the births of isobel, meilu and soraya. meeting and studying the work of ursula le guin. finishing the emergent strategy book. traveling abundantly. increasing quality time at home and with […]
Year: 2016
be more of you (new year’s invitation and spell)
“we honor our ancestors by thriving.” – dallas goldtooth it gets in our bones, fear. fear of ridicule and isolation, fear of the unknown, fear of past traumas being repeated. […]
Read More… from be more of you (new year’s invitation and spell)
solstice love letter to darkness
darkness everyone lies about you, painting your face on tragedy in the folds of the dark i find room for my dreams i learn to swallow light, i forget to […]
pep talk for apocalyptic days
history is looping and retrograde today. we can reflect on ourselves, and we can be disappointed and scared of what we are up to as a species. and we can […]
how to grieve for strangers
feel the grief. let the grief change you. that’s enough. when there is great and unimaginable suffering happening – to strangers, individuals or masses – its ok, its necessary, to […]
a prayer for aleppo
praying fails some nights the current day eviscerates the horizon the future ends for people who we can see and we can feel but will never know will never touch […]
lesson from snow
sometimes contemplating the incomprehensible helps me continue. there is a foot of snow covering every surface outside and still dropping from the sky, not just here but all over the […]
unpopular: shamelessly blogging about a facebook post
even though i once promised myself i wouldn’t be the kind of writer who wrote about experiences i had on social media, i am about to reflect on a positive […]
Read More… from unpopular: shamelessly blogging about a facebook post
how do we remember we are miracle?
we have to become more worthy of our own skins we have lost the miraculous gaze we only give it to the newborn but everyone is utterly unique amongst the […]
don’t patronize us/them (from oakland to standing rock)
on saturday i learned of a warehouse fire in oakland that, as of this writing, has claimed 33 lives. on sunday i learned that there was a victory in the […]
Read More… from don’t patronize us/them (from oakland to standing rock)