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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)
My Ketamine Summer
I had a dream last night that I was standing close to a horse. I could feel the warm weight of him and I wanted to lean in closer, closer, until I was inside of him …
Back In The Saddle
I had a dream last night that I was standing close to a horse. I could feel the warm weight of him and I wanted to lean in closer, closer, until I was inside of him …
Writing Your Truth and Risking Rejection
Someone in class today asked about how to write their story when they fear possible rejection by friends and family if they tell the truth.
Blending Spices and Living Large
I want to be the kind of person who can make dinner for friends or even just one friend and not feel like I'm going to have an aneurism...
The Full Moon Sound Bath
It only took one time, but I am a floating sound bath hog. It was an experience I think about almost every day, still, months after having done it.
Curio Spice and EAT your life
I fell in love with Curio Spice Co. when I was living at Spirit Hill Farm in Sebastopol, California, and found online, through Curio
Deconstruct a Book and Construct Your Story with Cristina Link and Me
Altered bookmaking involves modifying a book by tearing, painting, collaging, cutting, and deconstructing it to rebuild it during reconstruction as you narrate your narrative in the new pages of your book.
The Best Idea I Ever Had or How to Claim Your Self When You Were Adopted
I was doing a meditation on the Chani app and was asked to imagine myself before conception as a spark.
Get Coached to Win at Your Life by the Winningest Coach in Ivy League History and Me
Kathy Delaney-Smith was a rock star when I was in high school.
Adopted People and the Money Fairy
I don’t want to write this post, but it was between getting this done or doing my taxes, so here I am.
Adopted People and Their (My) Relationship with Money, Part 1
If a fetus’s umbilical cord is pinched, it can cause malnourishment, brain damage, and death for the fetus. The cord between mother and infant is essential. When you are kept, life bonds you to your mother. When you are adopted, more often than not, money does.
The Perfect Book for Winter--You Can Stay Bundled Up All Day and Feel Like You Accomplished Something
The book starts with a young Tonni making guests at her parents’ party laugh by coming downstairs first in her mother’s high heels and lipstick.