Mercury retrograde musings
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On microcosms.
Today, I used this periwinkle flower to transport a caterpillar from a beach boardwalk.
Read MoreEvery 8 years the cells in your body are replaced with completely new cells
In the few months before I moved back home, there must have been a stray cat who had a litter of babies. The Casa de Oro hill was populated with one, two…
Read MoreShattering
My hematite ring broke in the bathroom last night and last week my golden labradorite ring broke and both times I was intoxicated but that’s not what I’m pointing towards…
Read Morethe eye of a compass
i can’t escape the sound of a lawnmower today and i wonder what will become of me if my arms are extended. today, the surface is beige & the sound is engine…
Read MoreSolstice seed sowing
How to celebrate the solstice when it’s gray. Maybe the sun keeps trying to peek through but the entirety of May has been grey and June gloom lingers…
Read MoreA beginning
And as all beginnings imply, an ending. Scorpio is the triad – one of the few signs (if the only sign) with three symbols. The scorpion…
Read MoreAttack
Gloomy skies, barren streets, and destroyed homes described the vibe of the usually sunny, pleasant town of Springfield. Springfield's typically happy reputation was being overshadowed…
Read Moresyllables.
It was only in retrospect that I noticed your smile. The first time I noticed, your face was inches from mine. Your palm was covering my parted lips, your torso hovering over mine…
Read Morelandfills & the mineral mind
Virginia Woolf said a room of one’s own, but sometimes all you need it a moment of one’s own. This is how I feel – trodden by SF’s cement, concrete hillsides…
Read Morethe pleasure of an empty plane seat
So, I’m settling into this aisle seat on this jumbo plane, two stories high and three aisles wide…
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sungazing in the sahara
I crept up slowly with the pre-dawn darkness, the stars still blazing against the darkness of 4am, no expectancy of any light to come…
Read Moreshame
The anxiety lit up. We were in a backyard, forming a circle. Another one of those home-style rituals, handmade offerings…
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social media & human interaction
4:33 PM. The white typeface on my iPhone stared back at me. CNN notifications popped up on my lock screen, broadcasting reports…
Read Morela memoria
there are buried emotions stored deep within the muscles of my body. deeper then the memories that surface to my mind. more dizzying than the space of the moment you see yourself in a mirror…
Read Morestitching
Fragments of people, neighborhoods split by silent slices of your knife, our stitches barely tugging the healing skin together…
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