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I AM 19 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am
“After it’s all said and done, don’t I still think that the world is scary? Don’t I go into it every day afraid? What would that world be like, the one where women don’t make bitter compromises for ...
THE GIRL WITHIN 12 Aug 2013 | 05:39 am
“Women have long tended the gardens of others. While providing the context for others’ development, they have historically neglected their own. When a woman carries the virginal girl across the thresh...
GONE NOT GONE 17 Jul 2013 | 11:09 pm
“It is now, when the whole jar of humidity has been poured on me like wet petals, and there is no question of dryness anywhere, that I am most close to everything alive. The wet breath that links leav...
ONE WITH THE WILD FEMININE 1 Jul 2013 | 07:24 am
“In order to converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word. Long ago the word alone was treated as two word...
WHAT AN EMPTY BOWL BECOMES 16 Jun 2013 | 06:26 am
What follows is a passage from Cheryl Strayed’s phenomenal book Wild which tipped itself right into my heart. The book was a gift given to me by my mother-in-law. Thank goodness she did. “My guidebook...
INTIMACY WITH FEAR 9 Jun 2013 | 03:21 am
“Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it. We wade in the tidal pools and put our finger near the soft, open bodies of sea anemones and they close up. Everything spontaneously...
WHOLE & HALVING 22 May 2013 | 09:02 am
And I am here in this place between waking and sleep, and all I can think of is my future, the future as round as a new mother, as worn as lace, and holding me fast to its murmurings. Am I to write? F...
MANIFESTO (I CAN) 16 May 2013 | 08:08 am
I AM ANGRY. Please life, free me from this pain. What wants to speak? Who wants to speak? The new me wants to say a few things and she wants to say: FUCK THE WORLD LISTEN TO ME HEAR ME NOW HEAR ME F...
THE WELL 28 Apr 2013 | 11:10 am
It’s almost summer and I can feel it in the flowers, from the river. I have been tired, overworked and unsure of my next big steps. There are too many to choose from, I can only take small ones. So, a...
GRASPING UPON GASPING 18 Apr 2013 | 08:31 am
Oh, there are times, there are times. Times when all seems quiet and yet with so many words. Times when there is such silence and such noise. I am speaking of the slowness and the quickness. I am spea...
