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The Season of the Ouroboros
I come to this weekly practice every week doubt-stricken, fumbling to render visible the incredible bevy of feelings that I experience. Each week, I…
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“How could you be so heartless?"
“How could you be so heartless,” the driver sung along quietly under his breath as Kanye West’s “Heartless” played on the radio. I sat in the back of…
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“I’m Pulling Back the Curtain. I Want to Meet the Wizard.”
This week is a real 90s tinged, return of the mack, the return of the seething flame on the hedge vibe: “So I'm back up in the game Running things to…
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"Apprentices Needed, Not Disciples"
The song Black Sabbath as performed by Black Sabbath on their 1970 album Black Sabbath is the mood this week. That iconic, haunting limmi guitar riff…
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“The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.”
All my writing is rooted in feeling. Each week I am like a boiling pot of water that eventually experiences enough heat that I bubble up at a moments…
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"We don't waste death"
It’s been all about quiet, next drenched moments of shifting into late summer for me this week. It’s been about finishing weavings; spinning yarn…
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"There was a whole world in front of my eyes I did not see"
Look, I put on a nice shirt for this occasion. WAH-LA! Have you noticed me writing, videoing, and photographing my bicycle rides more? Well, I have been…
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I Feel Like an Echo
Facts are sorta overrated. I mean, don’t get me wrong, some facts are now considered irrefutable. The unequal distribution of resources on the plant…
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“Great Storytellers Break Spells.”
Thoughts on Writing Ourselves into Imagined Futures
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The Words Are Coming Through Me
Notes on Community Authorship
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I Bloomed Right There on the Hedge
These past few weeks have been such a maelstrom of change for me. Not in a super intense way like when we had 5 child care providers in a year. No, it…
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Where do I belong?
Notes on Masculinity
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