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Volver a los 17. A translation.

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writing my way home

Flakey salt from a glass bowl spilled on a wooden surface. (Yes, salt is a comfort for me, and comforts are part of nervous system healing).

Co-regulating with my cheffies

Musings

A very young girl in long knit-woolen pants and slightly too small fuzzy jacket with a hood pulled over her head. She is grinning. Next to her, on a cement pathway is is a bottle with light brown liquid. She looks quite pleased.

Dirt: A Love Affair

Musings

Four stacks of coins and a jar full of coins, all with a tender green shoot of growth coming out the top

Dear Money

Open Letters

Neon sign: "I have a crush on you"

A Brief History of My Crushes

Crushes

writing my way home

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The paring knife of life keeps peeling. In restlessness, in exasperation, on the edge of falling, I keep coming to: What is essential here? It is a question both clean and powerful. It moves around the immovable, leaving bullshit in its wake. Sitting in that question is sitting in kindness…. [Continue Reading]

T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.

Minding my life, Poetry

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