It seems strange that in this time when I have contact with so few people that I am finding myself without words. You’d think they’d have piled up. Maybe it’s that I’m getting used to solitude and silence and words seem more precious now, to be “kept for Sunday best.” Or maybe it’s because I […]
I love it when Science meets Witchcraft. Way back in March – do you remember March, when we all thought, hey, we’re gonna be cooped up for a couple weeks, this oughta be okay and then we realized it was not gonna be okay at all and some of us are in fact still cooped […]
Frienily, we have some healing to do, some deep deprogramming – if not reformatting altogether – and some relearning. And it is not going to be easy, or pretty. The dominant culture on this entire planet is designed to exclude non-white and non-male people from power. Occasionally somebody sneaks through, and thank goodness they do. […]
Sound is a Force Waves Movement of air We live in a sea of sound From our hearts beating, to our breath, to the hiss of the laptop fan The whir of the air conditioner, the rumble of a truck The neighbor’s lawnmower, his kid shooting baskets, their beagle baying in the yard The whine […]
Our poor autonomic nervous systems just don’t know which way to turn right now. There’s terrible danger, but . . . most of us (at least the sensible ones) are staying home where it’s safe, so . . . what’s to be afraid of? Except, there’s this terrible danger . . . Some of us […]
I’m a fan of silence. I don’t listen to music or have any media on at all when I’m at home, even when I am knitting or doing something quiet. It helps me shut off the thinking and simply be. If I’m listening to music I’m analyzing it. I don’t listen to music in my […]
We think we’re so tough. We’re cracking jokes about how great it’s going to be once we’re quarantined, like “we’ve been preparing for this our whole lives.” Some of us introverts have some pretty high level lock-the-world-out-and-wrap-up-in-blankets skills. I can actually go for weeks without leaving the house. Mostly. Somebody has to go to the […]
Those familiar with my music will know that I have written at least as many songs about driving as I have about anything else. Possibly combined. Except weather, of course. Cars are important to me. Not flashy cars, or expensive cars, but cars with personality, functional cars, practical cars, cars with a willingness to do […]
Who’da thunk that something that started for so many of us as an act of rebellion, would come to be something so utterly conventional? No, really. Drinking is what everybody does. If you say you’re not drinking anymore, people think there’s something wrong with you. Rarely do I get a “Wow, good for you! And you […]
We’ve talked about this before, a bit. We’ve talked about the fear of singing, or musically expressing ourselves in any way. But, darlings, we need to revisit this idea. And it’s not just about singing, it’s about all forms of inspired artistic expression. Oh, yes, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. We have put […]
