I. There’s a thunderstorm happening right now and I am smack in the middle of it, suspended weightless by my wings. I love the weight of each raindrop knocking into me, surrounding my body as I absorb its delicious moisture underneath my wing cases. Like Popeye’s spinach, each drop makes…

I didn’t wake up this morning thinking about living my life bravely today. There has never, in fact, ever been a morning of my approximate 17,658 (give or take some leap years not accounted for in my quick calculation) mornings, in which I’ve considered or thought about myself as brave. …

Looking out my window, in front of which I had purposefully placed my bed, and down on the vast lawn below, my eyes immediately locate her majesty, and I reverently say hello. We greet one another in the now-ritualistic way (a byproduct of the habit formed from so many nights’…

I left my heart in, where does that song say? San Francisco? I’ve been to San Francisco probably four times. Which seems like a lot or not very much. Would I leave my heart there? …

I’ve been walking a long and sometimes, no oftentimes, lonely road for a wow long time. In fact, I just paused my fingers’ punctuation on the keys of my laptop to do (gasp) “actual math” and discovered that as of this writing on this day in April 2022, 21 YEARS…

Perspective: Magic doesn’t magically appear or happen; magic actually just IS. I haven’t always understood this seemingly-simple truth and, in fact, believed for most of my life that magic — true magic — was wrong, a thing (energy, entity, or power) to be avoided, condemned and even cast out. Magic…

I bought myself four bouquets of ranunculus today — one yellow, one orange, one pink, and one more pink. I trimmed their combined multitude of stems and placed my fresh kaleidoscope of ranuncolors (I’m allowed to make up words because my 10th grade English teacher Mrs. …

What do we really know, anyway? Do you know something before you feel it? Or do you feel something and then know it? Chicken or egg. . . . Facts or fantasy. . . . Doom or delight? I live in the gap between knowing and feeling — whichever of…

Gatherings: Classrooms Weddings Funerals Families Friends Half marathons Beaches Bars Breakfast, lunch and dinner Church All gatherings take place in the one place we currently know of: earth school. And earth school is its own gathering, as a place, as a people, as a concept. Concepts I’m working with include…