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why I love Dallas
I was invited to play cello for a televised Sufi celebration in Dallas a few years ago. Play and also recite a Hazrat Pir poem in front of about 500 people. I was so nervous when I got off the plane I had to sit down (and almost vomited). It was an incredible honor ( Read more... ) -
the lonely bones
The lonely bones are what's left over. After we've finished this dish. Some was pleasant when it mattered and some was not. But all was spent towards this aim - the filling of our endless stomachs and sometimes even our hearts. We're old as saints. Young as prophets. We're children at tea time, sipping from empty cups; mother's best china. ( Read more... ) -
yes
The story of Andy and I is a fun one to tell. In it's retelling, I'm reminded how my life has been riddled with signs. And how, in some ways, I've never been left without internal guidance. It would also serve as the perfect segue between my relationship with David, and what followed. But I'm not going to tell it. Not right now anyway ( Read more... ) -
on a bus in Chile
Pet Your Confusion
You set bowls of milk out as offering.
It eats, then curls up in your chest.Every moment I spent in Chile was stolen. Stolen from a life I was trying to hold onto at home. A non-life, really, as the only thing that was missing from it was my self. David, my boyfriend at the time, basically forbade me from going. His jealousy ( Read more... ) -
happiness
I want to write about the happiest moments of my life. The purpose of this, supposedly, is to remind myself why life is worth it. -
wild honey and locusts
were the diet of John the Baptist. Yum. -
(Untitled)
"I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"
-Leonard Cohen -
what would break?
Our bodies are dark with mystery. Cells, synapses, heart palpitations, electricity, water, inhalation and exhalation, pores, nerve endings, bones, plasma, veins, etc. Everything in our body works in perfect harmony with itself. Perfect balance and unity. All this without our knowing it ( Read more... ) -
24-Hour Diner
I am the old waitress who suffered a stroke and limps and ( Read more... ) -
entertainment
I love breaking whatever social contract binds us to this boring, scripted fucking dialogue.