School starts back tomorrow ( Read more... )

Looks like I have some extra time in Austin left over from Thanksgiving travels elsewhere! If folks are free tomorrow, I'll be at La-la land all day and evening Tues. I don't have a car, but thought if starting after 12pm people wanted to come by here if they had time, it might work out! Let me know - sorry for the lack of mobility on my part!

Awareness used to be a knife's edge on which myself and others would be cut - a precipice over which nothing could fall and survive intact. Now this thin line of understanding is my refuge. It is the place I return to again and again as these relentless forces of change threaten almost all of what I have understood myself to be and have. I am ( Read more... )

At this point in my life, I have brought myself a situation where in my day-to-day life, I have had nowhere to go but myself ( Read more... )

I love the world tremendously. I want to show it something about itself that is so beautiful, so moving, so eternal, that the wonder and gratitude it incites within us causes the tremendous pain we have been seized by to loosen its grip for a moment and gives us the strength, the hope, and the courage necessary to move assuredly forward into the ( Read more... )

I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to swing Samhain this year. School started last week and I have not had the time to even ~think about~ whether or not I'll be going. That doesn't bode well concerning my amount of future free time, especially if it's this hectic prior to any major assignments being due. I also teach on Fridays now, so if I ( Read more... )

So I'm considering going to Pallas Samhain this year. How many of you out there think it is likely you'd be showing up?

So in a profile elsewhere, I've written "presently fighting an epic battle on behalf of my innocence" in the description of what I am currently doing with my life. Someone messaged me to say that it seemed a battle that was absolutely worth fighting, but what if it is the case that once lost, innocence is a thing that cannot ever be regained. I ( Read more... )

This would be a good time to get through the flu for this season seeing as I don't have classes right now...

See, there's even a silver lining to fever, stuffed nose, etc (and it's actually *not* that statement above...it's the loopy-inducing cold medicine that made this post seem like a good idea that I refer to!)

Things are starting to look really, really good in unexpected, small, and delicious ways.

Sometimes the road rises up to meet you when you least think it possible.

I'm off to go continue taking care of myself and enjoy the Universe's seeming impulse to do likewise. :)