrienne: how to do a fishbowl conversation
people ask me questions. sometimes i answer. question: do you have instructions for running a fishbowl? answer: yes! (a fishbowl is a way to have an intimate conversation with a […]
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