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Hide and Seek.

October 26, 2012

The waves of truth. My belief system is erm… not cohesive. Aside # 1: I would use the term cogent instead of cohesive here but the Grand Chu told me that it’s “too pompous” for everyday use. Point taken – though I do use it in every day conversation…along with heretofore, and hence and forthwith.) […]

Ariadne.

September 27, 2012

tl;dr – There is a lot of goddamned deep here. Fair Warning. Ariadne [ˌærɪˈædnɪ] (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë: she gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth Roots. I am close to my family, I am the […]

I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

September 11, 2012

I am tired. Weary in a way that seeps in along the sheath of my veins and pools, collecting at at my juncture points. ( As an aside these sheaths actually exist- it is made of fascia and wraps the vein in this protective layer of tissue. true story).Elbows and knees and and the place where my […]

Dear Camus:Fuck You.

July 31, 2012

When one is eating Skippy peanut butter from a jar and putting together a steam punk costume to wear to Burning Man…one tends to have questions bubble to the surface. Questions such as: “Really? Did I just eat a whole jar of goddamned peanut butter?” or “I wonder how these leg warmers will hold up […]

My guts are dreams.

July 5, 2012

I am A Dork. I dunno if you can tell but I was HEAVILY influenced by fiction/fantasy novels like the English Patient or The Dragon Lance Chronicles or Beach Music or A Boy’s Life or 1984 or The Wheel of Time series when I was a kid. I was enraptured with movies like The Princess Bride, Willow […]

My Mountains are Burning…but that’s okay.

June 28, 2012

Agni The mountains are burning – thousands of acres a dry feast –consumed to the bone dry Colorado dirt. Homes are being picked up and thrown away in waves of thick black smoke. Animals are suffocating, burning, dying. Some reports say the smoke cloud stretches all the way to Oklahoma ferried on the swift winds […]

Skin Symbols and Sympathy.

June 25, 2012

New Skin. I’d forgotten about the intimacy that accompanies a new tattoo. Perhaps made nostalgic is a better description…I have made nostalgic the way my body experiences the process of a needle biting an image into my skin. It is a sensual nostalgia –my body response leading the memory and the ego trailing after…i dig […]

Scars and Ink

June 18, 2012

There are really only two instances that make me think about being a cutter when I was young: When I get a new tattoo. When I begin a new relationship. Not that it doesn’t come up every once in a while whilst digging around in my soul garden…it’s just that these two things make me sit and […]

Compassion, judgement,pity and the places in between.

June 15, 2012

Every Tuesday and Thursday I teach yoga asana to women who are afflicted with have eating disorders. Severe eating disorders. There are parts of me that want to jest about this somehow –to throw up a wall of sarcasm & block the primal truth of human pain and vulnerability writ large in the giant eyes […]

Love Bukowski and avoiding the soul crush.

June 12, 2012

You know what I love? Good. Fracking Fucking.Writing. See what I did there- crossing out the pseudo expletive and using ACTUAL profanity? I’ve been having this internal discussion as of late about my use of swear words in my posts –Is it too much?- What if people are offended? Blah-blah. I’ve decided that I am […]