New digs for the moment, a transient experience experiment. Nothing is normal, and I suppose that's good in many ways. Sitting beside a dying fire, thoughts are scattered and dimming to yawns while I try to plan the coming months with more intention and awareness than I've allowed myself in years, it seems. Looking further out feels good, but I ( Read more... )

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows

I used to write in this for logistical updates on odd adventures ( Read more... )

I'm moving all of my belongings into a truck and trailer and I am overjoyed and terrified. The truck is a honkin' beast of an f250, vermillion paint aged beautifully in the desert sun. It also happens to take a serious fuckton of fuel ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Baltimore, avoiding billing because I booked a hotel twice and I may be on the hook for five hundred smackaroos of forgetfulness. It is and isn't my fault. I've made so many reservations in the past two months that I can hardly remember from one week to the next where they are, much less what they're for and for how ( Read more... )

...dear friend has a mix cd made, what, six years ago, of sia. it was made by her friend, whose vocal strain the artist resembled, especially in the lower register. no one knew who she was then, relative to the superstar she is now, and the ensemble of celebrity that has followed in her wake. before most of the world was listening, that voice found ( Read more... )

woke from a dream a couple of nights ago with the distinct pall of sadness and frustration that precipitated my matrimonial shitshow, and i was like,"Oh." Yeah, i remember now, and I am right about there being things both to learn from and let go of, even at this late hour. It is still a part of my life, maybe it always will be. doesn't make it any ( Read more... )

The list of things i am supposed to be doing right now is short but meaningful.
Being good to myself is at the top, and i am sort of checking the box, sort of not.
It is national poetry month, so get out your turtlenecks.

The amount of time that has passed precludes documenting every detail. my next line would be 'suffice it to say i've learned a great deal, experienced the whole spectrum of human emotion,' et cetera, but it doesn't really suffice at all ( Read more... )

examining life. working hard. going to hear music. staying on the moto as much as possible. there is more coming, later.