I Belong to the Camp of the Crazy. {poetry}
I belong to the camp of the crazy. To voices in my head. To losing touch with reality. To illusion and... to sweet, sweet release.
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For the Students, My Teachers, February 14th, 2018 (and Every Day After). {poetry}
Never again will we entertain this tyranny
that wears a thousand divisive masks
but is always a scared and greed-scarred child-man
hiding behind a curtain.
Inside the Mind of a Mad Scientist: The Incredible Importance of Personal Science.
Personal science isn’t an excuse to do something reckless. I don’t, for example, recommend drinking a test tube full of precancerous bacteria. I do, however, believe that executing your own experiments, and having a willingness to try things, will make your life better.
To the man who asked me if I swallow.
Men of the world, there are so many of you who are incredible. So many. I am married to one such man. But the amount of harassment that any one woman receives in her lifetime is often unimaginable. That's why we armor up at times. Because we've known what it can feel like when we're exposed to ...
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 ...
Surrendering To Grief. {poetry}
Today I do not fail. I allow the grief to overtake me.
To swallow me whole. To rip out my heart and have its way with me.
I succumb to its power.