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I have distinct memories of boiling golden rod, choke cherry, and sumac roiling in summer heat: Dyepots of handspun. Sometimes there would be reeds or grapevine soaking in the tub. I still have my mother’s baskets. She loved making. There were looms in several rooms. Some loomed large like wooden ships I pretended them toContinue reading “Knots, threads, and reeds”

(insert photos: toy shelves and rat hole bed) I spent the first dozen years or so in a room that was never completely painted for some reason. There were a couple places that looked like square white clouds of plaster. I was afraid of my closet: imagining monsters and leaky plumbing. Then again, I regularlyContinue reading “Doves in the closet”

I don’t tell my coming-out story(s) very often. Today seems like a good day to tell a few. (For the record, I think coming out is a continuous practice… I’m still coming out in new ways). So much of our history isn’t written down anywhere but people’s lives. I came out as a lesbian aroundContinue reading “For National Coming Out Day (NCOD) 2019”

If I had a bullet I’d use itThe only friend that would refuse me.OccasionallyDeferentiallyReverentlyMy television asks meWho’s watching? You? New profile? Mute? Which one of all?Pause Laughing (sigh)Will the revolution ever be tele-visedFor the deaf and blind?Or even those not? Will we ever wereLand of the free?Or did they think simplystealing onto shore“Free land.” IContinue reading “Performance”

My father used to stand with his hands in his pockets, thinking, while he fidgeted with things he always seemed to carry: an old well worn coin, a favored money clip, random hardware needing replacement, a writing instrument, screws, nails, paper clips. You could often tell where he was in the house from the jingle.Continue reading “Freely associated”

So future historians will have to find ways to access old media (magnetic tape? Digital storage? Zeros and ones anyway) to find out about us….rather than raid the soil for hieroglyphics, cave paintings, and pottery shards. They’re going to think we worshipped trash and multiplicity. Maybe they’ll collect the trash and put it in aContinue reading “Historians in the Future”

Like the earth, I am allMolten rock underneath,Shifting tectonic plates on the outside I am a conversation of euphemismAn evolving organismA struggling planetBut every planet has its own:Story, environment, personality,Ways to adapt and survive.I am but one,Until mix elementaldisperses me elsewhere.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Let’s start off by saying the world should be a place where information is free, and artists of all sorts, inventors, teachers, librarians, and social workers are more valued and compensated for the importance of their work. We all need to look out for oneContinue reading “Must express it all now”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”