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 […]
Forgive me, I’m a little confused. You judge me for my size, sneering at my discomfort under your gaze, believing yourself immune to my slovenliness or laziness or genetic misfortune. Oh, I was skinny once; for about 27 minutes back in 1988. It felt great to move through the world with so little drag. To […]
In a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019. Scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, the Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize Mars’ climate and geology, collect samples for future […]
It didn’t come with a breakdown, no wailing, no thrashing, just a slow, dull thud. A culmination of all the things, so many small things and a few big ones, a few old ones, all piling up so I couldn’t see where I was going and splat. I’m not going to enumerate my grievances here, […]
On January 6, 2021. at around 10AM, Michael stepped into the garage and said, “Uh oh.” The drop ceiling where the upstairs bathroom plumbing goes was . . . sagging. Significantly. We had noticed there was something leaking over the summer, but it seemed intermittent, and we couldn’t find it, and it seemed to have […]
There is a conversation that I have had with so many people about doing the advanced training, taking the big steps, doing the hard stuff. Most people don’t think they’re smart enough, or good enough, or talented enough to take what they’re doing to a higher level. They’re content, or they claim to be, staying […]
It’s almost over. Some of us didn’t make it. But for those who did, hopefully something important has been learned. One of the big lessons has been that no matter what our intentions are, our apple carts can be careened into and obliterated by collective insanity. I didn’t intend to take most of 2020 as […]
