A few posts ago, I wrote about how I'm mostly 'in the trenches', in the muck & mire of real life, and how I believe we're all made of mud. Lotuses, rooted in the deep dark mud of our every day lives. Mud reminds me of wallowing. Elephants do it. Rhinos do it. They...

Tarot was my own personal yellow brick road. Let me explain! I started using tarot back in the late 1980's not long after my first child was born. I was living in a basement suite, and my upstairs neighbor, a wonderful woman who was just old enough to be my mom, took...

Lo, way back when I was young-ish, I had a lover of the 'show up at 3 in the morning' kind. He worked in the service industry, so he'd end his shift, have a few drinks, and then cab over, half drunk, to knock gently on my door. We'd stand there, he and I, for a moment...

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I used to write a lot of poetry, used to dream I'd be a poet some day. In all my visions of my future life, there were always these slim little volumes of poetry by yours truly on a shelf somewhere that I'd written and had published. There was always this piece in...

I filmed this for Mixed Tape I back in 2014 or 15 (I can't remember which). It was an exploration of the Gayatri Mantra as recorded by Deva Premal - one of my go to songs to listen to when I need to feel soothed & calmed & grounded & centered. We've all...

Some of us are more resilient than others, and I'm not entirely sure why that is in a general sense, but I do know that a great deal of my resilience comes from my ability to fling glitter in the trenches. Flinging glitter, for me, is a metaphor for the things we do...

Purse Dump* I go back to therapy today at 2 p.m. I am not loving that. I don't want to. I am dragging myself kicking and screaming, because I *genuinely can't afford it* and also because the next layer of stuff that needs tending is deep childhood stuff, and I'm...