it’s a straight up lie to call this a review when it’s a turned-out-last-night style love note. however, ‘i’m a grown woman’ and thus ‘can do whatever i want.’ i […]
Tag: love
how many times do i have to give up knowing?
i love our human markers of time – holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, vacations. not necessarily for the celebrations, though i love celebrating. but because they expose to me how much my […]
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love lessons
people have told me, ‘love yourself first. you have to love yourself before anyone else can love you.’ but i have observed that there is an unconditional love, greater than […]
birthday reflection: the joy precipice
‘It’s warm, and the sun is out It’s like my heart’s restored… And I’m thankful for seeing Another spring…’ Nina Simone actually it’s dark, the stars are out, the milky […]
5 years
five years ago my life changed. it was dramatic, and it wasn’t. my nephew was being born 3000 miles away from me. i reached out to see if i should […]
dropping into body
spent the day today driving down the coast of california, hiking, dancing, laughing. i have never regretted saying yes to a road trip in my life, it is sweet to […]
lessons from a transformative breakup: how to find new ways be in each other’s lives and not split the communities we love or the movements we support*
Try every single thing you can to make it work, and articulate the effort you are making to each other. Even things you aren’t sure will work – try EVERYthing. […]
emergence (speech from opening for allied media conference 2013)
emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. it emphasizes critical connections, authentic relationships, listening with the body and the mind. […]
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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 […]
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 […]