Hello, reader. How are you doing? The meaning of death is changing for me. I spend more time with the dead than with the living these days, in my heart / imagination / spiritual life. Most of that is time I’m spending with my mom. But my friend Ellie’s memorial is today. Spending time with… Read More »
When I was cooking veg sausages and the oil splattered on my wrist, I started to cry, taking things personally. Yeah it hurt physically, but it also hurt my feelings. Why does the oil have to be mean? What am I doing wrong? Why is the oil mad at me? Of course the oil was… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I want to tell you how I married myself on New Year’s Day. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. It changed me. At first I didn’t want to blog about it because I felt protective. How I married myself felt too sacredly important to share widely.… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Studying Spanish is grounding– so blissful. Sometimes I forget what grounds me, and then I remember. Feeling connected to a huge group of people is so comforting. Spanish is colonizer language, but widespread to the ones I need to speak with. Spanish is a place I can be myself… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? My good friend Pegasus made a book: Lyra’s Homeless Daemon. It’s colorful and beautiful. It’s about a child who was born with a health issue, and it’s gorgeously illustrated fanfic. I actually think of it as a zine. But this book asks the reader to have new ideas and… Read More »
Hello, reader. Happy solstice! How are you eating lately? I’m thinking about concentration of flavor. Something like sauce vs soup. I made Ming some breakfast the other morning. It was soyrizo leftover rice spinach olive oil salt garlic Sounds good, right? Yum yum! But there’s only one problem. I had only a small amount of… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Could you describe what a crush is? I thought these loppers were bolt cutters for a second and had a brief crush on them– how embarrassing! Ming took this picture at our friend’s house as we helped her pack up to move. I think a crush is when we… Read More »
Hello, reader. How is your soul feeling in your body? How’s your heart? as my friends ask. I always pause and think of my physical heart, which is a source of concern and has been since I was a child. Friends think they’re asking one question… I try to figure out what answer to give… Read More »
“Ooo, yeah. I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about loving unauthorized smells,” I told my good friend. “The smell of a hot iron is definitely a smell I’m not supposed to love.” My friend was ironing a tree skirt. That was part of a process of transforming the tree skirt into a Strawberry… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you doing? My trans faerie friend is getting gender affirming surgery soon in Portland and needs some love. She doesn’t have support from her family of origin, and it’s going to be serious recovery. Will you chip in for gender affirming surgery? If you have funds to spare, her cashapp is… Read More »