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learning

You can learn  So much from  The messy edges Don’t run from them Embrace them Let them live in the small Wind of your stomach Braiding you  Back to your  Ancestors Alive

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the truth

I swore I would tell the truth. even if it’s hard. especially if it’s hard. so here it is… I was depressed. Anxious Sad. On. Edge. But also so happy. Overwhelmed with possibility but dragging in agency. I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that closing down and running away was just my way of coping. Am I better?…healed. I […]

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hello

I am picking this up again.  I have no noble reason. it just feels right.   I miss this as a creative outlet.   it feels like I’ve sorta fallen off the face of the earth but not really. I’ve just fallen more into my life, the place I belong.   I have had some hard questions to wrestle through. […]

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grandma

last year, my mom called me and told me my grandma died. only she didn’t actually say that or maybe she did. at any rate, last year my grandmother did not die. i was embarrassed and delighted that i had got it wrong. It was sad, nonetheless because my aunt B died instead and this was after a year of […]

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the life i already eat/remaking the narrative

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón I write about gaps a lot but I rarely about jumping into one.there is always a veil that I put between myself and reality as if one were not the same. As if […]

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the good work

i finally figured out how to upload pictures onto my blog in a rationale manner. so, i am hoping that i can share more of my images here and even , ahem, make a better portfolio of my work. why am i writing about such mundane things when so much is going on here, there and everywhere? i dunno. why […]

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creativity begets creativity

late last year, when i got inspired to embark on my own self-paced artist residency in motherhood, i had no idea what i was going to do. i thought for sure that i would focus on writing. i love writing. i written a ridiculous amount of essays about how i love writing, how i need to write more and how […]

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more than tolerance

we don’t have to understand each other completely/ to know that each of us/ is worthy of protection/&  the rhythm of our own lives/ the dignity of our selves in color, in queer, in gender, in class, in body and mental abilities, in religion (or none), in water and sky… we all belong here. we always have. we always will.

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rest

some seasons you just need more quiet. I am at that point. I have been juggling way too much these days.  right now, I need a bit more rest and a lot less screens. until we meet again. take fierce care of yourself. be well, k

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writing

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or […]