LIVE
letting go
washing myself of the past
allowing myself to be loved
by the people who are really here
in the present tense
DREAM
allowing myself to dream again
and possibly understanding
what love truly means
for the first time in my life
LOVE
loving myself
turning my compassion
and benevolence
to myself
finally
I stand near the edge of a cliff and feel the muscles between my thighs weaken in this moment something in me rejoices I cut my skin and watch the blood slowly trickle reveling in the smell of it, the redness of it the LIFE of it drinking in the sight of moonlight on freshly…
“And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.” -William Blake One of my friends recently stopped communicating with me out of the blue. I intuitively felt something was going on so I asked him why he was so quiet. He replied back telling me…
Violated I don’t know when it happened. I don’t know where, why or in what way. I only know that it did. I know that this memory is stuck in my body and is hurting me deeply. I am ready to remember and re-member. Just as I felt another big swell of nausea and tears…
Tonight, I went to a screening of Quick Brown Fox at the Henry Art Museum. It is a very touching film done by a brave woman, Ann Hedreen of White Noise Productions. It is an account, in the first person, of a woman whose mother is dying of Alzheimer’s Disease. During the Q&A, I asked…