Monthly Archives: June 2021

What is the opposite of being alive? Is it nothing. Is it returning to dust, to metals, to the canyon walls, to the things that accumulate on my window sill. Is it being without a body. Is it being with … Continue reading →

Deep in the stillness, I can hear you speak. A long slow exhale. I can be in right relationship, you and me. Plant and animal. Our tender animal bodies. Animal and earth. I am looking at sound, sound in water. … Continue reading →

The end is the beginning. Or the beginning is the end. I’m deeply aware that these hours are the last ones I’ll be as me. Me as I know it. A solo actress. Who reads a book in my pajamas … Continue reading →

Don’t tell me you don’t get it. Don’t tell me you’re a good person. Don’t tell me that it wasn’t really a thing where and when you were growing up. Don’t tell me that it’s not your problem. Don’t tell … Continue reading →

What makes me sad is that we have one word for love in the English language. No singular word that evokes the soul-stirring precise description of what we mean.  We need modifiers to really describe what we mean. Tough love, … Continue reading →

“Mother is a very powerful identity,” she said. This was today, 26 of us in our respective zoom boxes with the festive baby shower virtual backgrounds. The year is 2021. The zoom baby shower the stand-in for the hugs and … Continue reading →

Do you remember body odor? Or odor beyond the smell of your hot breath, maybe coffee breath, maybe dehydrated breath ricocheting off your mask back onto your tastebuds and up your nasal passages? I think of the bodies I’ve smelled. … Continue reading →

Resilient, rewind, redo, recoil, remember, rebirth. Resilient is said as a compliment, something heaped on someone for surviving, treading water, breathing through a straw for a moment or a lifetime. But what about taking away the things that force one … Continue reading →