I’m never alone. Every inch of this world-home is inhabited. I have no enemies here, not all are friends but all are companions. Moss, ants, squirrels, humans, a lady bug falling from the sky with an awkward and elegant plunk against my notebook, I’m never alone. By some standards, my social life is dismal. I … Continue reading Community and Loneliness
Rain is gravity and water facilitating connection, intimacy. Falling over everyone, everything, conductive and collective, water both spreads and gathers. The world is bound from sky to ground— the common denominator washing over all surfaces and substances in a union through contact. Should an energy source be involved then electricity would make one entire body … Continue reading A Drowning Rain
I have a vivid memory of looking through a wildlife field guide as a child and admiring the skulls of whales, bears, deer, shocked they could be of the same substance and yet come in so many shapes and sizes. Those field guides and my stack of encyclopedias were my pride and joy. My artistic … Continue reading Architecture of a Body
Spirituality, the sibling of religion with its own individuality, is unique in its theosophical family. We may base religion on our morals through structure and doctrine whereas spirituality exists within us and is personalized to our own signature. Religious views may align with our values but spirituality is built from our values. Consider institutes and … Continue reading Finding Spirituality Through Our Values
As autistic and neurodivergent people, the ways we interact with the world are informed by how we’re perceived and how people react to us. This can be said of all human beings but being born into pre-established expectations we’ll never meet, social, emotional, educational, etc, involves a convoluted sense of self being projected onto us. … Continue reading Being Recognized as You Are
Certain aspects of reality appeal to us by crossing the boundary between Self and Other. Not just reflections, inspiration is an external twin of our most internal core. Exactly the same, yet separate, in union they form something new. Within me is the child naturalist and when I stumble across something related to the natural … Continue reading The Pull: Describing Inspiration
Progressive attitudes are kin with natural law, progress itself is a law. It can be diverted by other developments-- the stream stops flowing because the temperature has become high, stronger than the supply of water. The water will never be fully vanquished and will continue its journey through what plant life remains, it will lurk … Continue reading Inadmissible Speaker: Why Equality, Reconciliation, and Liberation are Inevitable
I write because it's good for me. It stimulates my brain and reconnects me. Both holistic and highly scientific, this form of health is transformative, it’s transcended, it moves and carries-- I do it because writing peels back layers and extrapolates. Writing knows that both I and what I carry are transported by assigning words … Continue reading Why I Write .2
There is no right time to rest, our bodies tell us. We’ve been taught to ignore our needs for the sake of being ‘productive’. The value is placed upon what we can offer a capitalist system-- it’s time to un-normalize the exploitation of people who need rest the most. Responsibility falls upon all of us … Continue reading Talking About Resting
I often need to remind myself of neglected truths. My skills are valuable, my time is precious, and I deserve respect. My free time is spent freeing myself, learning and creating. All time is free, we are forced into it. I’m not worth less because I’m disabled, or because I can’t work a 9-5 retail … Continue reading I Value My Time (and Other Affirmations)
Sustaining Practice 