images and stories about parenting, healing from long term illness, transforming trauma, community, aging, being chicana, growing up multicultural, being queer, traveling the planet, radical unschooling, death and all the art that is living life
sometimes babies ‘disappear’ things. so it was with a particular set of keys. they vanished for a very long time. we assumed they’d show up, but after months, it seemed they never would. then something weird happened. they showed up! matthew had to dig his hands down in between the …
*( i wrote this for the authorartists in my HEART OF IT/creating children’s books that matter course. it’s still a little ROUGH, but i wanted to share) Often we think of creative flow as this fantastic high of great productivity and inspiration pouring out of our being. This can seem …
today i find myself falling deeply into inner ritual. it’s not a conscious act. it’s much more than that. it’s my bones. the blood pumping through the muscle that is my heart. my teeth, my hair, my dress, my BEing, my life, my every breath. it’s as if a hidden …
i have a lot on my mind these days. the fall is a perfect time to let go of old thinking that might be preventing my horns from growing strong and stripey!!!
amazing window into puerto rican children’s literature via summer edwards blog as she interviews scholar carmen milagros torres! check out these two power houses!
all my life i have not loved the camera. as a child i was always the one making the weird face in photographs. my mother loved to tell me ‘you’re not ugly.’ but there was something in her voice that made me only hear the word ‘ugly.’ my face felt highly …
i found this post i wrote not long ago. it opens with my father. despite the fact that it isn’t finished i’m sharing it, as is. *august 9, 2014, 18 year old, unarmed michael brown was one of many young, black males gunned down by a white police officer I …
i’m sitting here with my one year old, sky. i have a radically different life than i’ve ever had before. i’m happy. i’ve had a lot to learn through in life. one of the biggies was being disowned when i was 20 for being queer. it was my mother’s doing, …
we pay attention to the animals and plants in our life and what they are bringing us to learn. especially if they are showing themselves over and over to us. so it is with raven. raven dances in our tree outside our window clucking a message, follows us on our …
i collect many things old. vintage gloves are a favie. here i invoke memories of both death and my first communion. both intrinsically connected for me and to the woman i have become. in my imagination the gloves are communing with each other, death is communing with life, spirit with …
