nature nurtures itself

If we accept that something shitty is a part of human nature, and we also accept that we are human (and therefore naturally susceptible to that shitty something sometimes ourselves), it seems to me that the next step is to admit that whatever stories we are using to convince ourselves that something shitty is inevitable?

in the news…

coincidentally, 26 is my lucky number. :) here we go.

nanowrimo begins

how bout “that was the time when you just lay there, and then you got up and wrote down what you remembered when you lay there, and writing it down was like listening to a song being sung, one word at a time, in the back of your mind, but it was already there underneath,

trip zero

i’m working on a personal statement/whistlestop tour of my past five years. here’s a sneak peek. tell me what you think. —— It has taken me years to be able to articulate even a piece of what opened up for me that morning, but it was something like this: I saw that all of my

reprinted with author’s permission

here’s a little short essay i wrote last december for MAPS to use during their holiday fundraising drive. it gave me the chance to express some ideas i’d been bouncing around in my head, and it strikes me that it would be good to distribute outside the MAPS mailing list, as well. :) —– The