Alchemy is much misunderstood, usually over-simplified, and frequently used badly out of context – all to the fierce detriment of an amazing tradition. Very rarely these days does anyone actually study the true art, because wowzers, those people tend to blow up a lot of stuff and reek of rotten eggs all the time. I […]
Step into the Garden, friend, see how lush and brilliant it is! But hush, and breathe, and be still – you don’t want to scare them. Now, don’t look at me like that. You must believe just a little bit, otherwise, why did you pay twenty bucks to get in? The Gnostic Knowms are simply […]
Nobody can bring the baggage you carry from your mother to the surface like a sibling. My sister and I hadn’t seen each other in a … while. And it’s okay, we’re not a close family, and I was the pesky baby — and a caboose to boot — so we never exactly bonded as […]
The search is over. We know where it is. Women have always known. Oh, we play plenty dumb, and try to be helpful with questions like, “Where did you last see it?” and “Can you remember if you had it when you were fighting the Black Knight?” But we totally know. And we’re not telling. […]
Spell for a Happy Yard Make sure there are lilacs, and a rosebush or two. Leave a few of the Inevitable Maples to grow. Leave the violets. Plant some cedars around the edge instead of building a fence. Have a few raised garden beds and grow things you lovelovelove to eat. Don’t mow it very […]
There’s a function in recording software called normalize. It does some kind of magic to bring a track into a more uniform volume level, mostly by boosting what’s too quiet to bring it more in line with everything else. Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s terrible. Sometimes it does nothing at all. But it got me to […]
On Tuesday, April 20, a jury in Minnesota defied our weary expectations and convicted a White police officer of murdering a Black man. Let the bells cry hallelujah! Justice is not dead! When confronted with overwhelming evidence, they didn’t turn a blind eye and do the thing we feared they would do, and they deserve […]
Life Goal: To live as magical a life as is humanly possible. Oh, I talk about other goals, smaller, more manageable things like growing SoundWorks into a community of healers and artists working together in a multitude of vibrational modalities . . . which is not small, but it’s not as big as live as magical […]
You aren’t going to be done healing before you die. I’m not trying to be a Debbie-Downer here. It’s actually a wonderful truth. Change = Life. But I’m gonna say it’s healing that allows change to happen, and we’re all going to be healing until the end of our lives. Especially people who have lived […]
Reader, some of you may have noticed that I have added “Alma” to my name, between Gayla and Drake. I get so many complements on my name. It is a good name, very pretty. Here’s the actual story of why my parents named me Gayla. My mom’s little brother was dating a woman, briefly, called […]
