“Oh hey, you blew my mind today. When you told me that pain isn’t just to tell us that something’s wrong.” I said this to Ming, as he was driving us home yesterday. We’d just housesit for a friend then dropped off some mail at the post office. “Yeah?” Ming asked. “Yeah, I always thought… Read More »
“Has your loquat tree fruited yet?” I asked my friend. These friends here in Tucson, I’ve always loved their garden. “No,” she said. “Do you want to talk to it?” “Yeah,” I said. Usually people don’t invite me to talk to their trees. We went over to the loquat tree, and I touched a branch. … Read More »
Hey, gmorning! I’m working on a series of songs related to family. I rapped a new one, Apricot Cousin. I have the strong feeling I need to talk to my departed relatives, especially my cousin who died last year, and my dad. But it felt incorrect, as it’s spring. I associate talking to the dead… Read More »
Here are some ways to say no to abuse. Please feel free to use this language to explain a situation, break up, or ask for space. no I realize this relationship has become a way for me to distract myself from what I was put on Earth to do. That’s not appropriate. You’re not allowed… Read More »
I have a message from the land of pain. I night-traveled there. My back has been hurting, on the right side, parallel to my spine. Then sometimes a lot more hurts than that. I mean more parts of my back, and other parts of my body. My muscles get so ouched, I don’t know what… Read More »
When youtube decided to play Into the Mystic, I felt a lot of grief about my mom. Needing someone who is not a living person hurts. Then when it switched to Tupelo Honey, I cried with more force than I thought my lungs could hold. Senseless wail, wordless howl, no longer learning. Then I went… Read More »
This morning I cooked of some veg sausage for Ming that had been sitting in the freezer for a while. I was the main eater of soy sausage at our house, but I stopped eating soy in late summer. So it was nice to cook the last three little patties, for him. I made Ming… Read More »
This morning I fell off my bike. It just got fixed, this junky bike a neighbor made for me. We took it to a bike shop to get the brakes fixed and a tune up. We picked it up yesterday. I was riding down the street and Ming hadn’t left home yet. He always locks… Read More »
Last time Ming and I were at the cabin, I fucked up my back. There’s no good chair there for me, so I sit on the bed, which means I don’t have back support, as I write. How I care for my back is rather straightforward. But I thought I’d tell you about it,… 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 »