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A Poem for the 2024 Eclipse
The sky was blue, and the breeze flowed by; hard to imagine a cloudy sky moving in. The collective breath of the millions along totality’s path held in anticipation, hoping to halt or slow the movement of air and the approaching layer that would obscure the celestial occurrence. But the clouds did move in, blanketing…
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Gathering Well
I’m not sure what took me so long to finally read this book. It’s been hovering around my periphery for years—I’ve heard all about it and I’ve heard Priya speak multiple times on different podcasts, but for some reason it took until now for me to actually get a copy, read, and sit with it.…
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Serendipity
I planned a super short NYC trip this weekend and didn’t plan much for it, and it magically manifested into the best trip! Yesterday, I landed and had no plans. I last-minute got added to an alumni panel for my MFA program. On the way I stopped at my fav little park and grabbed shake…
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Ten years in this park
I have visited you for ten years. Walked your hexagon paved paths, seen every detail of your lawns and benches. You welcome me back every time as if I never left. I’ve changed. You’ve seen me change over these years. From potential grad student to stressed and worried grad student. From wife in early marriage…
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Place
I scrolled past this image today and paused a second to gasp. I’ve forgotten how much I miss experiencing places in the built environment. I studied architecture in college and I think a part of me has always been tuned to the design of place, of space, and how people move around, view, and experience…
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Being
“Who are you without the doing?” That was a meditation and challenge from the Hurry Slowly podcast by Jocelyn K. Glei. I’ve been thinking about that on and off since I heard her say it more than a year ago. I’m accomplishment-driven. I have crazy amounts of discipline. That means I do a lot. I…
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Big Hell Yes
There are certain moments in my life that I felt the deep, resonating need to take a big risk. The times I’ve heeded that feeling resulted in some of my most life-affirming moments. They are the BIG “hell yes’s” that you hear about. Not the “hell yes, let’s catch up over coffee.” More of the,…
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Window post-its
It started small. One day after fretting and stressing about a particular task, I said something to myself: I don’t need to solve this on my own. It took such a weight off my shoulders. I hadn’t realized it, but I put so much pressure on myself to figure out issues at work that were…
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Why Art
I just read this great article titled “Ten Types of Authors Who Can Go Fuck Themselves” by Gabino Iglesias. I don’t consider myself a writer, but I do make art, and one of the last paragraphs really resonated with me. I’ve borrowed that paragraph and switched all the mentions of “writing” to be “making art”…
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What’s good.
The Good Place: the podcast, an excellent podcast for an even more excellent show, requested its listeners to share “what’s good” with them. They’re planning to share a compilation to create a beam of light in these dark and crazy time. I emailed them a submission, but never heard back, so I decided to share…