i am from el paso, i was born there. when i saw the news of this latest mass shooting, i felt gut punched. i ignore a lot of the news. […]
Tag: grief
final letter to Ursula le Guin (sent the day after your departure)
first, a few excerpts from our correspondence, which will be published in the Ursula le Guin Science Fiction and Social Justice Reader this year. 1. amb: How does imagination help […]
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choose your own adventure: an affirmation
i learn experientially. i often feel slow, behind the clarity, behind the certainty that others have. my questions focus on things i feel, things happening under the surface. sometimes that’s […]
love love love
i believe we are living on the precipice of the next phase of our species. and i’m with such good people, people who cry hard and laugh harder. and do […]
stardust and rivers
sitting at the intersection of life and death, love and grief, waiting for a train. everything this week has been reminding me i am stardust. i practice non attachment, but […]
how does crying work?
last weekend i cried in front of people. i suspected it could happen – i was teaching a somatics course and was being vulnerable in front of the class. it […]
9
Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, I’d like to challenge you to write a nine-line poem. sometimes i lose my hope when the miracles have gone my kind […]
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. […]
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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 […]