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I don't know if it's just a trope, but I've heard several different vaudeville performers talk about their days working as child dancers, dancing until they bled into their toe shoes. ("And thank goodness they were red satin!") I remember a teacher of mine talking about whether those stories were real or confabulated. I believed them, though I also ( Read more... )

So, it hailed this evening -- blueberry-sized ice pellets pummelling the windows of my apartment. It flooded the sidewalk across the street and felled branches. A friend said she went out into the floods, and reported them as higher than her knees. It also flashed lightning long and huge and far away for many minutes first. Somehow my sweetie and I ( Read more... )

It's a fair question. Mostly, I've been on Twitter, with some forays into Tumblr, Blogger, and the beginnings of my WordPress site (soon to come).

I honestly don't know how much I'm going to keep writing here in this LiveJournal. I'm focusing a great deal of my energy for writing online into public persona spaces, and this LJ was never intended to ( Read more... )

Kindness Over Genius
by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai

for Sarah Gambito who said somethin' like:

“in my 20’s, i was captivated by genius, but now, in my 30’s, i realize how rare authentic kindness is.”

i've got to agree with sarah.

in my 20’s, i thought genius
was the hot shit.

muthafucka’s who taught themselves
how to play 20 different ( Read more... )

... how much I love this.


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So I want to amend my last post, and say that I'm no longer surprised that shit came down the moment that I opened myself up and, yes, even invited shit to come down into my life. And while I think it's okay that I immediately had a "don't do that" response, classically samsaric, I'm trying out this whole practice of just being present with the ( Read more... )

Hey folks and comrades who cook, and especially cook vegetarian amazingness -- I have a friend who is going through a deep grief process and I would like to bring her some sturdy food that could feed her for a few days, should she so choose to eat. Any suggestions? I am thinking some kind of baked casserole. But not gross. Recipes would be muchly

"Someday I Want to Do This for Nothing"
A Response to Amanda Palmer's "Why I Am Not Afraid To Take Your Money"A friend of mine forwarded me Amanda Palmer's recent posting on the relationship between artists and money, and was extremely curious about my take on it. There's almost nothing that I disagree with in what she says -- I just want her, and ( Read more... )

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A little Joni for you all, lovies.

CaliforniaSitting in a park in Paris, France ( Read more... )