I am the Walking Dead. For the past 26 days, I’ve blogged until I felt like I might drop. I’ve plumbed my depths and dug up the bones of my past. I’ve reflected and researched, reviewed and rewound my life. I’ve looked for connections and missed connections. I’ve written and edited and revised and proofread to the point … More Zombie Apocalypse
For my Mother Day 25: A – Z Challenge “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost Remember Your Sense of Wonder. As I get older, it gets more difficult to match how I feel on the inside with how I look on the outside. There’s an aspect of child-like wonder that directs … More Young at Heart
“You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.” — Rumi Where you are is where your mission is. If that weren’t true, you’d be somewhere else. So, if you are not focused on mining the gold beneath your feet — even if it appears to be a total shit shop … More X Marks the Spot
Day 23: A – Z Challenge “She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.”― Catherynne M. Valente Wild Thing. About ten days ago I took a road trip from Phoenix, to Santa Fe, NM, … More Why We Need Our Wildness
How can we risk it? How can we show our soft underbelly in a world that is full of predators and serial killers and wife beaters and bullies? How can we risk being seen, when even those closest to us might decide one day to call it off, to walk off with a waitress, to … More Vulnerable & On the Verge
Day 21: A – Z Challenge Weirdos Rock. “I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)” ― Eve Ensler, I am an Emotional Creature I’ve written before about how I … More Unique Brand, You.
Day 20: A – Z Challenge Transformation happens,whether you like it or not. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their … More Transformation
Day 19: A – Z Challenge “We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?”― Unknown Today is Earth Day. Here’s what I am thinking: remembering and revering the planet once a year doesn’t cut it. Every single … More Still Standing
Day 18: A – Z Challenge Wide Open Spaces I spent three days last week in New Mexico, teaching and dreaming and watching the light change. After we’d finished teaching creative writing at the prison there, we went out for Afro-Caribbean food at Jambo, and sat under the twinkling lights in a brightly painted dining … More Respite
Day 17: A – Z Challenge: “I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That’s an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there’s a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it’s not what we know, it’s … More Question; Question Everything
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