**Trigger Warning** This post contains graphic recounting of sexual assault. “two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to … More The night that changed it all
“Humans do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts … More My Kinsey Scale
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” ― Garrison Keillor *Disclaimer* If you are a … More God(s), Religion(s) & Me(s)
“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal … More Cult(s) and “strong” words
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
In the void I was never really lost. I thought I was, and I was right. I still was. Was, but not lost. In between “founds” There is a stillness in the void. A quiet, beyond quiet. An absence, full of density. A darkness felt, not seen. Voids are everywhere. They are the in between. … More A Poem: “The Void”
“MORE MORE MORE!” The hungry people cry. “MORE MORE MORE!” I have it all inside. I am made up of water. The lake in me is full. “I am” is on the boat. I can see fragments of value swimming. But I have to catch each one with a shiny hook *I feel like I … More A Poem: “The Catch”
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same … More No One Owns It
“…I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I’ve written, what I’ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for … More Boxes
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 