“How did I get so lucky, to find this love?” He was half-asleep, naked except for his chonies again, his hair so messy and beautiful. “Oh, you have ocd and narcolepsy. You were in the bargain bin!” I looked at his smiling mouth and closed eyes. We were laughing. I imagined the bargain bin at… Read More »
breakfast ingredients “You want a grackle for breakfast?” I asked Ming. A grackle was vocalizing in the courtyard. “Yeah!” he said. “Oh, honey. You don’t eat birds. The only animals you eat are sea creatures.” “Well, that’s good because they both start with a c.” “Uh–grackle doesn’t start with a c. It starts with a… Read More »
I’m talking about feeding people, how to love, how we have bodies that need to be tended to, in pain or hunger or anything. To have a body is to need. Peace is in the body. There you go–good luck with your needs. If we want to learn at school, we need to eat. If… Read More »
Laura-Marie is my name–making soup at 3am is my game. Veg are my darlings. Oh delicious, the bounty of Earth. The sweet potatoes got overdone but were still pretty good. The broth was spicy and so delicious. I was concerned it would be too much ginger. But ginger, garlic, pepper, salt, and the veg-ness was… Read More »
This ATC is for a Halloween swap-bot assignment. I’m really grateful I signed up for it. Never knew I could do like this. It’s blue, says memento mori, and depicts a bird skeleton. truth I have a new favorite Dorothy Day quote. She co-started the Catholic Worker movement in 1933. I live in community at… Read More »
Hello, reader. What’s shakin’? I’ve been living in community in Oregon for four months now. Before, Ming and I lived in community in Las Vegas for seven years. We lived for a month at a permaculture farm in Ojai, California over the summer. I thought people were doing community for reasons like mine. Wow, I… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you? I was asking Ming which of my needs he helps meet. That was a cool conversation. He told me some ideas that surprised me. One surprise was my need for someone safe to project onto. projection Ming is the person who taught me that so much of social interaction is… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you? Looks like I never posted about recently roasting chiles at home. Here in Oregon we can roast chiles like champs. It’s not just for California and Nevada, I have learned! fire At our request, our housemate made a fire in the backyard. They’d had a long day at work. I… Read More »
“Are you making fun of my ways?” I asked Ming. “No,” he said. I had made some vegan, gluten-free lasagna for the house. It was a little bit dry, and I was concerned it would get drier. So I used the spatula to put water on the lasagna from the sink. I sprinkled the water… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Ming and I were talking about gender, as we often do. Ming was telling me an aspect of enbies I don’t always think of. He was telling me how there’s not a messed up team spirit like cis men have. Cis men are pro-men and like they have to… Read More »