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“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”
William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
(Photo: Brad Ewell)
Compose Yourself, Adoption, Joe Hudson, and the Miraculous Birth
I’m not sure how many times I’ve watched this video. Maybe you should get to it before I wear it out.
How Birth Does Not Prepare Us to Be Alive: Adoption and Skin Contact
This is the thing I’ve been circling around saying for the last four posts. The thing has more to do with a feeling than being a thing to say, and so hence the circling.
Coming Out of the Fog, Square One, and the Body of Adoption
What you call a need to heal I call life.
Change, Square One, and Adoption
I left Massachusetts for California on August 15, 2024, with the dream that I was going to finally create a home for myself when I got there.
Coaching My 13-Year-Old Self
For the last three and a half years, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be coached and to coach.
Blogging and Adoption
I wrote my first blog post on June 9, 2016, after my best friend from childhood created a website for me as a present because, somehow, without seeing me for years, she knew this was what I needed.
Embodiment
In my previous post, I wrote about my resistance to claiming my own body, to admitting I was embodied to a group of people who were being trained to use their bodies as compasses to direct them toward their truths.
Today’s Adoptee Writing Class Prompts: What is Enough? What is Not Enough?
I have the best job in the world. I get to think of things I’d like to hear about, and then I get to listen to word musicians, word magicians, word kings and queens read what they conjured up in a minuscule amount of time.
Some key WOW I’M REALLY ALIVE takeaways session with the amazing life coach Katie Peuvrelle or YOU ARE WELCOME
I asked for a session with Katie because everything is great but I’m not feeling it in a deeply meaningful way.