Authenticity chant: Let me not posture Let me not front Let me not say yes to Lives I don’t want Let me not use words that don’t mean a thing […]
Year: 2014
sourcing myself and others
There’s a card in the osho zen tarot deck called ‘the source‘, and I love whenever I pull it because it is so humbling. I sometimes pull it when I […]
nanowrimo
i am writing a draft of a novel! i had an incredible experience with napowrimo, national poetry writing month. i spent april writing a poem each day and remembering how […]
still i write (somewhere between mantra and ode)
i worked on a sci-fi story throughout the day today. it was incredible, fun feverish writing. i woke up with a new piece of a story i’ve been working all […]
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sacred places and stardust
There are many sacred places along the journey through grief. One of the them is the body, but I’ll build to that. Land is precious. Especially land full of trees […]
The Beauty of Autumn
On Wednesday we learned of a transition in our family, a little one we were expecting in February was instead delivered at twenty weeks by my sister Autumn. I’ve been […]
Time warp log (a piece of sci-fi only it isn’t fiction)
I write to you from what I am now empirically convinced is the inside of a time warp. Which, to be clear, is an experience and not in fact a […]
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Spell for Grief or Letting Go
Adequate tears twisting up directly from the heart and rung out across the vocal chords until only a gasp remains; At least an hour a day spent staring at the […]
Was it me that changed or you?
This week I’m running around NYC, working and experiencing the city with my sweetheart. It feels different again. When I first came to the city I’d loved it for years […]
how to feel a feeling
I want to feel everything, to meet all my feelings head on. I suspect it’s impossible, because there are so many valid feelings and only so much time. But to […]