Burn After Naming

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...

SMOPL / this is my grief ritual

Image: The entry to a favorite labyrinth in Tucson, Arizona SMOPL I wrote about Feasts of Liberations this week, a beautiful and grounding practice for when a day or [time period] holds some extra grief and where there is also some liberation to be marked. What do we...

Joyful Agility (a check-in!)

Victorious Month February is Victorious Month, in the world of me at least. It even comes with a V Day which is clearly for Victory (I refuse to hear any other explanations at the moment), and so I have been intently focused on the superpowers of Small Victories Are...

Chicken 364: Seven Years of THIS!

Reflecting on both the hard and the good parts in the week that was… It is Friday Saturday and we are here. {a breath for today, for this space, for being here when we get here.} We have reached SEVEN YEARS of this Chickening ritual! Sure, occasionally we...

Wish 312: easing and

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. I write a Very Personal Ad each week to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. The point isn’t getting my wish (though cool things have emerged from wishing), the point is learning about my...
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