by Havi Brooks | Oct 14, 2022 | my personal practice
What is the opposite of a fire Each morning I ask a question (of myself), and then I don’t try to answer it. I just kind of hum on it throughout the day, if I remember, which I often don’t because my memory is broken (both in the sense of fragmented and in the sense...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 25, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: A tea light in a tall glass jar is a makeshift incense burner, with a small plant & art print of a cattle skull, gold backdrop Memory I wanted a feast day to commemorate the one year anniversary of my concussion (consussiversary?), and you will be...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 2, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: New flowers after the rains: vibrant golden wildflowers have taken over the field by my gate (a watchful gate guardian blowing a kiss) Precious Cargo I made pudding while trapped in the sailboat during the monsoon floods. It’s not actually a sailboat, in...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 13, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: A large pic of a tiny pudding (malabi), a vanilla rosewater pudding with pomegranate syrup and shredded coconut, in a mini glass jar Entry / pre- This is a very long piece, 8400 words last I checked, four times what I usually write, no way to write less. Wanted...
by Havi Brooks | May 5, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: Blurred sunset views from the porthole A note / brief acknowledgment / entry / pre- Here in the United States things are extra tumultuous at the moment, we knew in November of 2016 that many rights and provisions were precarious, about to become more so, or...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 15, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: My ongoing experiment in plating food, today it’s labneh & a wafflomelet. Also this piece is 5k words so I figured we could use snacks… The Horchata Proxy Rock paper scissors Last week I wrote about the Ongoing Lethargy, and we played a useful round of...