Summertime, and the livin' is easy… 

I just LOVE this quote! “When you complain all you do is broadcast, ‘There’s a victim in the neighborhood!’.” -Maya Angelou Or, as my wonderful friend Trina says in her Sushi Song, “Quit Yer Bitchin’” 🙂 (This is directed at ME, by the way, not YOU. I put this here as a reminder to myself…

Beautiful Empty Pages by Hafiz What kind of work Can I do in this world? Who would be kind enough To hire an old holy Bum, One with a great reputation For loving the charms Of the lawless And the wild artists and the lewd? Maybe I could become a poet. Maybe the Beloved Will…

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…

This is Devil Pirate Duckie, Patron Saint of Healing Baths and Sacred Cleansing for Pirates like me Today I am cleansing myself of all past relationships and behaviors which have not honored my Spirit. Today I say no to allowing people to hide me from their “other” loved ones so they can “honor their needs…

Another bit unearthed in the old journal today. I’m not sure who I was writing this to. There’s no date and I don’t remember. Maybe I was writing it to my future self. Maybe I was writing it to the Universal Collective. I am putting it here for YOU. Whomever reads this, it applies to…

I love shadow and light. I think it’s what draws me to photography. I believe that experiencing shadow here on Earth is what guides us to experience Light more fully. I see so much light shining through beauty in humanity. It’s there if we choose to see it. The more I see, the more it…