miresistencia

For Erika. Lament for Spring.

I gotta go way back /When I go back/gary snyder and diPrima/ $21 monthly grocery bills/the year i got outta college/37 this week & still nothin/but a poet’s heart~ All but one of the strawberry plants have died the chamomile is turning brown it is winter & I don’t know what to do w all…

Today is Appreciation Day

Which is the 15th of every month, and created and celebrated by me as a means of practicing deep, unconditional self-love for 24 hours, no matter what. It means I have to be really aware of self-talk and behavior. It means I get to relish in love and good feelings. It means I get a…

I see you.

Grace you’re so funny looking. You taste like salt and a runny nose. You make me queasy in my belly. Funny measure of glints and glimmers, late 6pm sunlight on my hobbit house wall. Life still breaths inside us despite the pressing limitations, the messiness. The barrage of I don’t want to have…

This is what silencing looks like

Originally posted on Left at the Lights:
I didn’t celebrate International Women’s Day. I didn’t feel I had the right to. I’ve known for a while that maybe I’m not allowed to call myself a feminist because of the way feminism isn’t really much about real equality (justice), or hasn’t been for quite some time…

Cycles of creativity

Thanks for this, Andrea! As a woman, cyclical knowing is our cherished knowing: the phases of living, that include, as the moon, a wane or dying, though not to entirety but on a continuum: that we grow new again. Like spirals, on and on. I am thinking the most lately about the soul life, the…

She listens to the Avetts

dancing in sunshine, happy bc finally they feel like peace

Erika Robuck & Edna St. Vincent Millay

Today is Erika Robuck’s third release from Penguin/Nal, Fallen Beauty, an historical fiction novel starring Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay, a rebel devotee of love and passion, of Life, a dazzling revelrous madwoman who brutally demanded what it means to live out of life: from the timeless space of fear and love, devotion, desperation, soul,…

Monday.

Yesterday I was blessed to get to sacred journey with Derynne & Sepi. The purpose was for power symbols for the wisdom work. The imaginal is so powerful. We are so powerful. Today my energy is running totally different. Feeling grateful, offering thanks~