Summer’s End. {poetry}
The dragonflies are either fat or pregnant tonight,
or maybe like me,
they’ve stuffed themselves on every summer sparkle
and now they’re drunken...
Browsing Tag:
curiosity
A Love Letter to You and Your Rainforest Mind.
You have so much spirit. To keep looking for love in spite of the bullies, in spite of your difficulty communicating with the multitudes of slower thinkers.
Welcome a Quality of Curiosity.
Engage someone whose opinions make you bristle in a thoughtful conversation, lead with curiosity, ask more questions than you normally would, and really listen deeply and quietly to their answers.
Don’t Buy the Snake Oil: When Patriarchy Masquerades as Tantra.
Drink this snake oil, and you will be fixed/enlightened/saved. Take this workshop, and you will be feminine enough to catch an awakened man.
In a System That Was Built Broken, It’s Time to ‘Write’ the Wrongs.
I must, and choose to, sit in the in-between, a place I always strive for, and not fate anything or anyone to anything. I imbue myself with curiosity, an inquisitive nature, and drop the story of how it's going to be, but rather discover it as it unfurls itself, as a choice that the nation and ...
Caring for Your Creative: Curiosity and a Question.
What have you identified as or with for so long that you have worn yourself silly? I have tugged up Yoga tops, closed the collars of shirts, and only ever worn bathing suits that cover my chest -- except on the rare occasions when I am with my women friends or sisters with whom I swim naked or ...
Creativity Is A Celebration Of Who You Are.
I later learned that editing is not insulting, but the mark of a perseverant artist. But knowing that I treasured my own first drafts really mimics how I feel about myself as a person.
4 Ways To Practice Love In The Time Of War.
How do we speak, not to the defenses and the armor, the puffed chests and bolstered cases, but to the innocent creatures beneath, rattled and confused? How do we step into the battlefield with curiosity, not to fight, but to call one another home? How do we call each other back to our own ...
What Sitting Still Taught Me About Movement.
I learned that I don't always need my passport or backpack to grow. Books have been the maps that lead the way, while writing has replaced the overnight bus rides and dodgy boat trips. Ideas are the cities and towns that I now explore with childlike curiosity, and they colorfully dot my route, ...